Repetition of plot
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Re: Repetition of plot
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I think I only had to skip a couple paragraphs that were identical.
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Exactly, without the repetitions, we wouldn't be able to distinguish between the worldlines. These repetitions might seem exhausting, unnecessary and a waste of time. But for a reader ( like me) who loves to know exactly what, where, why, when, and how; I find it really useful.teacherjh wrote: ↑19 Jul 2021, 18:14 The repetitions showed how the various timelines were similar. Also, it repeated scientific information that the reader needed to understand. However, I would have appreciated a bit more variation. The word for word parts gave me deja vu and made me want to skim ahead.
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I read and watched similar stories before, so YES. I find it refreshing if some scenes happen again, as long as the whole day is not repeated.
Did it distract you from the plot?
If the repetition is necessary to understand the concept in the novel, then NO. This is how the plot and settings work in this story anyway.
Did you skip the repetitions while reading?
I do it sometimes, but NOT if I'm looking for clues. This is a mystery that needs to be solved, so it's a good thing that there are repetitions.
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Same here! I keep seeing people say that it was unnecessary and the author should've just made it concise, but as you said, it wouldn't be the same world we read and experienced. At some point, I loved the existence of the repeated scenes because it drives the existence of the alternative universes. Without them, then... how else would we appreciate it?Victor Kilyungi wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 04:22 I think it was necessary to show us that there's only a slight difference between different worldlines. I wasn't distracted by it but I know without it the book would have been much shorter. Some of them I perused through like the one for the train station, but mostly I just read through them.
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Some people found it to be annoying and honestly, I can't blame them. But it can't be helped either because it is necessary. It wouldn't be a story about multiple worldlines without the obvious similarities and the subtle differences. Actually, I think the presence of both those aspects complement each other.
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But how else could the author showcase the worldlines and their similarities and differences? I feel bad that you got confused, though. At which parts? I thought the author was pretty clear when there was a change in POV/worldline, although I think it could still use a little more improvement.Precious Naiti wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 15:43 The repetition was unnecessary. I found it annoying at times and time wasting. I ended up being confused more than once.
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I was tempted to skip some of them, to be honest. But I ended up going back because I was scared I might miss something. I can't afford to miss a single detail, not only for writing the review but also for understanding the story itself. It really bothered me; I couldn't be at peace unless I read all of it properly.
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In connection to the worldline theory, I'd just like to say that there are so many different worldlines (not necessarily of Gary's, maybe that of a new character's) that the author could explore in the future, where something even more outlandish and horrifying than a murder happens. As it is said that there are endless possibilities for how each event in our lives could have played out, there is an infinite number of worldlines that can, in theory, be explored. In the case of this book, the author might have chosen alternate worldlines that are very similar to each other perhaps to show how the slightest variation in how events occur can lead to such massively different outcomes.
On the other hand, the repetition that I did have a serious problem with was the way in which whole paragraphs were lifted out of one worldline and then inserted into the others. Reading the same descriptions about the London Underground and the Ox and Lamb pub repeatedly, got tiresome. These descriptions could easily have been changed. As the Gary in each worldline was different, their ways of speech and thought patterns should also have been different.
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