![]() ![]() If you asked me how, say, Anna from Cloud Cuckoo Land would react to a particular scenario, my mind would come up blank. I have never felt like I truly see the characters at all – most of them are downright two dimensional. But I have never feel like I am sitting in the same world as the characters. ![]() ![]() So Doerr, to me, is immersive because his prose is beautiful. The conversations rambled at times, but they felt real). ![]() The bulk of everything is told, admittedly in very pleasing prose, but in a way that leaves everything feeling. We hardly ever see characters talk on a deeper level, with mannerisms or physical quirks, with distinctive patterns of speech, and in ways that let us see who these people are based on their reactions and how they treat others. When characters interact with one another, the results are usually summarized by narration, and when they're not, the interaction only lasts long enough to set the mood or drive home a point. The main gripe for me was rather that Doerr does not write conversations. Some of the people that have read him seem to suffer for his books' lack of ''plot,'' or more accurately, the fact that they don't have much in the way of suspense and high-speed, page-turning action, but I never struggled with that. Don't get me wrong – Doerr writes beautifully and I'm content to simply sit and enjoy his prose. Some months ago I read All the Light We Cannot See and today I just finished Cloud Cuckoo Land, and while I found both novels deeply immersive, they both felt short on impact. ![]()
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