This book reminded me a lot of The Casual Vacancy, though this book has of course been published much earlier. It only gets 3 stars for the same reason TCV did. Great writing, realistic characters, written dialects, great building up towards the end, and then... Nothing. This book seemed to have muc...
The stories collected in this book are supposed to demonstrate the role of character in fiction. Some of the stories indeed masterfully bring to life vivid, vibrant, unforgettable characters. And then other stories are mildly irritating or seriously boring and pretentious. The quality of the stories...
"Libraries aren't supermarkets; they're places of cultural importance, where magic happens and where dreams begin. Or at least they should be" - Ann Cleeves.It is possible to step empty-handed into a library, and find fragments and pieces of your soul among the endless bookshelves. It happened to me...
Just like 'White Teeth' this seems to be one of those books that some people love ardently and others hate intensely. Chances are that if you enjoyed 'White Teeth' (like I did) you would probably not enjoy 'On Beauty'. 'On Beauty' is really well written and the author's display of observational writ...
On the basis of my personal enjoyment of reading this book, it's a solid three stars. I've debated a bit with giving it four stars because I loved the themes present, and the messages and points it was trying to make, but overall I just didn't like it enough to warrant four stars.By far the best par...
Great read! The characters are quirky and the voice is genuinely funny. Zadie Smith does an amazing job in her debut novel writing about the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants in London. Looking forward to reading her later works.
This is the book I was supposed to never finish, abandon halfway through, and not like. Add to that the fact that I simply could not get through White Teeth when it first came out. But. That was 12 years ago. Apparently I am a different person know, or maybe Smith is a different writer, maybe both. ...
Molti passaggi mi lasciano perplessa e ho l'impressione che alla fine l'autrice non risponda veramente alla domanda posta a titolo del saggio, ma che il discorso si risolva in una tautologia che, nonostante l'arguta citazione di fonti, tutto sommato è piuttosto scontata e banale.
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