Jung Wonyoung từ Ulychne, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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05/12/2024

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2019-08-07 21:31

Xứ Con Người Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I suppose there's a reason as to why Kafka never finished, The Castle. Could it have been the lack of clarification between different character's relationships? Could it have been the bleak and dismal setting for the novel? Or could it have been the 11 page monologues by characters that repeatedly stated their feelings about one another in relation to this bureaucracy shrouded in mystery? No it was actually because he died before finishing it. Those are just the reasons I wasn't crazy about this book. Interestingly enough the version I bought from my local book store had a lot of extra material added to the edition that gave insight to what could have been for K and Frieda. Many of the essays and text analysis was pretty interesting considering this is a Kafka novel, and they can get a tad weird. The Castle was a sub par novel. I don't want to insult it too much considering the work was never finished, yet even near the end of the original German text I just didn't see the story evolving from that point on. The beginning of the novel is very slow and drawn out with descriptions of characters and misunderstanding of identities that really don't lead to much development in the story. I will say that the love story and interest between the two main characters is intriguing, and the plight of Olga's father and brother are very depressing and vivid. It's these two devices that drive the concept of isolation and desperation through out the novel. It's disappointing too because I had started to become engrossed by the story near the ending when the the concept of confrontation comes to a head, yet it just falls flat with its resolution. I suppose I can't really blame Kafka for the that though. I mean the guy died before he finished the work. Who knows what could have been. . . ? I gave The Castle 2 stars because it really disappoints with lack of resolution between character plights and story development. I don't want to be so vague when saying, "It was just a weird book," but I suppose was can't express everything in a clear thought. In terms of length it's pretty average. Be prepared to read monologues by characters that last up to 11 pages or more. Maybe this just wasn't the time or place for me to read The Castle. Perhaps I'll give it another shot before I die. . .

2019-08-08 05:31

Một Cội Cây Rừng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

An amazing and mind blowing book. This book has a three braided plot, with one braid in Brazil's colonial past, one in it's urban present, and the other in a strange future. The past follows a Jesuit priest set on a Heart of Darkness quest to stop a renegade Jesuit who has carved out an empire in the Amazon. The present Point of View character is a reality TV show producer who comes up with the idea to have a Reality TV trail of the goalie who lost the 1950 world cup for Brazil and cost the nation decades of self-doubt. The future gives us the world of a high tech bisexual businessman/hustler who falls in love with a beautiful quantum computer hacker. All of the characters are well drawn and when the braid switches, you get immediately caught up in the life of the next character. What the reader doesn't get at the start of the book, is how these threads could ever meet up. But meet up they do, so pay attention to the weird stuff, because that's where the tie-in comes from. Some SF/F books are so subtle in their fantastic elements, you can recommend them to your friends outside the genre. Not Brasyl. This is why you read science fiction. I imagine that readers of literary fiction must feel the same way, "this is such a life altering book, but no one outside of our tribe will understand it. Poor simpletons." This is such a book for the Science Fiction reader. It is truly sad that outsiders couldn't begin to understand. Simpletons.... It's an amazing ride, but I was slightly put off by one of the ideas in the ending. Perhaps only because I had read Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson years ago. I don't want to include any spoilers, so I'll leave it at that. Not enough of a problem for me to take off a star. The ending was emotionally satisfying and my major disappointment what that it came to an end. If you read Science Fiction, you don't want to miss this. Ian McDonald's best work, and I like Ian McDonald.

Người đọc Jung Wonyoung từ Ulychne, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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.