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Oct 05, 2005

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Kassia

My reaction to 10:01 was similar, though for different reasons. At first, I felt as if I'd fallen into a writing exercise (you're in a movie theater, describe one of your fellow movie-goers, okay now describe what's happening an hour later). Once I stopped worrying about the story and started just enjoying the, as you call it, gimmick, I started having a good time.

Your comment about the different voices was interesting because that aspect (mostly) worked for me.

derikb

Matt, it made me think of Ryman's 253 also.

I think where the book wasn't working for me was I felt a distinct lack of connection. There felt to be no thread connecting everything beyond the location, which in itself can work (Alan Moore's amazing Voice of the Fire is based around a locational structure), but here the oh so very short sections felt too much like the dreaded short story novel (one of our other selections I think...).

TEV

Hey Matt,

I know you're looking for 10:01 boosters but I do fall into the opposite camp - I liked it the least of the five books we read. But for me, the failure of 10:01 is a failure of language. Each of us has different literary priorities but language is front and center for me, and I found the language in 10:01 to be more or less consistently uninivolving. I've had my struggles with Baker, to be sure, but he can write a truly magnificent sentence. I don't find evidence of similar gifts in this book.

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