mkach 's review for:

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
5.0

I'm hovering around 4.7 with this book, because it was really difficult to get through at times and because I needed to really "make" myself get into it. Once I did, though, it was amazing. As is obvious from only reading the blurb, it's not a light read by all means and to really appreciate it, you need to take your time and think about the form, the conversations and thousands of references in them (which tends to be quite grueling) - but in the end, you really feel as if you've read something important. I don't know how else to put it, this book made me think about a number of different aspects of art, the way we communicate and how we relate to others, what we are searching for - Horacio's famous "center"... All in all, it's a worthwhile read to be sure and a modern classic by all standards, but I wouldn't recommend it to just any of my friends, if that makes sense.