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Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel by Douglas Preston, Margaret Atwood, The Authors Guild
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challenging
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This was absolutely fascinating. I've never read anything like this - a collaborative novel with 36 different authors? And what an experience it was.
This ABSOLUTELY will not be for everyone. It's weird. It's experimental. It's NOT plot driven. It's completely in the COVID trenches in early days pandemic lockdown in NYC.
I really liked the format of the different tenants coming together on the rooftop to do nothing but share stories when no one could come and go freely due to the absolute explosion of COVID cases. I think a lot of the negative-to-luke-warm reviews of this book stem from the capturing of the feeling of those early lockdown days. It's in very recent memory and people don't want to think about it again right now. But I think the lack of a driving/cohesive plot and just the existence of people sharing seemingly random stories and hobbies really does capture what those early weeks were like. I also liked how you don't know who wrote what pieces until you finish - though I did have 2 that pulled me completely out of the story ... And unfortunately was disappointed at which 2 authors those were.
This ABSOLUTELY will not be for everyone. It's weird. It's experimental. It's NOT plot driven. It's completely in the COVID trenches in early days pandemic lockdown in NYC.
I really liked the format of the different tenants coming together on the rooftop to do nothing but share stories when no one could come and go freely due to the absolute explosion of COVID cases. I think a lot of the negative-to-luke-warm reviews of this book stem from the capturing of the feeling of those early lockdown days. It's in very recent memory and people don't want to think about it again right now. But I think the lack of a driving/cohesive plot and just the existence of people sharing seemingly random stories and hobbies really does capture what those early weeks were like. I also liked how you don't know who wrote what pieces until you finish - though I did have 2 that pulled me completely out of the story ... And unfortunately was disappointed at which 2 authors those were.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Animal death, Sexual assault, Racism, and Death
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