Atmospheric Disturbances Audiobook

" After you finish writing something, you should ask yourself one key question: So what? This book, like too many recent novels I've picked up, had no answer. So I stopped reading it. Don't try to show me how cool and clever your writing is - just tell me a story. "

" 3.5 stars - a random pick at the library that turned out to be really pretty good. "

" I actually didn't finish the book; not my cup of tea. "

" I sometimes loved this book and sometimes was frustrated by it. Galchen does a few interesting things with her use of scientific (meteorological) fact in engagement with fictional metaphors... so I was very interested to read this book as part of my thesis reading (which concerns application of scientific ideas to fictional craft). But she didn't really push it to the point of being mind-blowingly original ... "

" Short background on this book: I learned about this book from the New York Times notable books of the year. My goal is to read all of the top fiction picks (Yikes 50 in all!) and this was one. All of the books so far (ok, so to date, I have only read nine) have been enjoyable, thoughtful, and well written. However, I struggled with Atmospheric Disturbances. This book is about a psychologist who is looking for his wife after she becomes replaced by an-almost-exact-double. This book left me with a lot of unanswered questions and the ending was disappointing. Unique, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend this read. "

" Galchen is undeniably quite smart, but I found this novel to be exceedingly tedious. Her version of incipient insanity certainly convinces but I didn't think she was a very good stylist, which separates her from the Borges whom she so clearly admires. But I also think that that, no matter how good a writer she was, the novel's premise would have never interested me, which is why I gave it three stars - it may be someone else's cup of tea. "

" I am very disappointed by this book. It could have been an interesting story, if the author would have succeeded in making the characters believable. I just didn't care. At all. Yes it is clever. But not the inspiring kind of clever. It's a bit of a smartass. Other reviewers have compared the book to math homework. I completely agree. "

" very interesting and oddly compelling..... "

" It's real messed up, but it's written in such a way that you totally understand what happens when people go crazy. "

" I didn't get past page 11. Usually I'll read a book even though I don't like it, but this was just not my thing. "

" A little disjointed and sort of odd. Not everyone's cup of tea but I liked it. "

" I didn't actually finish this, because I absentmindedly left it somewhere last week. I was just over halfway through. I know where I left it, and I could almost certainly go retrieve it, but I have not done so. My lack of motivation to get the book back is probably review enough. "

" very promising premise (narrator suffering from a mental delusion/defect such that he believes his wife to be an imposter), but the development of the story was a bit disappointing "

" Good! Then dull! Then good again! Aaaah! "

" A subtly weird and emotionally affecting little book. I went in not sure what to expect and came out totally in love. "

" This is a wonderfully inventive novel. I can't wait to see what Rivka Galchen writes next. "

" Well written. Unfortunately the plot starts to unwind at the end. It sinks beneath the technical details of meteorology and the main characters obsession with it. <br/> "

" By the time I was halfway through I wanted to smack the main character upside the head. "

" This was one of the worst books I have ever read. The story felt so disjointed, there was no flow. It also felt like it was &quot;trying too hard.&quot; Read it for a book club, otherwise I would not have finished it. "

" 3.5 stars - a random pick at the library that turned out to be really pretty good. "

" Certainly caught my attention right at the beginning! The guy has lost his wife and his patient, he seems to have an imposter posing as his wife... way odd. "

" A book about love and how you don't want it to end.<br/>Enthralling absurdity of perceptional logic. "

" The way this story was presented has many holes "

" A seriously awesome novel by an impressive writer. Hilarious and heartbreaking with moments of concise observations on human nature and perspective. "