584 reviews for:

Onze avonden

Alan Hollinghurst

3.95 AVERAGE

claire_melanie's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The school years dragged and felt like material I’ve read before but everything else about this was brilliant 

goldencakes's review against another edition

5.0

reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

kylepatrick's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 21%

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Simply boring. Normally I’m all for a book simply about vibes and people but could not get into this one. 

prakruthi's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aliceeeee's review against another edition

4.25

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I enjoyed that is was a perspective over a whole life and seeing times change around and within a person. I’ve not thought about how that would impact a person

Do writers not realise though that I don’t want to hear about someone writing the book I am reading?!? Over it.

sonnyboris's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

elineveldhuisen's review

3.0

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kemcgarr's review against another edition

4.0

reflective

itisjonwilson's review against another edition

3.5

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

tonvandenborn's review against another edition

4.5

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Je volgt het leven van David Winn. Hij is homoseksueel en acteur. Zijn vader komt uit Birma, zijn moeder, die later een relatie krijgt met een vrouw, is Engels. Het boek maakt me wat melancholisch, zoals het leven voorbij glijdt. Is dit het nou? Het leven? De liefdes, de vrienden, de oude klasgenoot die als conservatief politicus voor Brexit strijdt. Het geeft ook een tijdsbeeld, de Engelse klassenmaatschappij, de theaterwereld, de homoscene. David Winn is een aantal jaren ouder dan ik ben. De mooie schrijfstijl van Hollinghurst draagt ongetwijfeld bij aan dat melancholische gevoel.