Kindle an honest ghost book review
Whitacre utilizes a multitude of dead and living voices pulled from his personal bookshelf in order to highlight the struggles of art and inner life topics that in Whitaker s novel gave me chills while simultaneously creating an understandable narrative While I found this novel to be a wealth of invigorating text and the novel s project intriguing it did take me a second read to really see the subtleties of the plot in all its combinations alternations of bombast sweetness and philosophical meanderings Upon that fateful a second read I was thrilled by the narrative as well as the project s design and it is my belief that this is a book easily underestimated at first glance The characters are I believe intentionally over dramatic and this makes for some chuckle and smile worthy moments Occasionally the character s names restrict what texts could be used and this seemed to occasionally limit the novel s development of characters physical and psychological profiles are oddly repetitious despite the use of so many texts However this may be a failing on my part perhaps the circular descriptions were the point Overall I believe that the whole and the sum of the parts are a dual plural kind of beast the parts shining brightly individually Whitacre s complete list of textual attributions makes for a real experiential treat and machinery achieved at the project s completion never fails to excite Sometimes experiments fail yet when this novel succeeds the ghosts of past and present invention smoke through you and linger beautifully Rick Whitaker As a feat An Honest Ghost is spectacular It really does come together sounding largely like a singular voice and to have taken the time and effort to assemble the thing into something sensical is to be applauded Unfortunately the novel itself runs no narrative characters and narrator continually speak vaguely Something vague about sex something vague about their mothers something vague about each other Everyone is in a vague daze As a collection of great lines it succeeds as a compelling read not quite Truly the best thing about the book is the list of compiled passages in the back Whitaker has a great book collection and to have a nice long readinglist assembled thus is great Rick Whitaker I owe a review of this book and will hold off further comment until I can link to it but in the meantime know that it was criminally undersung this year it is an amazing text Rick Whitaker Despite the many praises from literary icons this experiment or perhaps accurately a gimmick failed to resonate with me The emperor unfortunately has no clothes here Rick Whitaker Not my cup of tea Rick Whitaker
Rick Whitaker s debut novel An Honest Ghost consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over 500 books Whitaker limited himself to using 300 words per book in accordance with Fair Use never taking two sentences together and never making any changes even to punctuation An index includes all attributions The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Honest Ghost deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator s voice and most fittingly in the careful reader s heart An Honest Ghost
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