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Loading... Hotel Worldby Ali Smith
None.  pam.enser | Apr 1, 2013 |  This is a book with five narrative voices, all in some way connected to a branch of Global Hotel where one of the chambermaids ended up in a freak accident on her second day, or people otherwise connected to her. At times stream-of-consciousness, at times not, Hotel World was an engaging and absorbing reading experience. (  ) mari_reads | Mar 2, 2013 | girl falls down dumbwaiter shaft; survivors manage by homeless & sister 3.02 aletheia21 | Mar 17, 2012 | Five people who happen to be in the Global Hotel one night, including the ghost of a hotel maid who's plunged to her death in "the, the. The lift for dishes, very small room waiting suspended above a shaft of nothing, I forget the word, it has its own name." It's playful with language, funny, tragic, all about love and life and death, and so compassionate toward ordinary, everyday people without ever becoming sentimental."Remember you must live.Remember you most love.Remainder you mist leaf." (  )1  Logophile | Nov 13, 2011 | Wooo-hooo! from the opening lines of this book, the ghost voice of Sara is mesmerizing. There is a very good balance in this chapter of withheld information and revealed information, so that while we are unsure of where we are, we’re pretty certain of the rules and each new piece of revealed information is so fun to uncover. Smith gives such a beautifully free-floating flying sensation (again from the first line, as the fall of her death was fun going down) so that we feel like a ghost trying to get a grasp. More at http://annotationnation.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/hotel-world/ AnnotationNation | Mar 21, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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The story and construction of this book had so much potential. But I barely read the last 30 pages of the book because of the lack of punctuation. I hate stream of consciousness. I hate anything that resembles it. Which is why I refuse to read Virginia Woolf. And the content of those last 30 pages didn't grab me as they should have.
Those stinkin award winners have just been disappointing lately. I think these books just say they get awards just to sell more books, not because they're any good. (