Scott Brown từ Las Coles, Caldas, Colombia

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05/19/2024

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2019-04-10 07:31

Thông Điệp Từ Các Vì Sao - Tử Vi 2015: Bọ Cạp Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tăng Linh

I didn't adore this as much as I did The Secret History; possibly because it just simply didn't have the page turning thrill that the last book had. That doesn't mean that it's not damn impressive though, and a book that I read quite slowly in order to savour it for as long as possible. As ever, the characterisation is wonderful. Harriet and Hely, Charlotte and Ida Rhew, Farish and Gum, Edie and Eugene were all drawn wonderfully. Complex and never really likeable, they were all still very engaging. I thought Tartt did a wonderful job of slowly teasing out the different aspects of their characters as the book progressed. The sense of atmosphere and place was the most impressive part, though. Even for someone who's never been further south than South Carolina, her writing was very evocative of the oppressive heat of the southern landscape. I don't know if I would describe it necessarily as Southern Gothic, though, as I've seen a couple of reviewers do. It seems to me to be much more along the lines of a Suburban Gothic story, if that makes any sense. If you changed a few details, it's a story which could easily be transplanted to a small, close-knit community nearly anywhere in the world. The ending was the weakest part of the book for me. Not because the mystery of Robin's murder was never solved - that was initially annoying, though I can see thematically and tonally why it was necessary - but because the last fifty to a hundred pages or so seemed so rushed. In a novel the size of this (555 pages in hardback), such a sudden faltering of pace seems very lamentable. The climax seemed rushed, and the ending itself seemed jagged and abrupt. Perhaps these are problems which will resolve themselves on re-reading, however.

Người đọc Scott Brown từ Las Coles, Caldas, Colombia

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.