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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
"It’s the kind of book that should be read slowly because the last 150–170 pages hold real magic."
Re-read. Re-listen? Read it, now listening to it? Whatever.
adventurous
challenging
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
¡Novelón! Como no podría ser de otra forma, publicada en 1868. Todo lo que ha escrito este autor y que he leído hasta la fecha me ha gustado muchísimo. Sigo quedándome con la mítica “La mujer de blanco (1860)”, simplemente porque la trama de esta es más oscura, y la historia me gusta más. Pero en cuanto a narrativa se refiere y estructura, esta forma tan perfecta de enredar y desenredar el misterio está a la altura en esta novela. Una gozada de lectura, también epistolar, ágil, envolvente y muy, muy enigmática, con la sopresa de ser más satírica, me he encontrado echándome unas risas en algunas partes.
Nos trasladamos a la época victoriana, en Yorkshire, Reino Unido. Se celebra en la mansión de la Sra.Verinder, el decimonoveno cumpleaños de la señorita Rachel Verinder. De entre los invitados a la fiesta, su primo el Sr.Franklin, deleita a su prima como regalo un diamante embriagador, una piedra preciosa jamás vista y de mucho valor. Con tal magnitud se engrandeció su dicha al recibirlo, como su desdicha al comprobar de mañana al día siguiente que había desaparecido de sus aposentos.
Este es el misterio que nos ocupa y del que será, nunca mejor dicho, la piedra angular de la historia, donde conoceremos a muchísimos personajes, todos muy desarrollados y fácilmente imaginables, algunos muy carismáticos. Wilkie Collins en esta ocasión, nos lleva a una ambientación algo más costumbrista y con bastante humor a la resolución del enigma, culminando con esta obra una de las más importantes en su carrera, y referencia como novela detectivesca.
Una novela que ya se encuentra entre mis favoritas del año con toda seguridad. Seguiré leyendo a este autor, qué remedio, y con la suerte de saber que ha dejado un legado enorme de obras escritas, ¡pues son muchas las que no he leído!
Novela recomendada para los que leen con paciencia, saboreando cada frase, para los que pongan mucha importancia no tanto a la trama sino a al desarrollo de personajes y por supuesto, para los amantes de los rompecabezas.
Nos trasladamos a la época victoriana, en Yorkshire, Reino Unido. Se celebra en la mansión de la Sra.Verinder, el decimonoveno cumpleaños de la señorita Rachel Verinder. De entre los invitados a la fiesta, su primo el Sr.Franklin, deleita a su prima como regalo un diamante embriagador, una piedra preciosa jamás vista y de mucho valor. Con tal magnitud se engrandeció su dicha al recibirlo, como su desdicha al comprobar de mañana al día siguiente que había desaparecido de sus aposentos.
Este es el misterio que nos ocupa y del que será, nunca mejor dicho, la piedra angular de la historia, donde conoceremos a muchísimos personajes, todos muy desarrollados y fácilmente imaginables, algunos muy carismáticos. Wilkie Collins en esta ocasión, nos lleva a una ambientación algo más costumbrista y con bastante humor a la resolución del enigma, culminando con esta obra una de las más importantes en su carrera, y referencia como novela detectivesca.
Una novela que ya se encuentra entre mis favoritas del año con toda seguridad. Seguiré leyendo a este autor, qué remedio, y con la suerte de saber que ha dejado un legado enorme de obras escritas, ¡pues son muchas las que no he leído!
Novela recomendada para los que leen con paciencia, saboreando cada frase, para los que pongan mucha importancia no tanto a la trama sino a al desarrollo de personajes y por supuesto, para los amantes de los rompecabezas.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
This is the second time I’ve read this book. I probably enjoyed it even more this time than I did a decade ago possibly because it may have been abridged the first time, and I was treated to the voices of the characters via audiobook in this second reading. It still remains my favorite mystery and gets a 5-star rating because I would definitely pick it up again. I love the writing device of multiple authors/points-of-views via letters. I loved how the author would have them write and describe an event with a cliffhanger before continuing in the next chapter. I loved how it was filled with mystery, suspense, humor, action, adventure, sleuthing, and even romance. This book is the total package. It reminded me a lot of the adventure I took with that brilliant Spanish series, Gran Hotel, just with way less “drama”. This story was so engaging and the characters were so robust and well-developed. I laughed, chuckled, exclaimed, shouted, gasped, cheered, and even shook my head in sadness.
The Moonstone is cleverly written and Wilkie Collins demonstrates such amazing talent in it that it’s made me put The Woman in White on my list of reading books for the year (even though I’m skeptical it could be anywhere near as enjoyable as The Moonstone). I consider this book to be a wonderful example of the gifts of creativity and communication our Creator has given us as His image-bearers, merging to create a beautiful piece of literature that evokes a range of human emotions over a variety of human experiences, traits, and frailties.
The Moonstone is cleverly written and Wilkie Collins demonstrates such amazing talent in it that it’s made me put The Woman in White on my list of reading books for the year (even though I’m skeptical it could be anywhere near as enjoyable as The Moonstone). I consider this book to be a wonderful example of the gifts of creativity and communication our Creator has given us as His image-bearers, merging to create a beautiful piece of literature that evokes a range of human emotions over a variety of human experiences, traits, and frailties.
Quick Verdict:
A great novel that I DON’T recommend you read.
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Summary:
This novel is everything you expect from a good novel; good world building, a wide variety of characters, an interesting plot, a clever twist and a shifting of the narrator every few chapters which I find keeps things interesting.
BUT it falls through when it comes to the general theme of the book and it is way too long for the story.
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In Depth:
I want to start by saying that this book was written in the 1860s and if you search the genre of the book, it is a mystery and a damn good one but at the time the author wrote this novel the mystery genre simply didn’t exist and there was no other authors who where experimenting with this idea and almost all critics agree that this novel in particularly was used by other authors later on to set up the rules and dos and donts of how to write a mystery in general and here lies the problem of this novel.
Let me explain, while it is a great mystery that holds up even to today’s standards without it feeling like a “cliche”, the average reader wont help but feel that it is slow paced and looses you after about a third of the way in and suddenly becoming a romance story out of no where because that the mystery genre and all of its sub-genres (spy, hard-boil, crime, detective series, *the list is endless*) now days has matured with a large variety and a list of really great authors and novels and ideas to choose from and in retrospect to compare it with the level of stories we are used to these days you can’t help but feel bored and simply uninterested (even though and I can’t stress that enough, this novel basically kick-started the mystery genre).
The rest of my review is what you would expect to be said about a great book written by a great author and is critically acclaimed, (good writing, good characters, blah...blah...blah).
It is a great book but unless you really have to I recommend that you look for another novel because the average reader will not find what he is looking for in here.
A great novel that I DON’T recommend you read.
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Summary:
This novel is everything you expect from a good novel; good world building, a wide variety of characters, an interesting plot, a clever twist and a shifting of the narrator every few chapters which I find keeps things interesting.
BUT it falls through when it comes to the general theme of the book and it is way too long for the story.
=======================================
In Depth:
I want to start by saying that this book was written in the 1860s and if you search the genre of the book, it is a mystery and a damn good one but at the time the author wrote this novel the mystery genre simply didn’t exist and there was no other authors who where experimenting with this idea and almost all critics agree that this novel in particularly was used by other authors later on to set up the rules and dos and donts of how to write a mystery in general and here lies the problem of this novel.
Let me explain, while it is a great mystery that holds up even to today’s standards without it feeling like a “cliche”, the average reader wont help but feel that it is slow paced and looses you after about a third of the way in and suddenly becoming a romance story out of no where because that the mystery genre and all of its sub-genres (spy, hard-boil, crime, detective series, *the list is endless*) now days has matured with a large variety and a list of really great authors and novels and ideas to choose from and in retrospect to compare it with the level of stories we are used to these days you can’t help but feel bored and simply uninterested (even though and I can’t stress that enough, this novel basically kick-started the mystery genre).
The rest of my review is what you would expect to be said about a great book written by a great author and is critically acclaimed, (good writing, good characters, blah...blah...blah).
It is a great book but unless you really have to I recommend that you look for another novel because the average reader will not find what he is looking for in here.
had a little over a month to read this for class. i did not. and so instead i speedran all 470 pages over the course of three days. i probably would have liked it more if i didn’t do that. i hope i never hear about robinson crusoe ever again for as long as i live