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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
"But that was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail." -195
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
slow-paced
I have tried to read this several times before and I really want to like it, but I don't. Actually, there is nothing in this book that I like. It's just not for me.
Just to be clear this is merely an opinion. Just a warning before my critique.
I found the book quite boring. The whole books takes place between two days in two very different times but I still couldn't really follow it. Nothing really happens and I don't mean action wise. I mean there's no clear character growth or any personality. I get the whole symbolism of the lighthouse being a dream that might never be reached. The painting of the tree and the lost jewelry but still just good if you want to just get bored.
I found the book quite boring. The whole books takes place between two days in two very different times but I still couldn't really follow it. Nothing really happens and I don't mean action wise. I mean there's no clear character growth or any personality. I get the whole symbolism of the lighthouse being a dream that might never be reached. The painting of the tree and the lost jewelry but still just good if you want to just get bored.
"There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared with neither her children nor her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it. To eight people she had said relentlessly that (and the bill for the greenhouse would be fifty pounds). For that reason, knowing what was before them - love and ambition and being wretched alone in dreary places - she had often the feeling, Why must they grow up and lose it all? And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense. They will be perfectly happy."
reflective
slow-paced
As usual I didn't understand the first part to enjoy the last twos. Difficult book to say the least...
Come al solito non ho capito la prima parte, ma mi sono piaciute le ultime due. Libro difficile a dir poco.
Come al solito non ho capito la prima parte, ma mi sono piaciute le ultime due. Libro difficile a dir poco.
emotional
tense
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