If you want Rowling to give you a vision of hope, I suggest you stick to Harry Potter – this book is not it. The Casual Vacancy descends into the darkest depths of the human heart and examines all sorts of depravity: lust, hatred, jealousy, and especially pride. The characters follow a course of alm...
Pisarz pisać musi. Takie jest moje zdanie. Pisarza poznać po tym, że... pisze. A u J.K. w tej materii jakoś słabo było przez wiele lat. Sklasyfikowałem ją już w swojej głowie jako pisarkę "jednorazową" i postawiłem na niej krzyżyk. Co prawda jest autorką cyklu o przesławnym Harrym, którego istotność...
Holy crumbs; it's like all the sex Rowling couldn't write about in the Potter books came out in one go with this fun, dirty romp through small town politics.
I wanted to finish this, but I just couldn't bring myself to go back to it. Maybe one day...My trouble with the book was that, though the writing was lovely and Rowling-esque (very direct narration, cleverly drawn characters), the characters were so disagreeable that I just couldn't be drawn into th...
I felt so conflicted reading this book. On the one hand, I really didn't like most of the characters and yet, J.K. Rowling writes so well that I couldn't help falling into their world. Not much actually happens in this book, but she provides a wonderful character study of the entire town of Pagford....
Teška. Neprijatna. Uznemirujuća. Rečenice se najpre kotrljaju. (Priča ne zastaje da bi se objasnila - prelazi od jednog dvorišta (kuhinjskog stola, kreveta, prozora) do drugog tek uzgred rasvetljavajući porodične odnose.) Rut se zaokupi čajnikom, čekajući da napetost splasne na uobičajenu meru. Za...
JK Rowlings displayed such an amazing ability as a storyteller, that it amazes me that she would do such a poor job in her post Harry Potter debut. My biggest issue with The Casual Vacancy is that there isn’t so much as a thin plot, but more like no plot. The novel starts off with Barry Fairbrother ...
I have not much to say on J.K. Rowling first novel for adult readership. Rarely do I give up on a novel “The Casual Vacancy” made the list. After labouring through 250 pages I simply couldn't waste more precious reading time on a very boring story concerning a parish council election in a small West...
It started a bit slow, but once Part Two begun, it kept getting more and more appealing. I like books that are told from diverse POVs, and it worked perfectly here. Sometimes I felt a pause might be lacking between POV changes, though. Constant changes between POVs inside a single chapter could be c...
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