I really liked his set of short stories, and I thought that this would be just as interesting (see below). Maybe my comprehension is out of whack, but I wish I spent the time reading this on Crime & Punishment instead, which is far more engrossing read than this was...also considering I have 300 more pages to read vs. this 160 page booger. It's a book is a narration of a bunch of imagined different cities by Marco Polo. I did like the city without walls and roofs, and only water pipes to define it, as well as the city and death segments, which is more of what I was hoping to see with Calvino. But maybe I just don't get it... or I like things more literal. Life: a User's Manual by Perec (another book I have 100 more pages left and never returned to...yet) is by far more interesting and structured if you want to talk in terms of space and buildings and people and things.