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Solenoide

Mircea Cărtărescu

4.21 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

juanramirezjaramillo's review

5.0

Lo más hermoso que hace Cartarescu en esta novela es construir un universo ruinoso sobre las ruinas de la realidad. Son páginas y páginas que celebran la literatura, la vida y la muerte, el devenir mecánico de la existencia. Solenoide es un texto brillante del que no es posible salir ileso.

Una obra maestra!
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

n_rose717's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 63%

Would like to try again as there were definitely chunks I liked but just really slow paced at times so I could not keep any meaningful momentum going :(

I was not expecting to feel existential about Rubik's cubes and mites.

This took me a long time to finish so I initially was going to give it a 4 but in the weeks since I am itching to reread this book and I’ve never wanted to return to a book this soon this badly before. 

inma_mac's review

3.0

A ratos el libro es absolutamente brillante, y tiene frases y pasajes maravillosos, pero... no me ha enganchado lo más mínimo la historia. Las partes de los sueños se hacen muy pesadas y la repetición de imágenes y metáforas también.
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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444nico's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 59%

ya no puedo fingir ... este libro es eterno y confuso y no entiendo NADA... leí más de la mitad