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sashucity's review against another edition
5.0
Barnes never disappoints.
Truly, one of the modern writers with the most charming and catching style.
The Only Story is more about memories than love. It's not about love story, it's about how your memories will remember it.
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Отдельной строкой хочу выразить благодарность переводчикам, которые решили, что если в книге рефреном звучит мысль о том, что у каждого человека история любви – единственная, то её название надо перевести именно как "Одна история".
Truly, one of the modern writers with the most charming and catching style.
The Only Story is more about memories than love. It's not about love story, it's about how your memories will remember it.
*
Отдельной строкой хочу выразить благодарность переводчикам, которые решили, что если в книге рефреном звучит мысль о том, что у каждого человека история любви – единственная, то её название надо перевести именно как "Одна история".
fernandapazcg's review against another edition
2.0
No me gustó la voz del narrador ni los tonos en los que se expresaba (¿quizá esto último se debe a la traducción?). Tiene muchísimos momentos lindos y notables, sobre todo las relacionadas a las reflexiones en torno a la intimidad y la naturaleza del amor. Lamentablemente, a veces las sentí un poco cursis.
kaph's review against another edition
dark
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? It's complicated
4.25
started out a little bit weird, but oh boy.
tender, captivating, heartbreaking. but also lucid, cynical, phylosophical. a thorough description of love, the most complete I've found to date. could make it into the notebook of casey paul. I liked the switch from first person (=protagonism, lively) to second person (=a bit more detached, dramatic, powerful) to third person (=cynical, logical, rational). Again the theme of memories and human tropes and what is, if it exists, the truth about people and relationships. feels old but also modern.
tender, captivating, heartbreaking. but also lucid, cynical, phylosophical. a thorough description of love, the most complete I've found to date. could make it into the notebook of casey paul. I liked the switch from first person (=protagonism, lively) to second person (=a bit more detached, dramatic, powerful) to third person (=cynical, logical, rational). Again the theme of memories and human tropes and what is, if it exists, the truth about people and relationships. feels old but also modern.
nimsbiscuits's review against another edition
3.0
Beautifully written and structured from start to finish but wasted on a plot and set of characters that I couldn't possibly care less about.
kelbi's review against another edition
3.0
Very detached from its subject matter I thought. Considering that it was all about love I didn’t feel it as I felt I should have. Maybe I was meant to feel that way. Certainly the ending suggests as much
bbboeken's review against another edition
3.0
**1/2
This book probably deserves more than my ramblings after a particularly bad stint of unending migraines. I was unable to identify with the story, a story that seemed excruciatingly sad and nihilistic I might add. I took my about a month to read the last 100 pages (due to those migraines), but it had taken me over 9 months to read the first 120. I just couldn't work up to investing myself in the story.
This book probably deserves more than my ramblings after a particularly bad stint of unending migraines. I was unable to identify with the story, a story that seemed excruciatingly sad and nihilistic I might add. I took my about a month to read the last 100 pages (due to those migraines), but it had taken me over 9 months to read the first 120. I just couldn't work up to investing myself in the story.
julika7401's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
unbyronically's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
isabella322's review against another edition
1.0
Read this 3 years ago, and still remember that I hated it
ava96's review against another edition
5.0
Julian Barnes is slowly but surely turning into one of my favourite authors (if not THE favourite), and this book just adds to the admiration and love I have for his work.
What a beautifully written story, masterful use of language, of tenses, truly he's a playwright of the heart. I could feel everything that he had written and what a moving trip that was.
What a beautifully written story, masterful use of language, of tenses, truly he's a playwright of the heart. I could feel everything that he had written and what a moving trip that was.