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copusb's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
r_musil's review against another edition
5.0
کتاب بسیار روان است و دلپذیر
طعنه ها، تشبیه ها، انتخاب لغات همه عالی است.
با وجود حجم زیاد جز معدودی جاها کسالت آور نیست
جمله ها کوتاه، نا تمام و نا مرتبط ند
توصیف ها شکسته اند و تکه تکه
ترجمه ی سحابی عالی است و باعث شد تنفر سرخ و سیاه از بین برود.
طعنه ها، تشبیه ها، انتخاب لغات همه عالی است.
با وجود حجم زیاد جز معدودی جاها کسالت آور نیست
جمله ها کوتاه، نا تمام و نا مرتبط ند
توصیف ها شکسته اند و تکه تکه
ترجمه ی سحابی عالی است و باعث شد تنفر سرخ و سیاه از بین برود.
dima2800's review against another edition
challenging
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
dsundy's review against another edition
5.0
. . . 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥. . . 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 . . . 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘳 . . . 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 . . . 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 . . . 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 . . . 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 . . . 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 . . . 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘳 . . . 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥 . . . 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦 . . . 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 . . . 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘺 . . . 𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴 . . . 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 . . . 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 . . .
bobbygw's review against another edition
4.0
Celine's second novel after Journey to the End of the Night, this effectively acts as a prequel to his first novel, as this focuses on Ferdinand Bardamu's (Celine's fictional alter ego) troubled childhood and youth in Paris.
What matters most, when you read Celine, is experiencing his incredibly intense emotional and intellectual viewpoint of his often desperate, existentialist, awful - and always unsolved - conundrum - of the human condition. From that, Celine wrote and described, there was - and is - no escape. Celine saw humanity as pathetic, disease-ridden, without hope; his only consolation was to grasp a few moments of joy in a life of poverty and hardship. It is a story that is powerfully told, and you can't help but be overwhelmed by it. His style of writing was also still regarded as revolutionary at the time this novel was published: in fact, its intensity, use of ellipses and often hallucinatory sequences written as matter of fact can only be compared to his first novel; there was, at the time in the 1930s, no one with whom to compare him or to match him for the depth, complexity and violence of his negativity in his impoverished world.
At the same time as being drawn in and compromised by the narrator's viewpoint, anger and loathing about his life, his constantly argumentative father, his desperate situation, his own hatred of his poverty and the poor in general, you also can't forget that in real life Celine later qualified and practiced as a doctor in the poorest, most desperate neighbourhoods of Paris (which he writes about so effectively in Journey to the End of Night), and was himself effectively and always a persona non grata before and after his "profession"; and you are further troubled by knowing that, besides he also lost his reputation as a writer - shunned by the literati of Paris - in his own lifetime because of his fascistic views (even though in practising his medicine, he attended to everybody, irrespective of whether the person was Jewish or otherwise).
And while Celine and Bardamu both hated "humanity", both were always specific, explicit and thankful for those few individuals that made a difference in their lives, including the wonderful characters of certain women, who plied the trade of prostitution, Violette, Lola (in 'Journey'), and others. It is a compelling novel, and in some ways is even darker and more troubling than his first, and most famous novel, but if you were impressed by 'Journey', you will be all the more so by this.
What matters most, when you read Celine, is experiencing his incredibly intense emotional and intellectual viewpoint of his often desperate, existentialist, awful - and always unsolved - conundrum - of the human condition. From that, Celine wrote and described, there was - and is - no escape. Celine saw humanity as pathetic, disease-ridden, without hope; his only consolation was to grasp a few moments of joy in a life of poverty and hardship. It is a story that is powerfully told, and you can't help but be overwhelmed by it. His style of writing was also still regarded as revolutionary at the time this novel was published: in fact, its intensity, use of ellipses and often hallucinatory sequences written as matter of fact can only be compared to his first novel; there was, at the time in the 1930s, no one with whom to compare him or to match him for the depth, complexity and violence of his negativity in his impoverished world.
At the same time as being drawn in and compromised by the narrator's viewpoint, anger and loathing about his life, his constantly argumentative father, his desperate situation, his own hatred of his poverty and the poor in general, you also can't forget that in real life Celine later qualified and practiced as a doctor in the poorest, most desperate neighbourhoods of Paris (which he writes about so effectively in Journey to the End of Night), and was himself effectively and always a persona non grata before and after his "profession"; and you are further troubled by knowing that, besides he also lost his reputation as a writer - shunned by the literati of Paris - in his own lifetime because of his fascistic views (even though in practising his medicine, he attended to everybody, irrespective of whether the person was Jewish or otherwise).
And while Celine and Bardamu both hated "humanity", both were always specific, explicit and thankful for those few individuals that made a difference in their lives, including the wonderful characters of certain women, who plied the trade of prostitution, Violette, Lola (in 'Journey'), and others. It is a compelling novel, and in some ways is even darker and more troubling than his first, and most famous novel, but if you were impressed by 'Journey', you will be all the more so by this.
tittypete's review against another edition
3.0
It's written funny. Dude is a good narrator. I read a few Bukowski books before this and you can see where he took his style from. This fucker goes on forever and it's exhausting. The fun-ness of the writing doesn't make up for it. Everybody in this book is shitting their pants. There's a retarded kid that shits his pants and gets a lot of boners. The biggest insult is calling someone a stinker. It's the story of a pant-shitting kid who grows up having shitty jobs. Eventually he joins up with "the enthusiast who's trying to grow bigger radishes with electro-wave bullshit. It doesn't work so the enthusiast shoots himself in the head with a shotgun. The shotgun gets stuck in the dude's head and the narrator has to yank it out. Then the book is basically over. The narrator's uncle reassures him that he's a good guy. Yeah. Could have used an editor.
bluestraveler's review against another edition
5.0
its crazy that wiping your ass isnt something people started doing until like 40 years ago
jacoboner's review against another edition
5.0
Bir edebi metinden, her daim haz ya da normatif bir ahlak anlayışı beklemek ancak pragmatik bir tutum ile açıklanabilinir. Bazı eserler, rahatsız ederek düşler kurdurur yada bir konusu olmadığı halde bir çok konunun iç dinamiğine çeker. Çünkü yaşam gibi durağandır, ama gerçektir, kaçınılmaz bir işareti vardır. Bir bilinçlendirme hedefi yoktur, ama bilinçsizliği ve absürtlüğü uluorta yere serme girişimi vardır. Taksitle Ölüm son derece rahatsız edici ve ahlaklı bir kitaptır. Aksini iddia edene itibar etmeyin. Herkese tavsiye etmiyorum, ehli olanlar zaten okuyacaktır.
lpjdamen's review against another edition
dark
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
masyessam's review against another edition
5.0
You can't imagine.... what this.... book contains.... thank you... Courtial... Ferdinand... even England... Death did not feel antiquated.... but rather... it felt very current... the strugle of the.... petite classe.... consumes even today... ... ...