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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
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:
No
Entiendo la importancia de este libro y veo por qué marcó una base.
Pero ha sido una lectura esporádica, donde cogía el libro de vez en cuando. Así que meses y más de 400 páginas después...encontrarme una novela con un final abierto y absurdo pues no era precisamente lo que me esperaba.
Pero ha sido una lectura esporádica, donde cogía el libro de vez en cuando. Así que meses y más de 400 páginas después...encontrarme una novela con un final abierto y absurdo pues no era precisamente lo que me esperaba.
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I don't know how to characterize this book. It's gentle, heartfelt, hopeful, bold, but extremely heavy-handed and saccharine. It's Soviet propaganda, but it doesn't pretend to be anything otherwise. I tried to take it as it was, trying not to think about my criticisms of the politics of the USSR (though of course this book was written a little before then).
So, I tried to simply focus on the world in the novel. However, the intense message of love for your fellow humans would ring truer if Gorky hadn't been a staunch homophobe who believed that Nazis were gay and that gay people were ruining humanity.
All in all, it's very sentimental. The prose is hit-and-miss. Though I'm a lover of flowery writing, sometimes it feels out of place in certain sections. Some passages contained too many analogies and metaphors to describe emotions and scenes. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the pace of the narrative. It didn't linger too much, but also wasn't too quick.
I probably wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, but it was a nice experience from time to time.
So, I tried to simply focus on the world in the novel. However, the intense message of love for your fellow humans would ring truer if Gorky hadn't been a staunch homophobe who believed that Nazis were gay and that gay people were ruining humanity.
All in all, it's very sentimental. The prose is hit-and-miss. Though I'm a lover of flowery writing, sometimes it feels out of place in certain sections. Some passages contained too many analogies and metaphors to describe emotions and scenes. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the pace of the narrative. It didn't linger too much, but also wasn't too quick.
I probably wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, but it was a nice experience from time to time.
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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
اگه دوست ندارید داستان براتون لو بره نخونید
اول از همه غصه ی زندگی سخت مادر رو خوردم، بعد نگران پسرش شدم که درگیر کارای انقلابی شده،بعد از اون برای مادر خوشحال بودم که هدفی پیدا کرده، اما آخرش نمی دونستم ارزشش رو داشت که مادر و پسر همچین سرنوشتی داشته باشن یا نه.... یعنی همه ی مبارزات سیاسی و انقلابی آخرش به کجا ختم میشن؟ همه ش امید واهیه؟ شرایط بعد از انقلاب ها بهتر میشه یا به بدتر از قبل برمی گرده؟
کتاب جواب این سوالهام رو نداد و حتا برام سخت ترش هم کرد
اما در کل کتاب رو دوست داشتم،روان و خطی، همراه با مقداری حرفهای انقلابی
(قرض از بوکتاب تهران)
اول از همه غصه ی زندگی سخت مادر رو خوردم، بعد نگران پسرش شدم که درگیر کارای انقلابی شده،بعد از اون برای مادر خوشحال بودم که هدفی پیدا کرده، اما آخرش نمی دونستم ارزشش رو داشت که مادر و پسر همچین سرنوشتی داشته باشن یا نه.... یعنی همه ی مبارزات سیاسی و انقلابی آخرش به کجا ختم میشن؟ همه ش امید واهیه؟ شرایط بعد از انقلاب ها بهتر میشه یا به بدتر از قبل برمی گرده؟
کتاب جواب این سوالهام رو نداد و حتا برام سخت ترش هم کرد
اما در کل کتاب رو دوست داشتم،روان و خطی، همراه با مقداری حرفهای انقلابی
(قرض از بوکتاب تهران)
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Este libro debería ser una lectura obligada en secundaria. Las condiciones de vida que describen en el libro son muy similares a las que vivimos actualmente, nada ha cambiado.
Dit boek is overduidelijk bedoeld als een pamflet voor het socialisme, en slaagt daar met verve in. Als je na het lezen van dit boek nog niet overtuigd bent van het gedachtegoed, dan ben je een hopeloos geval voor de zaak. Op zich is het ook bijzonder als tijdsdocument omdat het boek het communistische regime voorafging, en Gorki op het moment dat hij dit boek schreef, nog niet wist hoe erg het ook kon mislopen met dit gedachtegoed.
Om die redenen is dit dus een essentieel boek.
Nu, los van deze ideeën, is het boek zelf eigenlijk veel te lang, en valt het wat te veel in herhaling. De plot wordt steeds omschreven als de moeder die geleidelijk aan mee overtuigd wordt door het gedachtegoed van haar zoon (en dan zijn rol overneemt), maar persoonlijk vond ik dat ze vrij snel overtuigd was, en dan moet het grootste deel van het boek nog volgen.
Tot slot, ik stelde me voortdurend een oud grijs vrouwtje voor, getekend door het leven, bij "de moeder" (zo wordt ze ook door iedereen behandeld of aangesproken). Groot was mijn verbazing toen ergens terloops werd vermeld dat ze 40 jaar was. Ze is maar een paar jaar ouder dan ik!
OK, die leefomstandigheden van die arbeiders, dat was wat, maar de confrontatie met je eigen leeftijd, dát was pas hard.
Om die redenen is dit dus een essentieel boek.
Nu, los van deze ideeën, is het boek zelf eigenlijk veel te lang, en valt het wat te veel in herhaling. De plot wordt steeds omschreven als de moeder die geleidelijk aan mee overtuigd wordt door het gedachtegoed van haar zoon (en dan zijn rol overneemt), maar persoonlijk vond ik dat ze vrij snel overtuigd was, en dan moet het grootste deel van het boek nog volgen.
Tot slot, ik stelde me voortdurend een oud grijs vrouwtje voor, getekend door het leven, bij "de moeder" (zo wordt ze ook door iedereen behandeld of aangesproken). Groot was mijn verbazing toen ergens terloops werd vermeld dat ze 40 jaar was. Ze is maar een paar jaar ouder dan ik!
OK, die leefomstandigheden van die arbeiders, dat was wat, maar de confrontatie met je eigen leeftijd, dát was pas hard.
Impacting, profound, deep,
Based on real events from russian revolution from events that took place during a May Day demonstration in Sormovo in 1902, when Piotr Zalomov was arrested and his mother, Anna Zalomova, a distant relative of Gorky’s, followed her son into revolutionary activity.
Mother, Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, is an illiterate woman with a son, Pavel and a husband, who dies early on in the book. Her son starts to follow in the dark drunk footsteps of his father, until suddenly he changes for the better, reading and bringing lots of books, discussing life with his friends and revolution. Mother, Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, is the real protagonist, is, in the beginning cautious of her son’s friends, but as time goes by, starts to help them in the revolution.
When I read, more often than not I see colours, or light and dark, in this case, the whole book was dark. This is an uncomfortable subject, hard working people, being mistreated and all they want is a better life, they often are arrested, and sometimes simply disappear, their families and friends watched.
Interesting characters, a rather long book, I felt there were parts that could have been omitted, but there were some super parts, specially the escape from prison and the fight in the park straight after, which were my favourite parts, these events were later on in the book,
When I am reading some books, I think about how they can end, in this case, my thoughts were correct. I am not going to give anything away, but, for me, this was the only ending possible.
Video review in Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEtEvKNMyPY&list=PLniFXSpJj5RWIDC0udo2vtJsUn0Vd2HrS&index=18
Based on real events from russian revolution from events that took place during a May Day demonstration in Sormovo in 1902, when Piotr Zalomov was arrested and his mother, Anna Zalomova, a distant relative of Gorky’s, followed her son into revolutionary activity.
Mother, Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, is an illiterate woman with a son, Pavel and a husband, who dies early on in the book. Her son starts to follow in the dark drunk footsteps of his father, until suddenly he changes for the better, reading and bringing lots of books, discussing life with his friends and revolution. Mother, Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, is the real protagonist, is, in the beginning cautious of her son’s friends, but as time goes by, starts to help them in the revolution.
When I read, more often than not I see colours, or light and dark, in this case, the whole book was dark. This is an uncomfortable subject, hard working people, being mistreated and all they want is a better life, they often are arrested, and sometimes simply disappear, their families and friends watched.
Interesting characters, a rather long book, I felt there were parts that could have been omitted, but there were some super parts, specially the escape from prison and the fight in the park straight after, which were my favourite parts, these events were later on in the book,
When I am reading some books, I think about how they can end, in this case, my thoughts were correct. I am not going to give anything away, but, for me, this was the only ending possible.
Video review in Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEtEvKNMyPY&list=PLniFXSpJj5RWIDC0udo2vtJsUn0Vd2HrS&index=18