Julie Berdou từ Osselle, France

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05/06/2024

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2018-07-03 01:30

36 Ký Ức Hà Nội Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quốc Văn

A Michael Chabon novel always is transporting. However, I found this one a little bit less transporting than the others I have read. The first two-thirds of the novel were wonderful -- especially the musings of the old man and the layered details so characteristic of a Chabon descriptive sentence. I swear I learn big chunks of encyclopedia knowledge each time I read one of his books. But I found two fundamental problems with the book. First, and probably the more egregious, was that Chabon did too much literary tinkering. This is truly a novella. A short 131 pages, with some backstory here and there for a few characters, but no subplots to speak of, meant that the point-of-view changes (which I felt to be largely unnecessary) seemed to come at breakneck speed. Just pick a narrative angle and stick with it, please. Second, I know that this novella is basically an excuse for Sherlock Holmes fanfiction, but the actually resolution of the mystery, the key clue, is one so common and see-through I had it figured out as it happened in the novel -- before the detective himself thinks back and realizes the true meaning of the scene. It's the kind of thing that would happen in an episode of Scooby-Doo, simplistic and certainly beneath even an aged Holmes. But Chabon is Chabon, and if he wrote the side panel copy on cereal boxes, I'd read that, too. So, small quibbles. -cg Edited to add: The edition of the book I had included a few (no more than a half-dozen) drawings accompanying the text. Perhaps someone felt they were needed to add the short manuscript. But aesthetically, I was not interested; nor did they supplement the narrative for me in any significant way. So, another small quibble. -cg

Người đọc Julie Berdou từ Osselle, France

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.