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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
"I'm in love."
restraining the impulse to sink into the floorboards.
All men who first touch with words go much further afterwards with their hands.
"I can hear your heart barking like a dog. Get a grip on yourself, my man."
"If I die someday," he said to himself, "I want heaven to be just like this moment."
It makes me laugh to think that you had to deliver this letter to yourself.
"But how can I be crying if I'm not sad and nothing hurts?"
"I wanted to send you something other than words. So I put my voice inside this cage that sings."
I will wait, day and night. I will wait for you to return."
"Pablo is ill."
"It'll pass, poet." "No, my son. The fever won't pass. It's me that will pass."
"Tell me a nice metaphor so I can die peacefully, son."
a poem came to the poet's lips. He did not even know he was reciting it.
He spent those long hours with his eyes glued to the ceiling and not a single thought distracted him.
"I drink it bitter."
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was such a ridiculous book that could have been interesting if things were done differently.
How would one silly teenage postman catch the attention and win the trust of a man such as Pablo Neruda all of a sudden?
Ok, he was annoyingly persistent in his goal of talking to the poet, but so what?
I would think it would take a bit more, such as Neruda seeing him as a kindred soul of sorts or maybe being reminded of his young self.
No luck there. Mario was amazingly childish, boring and dumb. All he cared about was Beatriz, her breasts and his erection.
I don't see Neruda getting involved in stupid teenage drama.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
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:
No
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
reflective
relaxing
Read this in Spanish during my cine + literatura course in Bilbao. The first written work that I remember reading through *in Spanish* and comprehending, enjoying, looking forward to reading it more.
Radford and Troisi’s ‘Il Postino’ is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Massimo Troisi has always been my favorite actor. And so it has been quite difficult to really assess the novel. Both book and movie start out the same by developing the friendship between a postman and the great poet Pablo Neruda. I can’t really say how well the book deals with that because I heard every sentence with the voices of Troisi and Philippe Noiret, and I saw it firmly within the imagery of the movie. The endings are quite different though. The movie focuses on what happens to Mario, the postman, and the book on what happens to Neruda, the poet. Both endings have their own merit, and I was not unhappy with either. The middle, however, was where the major difference was most noticeable. The movie was clearly focused on their relationship and every scene was dedicated to that end. The book really didn’t really know what it was. I was suddenly reading about a throbbing member, and a couple of out of this world orgasms that came from nowhere and went nowhere, and had absolutely nothing to do with anything. Orgasms are great, but true art is being aware of when to celebrate them and when to keep your member in your pants.
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced