To be honest, I didn't finish it (yet).
Here I was leisurely skimming Bombal over again in complacent delight that we had such a short reading, when I checked the other blogs and saw....whoops.
From what I've read in it so far, however, I think it's lovely. I can see its ties to Borges, but the language is a little simpler, cleaner, easier. Of course it does not have the same aesthetic power as Borges' prose, but I personally find it less confusing, very clear. Since I couldn't get that far in the actual text yet, I cheated a little and found a plot synopsis. The idea of capturing people's souls via reproducing reality on a machine is very interesting to me, since it's the belief in a camera's ability to capture a human's energy is not uncommon among indigenous people.
The suspension fo reality, or "false" reality, or a "copy of" reality is very reminiscent of Borges.
Overall, I am not a massive fan of science fiction, but this is written in the simple tone of masters like Bradbury. I can't wait to finish this book, hopefully sometime in the next couple days. I'll do a better, more complete blog post as soon as I am done.
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