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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
Great book, hard to put down. I have the other books ready in the original series.
This book has an interesting psychoanalytic premise--a person coming to consciousness needs to figure out who he really is. To do this the person must pay attention to unconscious emotions and urges that surface--especially the urge to violence and aggression. These are classic elements of the journey to become fully human. He must resolve his inner conflicts which are triggered by those whom he encounters. Even the name reflects this: jaSON Bo(u)rn(e). These elements are why I gave the book a second star. Other than that the book is dull, poorly written, opaque and boring.
Not sure what my deal with genre fiction is lately, but I'm liking the mystery. This was a fun read.
This was even worse than I expected it to be. Transparent and dull. When you spend most pages re-editing them in your head writing better versions of paragraphs, sentences and plot points because its painfully obvious where the author wants to go, but is muddling his way through it, its time to stop.
I bought it to read on the way home from China, but ended up reading Marcus Aurelius instead. Oh well, it was worth a try.
I bought it to read on the way home from China, but ended up reading Marcus Aurelius instead. Oh well, it was worth a try.
adventurous
slow-paced
Yawn. This book moved at a snails pace. There was a nice pick up during the last 1/4 of the book, though, which kept me reading.
This book had my brain in a fog throughout the whole book. I never felt like I really "got it," even at the end. In a sense, this is a great way to make the reader empathize with the amnesia and subsequent fog the main character faces throughout the whole book.
This book had my brain in a fog throughout the whole book. I never felt like I really "got it," even at the end. In a sense, this is a great way to make the reader empathize with the amnesia and subsequent fog the main character faces throughout the whole book.
I enjoyed the movie but thought the book was much better. I really enjoyed how the story kept evolving. When I was about half way through, I couldn't imagine how the book could be sustained for another 300 or so pages, but it was compelling. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
Am I the only one perturbed by how Francophone the swiss-german city of Zurich was made out to be?
Much better than the movie as I remember it, although that was in 2002 when it first came out and I was still in grade school. The plot made much more sense in the book.