Pre-Owned The Echo Maker (Hardcover) by Richard Powers

from amandacb

I had a difficult time with this novel, if only because after the first quarter, it seemed to start repeating itself. Brother cannot recognize sister -- repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, ad nauseum. Famous neurologist comes and studies, is haunted by thoughts of brother, repeat, repeat, repeat. Sis...

from janey47

I love Richard Powers's writing more than I can say, but I love some of his books more than others, and this is one that I love less. I rank it on a par with Gain. It's a good story, well told, but Powers makes me hungry for a narrative that makes me more human and more complete than I was before...

from dudara

American author Richard Powers explores the ideas of mind, soul and self in this prize-winning novel. Mark Schluter suffers a near-fatal car crash one cold night and awakes unable to recognise his only sister, Karen. In fact, he believes that Karen is a doppelganger of the version he has in his m...

from LarryDarrell

This was a very good book. Reading it, I was the most excited I'd been about literature in some time. The story's pretty simple: A young man in Nebraska has a bad car accident. He is left with a rare mental disorder. He refuses to believe that his sister is actually who she says she is, despite a...

from bodachliath

I find the task of reviewing Richard Powers daunting and humbling. This is my third one, after Orfeo and The Time of Our Singing, and they are all brilliant in subtly different ways. One obvious difference is that there is much less music in this one, but there is a wealth of ideas - on the brain...