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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Este libro fue mucho más de lo que esperaba, creo que es una obra muy bien pensada y compleja a la vez. A pesar de ser el Peter Pan que todos conocemos de Disney (que considero que esa fue una excelente adaptación), leyendo este libro me encontré con muchos aspectos oscuros, satíricos y extraños (borderline creepy es una excelente definición) entre sus páginas, que me sorprendieron muchísimo.
La historia en sí, fue buena, como decía, lo que conocía de toda la vida pero con un montón de detalles y aspectos mucho más adultos que no esperaba encontrar. No pude evitar comparar y analizar distintos aspectos de la escritura, tomando en cuenta que la publicación del libro fue en 1911, como son los roles de género, la sociedad retratada en la obra o los distintos simbolismos que se encuentran presentes en los personajes.
En cuanto a los personajes, realmente no pude enganchar mucho con ninguno en específico, puedo decir que Peter Pan me pareció terrible, insufrible y malvado, no fue de mi agrado leer un personaje así, para nada. Pero sí, por supuesto, hubieron momentos donde pude sentirlos demasiado cercanos y tocaron una fibra muy sensible en mí, como en el final que partió un poco mi corazón y con el Capitán Garfio, que a pesar de todo, pudo mostrar una vulnerabilidad que me conmovió.
Son muchos puntos a favor como en contra para mí, con este libro, pero sin duda lo que puedo rescatar y lo que me hace darle una puntuación tan alta a esta obra, fue el narrador. Brillantemente escrito, hay pocos libros que están narrados de esta manera, te hacen sentir dentro de la obra, como si fueras un narrador también, como si pudieras saberlo todo y en otros momentos, eres un simple lector más. Sin dudas, le agregó mucha magia a esta historia e hizo que me encantara, este narrador, es lo que, de lejos, puedo rescatar de este libro.
La historia en sí, fue buena, como decía, lo que conocía de toda la vida pero con un montón de detalles y aspectos mucho más adultos que no esperaba encontrar. No pude evitar comparar y analizar distintos aspectos de la escritura, tomando en cuenta que la publicación del libro fue en 1911, como son los roles de género, la sociedad retratada en la obra o los distintos simbolismos que se encuentran presentes en los personajes.
En cuanto a los personajes, realmente no pude enganchar mucho con ninguno en específico, puedo decir que Peter Pan me pareció terrible, insufrible y malvado, no fue de mi agrado leer un personaje así, para nada. Pero sí, por supuesto, hubieron momentos donde pude sentirlos demasiado cercanos y tocaron una fibra muy sensible en mí, como en el final que partió un poco mi corazón y con el Capitán Garfio, que a pesar de todo, pudo mostrar una vulnerabilidad que me conmovió.
Son muchos puntos a favor como en contra para mí, con este libro, pero sin duda lo que puedo rescatar y lo que me hace darle una puntuación tan alta a esta obra, fue el narrador. Brillantemente escrito, hay pocos libros que están narrados de esta manera, te hacen sentir dentro de la obra, como si fueras un narrador también, como si pudieras saberlo todo y en otros momentos, eres un simple lector más. Sin dudas, le agregó mucha magia a esta historia e hizo que me encantara, este narrador, es lo que, de lejos, puedo rescatar de este libro.
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
goodness this book is truly full of magic and childlike wonder!
reading it as a semi adult, I can now clearly see the symbolism of Neverland as the imagination and the recurring themes of death, fear of adulthood and tensions between rationalism and imagination disguised as magic, fairies and adventure. it's so interesting to read these stories with a different eye, being able to see the magic and the messages within is truly an adventure in itself!
aspects of this book certainly don't hold up to modern standards, and I think its important to recognise that, critique it, and make sure we are continuously challenging stereotypes portrayed in the text.
reading it as a semi adult, I can now clearly see the symbolism of Neverland as the imagination and the recurring themes of death, fear of adulthood and tensions between rationalism and imagination disguised as magic, fairies and adventure. it's so interesting to read these stories with a different eye, being able to see the magic and the messages within is truly an adventure in itself!
aspects of this book certainly don't hold up to modern standards, and I think its important to recognise that, critique it, and make sure we are continuously challenging stereotypes portrayed in the text.
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread; black shadows moved about in them; the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win. You were quite glad that the night-lights were in. You even liked Nana to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, and that the Neverland was all make-believe.
Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?
This is another one of those books where I thought I knew what it was going to be like -- I thought I knew the story, between the Disney version, the 2003 film, Finding Neverland, and Hook (one of my favourite movies of all time). I thought I was a long-avowed Peter Pan fan!
But ugh, Peter and Wendy. All the hearts in my eyes. This book is so wonderfully well-written, and contains so many little details in the metaphorical margins and narration. Reading this was an absolute delight because as much as I thought I knew the story, reading it was something else entirely. It's bloodier than I expected -- there's a lot of violent death, the Lost Boys and pirates are constantly killing each other and the end of the book is a veritable bloodbath. Hook is surprisingly sympathetic, likeable, and charming, which is exactly how I love my not-entirely-unheroic villains. Wendy and Tinkerbell are so completely obviously romantically interested in Peter (and it breaks my heart), so I was charmed to see that that wasn't all fanon reading too much into things. Peter and Wendy are meant to be together but won't ever be, and I hate how much this damned book hurt my soul over it. ('Oh no, he isn't grown up,' Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size.' She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn't know how she knew it, she just knew it.)
And also, more than anything, J.M. Barrie's narrator's voice is infuckingcredible: offering wry commentary, criticism, and unique turns of phrase and ways of approaching the story aslant. For example:
Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
It's all the little flights of fancy like this, and the sentient dog-nanny Nana, that make it so-- I just keep coming back to the word 'charming'. But it is. The book is fast and fun to read and charming like its titular boy is charming.
(For others who've read it: The narrator's vicious evisceration of Mrs. Darling at the end was really curious to me -- I was honestly shocked while reading that passage. And then he does his abrupt 180 turn later, and 'forgives' Mrs. Darling... all of which was so strange and impassioned that it made me wonder if that was something of J.M. Barrie & Sylvia Llewelyn Davies shining through, but idk.)
Regardless! It's quirky and fun and dark -- a perfect followup to reading some Roald Dahl, actually. The ending gutted me; it's the end of innocence, the end of childhood, the heartless and selfish gaiety of children. It's also curious that for such a famous children's book, Barrie ultimately ends it on such a bitter note and also eviscerates children (and their thoughtlessness) in those last couple chapters. But again: that made it brilliant, if heartbreaking.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Barrie actually wrote this as a play before a book if you didn't know. (The musical with Cathy Rigby is fantastic. I had it on tape as a kid). Barrie wanted to flesh out the story a little more, so if you've seen the play, then most everything that happens is the same, just more detailed. And I have to say, Peter is a jerk and kind of creepy. He basically lures/tricks the kids into going to Neverland with him. He's also extremely cocky and bossy. "To die will be an awfully big adventure." This quote right here, I just, it's so good. I can't stop thinking about it. One interesting thing is that in the play (which was written first) Peter says "To die would be..." yet Barrie changed it in the book, and I'm not really sure why...
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Sexism
This was as fun as it was creepy. Well, maybe a little creepier than necessary but I liked it.