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Il nostro tragico universo
Il nostro tragico universo | Scarlett Thomas
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Pu una storia salvarci la vita?Si pu sfuggire allo scorrere del tempo, come scrive lautore di La scienza dell'immortalit? Quale misteriosa relazione unisce una strana creatura apparsa a Dartmoor, una nave in bottiglia, il tracciato di un ricamo alluncinetto e le fate di Cottingley? Tra una recensione da consegnare e un libro da scrivere, Meg Carpenter si barcamena nella vita di tutti i giorni senza porsi troppe domande. Certo, il suo fidanzato il classico inetto, lei nutre uninsana passione per un uomo impegnato e molto pi grande, e arrivare alla fine del mese non mai una passeggiata. Ma Meg convinta che interrogarsi sui misteri del suo tragico universo non servirebbe a molto. Fino a quando un improbabile libro di pseudoscienza non le fa cambiare idea... Tra psicologia e tarocchi, filosofia e humour, enigmi buddisti e teoremi di fisica, antiche cosmologie e leggende fatate, Scarlett Thomas ci regala un altro travolgente giro di giostra nella migliore letteratura: quella che fa sognare, appassionare e insieme riflettere sui grandi temi della vita.Scarlett Thomasvive a Canterbury, insegna scrittura creativa presso la University of Kent e collabora con diverse testate giornalistiche. Nel 2001 lIndependent on Sunday lha segnalata tra i venti migliori giovani scrittori inglesi. stata candidata allOrange Prize e al South African Boeke Prize e i suoi libri sono stati tradotti in pi di venti lingue. La Newton Compton ha pubblicato i romanzi Che fine ha fatto Mr Y., PopCo e Lisola dei segreti, tutti accolti con grande favore dal pubblico e dalla critica.
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Ruthiella
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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#7days7covers #covercrush

@cathipink Will you post a cover you love each day for seven days without explanation?

Thank you for the tag @CarolynM

batsy Nice pick! I really enjoyed this book 🖤 (as I have most of hers that I've read) 5y
Ruthiella @batsy I love her. There‘s something about the way she thinks that appeals to me. I still need to read her newer stuff however. 🖤 5y
cathipink Thank you for tagging me! About to post 🙂🙂 5y
sudi 😍 5y
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Tonton
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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Knitting!Pushing a car into the bay!Storyless stories, writers block, meaning of the universe!The black dog...and how relationships are made stronger or broken…metaphysics and so many ideas tumbling one after another. Wasn‘t sure if I liked it、 but couldn‘t help coming back to it. I need to read all her other books. Wow, guess I‘m a fan.

Lindy Great review. I‘m sold. 6y
batsy I love her! Think you'll like this one, @Lindy :) 6y
Lindy @batsy Recommended X 2. Yay! 6y
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Ruthiella
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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#riotgram Perhaps my #favoritetitle of all the Scarlett Thomas books thus far . Her books are weird with a healthy dose of the metaphysical. ❤️

batsy Love her books! 6y
Ruthiella @batsy Yay! So glad to find a fellow fan of Thomas 😀 Her books are so odd but so fascinating too! 6y
batsy Yes, I agree! Love seeing your collection; I've read all of it except The Seed Collectors. 6y
Ruthiella @batsy I haven‘t read The Seed Collectors either and I also still need to read the three Lily Pascale mysteries. 6y
batsy Oh yes, I'd forgotten about the mysteries! I haven't read those and they sound good. 6y
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BarbaraJean
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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Mehso-so

Finished this on Sunday; still trying to figure out what I think of it. While reading, I veered between fascination with the book‘s ideas, and frustration at the main character‘s lack of agency. I also kept waiting for something to happen. That was part of the point—one of the underlying ideas is the “storyless story,” but in the end, it didn‘t quite pull off what it was going for. That said, I did enjoy it! And: #LitsyAtoZ letter O is complete!

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BarbaraJean
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“The universe should be unfathomable. You shouldn‘t be able to fix the meaning of the universe, just as you shouldn‘t be able to reduce Hamlet or Anna Karenina to a sentence or say what they ‘really mean.‘ I want a tragic universe, not a nice rounded-off universe with a moral at the end.”

I‘ll probably finish this one up tonight, and I‘m still not quite sure what I think about it. I am enjoying lots of the philosophical-y bits like the one above.

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BarbaraJean
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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I just spent so much time stalking for #SecretSantaGoesPostal and then browsing ideas for books and bookish items that these two lovelies haven‘t been getting much love tonight! Gonna give at least one some attention now before I turn in for the night!

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callunakeep
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book was highly unusual. I finished it & still can't decide what I thought of it. While reading the book I had a horrible review & a two star rating planned in my head. Every time I was actively reading it I thought it was horrible, but when I wasn't reading it I kept wanting to find out how it was going to progress. This book was its own "storyless story", & I have given 4 stars for having such a profound & unusual effect on me!

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callunakeep
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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I am about halfway through this audiobook and I honestly cannot decide how I feel about! About 3/4 of the time I am listening to it, bored to tears with it and ready to bail ... but 1/4 of the time I am engaged so I just keep listening in the hopes that it will become more engaging as I go ... so far it hasn't.

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Oryx
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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Love me some book art

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betherinahq
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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I really love the way Scarlett Thomas writes. It must be tricky to write 1st person present tense and keep it going and making sense. This book is very "meta" and seems to be about everything and nothing all at once.

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NinjaBookBox
Our Tragic Universe | Scarlett Thomas
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One of my favourite books of all time,about a writer struggling with her relationships,the Beast of Dartmoor and the end of the world,with some sock knitting thrown in for good measure! So weird yet so entirely wonderful.