Kelso
Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I was pleasantly surprised by much I enjoyed it. The prose can be a little off-putting - lots of repitition of run-on sentences - and at times is excessive, but once I settled into the ride, I found it to be very lyrical. It's a fun, absurd brand of historical fiction (centering around Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) with some real anchors in philosophy, told through a blind astronomer recounting the story of how he lost his eyes. (I enjoyed the whimsical, occassionally derranged, antics of the royal family in the second half of the books, and that's when I really got into it.)
Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I was pleasantly surprised by much I enjoyed it. The prose can be a little off-putting - lots of repitition of run-on sentences - and at times is excessive, but once I settled into the ride, I found it to be very lyrical. It's a fun, absurd brand of historical fiction (centering around Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) with some real anchors in philosophy, told through a blind astronomer recounting the story of how he lost his eyes. (I enjoyed the whimsical, occassionally derranged, antics of the royal family in the second half of the books, and that's when I really got into it.)