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The only thing better than a King's book, it's a King's audiobook with the perfect voice actor.
[a:Bronson Pinchot|2895898|Bronson Pinchot|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1347076537p2/2895898.jpg] brought this story to life in a fantastic way and I found myself 'turning the pages' with eagerness!
The story kinda lost me around 70%, but I couldn't find myself decreasing a star just because of that since it quickly picked me up again!
Pros:
- Bronson Pinchot's narration
- The easy-to-follow setting
- The characters were all different and loveable (yes, even Flagg)
Cons:
- The rebellion part felt a bit disconnected of the rest and seemed to only exist to give the spotlight to an amazing
[a:Bronson Pinchot|2895898|Bronson Pinchot|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1347076537p2/2895898.jpg] brought this story to life in a fantastic way and I found myself 'turning the pages' with eagerness!
The story kinda lost me around 70%, but I couldn't find myself decreasing a star just because of that since it quickly picked me up again!
Pros:
- Bronson Pinchot's narration
- The easy-to-follow setting
- The characters were all different and loveable (yes, even Flagg)
Cons:
- The rebellion part felt a bit disconnected of the rest and seemed to only exist to give the spotlight to an amazing
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hard-working husky
Currently a DNF for me, sadly.
I was excited by the premise of the book and to learn more about Korea and Japan during the 1900s, but... the book just takes soooooo long to get anywhere!
The cuts in the story are weird (jumping like 5 years), the dialogues feel very distant, and, reading it, just feels like I'm not really achieving anything story-wise.
Kinda disappointed with it
I was excited by the premise of the book and to learn more about Korea and Japan during the 1900s, but... the book just takes soooooo long to get anywhere!
The cuts in the story are weird (jumping like 5 years), the dialogues feel very distant, and, reading it, just feels like I'm not really achieving anything story-wise.
Kinda disappointed with it
An entertaining book. Some parts felt slow (I mean, I appreciate the effort but I really don’t need a full breakdown of EVERYTHING that was being built) but mostly it was engaging and main character was likeable
This is a sad book… and an incredibly dull one as well.
While it tries to tackle serious issues, I think it fails to do that with any conviction.
The relationship between the main characters is also described as ‘electrifying’ but I absolutely felt nothing. It’s just… dull.
Also, the narrative is kinda meh. There’s a lot of “he says” and “she says” and that’s just not very captivating
While it tries to tackle serious issues, I think it fails to do that with any conviction.
The relationship between the main characters is also described as ‘electrifying’ but I absolutely felt nothing. It’s just… dull.
Also, the narrative is kinda meh. There’s a lot of “he says” and “she says” and that’s just not very captivating
Definitely not a fan of this book, but I'll consider it average due to its amazing narrative and imagery.
Pros:
- Chief, McMurphy and Big Nurse are well-developed characters and definitely move the story forward
- It opens an argument about how people are treated on mental institutes and how we can do better to make them feel safe and help them
- Also raises eyes to how patients were treated in the 60s and the methodology to deal with them
Cons:
- The book felt outdated to me. I guess that in the 60s it had a lot of power, but, nowadays, it just doesn't have the same impact and you can find multiple examples with the same narrative
- Chief's ramblings / dreams / memories as parallel (I guess) to the way how mental health patients were treated felt dull, long and I found myself just not carrying too much about it and skimming through it
- The racist and misogynistic tone kinda kill the joy for me at times
Pros:
- Chief, McMurphy and Big Nurse are well-developed characters and definitely move the story forward
- It opens an argument about how people are treated on mental institutes and how we can do better to make them feel safe and help them
- Also raises eyes to how patients were treated in the 60s and the methodology to deal with them
Cons:
- The book felt outdated to me. I guess that in the 60s it had a lot of power, but, nowadays, it just doesn't have the same impact and you can find multiple examples with the same narrative
- Chief's ramblings / dreams / memories as parallel (I guess) to the way how mental health patients were treated felt dull, long and I found myself just not carrying too much about it and skimming through it
- The racist and misogynistic tone kinda kill the joy for me at times
I was ready to give this book 4⭐ or maybe even 5⭐ but then I started thinking: "Why?"... And I couldn't get a good answer.
The closest I got was 'The book was ok and easy to read" but that doesn't sound like the description of a 5⭐ book, which made me realize that this is, in fact, just an average book (at least for me).
Pros:
- It's not often for me to see a store happening in a marsh so that was refreshing
- The dialect (stereotypical or true?) made it interesting and easier to imagine southern characters with their swag
Cons:
- The story's resolution was really meh...
- Although there's some description of the characters, there wasn't much to lean on regarding their overall looks
- I can't remember pretty much any dialogue between the characters
The closest I got was 'The book was ok and easy to read" but that doesn't sound like the description of a 5⭐ book, which made me realize that this is, in fact, just an average book (at least for me).
Pros:
- It's not often for me to see a store happening in a marsh so that was refreshing
- The dialect (stereotypical or true?) made it interesting and easier to imagine southern characters with their swag
Cons:
- The story's resolution was really meh...
- Although there's some description of the characters, there wasn't much to lean on regarding their overall looks
- I can't remember pretty much any dialogue between the characters
Wasn’t expecting much considering I disliked Upgrade but this book kicks ass!
It had the perfect mix of SciFi (without the super long descriptions of whatever) and suspense/horror.
I would give it 6⭐️ if I could
It had the perfect mix of SciFi (without the super long descriptions of whatever) and suspense/horror.
I would give it 6⭐️ if I could
This book was incredibly boring.
For the first third, I was willing to give 4⭐ because it was edgy and written in a good way but it just kept going on and on and on and ... It never stopped.
The gore and torture ended up being so frequent that I got over it really fast and really didn't do anything for me. It felt too torture-porny and something that you would find during high school and tell others 'Yew, dude, read this!' (you know, like the 2 girls 1 cup thing).
Ultimately, I didn't feel like the book said anything. The last third of the book was a hail mary for insanity and everything breaking apart, but... where did that lead us to? To my understanding, nowhere, and that makes me sad.
For the first third, I was willing to give 4⭐ because it was edgy and written in a good way but it just kept going on and on and on and ... It never stopped.
The gore and torture ended up being so frequent that I got over it really fast and really didn't do anything for me. It felt too torture-porny and something that you would find during high school and tell others 'Yew, dude, read this!' (you know, like the 2 girls 1 cup thing).
Ultimately, I didn't feel like the book said anything. The last third of the book was a hail mary for insanity and everything breaking apart, but... where did that lead us to? To my understanding, nowhere, and that makes me sad.
Coming from more recent books of Maigret’s stories, you can really tell that this one was done really at the start. It lacks Maguire’s personality in it but the scenery descriptions are amazing.
It’s interesting that you can see Simenon’s writing evolving and how Maigret is being shaped with each book.
The story was fine, but the narrative was confusing sometimes! There were a lot of jumps between places, one paragraph after another and it made the reading a bit chaotic.
In any case, it’s a fun read.
It’s interesting that you can see Simenon’s writing evolving and how Maigret is being shaped with each book.
The story was fine, but the narrative was confusing sometimes! There were a lot of jumps between places, one paragraph after another and it made the reading a bit chaotic.
In any case, it’s a fun read.