![]() ![]() Finally, in the near future, a generation ship makes its way to a new home for humanity. 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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