Review of The Diving-bell and the Butterfly

Remarkable

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There's a comment on the back of the novel that says it's remarkable. I tend to agree although it's not remarkable in the sense you would say a book is. It's not remarkable in the writing style, the character work, the story line. Remarkable to me is 1984 and this is no 1984. Yes I'm aware that I'm comparing a non fiction to a fiction but I honestly can't think of any remarkable biographies.
What is remarkable about this novel is how it came into being. You can't help but think about this man lying there being unable to move except for one eyelid. You have more of a tendency to appreciate his every word and the effort that went into it knowing how he dictated it. For those that don't know about Bauby, he had Locked in Syndrome and was only able to communicate via blinking which is how he "wrote" this book. By blinking through the alphabet (or his version of the alphabet) to someone who would take down every letter.
That's pretty much what is remarkable about this book.

8/10

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Added by Raven 7 months ago on 13 March 2008 05:45