stunning words. (If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor)

Member Name: sandraaa_xo

Product:	If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
Date:	15/05/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: original, well written

Disadvantages: can start to get boring.

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is an amazing book that looks into the lives of odinary people but with such a deep and provoking prose.

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is about the actions of charcters in one small town in one day, the characters and the town remains anoymous and we just circle around these people's lives. Perhaps circle isn't the right word to use you get into it but not too deep, just about as close as if you were watching from a window. A serious event happens in this little town and we're never told what it is but you can suspect. We see the story through two people, one who is in the present and is seeing the event unfold in front of them and there's another person who recalls the day of the accident 3 years on.

I doubt the story itself would ever work if it wasn't for McGregor's style and the way he manage to capture you and turn this ordinary town into something slightly magical and mystical. The way each sentence is written and the way things are phrases just seems so elegant, every part of the story seems to just roll right off your tongue and you can read everything with ease. McGregor takes a snapshot of all these people's lives and with the unique description we really feel a story behind this ordinary and simply people. Yet in the story these ordinary and simple people matter and the story makes you realise that all these little things we do and see do matter. Throughout the story w're lead to believe that something huge is going to happen and yes something does happen but not so much that you are shocked in fact you are left reflecting on the lives of the character and all the little things they do that change their lives.
McGregor shows us that the little things in life are remarkable and perhaps we need to speak of them or at least write them down because they do alter lives. This novel is compltely refreshing and I'm glad I was able to be persudaded by the peopel at Waterstones to purchase it as I came across it on a whim. How the story is told is what makes this book special and enthralling without McGregor's touch this would have fell flat and considering I've never read anything like this I am impressed.

Summary: ordinary people and ordinary times that you reflect on because McGregor makes them seem so beautiful