No, for God's sake! I do not mean to say that the "passage" was vergurkt. Had written the novel any other, I would break out in 5-sternige eulogies and again, the language and the ingenuity and the slanted characters only so swagger - how shall I say? - For a real Willis the book is to me a bit too sprawling and eating too boring.
Fortunately Connie Willis has a peppy Write that could keep me in spite of many soporific or redundant sequence awake. Nevertheless, the evil thought from Woodstock's subconscious occasionally sneaked out while reading and asked the cheeky question whether probably has read the manuscript before its publication per one lecturer.
But enough bitching, because when you exit the novel I was already reconciled to all lengths and repetition, finally I have all in all a hell of story savored with an extraordinary end.
And the story goes like this:
The psychologist Joanna Lander research in the field of near-death experiences. She works in a hospital, which seems to have not only a strange layout and suffers from opaque remedial measures but also has a phantom canteen. There interviewed Joanna patients who were resuscitated about their experiences after death. The questions that will clarify Joanna scientifically Where were these people? Are there psychological, organic or even chemical causes of near-death experiences. If so, you can use the knowledge scientific? Or there waiting at the end of the tunnel actually an angel of the Lord who embraces all dying with love, as the bestselling author Mandrake claimed? Mandrake operates the research for his dubious esoteric books in the same hospital as Joanna, but his methods are anything but serious. He influenced Joanna patients and the way he tries to instrumentalize Joanna for his cause. No wonder that the poor girl is constantly on the run from this man. Incidentally, this is a continuous-running gag in each Connie Willis novel and may in the long run also quite annoying.
The situation is different because of the attractive but also a bit stubborn neurologist Dr. Wright. Planning a series of tests in which he injected his subjects a chemical that triggers near-death experiences. When he runs out of volunteers, Joanna presents himself as a guinea pig available and experienced Uuuuuunglaubliches.
The book is very slow going. Because the clinician important and unimportant patients mothers, physicians, volunteers and distant acquaintances of all kinds is detailed introduced, characterized, and next to the main theme of "near-death experience", which is balanced between esotericism and to be taken seriously science, the author also draws a few more Besides storylines through history, they now and then weaves or even leaves. And Connie Willis Connie Willis would not, if she had not buried himself so thoroughly in at least one specialty during their research that every letter that it loses about is absolutely incontestable since. In the case of the passage there are disasters of any kind. The small critically ill heart patient Maisie (with several near-death experiences) is the absolute disaster luminary and thanks to her, gives the reader time in passing a fascinating overview of the major disasters of modern times. Natural disasters as well as technical disasters, major fires, train accidents, Zeppelin and airplane crashes and shipwrecks of course, yes, even to the Titanic - the straight!
But until one goes down with the Titanic, one has the somewhat laborious entry and the various unnecessary Schlenker long forgotten and let yourself be surprised and carried away by the thrilling twists and tragic developments history; o)
But what am I talking 'long? Orders Read! You would not regret it.
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