Rooftop Soliloquy

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Please try again later. A modern-day Casanova, with a half- crazy mind and elegant clothing, tramps around Paris from adventure to adventure in this latest and perhaps greatest book by American expatriate author Roman Payne. Payne's experience as a novelist shows through in this, his fourth novel, as he masterfully weaves two other narratives into the first, to create a rich and thought-provoking story.

Payne has created a new Parisian mythology. The 1st-person "Soliloquy" method of narration allows Payne a sort of freedom to communicate with unprecedented ease with reader. One imagines him perched like a bird on a rooftop, fluttering to a new district with each chapter. Rooftop's are fabulous often frightening locations: Such is the perspective that is offered to the reader of this book. Its pages allow a certain airy freedom that is fun, exciting, and refreshing to those who are used to reading books with sad subjects or negative themes.

One begins the book feeling curious, and one finishes it feeling happy. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I didn't expect this to be written in old English; that is not my cup of tea.

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I could only get through 17 pages and then I couldn't read anymore. I started it about 5 times and gave up. One person found this helpful. Reviewers who say that this book exemplifies intriguing uses of language may be right, from their own perspectives, but from mine, they're dead wrong. The author loves to repeat certain stilted phrases, as in "I returned to the room to which I held key," and words: The story did not make any sense to me either, alas. Really, there isn't much of a story, though I kept hoping. The main character appears to make a decent living writing operas and such, and his life otherwise is filled with fantasy??

He is without doubt one of the most arrogant, self-absorbed, blithely psychopathic, pedophilic characters I've ever met. I wouldn't say I hate it, but I almost do. Roman Payne's Rooftop Soliliquy is a novel that presents an experience of a city and a moment in a life through short vignettes evocative of a man's life in Paris.

The language is very visual, with talks of "the broad moon that hung like a pendant on a string" and images of reckless driving through winding Paris streets. The book follows the seemingly aimless wanderings of an artist, a rake who pursues life experiences in order to put them down on memory and on paper for the rest of us to read as a type of heroic quest for beauty.

Sometimes egotistically lewd and sometimes endearing, this book will be enjoyed by anyone who likes a cosmopolitan male-centric adventure. You are going to love this book if you adore the use of words. The way Roman Payne writes is gorgeous and so vivid.

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If you are looking for intricate plot and over the top adventure this is not for you. But if language and writing is your aim i think you will love this book.


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His descriptive words makes you see the world he is talking about " The sun hissed with foul breath when,in Beaubourg,I arrived. His writing is different from almost any book i have read in recent years written by current authors. This book is like something that has been recovered from the an older world,when there was still beauty in the simple things.

The moon is vast and steady tonight, and it will bathe you in its light. Everything here is beautiful. Take the key, I am going now. His ambitions were few but his virtues were many. He loved people and delighted in hearing wild stories told. His mother had opened the Bone Shop during the Second World War to sell fortunes to credulous people, along with tarot cards, animal skeletons, loose semi-precious stones, silver and copper in many forms, dyes and powders, crushed insects legs and wings to make magic potions, as well as healing herbs.

She performed mystic curiosities and became a well-known clairvoyante in her time. People gathered in the Bone Shop at night to ask her to read their palms and grant them passionate love and eternal life. When she herself died of old age and a weak heart, August took over the shop. He, however, performed no rites, having little interest in the occult.

He simply sold the jewels and silver lockets and other curiosities to denizens of the quarter and tourists alike. When he met the young Pavel, the two became great friends and the one offered the other a place to live in exchange for work. The loft upstairs where they slept was very small: And for a Cuban fishing village of all things?! There is 'no world without Paris walls'—as the old saying goes. Hey what is this here on the sidewalk? Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.

One crisp envelope informed me that the city was experiencing an abundance of stylish neckties at all-time low prices.

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I tossed these aside and started opening the package. Pretty was the paper—and scented too! They seek goddesses, but I desired only Anne.

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