Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Carolyn Lane - GoodreadsThis is an extraordinary book, a slow read because of its density and detail, but rewarding your patience. One of its interlinking story lines is about the construction of jigsaws – and this concept ... Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual: Revised Edition
User Review - Geoff - GoodreadsAnother example of one of those rare works that seemingly contain Everything, Life does not lend itself to brief summation. Like one of those tiny foam dinosaurs that grow to a humongous size when ... Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Bjorn - GoodreadsApparently it took him 9 years to write it, and I don't doubt it for a second - is considered Perec's masterpiece. And while it's not so much FUN as A Void, it's certainly impressive. This novel - if ... Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Paul - GoodreadsA pre-review This big novel has been on my (physical) shelf for years, it feels almost indecent to pick it up and actually begin it. Especially when I don't think I'll like it. Which is a shame ... Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual: Revised Edition
User Review - Nathan "NR" Gaddis - GoodreadsThe 2008/9 David R Godine Revised edition is the edition for us. __________ The following is false. Sorry about that. See Ed's comment below. Do we know that this 2008, 20th Anniversary edition of ... Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Diane - GoodreadsI tried, but just couldn't keep going with this. It was a struggle to keep reading detail after detail after detail about the furnishings of all those rooms in the apartment building where it's set ... Read full review
Review: Life: A User's Manual
User Review - Anne Charnock - GoodreadsThe wealthy Englishman Bartlebooth lives in a Parisian apartment block and, enlisting the skills of other residents, he embarks on a truly quixotic art project, which becomes his life's work. It's ... Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Derek Baldwin - GoodreadsI just couldn't muster the enthusiasm to keep plodding through this and gave up within 70 pages or so. Very well written but utterly pointless. Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Carol - GoodreadsI could not figure this book out...speaks volume, eh? Read full review
Review: Life A User's Manual
User Review - Joel Ortiz-Quintanilla - Goodreadsi liked this book alot, i read this about ten years ago or so, i really like the books from Perec, they were always enjoyable, but this one was a gargantuan book, there were so many stories being told ... Read full review
