La casa rossa
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788806211844 (8806211846)
Publish date: November 2012
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 288
Edition language: Italian
Last summer, my spouse and I began to watch an old movie, The Red House, starring Edward G. Robinson and Julie London (she of the smoky voice: Cry Me a River). My spouse didn't like the beginning. Something about abusive behavior towards young women, I think. I got intrigued and decided I might try ...
I have to confess that I find Mark Haddon's style of writing quite difficult to get into. In fact I did give up on The Curious Incident... because I found it so hard going. However I stuck with The red House and, once I had got used to his style, I found it quite a good book. It is different from mo...
I read the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime a few years ago and loved it. Recently, my husband read it and also loved it. I was ebrowsing and stumbled on this and got very excited...I didn't know Mark Haddon had written anything else. Yippee! Turns out I was overexcited. I now know t...
More 3.5-ish.
The book was just confusing. The point of view often changed with no clear indication that it was now a different character. It was almost like the author submitted his free-writing exercise to the publisher and they didn't bother to edit it.
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