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The Glass Hotel

Written by: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Dylan Moore
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Publisher's Summary

Shortlisted for The Scotiabank Giller Prize

A Time Magazine Must Read Book of 2020

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year

Number One National Best Seller

New York Times Best Seller

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship.

Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts.

©2020 Emily St. John Mandel (P)2020 HarperAudio

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gripping

The second book by this author I have loved. I love that there is similarities between the two of them but that the stories are completely different. If you like stories with lots of parallel and intertwined storylines, you will enjoy this book. If you are Canadian, you will appreciate the imagry and familiarity of the descriptions of our two largest cities. Great characters, great book. Can't wait for the next.

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not sure I felt anything throughout the book.

that's kind of it. just didn't love or hate any character. didn't feel much tension. didn't feel compelled to understand a mystery. well-written but not compelling.

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Great story, sub-par performance

The book is excellent, but there were issues with the performance which distracted from the story. The accents were bad, particularly an attempt at sounding Australian. I think I laughed out loud when I heard that one. The work etcetera is used many time in this novel and every time, the narrator pronounced it "ecetera", which just kills whatever momentum or mood the story had generated. Oh, and nuclear was pronounce "nucular".

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Like a poem

This was really an interesting read (listen). Adored the multiple character storylines and the ebb and flow between them all. The variety and description of settings was beautiful. It was “heavy” feeling at times. Sad. Mournful. The story was unique enough to keep me engaged, though. Recommended.

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best Covid-19 read

definitely not one you can fall asleep to to keep the thread going.
best story and performance reading all year.

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character switcheroo

Like Station 11, author pulls a switcheroo where the characters in first half of book are not main characters in second half. Didn't care much about them. Author should tighten it up, focus on main arc.

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Could not engage fully

Interesting characters and very good writing, but I could not seem to engage with any of them. I wanted more from each, and when I thought that I was close, I wasn’t. Will try another book by this author.

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Many possible worlds

A moving story, set (mostly) in places along the ocean. Or really big lakes, in the case of Toronto.

A beautiful ghost story, or at least about what haunts us.

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Good but not Great (Well Narrated)

I was hoping for another Station 11 but this one falls well short.

It lacks the mystery and compelling storyline that Station 11 had.
The drama was well written and I connected with the character but the storyline left me asking the question so what?

The narration is well done. The distinction between characters is achieved through subtle changes in the narrator’s voice. A few of the accents were a bit off but not enough to take away from the plot.

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Savoured it over weeks

The story I think was so elevated with this audio performance. Loved every minute of the delicious writing and voices.

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