Sandra Galvagny itibaren Pena Petada, Ourense, Spain

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12/22/2024

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2019-07-26 08:41

80 Günde Dünya Turu - Jules Verne TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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This book was so disappointing. I loved Karen Russell's short stories and I was expecting really great things from her 1st novel. Despite a pretty interesting premise and the occasional beautiful sentence or metaphor, this book fell utterly flat for me to the point that I had to force myself to get through the last 150 pages. I thought that the Kiwi narrative was better crafted than the Ava narrative most of the time, which could be because Kiwi's had more direction occasionally, whereas Ava was literally just wandering around swamps with the Bird Man. The way the pacing in this novel worked, for the most part, was to have a bunch of narrative spooling out very slowly and then a sudden quick burst of action. While that choice might work in another piece of literature, it didn't do much for this book, in my opinion. There were many times when I had to read a sudden action bit over again, whether because it was done too quickly or because my mind had been lulled into a near vegetative state by the longer, slower passages. I really don't think Russell knew where the hell she was going in the plot of this book. While certain scenes seemed inevitable--Kiwi confronting the chief, the Bird Man raping Ava--the book's main aesthetic seemed to parallel Ava's descent into "hell"/the swamp: rickety, unsure, full of babbling, and full of lots of circling around and dead ends. The end of the novel was very unsatisfying in that Russell just kind of took this mess of narrative she had piled up and tried to cover it up with a thick blanket of sentimentality re: the closeness of the Bigtree family. Maybe I'm just too dumb to see some profound underlying brilliance in here, but I just flat out DID NOT like this book, overall, despite moments of enjoyment, mainly having to do with Russell's use of language. I finished the novel, which I had really been looking forward to, feeling let down (and haaanging aaroounnnddd). I'm already planning to sell my hardcover on half.com or wherever. I almost feel guilty selling it to someone.

Okuyucu Sandra Galvagny itibaren Pena Petada, Ourense, Spain

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