Hotel World
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BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating, life-affirming book. Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel.
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To be very frank. Haven't been quite invested in this one.
Classic Ali Smith style, with a long chapter of Ulysses-like long stream of consciousness flow, but what comes down to is a bit of pointless, still the words amounted to some special feelings, and mostly those meaningful ones, yet not enough for me, and just some clever word games, but this time it fails a little. Consider it a very early work, it's fair.
This is by far the most challenging book I have ever read and its got nothing to do with the subject matter and everything to do with how its written. Entire chapters have no punctuation at all, there are no speech marks, words are deliberately missed out, or wrong words are used instead.
If I didn't have to read this as part of my module I'd never have gotten further than the first paragraph of chapter 1.
