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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

by Natasha Pulley
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  • Jul 14, 2015, 336 pages
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  • Jul 2015, 336 pages
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AuroraBulgaris

Great as a palette cleanser book. Could've been so much better with better editors.
It's a book which I loved in the beginning and sort of enjoyed at the end, but I admit I had to push through about 3/4 of the way.

It's wonderfully whimsical if you don't pay too much attention/think too hard of how some of the main topics/themes are outlined. If you read with your brain off, you'd easily give it 5/5.

Alas, I did start thinking at some point and certain things stopped making sense or became a bit annoying/confusing/cumbersome to take in.

Anyways, as a first book, I find it a good effort and it could've earned and extra scoreb had the editors done a bit more thorough job with...well, editing.

I'll leave you with one of my fav quotes: "A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment". Yes, he is talking about van Gogh!

And my absolutely least fav quote (because exactly the opposite has always been true) : "although one could still do proper science with a magnet and some iron filings, it felt professional to have made something that looked like a mutated windmill. Science had to have some mystery, otherwise everyone would find out how simple it was". Author never spoke to an actual scientist, I guess...
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