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kate_is_moody's Reviews (90)
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
To me, this book seemed calm, peaceful, full of thoughts and searches. The main character Jose/Isa is constantly searching for his true identity, place in the world and in life, faith, and understanding people. It was incredibly worrying to go through this way with him, to watch how he matured and how his behaviour and thoughts changed.
I have never been to Kuwait or the Philippines so I'm not familiar with the culture at all. To my embarrassment, I had to Google where Kuwait is situated. The might give you an idea of how vague my knowledge was in the beginning.
Habits, traditions, differences between Kuwaiti and Philipino struck me hard and I was also fascinated with the attitude to religion that we can observe in the book. I've got a clearer idea of what these two countries are and I'm forever thankful to Saud Alsanousi for writing about his own country and presenting it to the world. I got sucked in the atmosphere of Kuwait and the Philippines pretty fast.
One of the important topics of this book is the search for faith and religion. Jose/Isa is trying to find and gain faith, understand who he should pray to and whether this higher being actually cares about him. We get to have a look at Islam, Christianity and Buddhism and have a chance to make our own conclusions. Islam has opened up from a totally different side for me. In a good way. I'm glad that the author kind of pushes us to the idea that every person can believe in whatever they want as long as this faith helps them to be a better version of themselves. Religion is not rejected but shown as one of the ways of support for the person in this difficult world we live in.
Such books should be read, published and promoted. Being a debut, it is deep enough not only to make you think, but it might also answer some of your life questions.
I have never been to Kuwait or the Philippines so I'm not familiar with the culture at all. To my embarrassment, I had to Google where Kuwait is situated. The might give you an idea of how vague my knowledge was in the beginning.
Habits, traditions, differences between Kuwaiti and Philipino struck me hard and I was also fascinated with the attitude to religion that we can observe in the book. I've got a clearer idea of what these two countries are and I'm forever thankful to Saud Alsanousi for writing about his own country and presenting it to the world. I got sucked in the atmosphere of Kuwait and the Philippines pretty fast.
One of the important topics of this book is the search for faith and religion. Jose/Isa is trying to find and gain faith, understand who he should pray to and whether this higher being actually cares about him. We get to have a look at Islam, Christianity and Buddhism and have a chance to make our own conclusions. Islam has opened up from a totally different side for me. In a good way. I'm glad that the author kind of pushes us to the idea that every person can believe in whatever they want as long as this faith helps them to be a better version of themselves. Religion is not rejected but shown as one of the ways of support for the person in this difficult world we live in.
Such books should be read, published and promoted. Being a debut, it is deep enough not only to make you think, but it might also answer some of your life questions.
English + Russian
"Sinuhe the Egyptian" took me a while. I was getting used to the writing style for about 100 pages because the language here is completely different from everything I've read lately.
When I started feeling comfortable with the style I realized that I also got used to the main character Sinuhe. It's easy to follow his life events, his ups, and downs, get acquainted with his friends and strangers on ancients streets. Sinuhe grows up, matures, studies, makes mistakes, falls in love, and loses people and as a reader, I sympathized him and hoped for the better.
I was fascinated by the historical part of the book. I couldn't stop checking out cities Ahetaton, Ахетатон, Jaffa, Babylon on Google Maps and names of actual figures, for instance, Horemheb, Ay, Suppiluliuma. I wanted to find this line between real historical events and made-up stories but it turned out to be a hard task.
There's been just one chapter which I basically skipped. It was about a war and battles, These topics are often too tedious for me to get through so I decided not to struggle.
I enjoyed this book a lot and I got to dive into the world of Ancient Egypt and pharaohs' times. Truly incredible and educational journey
"Синухе, египтянин" занял у меня довольно много времени. Около 100 страниц я привыкала к языку изложения, ведь эта книга не похожа ни на одну, которую я читала в последнее время.
Привыкнув к языку, я начала привыкать и к главному герою, Синухе, проживать с ним его жизнь, его взлёты и падения, знакомиться с его друзьями и мимолётными знакомыми. Синухе взрослеет, учится, ошибается, любит и ненавидит и ему хочется сопереживать и поддерживать.
Меня поразила историческая составляющая романа. Я постоянно гуглила упомянутые города Ахетатон, Яффа, Вавилон и имена действительно существующих личностей, как Хоремхеб, Эйе, Суппилулиума. Мне хотелось увидеть границу между вымыслом и историческими фактами.
Лишь одна из 15 глав была лично для меня довольно занудной - глава и войне и сражениях. Пожалуй, всё эти колесницы, протянутые копьями лошади и стратегии захвата земель абсолютно не моя тема.
Мне доставило огромное удовольствие выписывать цитаты, чтобы позже с их помощью вернуться в мир Древнего Египта и времена фараонов. Это было прекрасное путешествие и воистину познавательное.
"Sinuhe the Egyptian" took me a while. I was getting used to the writing style for about 100 pages because the language here is completely different from everything I've read lately.
When I started feeling comfortable with the style I realized that I also got used to the main character Sinuhe. It's easy to follow his life events, his ups, and downs, get acquainted with his friends and strangers on ancients streets. Sinuhe grows up, matures, studies, makes mistakes, falls in love, and loses people and as a reader, I sympathized him and hoped for the better.
I was fascinated by the historical part of the book. I couldn't stop checking out cities Ahetaton, Ахетатон, Jaffa, Babylon on Google Maps and names of actual figures, for instance, Horemheb, Ay, Suppiluliuma. I wanted to find this line between real historical events and made-up stories but it turned out to be a hard task.
There's been just one chapter which I basically skipped. It was about a war and battles, These topics are often too tedious for me to get through so I decided not to struggle.
I enjoyed this book a lot and I got to dive into the world of Ancient Egypt and pharaohs' times. Truly incredible and educational journey
"Синухе, египтянин" занял у меня довольно много времени. Около 100 страниц я привыкала к языку изложения, ведь эта книга не похожа ни на одну, которую я читала в последнее время.
Привыкнув к языку, я начала привыкать и к главному герою, Синухе, проживать с ним его жизнь, его взлёты и падения, знакомиться с его друзьями и мимолётными знакомыми. Синухе взрослеет, учится, ошибается, любит и ненавидит и ему хочется сопереживать и поддерживать.
Меня поразила историческая составляющая романа. Я постоянно гуглила упомянутые города Ахетатон, Яффа, Вавилон и имена действительно существующих личностей, как Хоремхеб, Эйе, Суппилулиума. Мне хотелось увидеть границу между вымыслом и историческими фактами.
Лишь одна из 15 глав была лично для меня довольно занудной - глава и войне и сражениях. Пожалуй, всё эти колесницы, протянутые копьями лошади и стратегии захвата земель абсолютно не моя тема.
Мне доставило огромное удовольствие выписывать цитаты, чтобы позже с их помощью вернуться в мир Древнего Египта и времена фараонов. Это было прекрасное путешествие и воистину познавательное.