Book wasn't my cup of tea, but glad it makes you want to continue the discussion series! We missed you in the discussion yesterday - could've used a balancing perspective, since the rest of us were very lukewarm about the book overall 😬 I agree that it could've worked much better as a short story, and I did love all the descriptions of the "regression" to pre-historic landscapes.
Weirdly the tone of your review (especially the digression about the l;ght and weather) fits my feeling of the book quite well... A dreamlike sense of being lost, displaced, out of focus things seen through a haze ( in this case from heat and seat rather than the cloud and drizzly fog of Irish weather)... As you say it feels like an over-long short story, but I'd argue that it needs every page and word to really push that atmosphere of drowing in time...
Book wasn't my cup of tea, but glad it makes you want to continue the discussion series! We missed you in the discussion yesterday - could've used a balancing perspective, since the rest of us were very lukewarm about the book overall 😬 I agree that it could've worked much better as a short story, and I did love all the descriptions of the "regression" to pre-historic landscapes.
Weirdly the tone of your review (especially the digression about the l;ght and weather) fits my feeling of the book quite well... A dreamlike sense of being lost, displaced, out of focus things seen through a haze ( in this case from heat and seat rather than the cloud and drizzly fog of Irish weather)... As you say it feels like an over-long short story, but I'd argue that it needs every page and word to really push that atmosphere of drowing in time...