The ending felt somber in the realization that, there is really nothing we can do to save this planet. We're living on borrowed time. The best we can do is help the next apex species realize the mistakes we've made so that they don't repeat them. But maybe I'm just over here dooming. What are your thoughts?
I am actually getting ready to read it again. It's been a year, so I only really remember that I enjoyed it. I'll add a comment once I've completed it.
I enjoyed it as well. I started to really enjoy it after everyone gets tree names 🙂
I think Richard Powers is a sex weirdo who comes up with elaborate novel structures to contain his tulpa gf's in. I was really put off by the woman in the last short story who goes from bimbo to sexy ghost. That felt prototypical for how he sees women. He also admits to stalking and creeping on one of his grad students in his autofiction Galatea 2.2. The short stories were beautiful but the novel itself felt poorly executed with a lot of cut plot threads.
This is my first book of his. Is a Maidenhair like characters in all of his books?
Yeah that might be a little too weird for me.
I've only read the two, but I remember being skeeved out when I read it and feeling very validated when I read Galatea.
If you think that book is somber then you should read his Bewilderment. Totally fucking crushing from beginning to end.
Why does Mr. Powers want to hurt us 😭
I'm gonna read Catch 22 again it's been a decade so I've forgot about most of it. I just remembered it being fun.
I think sad literature is good for you sometimes. Makes you think about what matters.