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suzukabunny's review against another edition
5.0
For a quick read at train station, it's an amazing story
It felt familiar yet fabulous
Love it
It felt familiar yet fabulous
Love it
emmie1507's review against another edition
1.0
I really wanted to like this book. I loved the IDEA of this book...
BUT the book itself was not that great. Like I said the idea of the book was amazing... and I feel like maybe if ONE author had written it, it would have been amazing... BUT TEN AUTHORS WROTE THIS BOOK!!!!!! Ten authors with different writing styles, different writing styles that were combined into one book. It made it feel... rushed and sloppy. I also didn't help how there wasn't really a main character, so I couldn't really connect in that way either.
Overall, I was sorely disappointed, and I would not recommend this book to anyone.
BUT the book itself was not that great. Like I said the idea of the book was amazing... and I feel like maybe if ONE author had written it, it would have been amazing... BUT TEN AUTHORS WROTE THIS BOOK!!!!!! Ten authors with different writing styles, different writing styles that were combined into one book. It made it feel... rushed and sloppy. I also didn't help how there wasn't really a main character, so I couldn't really connect in that way either.
Overall, I was sorely disappointed, and I would not recommend this book to anyone.
4saradouglas's review against another edition
3.0
I wasn't wowed by this book. Some of the interlinked stories were much better than others, and overall the book just didn't grab me. Sometimes it was difficult to hold on to all the characters and remember someone when they popped up again in later chapters. Overall I think the idea was great, but it just didn't work for me.
deemazztan's review against another edition
2.0
Had a hard time getting into this. didn't like all the different author voices although the way the narrative moves along was clever.
mikimeiko's review
3.0
An interesting idea that might have been executed better. I really loved some stories, but other were perplexing, and I'm not sure what to think of the implied existence of magical elements that was present in some of the stories but not all of them.
I did love Almond story though, so delicate and quiet.
I did love Almond story though, so delicate and quiet.
nattyg's review against another edition
2.0
I was sadly disappointed. It started off well and I was excited to see where it was going but the last two stories threw me off of the whole experience. I went in with no expectations and was still disappointed.
fshguy's review against another edition
3.0
I liked this, nice touching stories around a photographer and the lives he touched to some degree. The book does have some cohesion, but of course it was written by 10 people. I enjoy photography myself and wish I could rise to the level of artistry by the characters in the book.
Quote from the Book: "Really famous -- people like Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong and Michael Jordon". Ha, this book was written by a lot of Europeans in 2007 when Lance Armstrong was still officially a 7 time Tour de France winner.
Quote from the Book: "Really famous -- people like Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong and Michael Jordon". Ha, this book was written by a lot of Europeans in 2007 when Lance Armstrong was still officially a 7 time Tour de France winner.
apoorva269's review against another edition
5.0
I picked up this one at a book fair when I was in school in 7th grade. I loved this book so very much then. I read it after 8 years, in college, when I'd forgotten most of it, and I loved it then. I'm trying to forget it again now, so that I can read it afresh.
Too bad it's out of print now. This is a beautiful work.
Too bad it's out of print now. This is a beautiful work.
matthewwester's review against another edition
3.0
I feel like I've been a reading a lot of multi-author books lately and they tend to either be one unified story with multiple styles, or a loosely connected bundle of stand-alone stories. Click kinda falls in the middle somewhere, with several of the chapters connecting tightly but others only vaguely related to the main plot.
The chapters didn't seem unified in reading level. The first few chapters seem written for middle school students, with short sentences, simple vocabulary, and G-rated subject matter. Chapter 1, for example, establishes "Grandpa G" as the light-hearted relative who gives his grandchildren a fun, adventurous puzzle/hunt. By the end of the novel, the chapters begin to deal with some more difficult material and seem more suited for older Senior High students; an old man attacks a young girl when she enters his home, there are discussions of extra-marital affairs, and genuine tragedy. It's as if the authors want the reader to grow up while reading the book? Like a subtle Flowers-for-Algernon kind of progression? And if you disagree let me give you a quote from the final chapter, "Her bloodwork was disheartening. Those painful transfusions, two in the last year along, and the implanting of a portal in her naval for the convenient delivery of medication. When she washed, sitting on a plastic stool in the shower stall, she rinsed the aperture with her eyes closed, pretending she was a girl playing doctor. The decontaminant, a local radiation she could apply herself with a silver-nozzled hose, smelled of shallots sizzled too long in the pan until they were dried and caramelized. Or maybe that was her own native smell after all these years. She was caramelized herself, by infirmity and age and sheer stubborn animal endurance." The chapter uses words like simulacrum, vapid, etc., and makes references to Dickens, Magritte, Raphael, "Start spreading the news; I'm leaving today..." etc. Are the first and final chapters of this novel intended for the same reading audience?
I bought this book because I'm trying to read everything Nick Hornby has been a part of, I'll admit. I was also familiar with Gregory Maguire's work, who rewrites fairy tails with an incredibly far-reaching use of vocabulary (both actual and sometimes made-up). But I was also looking forward to getting glimpses of these other YA authors. I have never read any of the Artemis Fowl series, for instance, so I wanted to get a sense of Eoin Colfer's writing. Anyway, my overall review is that the book wasn't bad, it just felt like it wasn't pulled together into one unified project as well as the cover seems to claim, "One Novel Ten Authors."
The chapters didn't seem unified in reading level. The first few chapters seem written for middle school students, with short sentences, simple vocabulary, and G-rated subject matter. Chapter 1, for example, establishes "Grandpa G" as the light-hearted relative who gives his grandchildren a fun, adventurous puzzle/hunt. By the end of the novel, the chapters begin to deal with some more difficult material and seem more suited for older Senior High students; an old man attacks a young girl when she enters his home, there are discussions of extra-marital affairs, and genuine tragedy. It's as if the authors want the reader to grow up while reading the book? Like a subtle Flowers-for-Algernon kind of progression? And if you disagree let me give you a quote from the final chapter, "Her bloodwork was disheartening. Those painful transfusions, two in the last year along, and the implanting of a portal in her naval for the convenient delivery of medication. When she washed, sitting on a plastic stool in the shower stall, she rinsed the aperture with her eyes closed, pretending she was a girl playing doctor. The decontaminant, a local radiation she could apply herself with a silver-nozzled hose, smelled of shallots sizzled too long in the pan until they were dried and caramelized. Or maybe that was her own native smell after all these years. She was caramelized herself, by infirmity and age and sheer stubborn animal endurance." The chapter uses words like simulacrum, vapid, etc., and makes references to Dickens, Magritte, Raphael, "Start spreading the news; I'm leaving today..." etc. Are the first and final chapters of this novel intended for the same reading audience?
I bought this book because I'm trying to read everything Nick Hornby has been a part of, I'll admit. I was also familiar with Gregory Maguire's work, who rewrites fairy tails with an incredibly far-reaching use of vocabulary (both actual and sometimes made-up). But I was also looking forward to getting glimpses of these other YA authors. I have never read any of the Artemis Fowl series, for instance, so I wanted to get a sense of Eoin Colfer's writing. Anyway, my overall review is that the book wasn't bad, it just felt like it wasn't pulled together into one unified project as well as the cover seems to claim, "One Novel Ten Authors."
sternenstaub's review against another edition
4.0
This book was an interesting journey. It's the first time I've read a book in which the story is continuous and connected, but each chapter has a different author and so builds in parallel and fantastic ways as it goes along.
I originally grabbed the book from a donation shelf because I liked a few of the authors, but I was not disappointed by any of them. Storytelling was good and I found all of the characters compelling. It was also a quick read, so definitely worth it if you have a little extra time and want an interesting, twisting diversion.
I originally grabbed the book from a donation shelf because I liked a few of the authors, but I was not disappointed by any of them. Storytelling was good and I found all of the characters compelling. It was also a quick read, so definitely worth it if you have a little extra time and want an interesting, twisting diversion.