Satin Island

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From the author of Remainder the major feature film adaption of which will be released in 2015 and C short listed for the Booker Prize , and winner of the Windham Campbell Prize, a novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.When we first meet U., our narrator, he is waiting out a delay in the Turin airport Clicking through corridors of trivia on his laptop he stumbles on information about the Shroud of Turin and is struck by the degree to which our access to the truth is always mediated by a set of veils or screens, with any world built on those truths inherently unstable A corporate ethnographer, U is tasked with writing the Great Report, an ell encompassing document that would sum up our era Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions Madison, the woman he is seeing, is increasingly elusive, much like the particulars in the case of the recent parachutist s death with which U is obsessed Add to that his longstanding obsession with South Pacific cargo cults and his developing, inexplicable interest in oil spills As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures as only he can the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning or just to stay awake and discern the narratives we think of as our lives. Free Read Satin Island Author Tom McCarthy For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr What an utterly boring and navel gazing novel This was longlisted for the Man Booker In this novel we follow a character named U, no really, he s called fucking U, while he wonders and ponders for 200ish pages I applaud this novel on its brevity, any longer and I would have literally died of boredom 85% of this novel is just full scientific hokum that will just baffle and confuse any casual reader Not to mention that it did one of my ultimate peeves At some parts it reminded me ofWhat an utterly boring and navel gazing novel This was longlisted for the Man Booker In this novel we follow a character named U, no really, he s called fucking U, while he wonders and ponders for 200ish pages I applaud this novel on its brevity, any longer and I would have literally died of boredom 85% of this novel is just full scientific hokum that will just baffle and confuse...Flashes of brilliance amid interminable shite.Jonathan Lethem, discussing his resistance to rereading Don DeLillo, wrote that he s either as great as I thought he was when I thought he made all other writing look silly or he s a total disaster I thought of that quote often as I read Satin Island I don t know how to talk about this book other than to say I think it s a masterpiece How can this plotless novel with a nameless protagonist who spends the course of the book looking at oil spills work so astonishingly well Why is it a novel Jonathan Lethem, discussing his resistance to rereading Don DeLillo, wrote that he s either as great as I thought he was when I thought he made all other writing look silly or he s a total disaster I thought of that quote often as I read Satin Island I don t know how to talk about this...Wow is this good It s a strange, lean little novel essay that has an incredibly interesting plot that it takes care to never actually show you much of the critical work I ve found on here is about that plot, which is funny The meandering little linked essays recall Sebald, and stand as a refutation to 10 04, which I liked but seems bloated in comparison There s even a superior cephalopod sequence I loved McCart... Events If you want those, you d best stop reading now.About 14 pages in, McCarthy issues this warning, and you should really take it seriously If you have trouble reading books without things like interesting plots, memorable characters, evocative settings, romance, pacing, or normal narrative structures in general, then McCarthy is not for you Seriously, turn back now.McCarthy doesn t write he strolls He finds joy in things a step below the little things He would likely be enthralled by Events If you want those, you d best stop reading now.About 14 pages in, McCarthy issues this warning, and you should really take it seriously If you have trouble reading books without things like interesting plots, memorable characters, evocative settings, romance, pacing, or normal narrative structures in general, then McCarthy is not for you Ser...I understand why people don t like this book that much, but I don t completely understand people who hate it I mean, at some points there is nothing that exceptional But at others it delivers these moments of clarity and insight that I have never seen put down in words before And the connected nature of the storytelling and what U as a narrator is examining was incredibly interesting and thought provoking He s not a particularly interesting character, though He has virtually no personality I understand why people don t like this book that much, but I don t completely understand people who hate it I mean, at some points there is nothing that exceptional But at others it delivers these moments of clarity and insight that I have never seen put down in words before And the connected nature of the storytelling and what U as a narrator is examining was incredibly interesting and thought provoking He s not a particu...I give this book one star as a desperate cry for attention, which I figure is okay, since the book s blurb describes SI as an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world and suggests that in this book McCarthy captures as only he can the way we experience our world Take that, entire rest of the world Of course, the blurb is in part a joke, because the book s main character, U., is meant to write a report that is about everything that will name the world I give this book one star as a desperate cry for attention, which I figure is okay, since the book s blurb describes SI as an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world and suggests that in this book McCarthy captures as only he can the way we experience our world Take that, entire rest of the world Of course, the blurb is in part a joke, because the book s main character, U., is meant to write a report that is about everything that will name the world we live in for a rich business tycoon And my one star is in part a joke, because it might also be a five star book How is this possible, you ask Well, I have two readings of this book In the first one star , this is just another self indulgent piece of flatulence, only yetcliched than the self indulgent flatulence that preceded it I had repeated flashbacks to the 90s here we have an anthropologist who apparently got h...This little corner of the internet, this niche on a server somewhere in Thailand or Romania or wherever the digital archive that is connected with Karen s GR account is situated, what do you reckon, is that my little piece of immortality How long after my death will these meandering reviews of books I have read since 2008 be stored, I wonder I loved this.A running riff throughout the narrative is the story of a parachutist s death, which has its own resonance with me We share our slightly This little corner of the internet, this niche on a server somewhere in Thailand or Romania or wherever the digital archive that is connected with Karen s GR account is situated, what do you reckon, is that my little piece of immortality How long after my death will these meandering reviews of books I ha...This book gained a lot of publicity last year and seems to have divided opinion Having heard talk of how McCarthy was reshaping the form of the novel, I was a little surprised how much this retained a traditional fictional structure, even though much of it does consist of semi random musings on various oddities of modern life, and how they might be interpreted by an anthropologist such as the narrator U, who works for a shadowy corporation on a grand unifying project to understand and control This book gained a lot of publicity last year and seems to have divided opinion Having heard talk of how McCarthy was reshaping the form of the novel, I was a little surprised how much this retained a traditional fictional structure, even though much of it does consist of semi random musings on various oddities of modern life, and how they might be interpreted by an anthropologist such as the narrator U, who works for a shado...The first move of any strategy of cultural production, hed say, must be to liberate things objects, situations, systems into uselessness. Tom McCarthy, Satin Island I m going to bounce back and forth between three and four stars on this one When McCarthy is writing about things and dancing through data, symbols, fabrics, etc his prose reminds me of William Gibson and his Blue Ant trilogy He has a way of organizing chaos or at least describing the chaos in a way that allows the reader toThe first move of any strategy of cultural production, he d say, must be to liberate things objects, situations, systems into uselessnessTom McCarthy, Satin Island I m going to bounce back and forth between three and four stars on this one When McCarthy is writing about things and dancing through data, symbols, fabrics, etc his prose reminds me of William Gibson and his Blue Ant trilogy He has a way of organizing chaos or at least describing the chaos in a way that allows the reader to float and sometimes surf his text When Mc...

Satin Island
  • English
  • 26 February 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 192 pages
  • 0307593959
  • Tom McCarthy
  • Satin Island