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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
annaretamaria's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Complicated
- Loveable characters? Complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Päällimmäisenä mielessä: pidin tästä paljon enemmän kuin odotin. Aivan alku oli vangitseva: nuori Luke-poika auttaa äitiään pakenemaan mielisairaalasta, jotta he pääsevät yhdessä taidenäyttelyyn. Tämän jälkeen siirrytään kymmenisen vuotta eteenpäin ja seurataan saman Luken elämää nuorena aikuisena. Tässä vaiheessa kirja meinasi jäädä kesken, koska jännittävä alku ja sitä seuraavat sivut eivät tuntuneet keskustelevan keskenään. Onneksi jatkoin, sillä tästä kirjasta muodostui kiehtova matka keskelle 1970-luvun Britannian näytelmäpiirejä.
Nautin kirjan viipyilevästä ja episodimaisesta tunnelmasta ja tavallisen mutta silti poikkeuksellisen elämän kuvaamisesta. Vuodet vierivät, näytelmiä käsikirjoitetaan ja ohjataan, mutta ihmissuhteet määrittelevät lopulta kaiken. Tämä on kirja, jonka parissa oli mukava ajelehtia ja miettiä samalla omaa elämää ja sen ihmissuhteita. Luke saavuttaa jonkinlaista menestystä näytelmäkirjailijana, mutta hän ei löydä todellisesta rauhaa, koska kaipaa elämään jotain erityistä ihmistä. Ja sitten kun sen erityisen ihmisen löytää... sitten vasta draama alkaakin.
Kirja kysyy kysymyksen siitä, mistä todellinen elämän merkitys lopulta muodostuu. Me etsimme taloudellista menestystä ja nousukiitoista uraa, mutta onko se oikeasti sitä mitä haluamme?
Nautin kirjan viipyilevästä ja episodimaisesta tunnelmasta ja tavallisen mutta silti poikkeuksellisen elämän kuvaamisesta. Vuodet vierivät, näytelmiä käsikirjoitetaan ja ohjataan, mutta ihmissuhteet määrittelevät lopulta kaiken. Tämä on kirja, jonka parissa oli mukava ajelehtia ja miettiä samalla omaa elämää ja sen ihmissuhteita. Luke saavuttaa jonkinlaista menestystä näytelmäkirjailijana, mutta hän ei löydä todellisesta rauhaa, koska kaipaa elämään jotain erityistä ihmistä. Ja sitten kun sen erityisen ihmisen löytää... sitten vasta draama alkaakin.
Kirja kysyy kysymyksen siitä, mistä todellinen elämän merkitys lopulta muodostuu. Me etsimme taloudellista menestystä ja nousukiitoista uraa, mutta onko se oikeasti sitä mitä haluamme?
suudelmilla's review
4.0
Rakkauskertomus, joka onnistui välttämään romanttisesta rakkaudesta kertomisen sudenkuopat ja kliseet. Iso, traaginen, tunteikas, todenmukainen. Nautin tämän lukemisesta, oli helppo upota 1970-luvun Lontooseen ja hahmoihin, vaikka osa heistä olikin aika sietämättömiä — ehkä siinä juuri piilikin yksi kirjan viehätys ja realistisuus, ihmisissä joissa on useita puolia, helppoja pitää ja mahdottomia sietää.
Kirjan nimi on muuten aivan kauhea suomeksi. Meinasi sen takia jäädä hyllyyn. Onneksi ei jäänyt!
Kirjan nimi on muuten aivan kauhea suomeksi. Meinasi sen takia jäädä hyllyyn. Onneksi ei jäänyt!
felix_minka_mcintyre's review against another edition
2.0
Firstly, thank you to the publishers for sending me a copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I'm afraid this book was just a bit too slow for me. I really liked the premise and the world of the story, but couldn't bring myself to read any further than a quarter of the book. Unfortunately, not enough had happened to the characters by this point to make we want to explore their story further, especially considering the book is over 400 pages.
It's unfortunate because I felt like there could be the bones of a good British TV vintage drama in it!
I'm afraid this book was just a bit too slow for me. I really liked the premise and the world of the story, but couldn't bring myself to read any further than a quarter of the book. Unfortunately, not enough had happened to the characters by this point to make we want to explore their story further, especially considering the book is over 400 pages.
It's unfortunate because I felt like there could be the bones of a good British TV vintage drama in it!
krismcd59's review against another edition
2.0
Fans who can't get enough backstage dramas will enjoy the theatrical knowingness of this glum romance. Most readers, however, will find the pace too slow, the setting too claustrophobic, and the characters' suffering much too elaborate. Devotees of smoking in fiction, however, will be entranced, because that's mostly what the characters do, aside from talking about plays and having guilty, awkward sex.
xeirea's review
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
krobart's review against another edition
3.0
See my review here:
https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/day-693-fallout/
https://whatmeread.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/day-693-fallout/
mmseitz822's review against another edition
5.0
What a beautiful story! I loved the relationship/dynamic that existed among Luke, Paul, and Leigh. It was so hard to decide what I wanted to happen for all of them and how I wanted things to turn out in the end. When Nina enters the mix, it gets even more complicated. I thought the characters were extremely well-written and complex. I think this is an amazing book and highly recommend reading it!
juliareadz's review against another edition
4.0
I think I found this book at a garage sale. The back of the book does it no justice. This book followed four characters and used them all to describe each other. The specific focus on Luke and Nina created a juxtaposition between the two that helped describe and illustrate their characters. The story felt a little long and drawn out, but it was a unique and interesting story.
ridgewaygirl's review against another edition
5.0
Sadie Jones's new novel hit me at just the right angle. I fell in love with this book about English theater in the early seventies, when everything was changing. It's the story of three young people who become close friends, opening a theatre together in the rooms above a pub. Paul wants to be a producer, Leigh is the stage manager, and Luke does a little of everything, while he writes plays in his spare time. There's a lot here about the inner workings of plays, described in a way that was both understandable to the layman and utterly absorbing.
But at it's heart, Fallout is a character-driven book. Luke, the son of a taciturn Polish father and a mother who has been in a mental asylum since he was five, is desperate to belong, and he finds security in his friendships with Leigh and Paul. But then he meets Nina, an insecure actress who was raised by a controlling and abusive mother. Paul is an oldest son and he feels his father's disapproval for his uncertain career. And Leigh just wants to work in the field, but not as an actress and she demands that people treat her work with the same respect they'd give a man. She's down to earth, and she steadies both Paul and Luke. They are all in their early twenties, living on their own for the first time, both excited and terrified of the careers they've chosen to pursue.
Fallout is also about London in the 1970s, when social constrictions were loosening, but only so far, and new plays were being written that wanted to say something, co-existing with sex farces designed to take advantage of the new openness toward stage nudity and Shakespeare's eternal presence.
But at it's heart, Fallout is a character-driven book. Luke, the son of a taciturn Polish father and a mother who has been in a mental asylum since he was five, is desperate to belong, and he finds security in his friendships with Leigh and Paul. But then he meets Nina, an insecure actress who was raised by a controlling and abusive mother. Paul is an oldest son and he feels his father's disapproval for his uncertain career. And Leigh just wants to work in the field, but not as an actress and she demands that people treat her work with the same respect they'd give a man. She's down to earth, and she steadies both Paul and Luke. They are all in their early twenties, living on their own for the first time, both excited and terrified of the careers they've chosen to pursue.
Fallout is also about London in the 1970s, when social constrictions were loosening, but only so far, and new plays were being written that wanted to say something, co-existing with sex farces designed to take advantage of the new openness toward stage nudity and Shakespeare's eternal presence.
milly_in_the_library's review against another edition
4.0
a slooooow burner. made slower by me being too busy (bring on the summer holiday!).
despite the pace I enjoyed reading this.
despite the pace I enjoyed reading this.