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If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is …
This was an enjoyable read but the psychiatry setting lacked substance.
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Das Parfum, a contemporary novel, which at first sight stands out for the extensive and astonishing descriptions it contains, …
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Pedro Páramo is a novel written by Juan Rulfo about a man named Juan Preciado who travels to his recently …
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the …
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA …
I find it difficult to rate this book. It left me so confused that I started questioning my ability to follow a story in a foreign language. If other reviews are to be trusted I am not alone in my confusion, but contrary to them I cannot know whether my own lack of awareness is at fault here.
It started well though. I was intrigued to see what the premise and setting would lead to. But further in the book, as more and more pages were turned, I became perplexed then disinterested then annoyed. And I had made it as far as the last thirty pages so I had to finish, didn't I? Fortunately skipping even entire paragraghs did not seem to matter much for the actual plot, especially by the end.
Because if I had to make a succinct description of this novel: 300+ pages of self pitied rambling …
I find it difficult to rate this book. It left me so confused that I started questioning my ability to follow a story in a foreign language. If other reviews are to be trusted I am not alone in my confusion, but contrary to them I cannot know whether my own lack of awareness is at fault here.
It started well though. I was intrigued to see what the premise and setting would lead to. But further in the book, as more and more pages were turned, I became perplexed then disinterested then annoyed. And I had made it as far as the last thirty pages so I had to finish, didn't I? Fortunately skipping even entire paragraghs did not seem to matter much for the actual plot, especially by the end.
Because if I had to make a succinct description of this novel: 300+ pages of self pitied rambling dusted with teenage drama. The latter could have been interesting if the main character had stopped wallowing in her misery so that we had time to focus on the rest of the cast. If you're looking for horror, which I did expect a bit of given how this book was advertised, just keep moving because there is no meat to it.
I might come back to this in a while and spit at my past self for not realizing how brilliant this piece of work has been all along. But for now I'll have to accept that I'm missing out.
