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hayleybroderick's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
juanasanchez's review against another edition
5.0
Espectacular. Al comienzo me sentí desubicada, pero se convirtió en uno de mis libros favoritos.
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21989538
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daisy2104's review against another edition
5.0
Straordinario. Un vero capolavoro non solo letterario. Un viaggio dentro se stessi,dentro la vita,gli affetti,le emozioni. Dentro l'essere parte di un mondo.
Un libro che in ogni pagina sembra non dire nulla per la molteplicità di tematiche afdrontate ma allo stesso tempo dice tutto,dice molto di ciascuno di noi.
Una storia ma anche tante storie e tante emozioni che ti fanno sentire compreso, normale, comune..anche nel soffrire e nell'ammettere di farlo. Che ti fa cercare assiduamente la bellezza che ogni attimo vissuto cela.
Un libro che in ogni pagina sembra non dire nulla per la molteplicità di tematiche afdrontate ma allo stesso tempo dice tutto,dice molto di ciascuno di noi.
Una storia ma anche tante storie e tante emozioni che ti fanno sentire compreso, normale, comune..anche nel soffrire e nell'ammettere di farlo. Che ti fa cercare assiduamente la bellezza che ogni attimo vissuto cela.
lu_ranger's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Addiction and Child abuse
carolwolverine's review against another edition
3.0
Me ha parecido la lectura de este libro un tanto repetitiva con las mismas ideas, dando vueltas sobre lo mismo todo el rato
thatsmybooklady's review against another edition
5.0
This is an either/or book, either you love it or you don't. And if you do, it's something you ponder and wonder and think about for days after, even after you told yourself that you don't ponder. It's a book you stop reading to share with your roommate and ask them if they to think the same thoughts or have they thought of it this way before. Death, life, and love are topics covered with some deep thoughts. I found myself wanting highlight the library copy, but held back. There for sure were parts that felt like reading someone's daily journal of thoughts. This isn't a book with action, but it's a book I feel will be included on future college syllabi. If you try it and it doesn't resonate, wait and try again- it definitely is one you have to be ready to digest.
mafalditabaires's review against another edition
3.0
Lo que más me ha gustado de este libro es que a pesar del tema, el tono en que está escrito tiene cierto humor. Algunas frases son extremadamente poéticas.
Sin embargo, por otra parte, hay algo en esa primera persona y en el carácter un poco telegráfico de su escritura, al utilizar frases cortas, que me ha parecido que hacía un poco de ruido.
Sin embargo, por otra parte, hay algo en esa primera persona y en el carácter un poco telegráfico de su escritura, al utilizar frases cortas, que me ha parecido que hacía un poco de ruido.
randireth's review against another edition
1.0
Well... this was unbearably boring...
It's not that it's badly written. In fact, the prose is, at times, really good. It's dry but poetic, it can make you think and it can make you laugh. The problem is that this man has very little to say. This novel should have been 100 pages long at most, not nearly 400! It becomes repetitive and annoying. We get it: you're miserable, your parent are dead, everyone dies and when it happens nothing remains, nothing matters. You didn't know your parents, and yet you feel like you're just like them.
The tone of it all is just the typical tone of the middle aged intellectual man that whines about his life, drinks too much, finds it impossible to remain faithful to his wife and has a somewhat misanthropic view of the world (but towards the end becomes a bit more hopeful). It's been done before and by far better writers. And it's incredibly frustrating to read about someone complaining about how poor they are when they seem to be thoroughly middle-class, and are even invited to lunch with the king and queen of Spain because they're such a fancy author. Furthermore, the narrator/protagonist/author's capacity for self reflection is non-existent. For instance, he concludes that all the problems he has with his sons as they grow up is just how all relationships between parents and children develop, it's destiny, a law of nature - it has nothing to do with his alcoholism or the fact that he cheated on their mother...
The poems at the end are just the same as the rest of the text, just with shorter lines.
It's not that it's badly written. In fact, the prose is, at times, really good. It's dry but poetic, it can make you think and it can make you laugh. The problem is that this man has very little to say. This novel should have been 100 pages long at most, not nearly 400! It becomes repetitive and annoying. We get it: you're miserable, your parent are dead, everyone dies and when it happens nothing remains, nothing matters. You didn't know your parents, and yet you feel like you're just like them.
The tone of it all is just the typical tone of the middle aged intellectual man that whines about his life, drinks too much, finds it impossible to remain faithful to his wife and has a somewhat misanthropic view of the world (but towards the end becomes a bit more hopeful). It's been done before and by far better writers. And it's incredibly frustrating to read about someone complaining about how poor they are when they seem to be thoroughly middle-class, and are even invited to lunch with the king and queen of Spain because they're such a fancy author. Furthermore, the narrator/protagonist/author's capacity for self reflection is non-existent. For instance, he concludes that all the problems he has with his sons as they grow up is just how all relationships between parents and children develop, it's destiny, a law of nature - it has nothing to do with his alcoholism or the fact that he cheated on their mother...
The poems at the end are just the same as the rest of the text, just with shorter lines.