![]() ![]() ![]() My pick would probably be Richard Powers' Orfeo (spoilers, I guess).įor the flaws, first of all, the entire biology+music gimmick doesn't really work out and feels insufficiently integrated into the plot the main plot is really a series of flashbacks set in the past and has little to do with the extremely stupid "bioterrorist" plot (the main character is a retired composer that has set up a hobby biology lab and is experimenting with "injecting music into DNA", which, by total chance, prompts a police investigation) set in the present. By "flawed" I just mean something that's not a universally acclaimed classic and that you would concede has serious flaws dragging it down but that you love and would still defend as a great piece of literature (e.g. ![]() Obviously, no novel is literally "flawless". ![]()
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