Michael Ondaatje’s novel, The English Patient, is rendered in a lyrical style that will transport you back and forth from a bombed villa in Tuscany, to the blinding sands of the North African desert, to war time England, and the vibrant era of pre-war Cairo. Told in the multiple points of views of a...
I have once again failed to understand the appeal of literary fiction. The English Patient is a good story, if you have the patience, time, and tenacity to actually figure out the story. The author does not make it easy. There were several times, especially in the beginning, where I was lost. It fel...
The English Patient is a booker prize winning classic that reminds me to be wary of the Booker prize. The Booker Prize seems to attract books that are written in an overly literary style and that think that they are much cleverer than they really are. That is The English Patient all over and I hav...
"She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awakening from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams." What a perfect description fo...
I can't even begin to describe the beauty of this book. Every single character you fall in love with, even if you do so secretly, as some characters have very odd backgrounds.But the whole moral and subject of this book is fascinating, and fabulous, and totally worth reading...
I can't even begin to describe the beauty of this book. Every single character you fall in love with, even if you do so secretly, as some characters have very odd backgrounds.But the whole moral and subject of this book is fascinating, and fabulous, and totally worth reading...
The writing ….what can I say? I love it: She had always wanted words. She loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water. She returned to her husband. “From this point on,” she whispered, “we will either find or...
The story itself isn't that interesting or complex, but the writing makes up for it with some very nice prose here and there, as well as, at some points very moving descriptions of the various relationships. On the other hand there is this part towards the end, when the focus suddenly is shifted to ...
Even though it was years and years ago that I saw it, I wish I'd read the book before seeing the movie made of The English Patient. It would likely have meant that I'd have despised the movie, but having seen it kept me putting my attention in certain places, and never seeing other aspects creeping ...
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