I have two very big problems with this book:1. Every single woman in this book is a victim of some kind of abuse and none of them are important except as motivation for the male characters.2. The author has included a completely gratuitous rape. It is used as a minor event and does literally nothing...
Captivating! This is the kind of book you read and want to pick up again for the first time. When I see it in the bookstore, I want to buy it again. I have and had to give it away. I already own a copy! But it's just that good. Irresistible.
After the first few pages, I already knew this was going to be one of my favorite books. I especially fell in love after the description of Barceló's eccentricities, and all the literary references. Safons narrative and descriptive writing is rightfully compared with Dickens, vivid and maybe, if I d...
After completing ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ the first thing that I felt was as though I have just finished the longest journey of my life. The journey no doubt was enthralling, spellbinding and mesmerizing throughout. What does one ask for in a good novel? A great story, excellent narration, unforgett...
WOW!! This book. I don't even know where to start or what to say! Charlene over @ http://charlene.booklikes.com/post/930160/the-shadow-of-the-wind-by-carlos-ruiz-zafon really said it best. The Shadow of the Wind truly had a little something for everyone. It was dark and mysterious, haunting, spellb...
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”5 stars.The chills I've gotten while rea...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon can be compared to some of the greatest artists of all time, The way he writes can be compared to composer write symphonies or the way an artist paints a grand landscape, it is true harmony and beauty in the making. Shadow of the Wind was Zafon's first novel in the US. It is the ...
I wish I could read The Shadow of the Wind, not the novel written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon but the one written by Julian Carax, the novel within the novel. Okay, that’s confusing but this book is about a boy, Daniel, who is taken to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books by his father where Daniel chooses a b...
I am not even remotely qualified to attempt to review this book, but I feel that I need to say something about it.It has been rare, in my experiences with books throughout my life, to come across a work as beautifully written as this book. The pace was neither too swift, nor too slow, the language (...
I think this might be one of my favorite books that I've read in a while. Not a top-10 all-time, not yet, but I already know I'll be rereading this in the not too distant future, and we'll see after that.The main thing that's holding this book back from being a totally gushy 5-star from me is our ma...
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