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oftboolt's review against another edition
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
zoezo_xx's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
kaydunkz's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
angelaglezz's review against another edition
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
mikatack's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Drug use
greenmatcha1407's review against another edition
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lavrendy's review against another edition
4.0
A new crisis/revelation on every page!
“‘Pigs will fly the day you admit you were mistaken.’
I know. When I was young I was perpetually in the wrong and it was so difficult for me to ever be in the right that now I am very reluctant to ever blame myself.”
Are we all like this or are Simone and I just kindred spirits? I feel like I shouldn’t have related as much as I did to these stories of middle aged French women in the 60s?
“‘Pigs will fly the day you admit you were mistaken.’
I know. When I was young I was perpetually in the wrong and it was so difficult for me to ever be in the right that now I am very reluctant to ever blame myself.”
Are we all like this or are Simone and I just kindred spirits? I feel like I shouldn’t have related as much as I did to these stories of middle aged French women in the 60s?
anakuyenhn's review against another edition
4.0
Este libro cuenta tres historias: “La edad de la discreción”, “Monólogo” y “La mujer rota”. En cada una de estas páginas se desgarra un alma, el alma de una mujer que no ha sabido liberarse del otro, a quien fue confinada por medio del matrimonio, y quien con el tiempo las ha traicionado.
La lectura de este libro no es fácil, y no lo digo por complejidad literaria, aunque el relato “Monólogo” es bastante complejo de leer debido a que no contiene más que líneas sin pausas, imagino que simulando la desesperación de esta mujer; sino más bien por la fuerza de los sentimientos que aquí describe cada una de estas mujeres, desde complicaciones sin sentido hasta dolores causados por el otro, a quien las mujeres siempre tratamos de justificar.
Definitivamente esta no es una lectura para relajarse, es una lectura para auto revisarse, auto comprenderse y aprender a ver la vida y las relaciones de manera diferente.
Reseña Completa: La mujer Rota
La lectura de este libro no es fácil, y no lo digo por complejidad literaria, aunque el relato “Monólogo” es bastante complejo de leer debido a que no contiene más que líneas sin pausas, imagino que simulando la desesperación de esta mujer; sino más bien por la fuerza de los sentimientos que aquí describe cada una de estas mujeres, desde complicaciones sin sentido hasta dolores causados por el otro, a quien las mujeres siempre tratamos de justificar.
Definitivamente esta no es una lectura para relajarse, es una lectura para auto revisarse, auto comprenderse y aprender a ver la vida y las relaciones de manera diferente.
Reseña Completa: La mujer Rota
gadicohen93's review against another edition
3.0
I rather liked the first story (The Age of Discretion) more than the last (TWD) and quite loathed the middle story. Simone de Beauvoir write devastating portraits -- the women are strong, proud, and ceaselessly good, and yet are failed and broken by the male figures in their lives. Most of all I appreciated how real the women's thought processes were -- de Beauvoir harvested her own emotional winds and ran them into these characters, and they were more real for it, and their troubles more painful for me to take in.