> There are so many moving parts in some of his stories that you want to put down the book and sit back in awe that Carr can handle all of them without dropping

> There are so many moving parts in some of his stories that you want to put down the book and sit back in awe that Carr can handle all of them without dropping a single strand. I’m tempted to describe this as a quasi-mathematical skill, but Carr always proclaimed his absolute hatred of math (which he called “the last refuge of the halfwit”)—and there’s even an anecdote about him punching a friend simply because he had mentioned the word algebra. > Sometimes I feel I need to construct a GANTT chart just to understand the explanation at the end of some of these novels. LOL