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Satin Island
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeFrom the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the worldmodern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.U., a corporate anthropologist, is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy capturesas only he canthe way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.From the Hardcover edition.
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Come-read-with-me
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Day 3 #7covers7days. #covercrush. Love the simplicity and vivid colors of this cover. It‘s still sitting on my TBR list. 🤓

erzascarletbookgasm I‘ve never seen this cover! 👍 Not read the book either. 5y
Come-read-with-me @erzascarletbookgasm There are so many beautiful covers out there it was hard to make a choice. But this one reached out to me! 5y
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Mike.Hall
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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I really liked the structure of this book, the plot is a bit week. I found this book really enjoyable despite that, and learned a lot of interesting information.

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Conservio
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Well my computer isn‘t working so I guess I‘ll read instead of doing homework 😁#procrastination

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scripturient
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Every single one of my colleagues seems to be talking about this book at the moment so I‘d better see what the fuss is about.

Annl Great tattoo! 6y
NovelGirl82 That sounds amazing!! 6y
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Clwojick
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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This cover alone makes me want to read this book. 😬👏#LibraryWishlist #NeverEndingTBR

Have any of my fellow Littens read this book? Would you recommend? Please let me know. ☺️

Laura317 I have not, but I totally agree with you on that cover! 😍 6y
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janeycanuck
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Mehso-so

I have no idea what this book was about
#overmyhead

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janeycanuck
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Starting my morning off on the right foot. It's lemon so I won't need to worry about scurvy today.

#litsypartyofone

Reviewsbylola 😍😍 🍋 7y
sprainedbrain Health food! ❤️ 7y
Erika13137 😅😅😅 7y
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janeycanuck
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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For my #freebie today, I'm ignoring the unfinished tasks around the house and climbing into bed *before* my bedtime to start this book. I became a Silicon Valley widow a few weeks ago and I feel like every minute has been taken up with keeping my house/garden together and I've had precious little time for reading. Tonight, I take back my pre-bed reading time! #riotgrams

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BaBaBaBillyAndTheBooks
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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In Satin Island, a "corporate anthropologist" searches for meaning in the networks of life. "U" seeks to write the "Great Book" on humanity and its intricate scheme: from screen to screen, from airport to airport, from one Staten Island ferry to another. The ultimate architecture eventually reveals itself to him, like a darkroom photograph: a beautiful map of connections that, from a greater height, perhaps looks more like a mesmerizing oil spill.

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volatilestatic
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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When your cat is weirdly judgy about your bathtub reading...

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BooksForYears
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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#ReadJanuary Day 20 - This Cover Makes No Sense

Once you read the book, the cover will make a wee bit more sense, but even still...

#bonkers

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ChrisStingray
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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Another book I enjoy. Revisiting this.

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wordcrown
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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I just don't know. I kinda see where McCarthy was going and the philosophical aspect is very ambitious, but the writing just put me off. The sentences felt very longwinded and needlessly intricate. HOWEVER, that writing style fit perfectly with the narrator. Ugh. I don't know.

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Taylor
Satin Island: A novel | Tom McCarthy
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A dreamlike and incisive trip through the modern age. The observations twist and turn--first breaking expectations, then, gradually, causing the reader to remove expectations completely.

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