Review of Entanglement - Quantum and Otherwise
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Review of Entanglement - Quantum and Otherwise
[Following is a volunteer review of "Entanglement - Quantum and Otherwise" by John K Danenbarger.]
John K. Danenbarger's Entanglement—Quantum and Otherwise is an entanglement indeed—of words, characters, ideas, and controversies spun together in a complex narrative web of sex, greed, and metaphysics. The book problematizes the entwining of lives in families and between generations with the use of the concept of quantum entanglement. It is a story here that challenges the reader to join the dots, that has a certain payoff waiting for those prepared to invest their feelings.
The story starts with Geena Nuss getting a letter that her father is dead but soon shifts to events in the non-linear structure, looking into the life of Geena's mother, Beth, and other characters like Joe Tink and Davis. Each character brings a complex backstory: being troubled in adolescence, being a foster parent—caring yet somewhat mysterious, being a boy experiencing rage due to abandonment. One community standout was Beth, and being able to see her strength when she got away from a bad situation in Bermuda. This scene is an appropriate example of how the novel depicts the dramatic intensity exclusive for readers.
Danenbarger writes in an exceedingly profound and articulate way, the type of prose that gives a reader such an experience as it makes them rethink a simple act of remembering the future. The elements of philosophic substratum concerning life, guilt, and inter-human relations add a meaningful layer, which can be a natural layer on a multi-generational story.
As a structure, it was nonlinear, and for a story about the discovery that time is not linear, it was a nonlinear design, but sometimes confusing. I had a slight difficulty in following the occurrences, especially the shift of time and point of view, which was frequent throughout the early parts of the book. For example, it took more than one read-through of a number of passages to understand the order of events in the story told by Davis. Furthermore, although third-person omniscient proved quite insightful of most characters, the shift to first person in Davis’s case was somewhat unexpected.
The book looks well-edited; no typing mistakes, punctuation, or grammatical errors were detected, impressively neat. However, there is some bending of logic when it comes to the structures of the narrative that are multiple-folded, but still, the themes make the book brilliant.
On the basis of my considerations, I can give 4 out of 5 stars for Entanglement—Quantum and Otherwise. While I believe it will appeal to the general fiction readers, whose favorite characters have become multilayered considerations and ambiguous philosophical motifs and plots, the mystery element will attract readers of this specific genre. To enhance, there are possibilities to make the main concept of the story less complicated to follow and more understandable to audiences by making some changes to the way the author began the representation of the timeline.
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Entanglement - Quantum and Otherwise
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John K. Danenbarger's Entanglement—Quantum and Otherwise is an entanglement indeed—of words, characters, ideas, and controversies spun together in a complex narrative web of sex, greed, and metaphysics. The book problematizes the entwining of lives in families and between generations with the use of the concept of quantum entanglement. It is a story here that challenges the reader to join the dots, that has a certain payoff waiting for those prepared to invest their feelings.
The story starts with Geena Nuss getting a letter that her father is dead but soon shifts to events in the non-linear structure, looking into the life of Geena's mother, Beth, and other characters like Joe Tink and Davis. Each character brings a complex backstory: being troubled in adolescence, being a foster parent—caring yet somewhat mysterious, being a boy experiencing rage due to abandonment. One community standout was Beth, and being able to see her strength when she got away from a bad situation in Bermuda. This scene is an appropriate example of how the novel depicts the dramatic intensity exclusive for readers.
Danenbarger writes in an exceedingly profound and articulate way, the type of prose that gives a reader such an experience as it makes them rethink a simple act of remembering the future. The elements of philosophic substratum concerning life, guilt, and inter-human relations add a meaningful layer, which can be a natural layer on a multi-generational story.
As a structure, it was nonlinear, and for a story about the discovery that time is not linear, it was a nonlinear design, but sometimes confusing. I had a slight difficulty in following the occurrences, especially the shift of time and point of view, which was frequent throughout the early parts of the book. For example, it took more than one read-through of a number of passages to understand the order of events in the story told by Davis. Furthermore, although third-person omniscient proved quite insightful of most characters, the shift to first person in Davis’s case was somewhat unexpected.
The book looks well-edited; no typing mistakes, punctuation, or grammatical errors were detected, impressively neat. However, there is some bending of logic when it comes to the structures of the narrative that are multiple-folded, but still, the themes make the book brilliant.
On the basis of my considerations, I can give 4 out of 5 stars for Entanglement—Quantum and Otherwise. While I believe it will appeal to the general fiction readers, whose favorite characters have become multilayered considerations and ambiguous philosophical motifs and plots, the mystery element will attract readers of this specific genre. To enhance, there are possibilities to make the main concept of the story less complicated to follow and more understandable to audiences by making some changes to the way the author began the representation of the timeline.
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Entanglement - Quantum and Otherwise
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