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Eversion 1 - The Story
The story is deliberately repetitive, with the same cast of characters in slightly different guise replaying almost the same events, each time with minor progressions... until Silas accepts his actual situation. Did this work for you or not? Did it make you curious as to what was happening or just see it as lazy writing?
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I thought it was an attempt to incorporate the kind of structures we find in repetitive computer rpg gaming. It didn't really work for me. It was especially a slog at the beginning.
It worked well for me. Never read one of his books and I embraced the fast-paced plot. I read the entire thing is two sittings and really enjoyed it. I also loved the Tom Cruise film Live, Die, Repeat, so it's very possible that this style of storytelling is just one that I like more than others.
I'd forgotten that film but now you mention it I remember enjoying it
It worked well for me. Groundhog Day is like the grandfather of this style. I found it very entertaining and interesting.
I didn't finish the book, but I'll comment on what I did read.
I didn't mind that the story was repetitive. As Clash says, Groundhog Day is a fun film. What I didn't like was that there there was very little different between each repetition. Some of the description was a bit different, but the general content of each cycle was the same. At least in Groundhog Day, we get the idea quickly and then move on to exploring the idea. This was... just the cover blurb expanded to 200 pages or so, adding nothing.
I just finished - took a long time. Not because it was a difficult book, but mostly I've been too preoccupied with the news to focus, and this books was just not engaging enough to draw me in. Like Neil, I found it rather boring. It wasn't all that repetitive, but nevertheless this is not my favourite schtick. I honestly didn't care all that much for Groundhog Day either - at least not the repetitive parts.