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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, though I wouldn’t describe it as a novel. Rather, it’s a series of brief (some just a paragraph or two) essays/musings about the experience of travel. E.g. what it’s like to enter a large, busy hotel or to board an airplane. Interspersed throughout are a few longer fictional narratives that could be described as short stories perhaps, though most of them are too brief to be real stories. A number of the pieces revolve around the history of preserving human bodies (embalming, plasticizing, and the like), which provide an odd counterpoint to the travel pieces. The reading experience is disjointed but not unpleasantly so—perhaps a bit like the experience of travel itself. I think the author is exploring what it means to be a human moving through the world, and she’s doing it in this indirect and fragmented way. In one early piece (the one titled Your Head in the World) the following excerpt appears, and I think it’s an apt description of this book:

“In my writing, life would turn into incomplete stories, dreamlike tales, would show up from afar in odd dislocated panoramas, or in cross sections—and so it would be almost impossible to reach any conclusions as to the whole.”

It’s a very interesting concept, and this book is a stimulating read. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s breaking new ground, which is why I feel it deserves 5 stars. I don’t feel emotionally moved at all, but that’s not the point. This novel won the 2018 International Man Booker Prize.


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Flights Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft 9780525534198 Books Reviews

Some interesting short stories at the beginning but it became became obsessively tied to stories about plastination and lost its appeal for me even though I read it to the end. Definitely some good observations and reflections about human behaviour which made reading it to completion bearable.
I have never read anything quite like it. From the punchy observations to the longer stories (or story threads) it is so very smart, wry and sad too.

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There is no real plot line or consistent story in this delightful book. The writing is beautiful - the translation is excellent - and allows you to journey along with the many characters. Flights of fancy, flights of escape, flights full of purpose or just for an adventure. A truly enjoyable book.
This book is unlike anything else -- stories, travel narrative, history, psychology I don't know how to classify it but it is fascinating and brilliantly imaginative. The author, Olga Tokarczuk, is well known in Poland but for me this was a discovery. One more thing the translation is splendid each word seems exactly right in its context, there is not a single awkward moment.
This is a masterful novel that weaves craft and lyrical prose seamlessly. An evocative literary trip that captures the joys,foibles and challenges of flights through several airports with rich tapestry of plot. In some ways has elements reminiscent of WG Sebald's The Emigrants. The personification of body parts are equal parts anatomy lessons as well as Odes to body parts, in the hands of this seasoned storyteller. Tokarczuk' s fiction rocks!
Weird, weird, weird. I loved it. Parts reminded me
of "For The Time Being. "
Parts "Einstein's' Dreams"
Don't read it if you like everything to come together in a nice neat package.
This is not that book.
I looked forward to this book based on the awards and the bio of the author. Then I realized it was a check-list of post-modern meta-novel tropes that failed to satisfy. Nevertheless there is a profound intelligence here...perhaps the author would have been a more satisfying philosopher....I read this after reading a classic 19th century novel...this was like reading a menu instead of enjoying the meal.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, though I wouldn’t describe it as a novel. Rather, it’s a series of brief (some just a paragraph or two) essays/musings about the experience of travel. E.g. what it’s like to enter a large, busy hotel or to board an airplane. Interspersed throughout are a few longer fictional narratives that could be described as short stories perhaps, though most of them are too brief to be real stories. A number of the pieces revolve around the history of preserving human bodies (embalming, plasticizing, and the like), which provide an odd counterpoint to the travel pieces. The reading experience is disjointed but not unpleasantly so—perhaps a bit like the experience of travel itself. I think the author is exploring what it means to be a human moving through the world, and she’s doing it in this indirect and fragmented way. In one early piece (the one titled Your Head in the World) the following excerpt appears, and I think it’s an apt description of this book

“In my writing, life would turn into incomplete stories, dreamlike tales, would show up from afar in odd dislocated panoramas, or in cross sections—and so it would be almost impossible to reach any conclusions as to the whole.”

It’s a very interesting concept, and this book is a stimulating read. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s breaking new ground, which is why I feel it deserves 5 stars. I don’t feel emotionally moved at all, but that’s not the point. This novel won the 2018 International Man Booker Prize.