Helpful Score: 6
I found this book to be beautiful. Everything about it had beauty... the dust jacket, the book cover, inside the cover and then the writing. Oh, the writing. It swept me up from the very beginning and even though I barely could fathom what was going on, I wanted to keep reading. Every word seduced me into that world even more.
In the story we meet Piranesi. He lives in a labyrinth of a house with many rooms and halls and statues. There is an ocean that flows into part of this house. This provides Piranesi with food. In the top most part of the house is clouds. This provides Piranesi with water. The only others to keep him company are the birds, 12 sets of bones and The Other. The Other meets with him twice a week and goes his way afterwards. This is Piranesi's simple existence until it isn't and everything he has known is thrust into chaos.
I loved every single word of this story. I also feel that there was more to the meaning of it than I was able to grasp. I will be pondering this story for a long time to come. It will be one that I will probably journey into again in the future.
In the story we meet Piranesi. He lives in a labyrinth of a house with many rooms and halls and statues. There is an ocean that flows into part of this house. This provides Piranesi with food. In the top most part of the house is clouds. This provides Piranesi with water. The only others to keep him company are the birds, 12 sets of bones and The Other. The Other meets with him twice a week and goes his way afterwards. This is Piranesi's simple existence until it isn't and everything he has known is thrust into chaos.
I loved every single word of this story. I also feel that there was more to the meaning of it than I was able to grasp. I will be pondering this story for a long time to come. It will be one that I will probably journey into again in the future.
