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Title: Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow ISBN: 0-452-27568-7 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: It Made Me Think I'd Lost MY Mind!
Comment: This was one of the most maddening books I ever had the misfortune to waste my money on.
Yes, it was challenging. In fact, challenging is an understatement. Loon Lake was the first book I ever gave up on before getting even halfway through. I had absolutely no idea what was going on and, after a while, I simply did not care anymore.
I highly recommend that you go to the library and borrow this book to see whether or not it's for you before purchasing it!
Rating: 4
Summary: Is Doctorow playing with our minds?
Comment: Doctorow makes Loon Lake a much more difficult read than it needs to be. He keeps changing tense on us. He keeps switching from first to third person narrative. He keeps inserting bad poetic verse. We often don't know who is speaking, sometimes even what about. Is the narrator of the moment in a dream? A drug induced state? As looney as a loon? But in the end, Doctorow sweeps us up, and when Joe Patterson, nee Korzenioski, is up against it, we feel his pain; the tension is almost unbearable. We want good things to happen to Joe and Clara...and when he looks out the police station window to see her being taken away we want to scream with him. Then we want to see good things happen to Joe and Sandy, and maybe they are, or not. Doctorow keeps is in suspense until the last two pages when it is all laid out for us. And it all makes sense. It is a challenging read, but I'm glad I went down this trail. It won't be my favorite Doctorow read, but it has made a lasting impression.
Rating: 4
Summary: Challenging but extremely satisfying work.
Comment: Like all Doctorow, Loon Lake tells an amazingly interesting tale with vibrant, often beautiful, sometimes brutal detail. Even though few readers will be able to relate directly to the plotline (set in pre-WWII USA), Doctorow (as usual) manages to uncover universally human feeling despite the strange adventures the story depicts. A great work, but be warned: the switching from first to third person, tense shifts, and interspersion of poetry makes this a challenging work, but well worth the effort. I give it 4 instead of 5 stars only because, while great, the book is a notch below Billy Bathgate.
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Title: Welcome to Hard Times by E. L. Doctorow ISBN: 0452275717 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Book of Daniel: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow ISBN: 0452275660 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by DASHIELL HAMMETT ISBN: 0679722645 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Krik? Krak! (Vintage Contemporaries) by Edwidge Danticat ISBN: 067976657X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow ISBN: 0452279070 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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