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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
*2.5
20.06.20 i admit that it is pretentious and slow and sometimes loses itself, but i love it. i love how everything's intertwined and i love the world (it reminds me of tintenworld or seiten der welt)
24.06.20 well that changed. the story loses itself completlely in the second half. although i still like how some of the stories intertwine, it is just too much and after the 5000th mention of the bee and the key and the sword and all that stuff, and even though it is time and time pointed out, screamed at the reader that this is a symbol, i have not at all figuered out what it stands for. i liked zach and i liked dorian before and even though their relationship came kind of out of nowhere and didn't seem very organic, i was ok with it, but for the last two hours or so of the audiobook, they both just stumbled around and got things mumbled at them and were confused and so am i
25.06.20
first i thougt this would be a four star book, then a three star, but now it has become two point five and i feel like that is even generous. i never thought that i could grow tired of lots of imagery and pretentious, beautiful writing, as this is usually totally my thing, but i did. also i didn't get what was happening at all in the ending and so much of the story was unresolved (like the owl king thing and that knitting girl and even what happens with zach and dorian) and so many characters seemed just unnecessary (elenor, simon, the ginger cat). there were great ideas and sometimes it was fascinating how everything came together, but in the end it just lost itself and didn't make sense anymore. it was also just bland and boring and confusing, at least the second half, and nothing much happened at all anymore, but everyone spoke in riddles and there were just so many open ends. i liked the world, i really enjoyed the time zach spent in the harbour in his room, investigating, chatting with the kitchen (probably the best invention of the book in my opinion, but how it was resolved was just incredibly disappointing). there really was quite some potential, but just too much talk of bees and keys and swords that i didn't understand till the end, but heard at least two million times.
i also admit that i maybe sometimes was a little absent minded and that i therefore didn't get the metaphores and all of that, but seriously, this book is a lot to chew even without having to understand hidden meanings and i also usually tend to be quite good at spotting them, however with this one i felt like it was actually more straight forward than it pretended to be and all the explicit mentioning of symbolism and metaphores was just junk.
20.06.20 i admit that it is pretentious and slow and sometimes loses itself, but i love it. i love how everything's intertwined and i love the world (it reminds me of tintenworld or seiten der welt)
24.06.20 well that changed. the story loses itself completlely in the second half. although i still like how some of the stories intertwine, it is just too much and after the 5000th mention of the bee and the key and the sword and all that stuff, and even though it is time and time pointed out, screamed at the reader that this is a symbol, i have not at all figuered out what it stands for. i liked zach and i liked dorian before and even though their relationship came kind of out of nowhere and didn't seem very organic, i was ok with it, but for the last two hours or so of the audiobook, they both just stumbled around and got things mumbled at them and were confused and so am i
25.06.20
first i thougt this would be a four star book, then a three star, but now it has become two point five and i feel like that is even generous. i never thought that i could grow tired of lots of imagery and pretentious, beautiful writing, as this is usually totally my thing, but i did. also i didn't get what was happening at all in the ending and so much of the story was unresolved (like the owl king thing and that knitting girl and even what happens with zach and dorian) and so many characters seemed just unnecessary (elenor, simon, the ginger cat). there were great ideas and sometimes it was fascinating how everything came together, but in the end it just lost itself and didn't make sense anymore. it was also just bland and boring and confusing, at least the second half, and nothing much happened at all anymore, but everyone spoke in riddles and there were just so many open ends. i liked the world, i really enjoyed the time zach spent in the harbour in his room, investigating, chatting with the kitchen (probably the best invention of the book in my opinion, but how it was resolved was just incredibly disappointing). there really was quite some potential, but just too much talk of bees and keys and swords that i didn't understand till the end, but heard at least two million times.
i also admit that i maybe sometimes was a little absent minded and that i therefore didn't get the metaphores and all of that, but seriously, this book is a lot to chew even without having to understand hidden meanings and i also usually tend to be quite good at spotting them, however with this one i felt like it was actually more straight forward than it pretended to be and all the explicit mentioning of symbolism and metaphores was just junk.