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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
The Child in Time is one of Ian McEwan’s earlier books, written in the mid-1980′s. It is an odd book, the themes and subplots of which all have to do with childhood and the relationships between children and their parents, but I did not come away from the novel with a coherent idea of its message.
See my complete review here:
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/tag/the-child-in-time/
See my complete review here:
http://whatmeread.wordpress.com/tag/the-child-in-time/
Nu știu cine a zis vorba asta, dar a avut mare dreptate : "Copilăria e singurul paradis pierdut".
O carte de o profunzime și o simplitate emoționante.
O carte de o profunzime și o simplitate emoționante.
kinda controversial but i think i like this more than atonement
Personalmente ho trovato questo libro brillante, ma lento. Soltanto per far capire che potrebbero esserci persone che lo percepiscano come noioso. Io sono convinta di essermi trovata tra le mani un capolavoro straziante, un indagine sul senso di vuoto non derivato solo da un'assenza, ma dal non poter afferrare e processare i traumi per andare avanti. Io credo che la maggiore qualità sia l'uso dei piani temporali differenti dove presente, passato e futuro esistono nello stesso istante rendendosi possibili a vicenda. Lettura non facile, continui pugni nello stomaco, indagine del dolore che si presta proprio al farlo sentire anche nelle viscere del lettore. Ogni elemento, ogni personaggio, ogni frase, ogni parola, ogni sezione, ritmo compreso è calibrato per ottenere un dosaggio perfetto, per avere il suo posto in un meccanismo perfetto che non tutti riuscirebbero a far funzionare. McEwan è un maestro in questo, si tratta del mio primo approccio all'autore che approfondirò senz'altro.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Jer, slab je onaj koji ne uspe da sačuva granicu izmedju sveta kakav jeste i sveta kakav bi on želeo da jeste.
Ne budi slab, govorio je sebi, pokušaj da preživiš.
....nemoj se ukopavati u fantazije, nemoj tim putem.
Možda se nikad ne vratiš.
Ne budi slab, govorio je sebi, pokušaj da preživiš.
....nemoj se ukopavati u fantazije, nemoj tim putem.
Možda se nikad ne vratiš.
Recommended only for hardcore McEwan fans. I struggled with this one.
Ok, that's it. I'm done with Ian McEwan. This book was total bullshit.
This was my third book by the author, and this is why I don't like reading too much by the same writer, especially popular "NYT best-seller" authors. I purchased this book because I thought it was going to be about a three year old girl (Kate) who gets kidnapped at a supermarket while out with her dad. True, McEwan wastes no time in describing the kidnapping in the very first chapter of the book, but after that the rest is about inane shit that has little or nothing to do with the kidnapping, guilt, loss and anguish that would normally occur after such a tragic event. I despised the main character of the book. In true McEwan fashion Stephen Lewis (Kate's father) is a pretentious self-centered snob.
There was not an ounce of angst, despair, madness, or desperation you'd expect in a book about a child who has been kidnapped and whose parents are suppose to be in mourning. The story is about Stephen, who often visits his friends in the county. Who btw never bring up his daughter. He also saved a man from a car-wreck, and he's often in a meeting in which child welfare is the topic of discussion. It was a very flat, boring drawn-out story. The chapters were so long... so tedious. It's infuriating to be strung along so many chapters without so much of a mention of what these parents were supposedly going through! It didn't compel me to feel any sympathy for him or his wife. This was one of the worst novels I've ever read.
This was my third book by the author, and this is why I don't like reading too much by the same writer, especially popular "NYT best-seller" authors. I purchased this book because I thought it was going to be about a three year old girl (Kate) who gets kidnapped at a supermarket while out with her dad. True, McEwan wastes no time in describing the kidnapping in the very first chapter of the book, but after that the rest is about inane shit that has little or nothing to do with the kidnapping, guilt, loss and anguish that would normally occur after such a tragic event. I despised the main character of the book. In true McEwan fashion Stephen Lewis (Kate's father) is a pretentious self-centered snob.
There was not an ounce of angst, despair, madness, or desperation you'd expect in a book about a child who has been kidnapped and whose parents are suppose to be in mourning. The story is about Stephen, who often visits his friends in the county. Who btw never bring up his daughter. He also saved a man from a car-wreck, and he's often in a meeting in which child welfare is the topic of discussion. It was a very flat, boring drawn-out story. The chapters were so long... so tedious. It's infuriating to be strung along so many chapters without so much of a mention of what these parents were supposedly going through! It didn't compel me to feel any sympathy for him or his wife. This was one of the worst novels I've ever read.
A short novel about the passage of time and the essence of childhood. Stephen and Julie's 3-year-old daughter is abducted and this horrific tragedy sets the two on divergent paths. The book explores grief and doesn't pander to the audience by bringing the child back. Yes it was incredibly frustrating not to learn what became of the young girl, but that is the point -- Stephen and Julie are never relieved of their grief and neither does the reader get the satisfaction of a solved mystery. In another storyline that explores childhood, Stephen's good friend Charles succumbs to madness and believes himself to be a schoolboy again. I liked the calm and simple tone to the story. It was exceedingly sad at times, as one might expect. Not so incredible that I'd read it again, but definitely not a waste of time either. Uplifting at the end.
I really enjoyed this. The voice is very similar to that of the narrator of Nutshell by the same author, but it suits this story and narrator well.