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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Probably ruined for many by being on high-school reading lists. I read it once when young and again older and still found it completely devastating.
Up there with Catcher in the Rye, and maybe like that book you need to be a disenfranchised adolescent guy to 'get' them.
Up there with Catcher in the Rye, and maybe like that book you need to be a disenfranchised adolescent guy to 'get' them.
Publicado originalmente: El Extraño Gato del Cuento
Hasta ahora mis lecturas para el Reto Charlie habían estado bien, amé Matar un Ruiseñor, quedé fascinada con los personajes de A Este Lado del Paraíso y con Peter Pan ya medio sabía en que me metía, y aún así me estaba encariñando un poco con lo literatura clásica, sólo que ahora con A Separate Place hice todo un retroceso.
Cuando leí a Fitzgerald sentía que gran parte de su ligero machismo era muy irónico, de esa manera en que uno hace las cosas tan solo para fastidiar a alguien, pero con Knowles yo solo... ugh, hay algo en la manera de escribir de este señor que no me ha gustado mucho, eso que no hay machismo propiamente dicho. Este libro es todo lo que temo de los clásicos, escritura demasiado densa para mi cerebro frívolo. A Separate Place se me hizo un libro muy norteamericano, tienes que conocer su historia para entender algunas de las referencias y toda esa emoción por la guerra. En otras palabras no logré conectar en nada con esa parte de la historia y sus infinitas descripciones.
Y por culpa de las descripciones infinitas estuve saltándome muchos párrafos que no hacían más que hablar de clima y por causa de eso le quitó toda la emoción del final. La manera en como el escritor nos quiere llenar de una aparente tensión para mí fue al principio solo relleno, la forma en que lo hizo era correcta, hubiera funcionado perfectamente bien de no ser por en todo lo anterior del libro me hizo cansarme el seguir la lectura.
Lo único que hizo pudiera leer el libro fue Finny y la amistad de Gene y él. Estoy un poco molesta con el libro por haberme quitado la emoción del desenlace, se me hizo bastante interesante la historia central pero los monólogos internos de Gene me quitaron todo lo bonita y personal que hubiera sido esta historia para mí, por muchas de las cosas que los protagonistas viven.
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Hasta ahora mis lecturas para el Reto Charlie habían estado bien, amé Matar un Ruiseñor, quedé fascinada con los personajes de A Este Lado del Paraíso y con Peter Pan ya medio sabía en que me metía, y aún así me estaba encariñando un poco con lo literatura clásica, sólo que ahora con A Separate Place hice todo un retroceso.
Cuando leí a Fitzgerald sentía que gran parte de su ligero machismo era muy irónico, de esa manera en que uno hace las cosas tan solo para fastidiar a alguien, pero con Knowles yo solo... ugh, hay algo en la manera de escribir de este señor que no me ha gustado mucho, eso que no hay machismo propiamente dicho. Este libro es todo lo que temo de los clásicos, escritura demasiado densa para mi cerebro frívolo. A Separate Place se me hizo un libro muy norteamericano, tienes que conocer su historia para entender algunas de las referencias y toda esa emoción por la guerra. En otras palabras no logré conectar en nada con esa parte de la historia y sus infinitas descripciones.
Y por culpa de las descripciones infinitas estuve saltándome muchos párrafos que no hacían más que hablar de clima y por causa de eso le quitó toda la emoción del final. La manera en como el escritor nos quiere llenar de una aparente tensión para mí fue al principio solo relleno, la forma en que lo hizo era correcta, hubiera funcionado perfectamente bien de no ser por en todo lo anterior del libro me hizo cansarme el seguir la lectura.
Lo único que hizo pudiera leer el libro fue Finny y la amistad de Gene y él. Estoy un poco molesta con el libro por haberme quitado la emoción del desenlace, se me hizo bastante interesante la historia central pero los monólogos internos de Gene me quitaron todo lo bonita y personal que hubiera sido esta historia para mí, por muchas de las cosas que los protagonistas viven.
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dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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
I read this book in high school and remembered liking it and often recommended it to others. It’s now 20 years later and I’d still recommend it all over again.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
fast-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
Eu amei essa leitura! O enredo é bem simples, mas o simbolismo e as reflexões que dá pra tirar desse livro são muito fortes e importantes. Ele mostra como a aparência não diz tudo sobre as pessoas, como um ato impulsivo pode acarretar coisas graves, como a linha de amor e ódio é tênue, como as pessoas ignoram as coisas para se protegerem e como essa autoproteção pode piorar situações.
Não é por acaso que professores costumam trabalhar esse livro nas escolas, infelizmente os estudantes não gostam muito kkkk
Fiquei muito feliz com essa leitura, principalmente por ter aproveitado tanto esse livro, já que o inglês dele não é tão difícil.
Não é por acaso que professores costumam trabalhar esse livro nas escolas, infelizmente os estudantes não gostam muito kkkk
Fiquei muito feliz com essa leitura, principalmente por ter aproveitado tanto esse livro, já que o inglês dele não é tão difícil.
Updated review: After writing the first review below, I decided to reread it. It was as good the second time around. I can see why it’s a classic and taught all over the country (unless schools have banned it?). There are things I don’t remember recognizing back in high school (benefit of reading it as an adult), like the doctor’s all too brief self reflection of his decision/role relative to Finny’s tragedy and the self justification gymnastics all of us do everyday and how easy it is for him versus the burden Gene carries. I think if I taught high school, this book would be on my syllabus too.
Prior review: Read this in high school. I think it was the first time I started understanding the role of the underdeveloped prefrontal cortex in adolescents. It made some of the teen sexual harassment I received make sense, as well as the mimicking of their parents' voices regarding their very limited and xenophobic worldview (e.g., taunting me and telling me to go back to China, though I'm not Chinese), as well as other forms of bullying. I don't blame their semiformed brains for all their poor choices, but I can see now how influenced they were - their executive functions, their ego, and their hormone driven emotional imbalances all at war and coming out as expressions of aggression, resentment, and such. However, it gave me some solace and hope that maybe they'd grow up into decent human beings who would remember their cruelty and teach their future children to be better. (That hope felt like the only choice I had to survive it all.)
It was also one of the first books I'd read where consequences and guilt were reconciled by the death of a star that was too bright for this world.
I'd like to reread the book. It was fairly influential in my life back then. It feels like something that could be comforting now too.
Prior review: Read this in high school. I think it was the first time I started understanding the role of the underdeveloped prefrontal cortex in adolescents. It made some of the teen sexual harassment I received make sense, as well as the mimicking of their parents' voices regarding their very limited and xenophobic worldview (e.g., taunting me and telling me to go back to China, though I'm not Chinese), as well as other forms of bullying. I don't blame their semiformed brains for all their poor choices, but I can see now how influenced they were - their executive functions, their ego, and their hormone driven emotional imbalances all at war and coming out as expressions of aggression, resentment, and such. However, it gave me some solace and hope that maybe they'd grow up into decent human beings who would remember their cruelty and teach their future children to be better. (That hope felt like the only choice I had to survive it all.)
It was also one of the first books I'd read where consequences and guilt were reconciled by the death of a star that was too bright for this world.
I'd like to reread the book. It was fairly influential in my life back then. It feels like something that could be comforting now too.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail