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Doomsday Book (Mass Market Paperback)
Connie Willis / Spectra / 1993년 8월
평점 : 
Feeling lingers after I finished reading this book. This is my first full-length novel of Connie Willis' and I more than liked it. Though I was quite irritating watching Badri mumuring no more that 'Something worng' and never spit out WHAT is wrong exactly. It is a feature of Connie Willis' writing style but I think it would be much better if she has cut down the scenes of people keep wandering around to call each other because that is what made me want to quit reading. But if you have overcame that status then you will be just absorbed into the story and find yourself weeping and wailing not to make people die.
I've sensed that Connie Willis is quite talkative from her short stories but it was nothing compared to her full-length novel. You can find what 'talkative' means from this one but thanks to that it makes me feel like I'm really in their life and experience all those things together. It took me several days to get my minds back after I finished reading. Also I would never forget Roche's confession.
The bells have stopped. Roche asked me if I thought it was a sign the plague had stopped. "Perhaps God has been able to come to help us after all," he said.
I don‘t think so. In Tournai church officials sent out an order stopping the bells because the sound frightened the people. Perhaps the Bishop of Bath has sent one out as well.
The sound was frightening, but the silence is worse. It‘s like the end of the world.
He still did not appear to have wakened, but when Kivrin wrung out a strip torn from the altar cloth and bathed his forehead with it, he said, without opening his eyes, " I feared that you have gone."
She wiped the crusted blood by his mouth. "I would not go to Scotland without you."
"Not Scotland," he said. "To heaven." - P532
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