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Schicksal! by S.G. Browne

riduidel's review against another edition

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3.0

Ce roman a un titre français qui, en soi, est un spoiler. D'un autre côté, le titre anglais "fated", qu'on peut traduire par "destiné" n'est pas mal non plus.
Toujours est-il que ce roman nous raconte le destin de Sort, celui qui détermine le sort des gens qui n'ont pas un destin (ceux-là sont sous la protection de Destinée, évidement). A un moment donné, deux événements viennent perturber la routine immortelle de sa vie d'entité surnaturelle : l'envie de donner un meilleur sort à ses ouailles d'une part, et la découverte de l'amour de l'autre part. Ces deux événements vont le précipiter dans la mortalité (et c'est moche).
En fait, en soi, l'histoire n'est pas fascinante.
Ce qui est plus fascinant, c'est la façon dont l'auteur arrive, à partir d'un point de départ éminemment fantastique (et qui à mon avis n'est pas sans rappeler ce bon vieux INS/MV) à parler du monde contemporain avec une espèce d'ironie, de distance, qui fait dans l'ensemble assez mal, parce que cette distance est juste. Je ne sais pas si c'est assez clair. En tout cas, le ton, la façon dont Sort parle du monde est excessivement juste et tranchante.
Pour ne rien gâcher, il y a dans cette histoire un humour particulièrement amusant.
Malheureusement, les éléments clés de l'histoire sont hautement prévisibles, ce que j'ai trouvé un peu triste.
Ca n'en est pas moins une histoire intéressante, plaisante pour les amateurs de fantastique à tendance biblique.

annarocks's review against another edition

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1.0

I started out liking the book, but the end failed. In a novel centered around God, religion, and Christian themes, the idea that the central character would take his own life is preposterous. And then to be rewarded for that, in the form of reincarnation? No, I'm not buying it. It was an unfulfilling and unbelievable ending to what might have been a decent novel.

corvus_corone's review against another edition

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2.0

For the most part I thought Fated was an interesting take on god and how the world works. Fabio really personified fate in his trapped feelings and depression. Where the book really lost me was the end. There is something about a fellow becoming the unborn child in the womb of the woman he was passionately in love with (an having a lot of sex with) that just struck me as incredibly creepy. Talk about a Oedipal complex waiting to happen.

corar's review against another edition

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3.0

Fate, also known as Fabio, is bored with his job. It seems like humans always make decisions that change their path for the worse and all he can do is observe over and over again as people destroy their life. But then he starts to break the rules. First, he falls in love with a mortal then after accidentally influencing the outcome of a human's path he decides that rules or no rules, he needs to make a difference in his humans lives. But he is not going to be able to keep his transgressions secret for long. I thought that this book was OK, it was hard for me to like any of the characters. I think that the humor did not speak to me. It seemed like it was trying to go for the kind of humor that Moore was successful with in Lamb, but it fell short for me. However I am a sucker for books with personifications of immortal concepts and there were times that the authors musings on the differences between Fate and Destiny and what it means to be human were interesting enough to bump up the rating half a star.

juliabass's review against another edition

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2.0

Nice.

Good Omens is better.

bargainghost's review against another edition

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5.0

An ending that makes you think.
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