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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
اولِ كتاب ُ بيشتر پسنديدم، يعنى واقعا پسنديدم، آخراش جذبم نكرد، شايد چون نمى خواستم همچين پايان و سرنوشتىُ براى ورتر، شايد چون نگرانش بودم،،،،، يعنى نه كه جذبم نكرد، كه ناراحتم كرد، اما دليل نميشه چهار نگيره ازم و دليل نميشه هم كه دلم بياد به كسى قرضش بدم و از كتابخونه م دورش كنم
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Goethe is truly the original maestro of turning broken heart into magnum opus. Even if later in life he would prefer to be dissociated from his Werther success, this is undeniably beautiful. I disagree with Werther's bleak and fatalistic view of life, but I can see how people with one sided love stories could relate to him since 18th century onwards.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
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:
No
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I read this book in high school. So, I don't remember much of it, except the crying. I loved the story, I could relate to many of his thoughts about unrequited love and its tragic consequences, and feeling like it was the end of the world because I wasn't with that special someone and, well. High school: Maths and lovesickness.
I cried quite a bit while reading this book, Bambi's-mother-shooting kind of tears. I probably wouldn't react that way now, I'd just think about how much easier it would be to move out and try to meet somebody else (or not) than crying a river and I'd have to re-read it to find out. However, despite that particular part of the plot, it was beautifully and carefully written. Goethe described one of the most profound and dangerous kinds of pain in a delicate and graceful manner. His prose is brilliant, powerful. Besides love, and lack of love, pain and whatnot, there are passages like:
So, what you can get out of this really helpful review is that:
a) I cried.
b) Goethe's writing is beautiful.
Aug 17, 13
* Also on my blog.
I cried quite a bit while reading this book, Bambi's-mother-shooting kind of tears. I probably wouldn't react that way now, I'd just think about how much easier it would be to move out and try to meet somebody else (or not) than crying a river and
Spoiler
trying to kill yourself."Oh! you people of sound understandings," I replied, smiling, "are ever ready to exclaim 'Extravagance, and madness, and intoxication!' You moral men are so calm and so subdued! You abhor the drunken man, and detest the extravagant; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not like one of them. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. And in private life, too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake the execution of a noble or generous deed, without giving rise to the exclamation that the doer is intoxicated or mad? Shame upon you, ye sages!"
So, what you can get out of this really helpful review is that:
a) I cried.
b) Goethe's writing is beautiful.
Aug 17, 13
* Also on my blog.
4'5/5
Maravilloso retrato de lo idiotas que nos volvemos cuando nos enamoramos.
Tiene partes de una belleza sobresaliente.
Maravilloso retrato de lo idiotas que nos volvemos cuando nos enamoramos.
Tiene partes de una belleza sobresaliente.