Comments on: Congrats to Janna Levin

By: Jim Miles

Jim Miles — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:06:44 +0000

That last paragraph from “Most importantly” to the end is so amazingly spot on it’s almost unbelievable.

By: Mark Hudson

Mark Hudson — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:42:13 +0000

I’ve just been browsing the reviews on Amazon.com. A fair number of them are positive, but I have had more fun reading the critical ones. After reading your comments, above, and the blurb on the book’s jacket, I was tempted to give this novel a read. But one particular 2-star review on Amazon, in which the first few sentences of the book are quoted, has rather put me off.

I’m all for interesting prose, but I did find those quoted sentences to be rather too much to digest.

I shall no doubt read the book anyway; a set of polarised reviews does suggest an entertaining time.

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:14:05 +0000

forget the pigeon holes, what about the number of hours on the clock!?

That’s awesome. Onya, Janna.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:56:19 +0000

Wow. Now I feel like a complete slacker!

I look forward to reading her work, thanks for telling us about it.

By: Changcho

Changcho — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:47:57 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up; with a title like that this book deserves to be read!

“In principle, there’s no reason why one person shouldn’t be able to write technical papers about cosmology and black holes and create successful literary fiction at the same time; in practice, however, modern intellectual life is not set up to reward that kind of wide-ranging work, and it takes a great deal of conscious effort to resist falling into one of the comfortable pigeon-holes that academia provides.”

C. Sagan also did this with his first (and only?) novel ‘Contact’.