Reviews for The Circle of Reason

The average rating for The Circle of Reason based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-23 00:00:00 James Simmons Jr OMG. I couldn't finish it. Horror of all horrors, I couldn't finish a book by an author that I admire. But I realized what it is. I was struggling with the same thing in 'The Hungry Tide'. Ghosh spends an inordinate amount of time developing characters, their pasts, their little histories, their unique experiences. The plot gets put on hold as we dive (once again) into the history of a newly introduced character and then the anecdote takes you further and further away from the current storyline and 20 pages later you are slowly dragged back to the present. Now I love good character development. I really do. But this? THIS? It's maddening. Really? Nearly every character gets this? It's too much (for me). Here is the worst part and what made me throw this book across the room. A third way into the book, Ghosh 'removes' a large group of the main characters! GONE. People who I had just been forced to examine the way they like to pluck their nosehairs. Gone from the story. WTF? I threw the book down. I'm not going to finish it. Nothing had happened anyway. There was barely anyone left to care about. SO! My friends, if you love love love characters (Liz?) and don't care too much about a cohesive plot, this book might suit you. I must also add, I loved his recent book 'The Sea of Poppies', and it's the first in a trilogy that I will certainly attempt to read when it comes out. 'Sea of Poppies' had great characters and a interesting plot.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-08 00:00:00 Robert Mosby I don't have the issue that bother some with this book, the way characters disappear. But I've been to see Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines and it turned out I could pack up and go home about 20 minutes in. One of those life experiences that hardens you. A young policeman, whose preference is painting birds, and who is in the police because it was the first civil service position for which he qualified, keeps changing the lives of odd but good people without having any interest in doing so. I want to call him corrupt in that he has a job he doesn't care about and he treats it in a way you can't treat that sort of job. He should care. But in fact he does what he is told, toes the line, hopes to get up the ranks, hopes mainly that he can spend as much time as possible with birds. And so. First he is responsible for the incineration of a group of crazy good people. One escapes and in chasing him down, he is responsible for a brutal police attack on another equally odd group which is doing nothing more than going shopping. rest is here: