by Gregory Maguire
Verloren in zerzausten Handlung: Dieses Buch hätte mich genau so verloren gemacht wenn es entweder einfach gar keine Buchstaben enthalten hätte, oder einfach nur eine beständige Wiederholung des Alphabets gewesen wäre. Ich hoffe es ist einfach eine Umkehrung der Geschichte vom Affen mit der Schrei...
IMHO it's cheating to add this to my "read" books, as I didn't finish it. As I've said elsewhere, once I'm into a book I almost never put it down. It's like a personal challenge or something. Occasionally when I'm really, really struggling, limping through a book, resentful of every page, a good ...
...that would be Lost by Gregory Maguire... not the TV show, which I still have never seen. Oi.For the record, I am an ardent fan of Mr. Maguire. I've read Wicked a few times as well as several of his other books. I love his style, his gusto, his wit.I did not, however, love Lost. It focused too lon...
Although his writing can draw you out of the story at times, I did enjoy the story as a whole. His ideas are intriguing and makes your really wonder what his final idea was when writing the story. Is it really a ghost story? Is it just a journey of the main character, Winnie, through her grief and w...
I have been trying to read this thing since Sept.BORING.I have, in the process, discovered a cure for my insomnia!
On the one hand, I enjoyed reading something from Maguire that was a bit different from what I'm used to. While this book has elements of (and draws attention to) Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, and stories of Jack the Ripper, it doesn't follow any of those stories the way his previous works do. On ...
It was lacking in so many ways. It was haunting but not in the way you want a book to do so.
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