"Well, this is a story about books." "About books?" "About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of a novel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the sh...
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you." Well, I wonder then what part of me I saw inside this book - a book I adored despite its imperfections, despite its frequent veering into melodrama, despite (or maybe because of?) its densely Gothic atmosphere. Whatever it...
I closed this book quietly, to just sit still for a moment and let all of the words and story wash over me until it settles softly in my thoughts. This is a difficult book to review because I could have given this book five stars. Could have, being the key words. But I can't. Because I have too many...
The Shadow of the Wind is a sprawling Gothic monster of a novel about - well, I won't say it's about a book called The Shadow of the Wind, because it isn't, really, it's more about the author of that book, Julian Carax. It started off quite promisingly, with a visit to the labyrinthine Cemetery of L...
In 1945 Barcelona, Daniel Sempere, a ten-year-old boy, is taken by his bookseller father to "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books," told never to tell anyone about it, and to choose a book off its shelves to which he'll always be the guardian. He chooses The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax. He's entra...
“Well, this is a story about books.""About books?""About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of ...
Yet again I am left baffled by the masses. My one star rating puts me with the 1.5 percent of reviewers thus far who hated the book. This is not uncommon to me but it certainly makes me distrust the masses all the more.First of all, I don't know what Zafon is trying to prove. His writing is overwrou...
Awe.Awe.That's all I'm feeling right now. Seriously. This is a book that combines mystery and plot twists, literature, history, romance, and the beauty of words, all in one place. It's a book that's heavy and light, moving but also funny, at the same time. I can't think of a single person who this b...
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