Review: Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Reading this book is an exercise in patience. For several hundred pages, nothing really happens. You have the impression that lots of things are about to happen, but they don't and don't for quite a while. I wonder if that was intentional: the characters all had to deal with the fact that they were stymied in any attempt to figure out was going on. We the readers are in exactly the same position. We just have to keep waiting until it all comes together.

It was a trying effort, but the quality of writing certainly made it work. I will say I preferred the sequel, To Say Nothing of the Dog, which I read first at no loss. There isn't much connective tissue between the two. They are really quite different stories.

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