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lawrieytheymock's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
4.5
bigbookbabe's review against another edition
3.0
(read for class) definitely my own knowledge of sicily dragging down my rating here, but i did find the first bit a little boring. overall though, a very good novel exploring the ways our social class lock us in
conr8582's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
dasbaum's review against another edition
challenging
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
hannicogood's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
3.0
casparb's review
ZOOMEd thru this one which has a lovely seesawiness to it di Lampedusa breezes you along. I warmed up to it the deeper I was (maybe I was less tired then
perhaps it's his aristocratic thing but it's a novel shot thru & scored with time I'm sure it's much commented on. Permanent end-of-the-party atmosphere, I was trying to resist making a comparison to La Dolce Vita since I worry I was just leaping to whatever in my limited Italians (BCH text I read lately had a nice analysis of the last LDV scene also). to explain this, looking at the chapter A BALL set in 1862, where we are informed that the partygoers 'thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Penn., was to prove the contrary in 1943'. gorgeous! heartbreaking too, as I say, aristocratic. I think also of Marquez.
half-remembered Lydia Davis' The Language of Things in the House:
Soup bowl on counter: Fabrizio!
perhaps it's his aristocratic thing but it's a novel shot thru & scored with time I'm sure it's much commented on. Permanent end-of-the-party atmosphere, I was trying to resist making a comparison to La Dolce Vita since I worry I was just leaping to whatever in my limited Italians (BCH text I read lately had a nice analysis of the last LDV scene also). to explain this, looking at the chapter A BALL set in 1862, where we are informed that the partygoers 'thought themselves eternal; but a bomb manufactured in Pittsburgh, Penn., was to prove the contrary in 1943'. gorgeous! heartbreaking too, as I say, aristocratic. I think also of Marquez.
half-remembered Lydia Davis' The Language of Things in the House:
Soup bowl on counter: Fabrizio!