![]() ![]() At the same time, a young man carries out a domestic terrorist plot that threatens the lives of the man, the children in his charge, and others. There’s the decades leading up to Lakeport, Idaho in 2020, where an eighty-year-old man is putting on a play based on this Diogenes text, which he has been translating from recovered scraps of Greek. There’s Constantinople in the years leading up to its invasion and sacking of 1453. The chapters take place across different time periods. This book is framed around a lost Diogenes story that tells of a foolish man named Aethon who, among other misadventures, visits a fantastical land-Cloud Cuckoo Land. I’m just not sure it becomes a unified story in a way that I consider satisfying. Anthony Doerr has clearly put a lot of work into this story, from research to setting and characters-and I want to be clear that I think there’s something here. As gripping as some parts of this book were, other parts were a snooze fest. ![]() ![]() It’s reminiscent in some ways of Sea of Tranquility. ![]() Cloud Cuckoo Land sounds like it should be my cup of tea. Ordinarily I love meta stories and stories that play with unreliable narration. ![]()
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