Perhaps 4 stars is a bit generous, but it left me with a good feeling. The "message" that when everything looks desperate you can still recover and make something good of your life, or even make a difference... I think it's a powerful message, that resonates with me. The book is engaging, even thou
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Perhaps 4 stars is a bit generous, but it left me with a good feeling. The "message" that when everything looks desperate you can still recover and make something good of your life, or even make a difference... I think it's a powerful message, that resonates with me. The book is engaging, even though i didn't like much Maxwell Sim. But he's not meant to be a likeable character. As in previous Coe's books i found myself going back and forth rereading bits that I had forgotten, which were indeed important. I think though that Coe's this time didn't have much faith in his readers, as he was kind of "explaining" all the way along the story and the connections between the different levels of narratives... Perhaps the rigth word is "phoney", (i need to check this), I thought it was a bit too much... I would have left it to the readers to make the connections, to join the dots and make their own conclusion. The ending for me is a stroke of genius, but it didn't quite fit.
It started really well, I was enthusiastic about the writing style, and the book structure. But in the end the story disappointed me quite a bit. Too many coincidences, too many strange developments. Perhaps I will read something else of this author.
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
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Perhaps 4 stars is a bit generous, but it left me with a good feeling. The "message" that when everything looks desperate you can still recover and make something good of your life, or even make a difference... I think it's a powerful message, that resonates with me.continue)
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Perhaps 4 stars is a bit generous, but it left me with a good feeling. The "message" that when everything looks desperate you can still recover and make something good of your life, or even make a difference... I think it's a powerful message, that resonates with me.
The book is engaging, even though i didn't like much Maxwell Sim. But he's not meant to be a likeable character. As in previous Coe's books i found myself going back and forth rereading bits that I had forgotten, which were indeed important.
I think though that Coe's this time didn't have much faith in his readers, as he was kind of "explaining" all the way along the story and the connections between the different levels of narratives... Perhaps the rigth word is "phoney", (i need to check this), I thought it was a bit too much... I would have left it to the readers to make the connections, to join the dots and make their own conclusion.
The ending for me is a stroke of genius, but it didn't quite fit.
Bassotuba non c'è
Novel About My Wife
The Travelling Horn Player
It started really well, I was enthusiastic about the writing style, and the book structure. But in the end the story disappointed me quite a bit. Too many coincidences, too many strange developments. Perhaps I will read something else of this author.
La ragazza dello Sputnik
Niente, continua a non entusiasmarmi il murakami.