I'm a bit conflicted. It was a good book. Really and thoroughly good. It did many wonderful things; working simple discussions of ideas into the plot; fleshing out these ideas through the actions taking place in the plot; mixing a hint of fantasy and unreality in with a cool, clear view of the world.
However, at some level it didn't pass muster. The language was adroit, apt, everywhere clear and enjoyable, but lacked a certain sparkle. It wasn't phenomenal. Most of all, somehow despite the fact that the book did such a good job of wedding the extraordinary with the banal, the realm of absolute morality with a very familiar day-to-day, I felt that it never quite took flight. There was something heavily earthbound about it.
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