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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
خیلی بد، داستانش رو بقیه توضیح دادن، به نظرم فؤاد اینجا خیلی خوب توضیح داده.
کتاب ایده‌ای داره که جالبه، اما نه برای اینکه کتاب بشه، یا حداقل اینطور کتابی بشود. ایده از اوناست که فکر کنم خود نویسنده باهاش خیلی حال کرده ولی حداقل من خواننده که اصلا خوشم نیومد، فقط اوایلش برایم کمی جالب بود.
ایده رو لو نمی‌دم، چون کل کتاب همین ایده‌اش هست، اگر خواستید ریویوی بقیه را بخوانید.
کتاب ایده‌ای داره که جالبه، اما نه برای اینکه کتاب بشه، یا حداقل اینطور کتابی بشود. ایده از اوناست که فکر کنم خود نویسنده باهاش خیلی حال کرده ولی حداقل من خواننده که اصلا خوشم نیومد، فقط اوایلش برایم کمی جالب بود.
ایده رو لو نمی‌دم، چون کل کتاب همین ایده‌اش هست، اگر خواستید ریویوی بقیه را بخوانید.
An imaginative and meta story about reading a book, in which the plot revolves around you, the reader, chasing down the ending of the book you’re reading. With this quirky premise and a playful yet contemplative narrating voice, this novel was both a puzzling and entertaining read, although its repetitive structure made it occasionally tiresome to get through, and the suddenly rampant objectification in the last half of the book was particularly egregious—sometimes to a rage-inducing degree. This novel really shined when it leant into its coy breaking of the fourth wall, its narrative idiosyncrasies, and its dissection and celebration of the nature of reading, but the casual sexism laced throughout really soured my experience with it.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is nearly 4 stars but 3.5 is not an option! The premise and structure of this book is excellent. For me though I found it slightly annoying that every other chapter us the beginning of a new book - the novelty of this wears off about half way though and feels a little unsatisfying. Some of the chapters were a bit too wordy for me. Overall a great idea but disjointed rather than excellent.
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
This is a lot more than just a book, I think. This novel is literary entropy. Reading it, all that is solid and defined about books is shattered into a thousand pieces which reflect light back on each other and seem to open up a window to the infinite. Calvino resoundingly succeeds in perhaps the most ambitious project a writer can engage in: he turns the reflective powers of the written word back upon itself. No book can stand on its own; all books, all stories, fragments, and sentences, all readings and conversations are incomplete, contingent, and undefined. Neither do they end on the page - they extend into the minds, actions, societies, and worlds of their writers and readers, who - like texts - bleed into one another and overlap. At the foundation of everything there is no subject and no object; no "you" and no "I". There is only undifferentiated substance, and energy, and thought. Calvino reminds us that as humans - as incomplete fragments of the universe that are nonetheless capable of language and communication - we are blessed with the opportunity to participate in this process of cosmic articulation and rearticulation. And that, I think, is a really beautiful thing.