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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicide
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
really good like the dynamics between the two families, i could picture the characters, and their life styles, i like it
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
slow-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
The novel includes a lot of long descriptive passages, long narrative passages that I found were sometimes hampering to reading. I found I skimmed over a lot of these. There were also many speculative passages with ghostly figures and visions, at time nonsensical to me, sometimes hampered my reading.
I had to re-read passages over to be able to understand the text, which slowed my reading enjoyment and I actually had to read the last few pages of the book before I came to a realisation of the ending of the novel, which ended sadly and abruptly, too abruptly for my liking.
Overall there was a lot to like about this novel but it also had it's flaws.
I had to re-read passages over to be able to understand the text, which slowed my reading enjoyment and I actually had to read the last few pages of the book before I came to a realisation of the ending of the novel, which ended sadly and abruptly, too abruptly for my liking.
Overall there was a lot to like about this novel but it also had it's flaws.
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
tense
This book was so brilliant, so so so sooooo good. From the first few pages I was hooked, the two families were so fun and exciting and sad each person a unique character of their own. It was so relatable, I could see bits of my family everywhere. Even the great looming house at number 1 cloudstreet had its own character. There is no shying away from Australian history in this story, the good and the bad. This book is underlined with sadness and unhappiness for the majority of it. The houses history as a place to reform Indigenous Australians. To Quick and his miserable photos, to Rose and her gambling father and drunken mother.
But the ending oh my goodness. The baby and the joy Harry brought to that house.
It was so brilliantly thought out, Tim Winton is fantastic!
But the ending oh my goodness. The baby and the joy Harry brought to that house.
It was so brilliantly thought out, Tim Winton is fantastic!
Incredible read, ending made me cry but I didn't know why. Super interesting and engaging style.
I loved the poetic language of this book, and often found myself stopping to appreciate especially well-turned sentences. It's really well-written, which is its main strength I think. It also manages to go from gritty, despairing realism to fantastical, otherworldly magic without losing the reader or skipping a beat in the flow of the story. The story focuses on a large rambling house at 1 Cloud Street, and the two struggling families who come to inhabit it. The Pickles family believe firmly in luck, with the gambler father Sam mostly seeing bad luck with a few dizzying highs of good luck. The Lamb family are struggling to replace their belief in faith with a belief in hard work, and neither family experiences a great deal of joy except when they stop and remember to love each other. The book highlights the hardships of generational poverty and the struggles of individual and family identity and belonging. They have a clear love of the water and fishing as well as their abiding but not always demonstrated love for each other. Definitely worth reading, an Australian classic.
Cloudstreet was a really interesting book because it gives a good sneak peek into two aussie families living in western Australia in the middle of XX century.
The story is simple, but not predictable. Easy to follow and enjoyable in most parts.
I did not enjoy, however, the more "esoteric" parts of the novel. I was expecting the lives of two normal families and I couldn't get around the "weirdness" in the novel. It does give it personality, and I guess it contributes something to the novel. But it was not what I was expecting from the novel.
The story is simple, but not predictable. Easy to follow and enjoyable in most parts.
I did not enjoy, however, the more "esoteric" parts of the novel. I was expecting the lives of two normal families and I couldn't get around the "weirdness" in the novel. It does give it personality, and I guess it contributes something to the novel. But it was not what I was expecting from the novel.