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Ängelns Lek (2008)

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bonnier Pocket

series

El cementerio de los libros olvidados

review 1: I found it naive, full of clichés and common places. Some parts of the book were interesting and it does transmit a certain degree of beauty in the descriptions. It never falls down in terms of rythm, it is always flowing and I found that Isabella's character and the tension she develops with the main character is one of the strongest points of the narration. Really enjoyed their dialogues, but I could say is the only thing I enjoyed about the book. During the rest of it I was just wondering when would something of real importance would happen. The main conflict of the plot is quite used up and some episodes are unnecessarily dramatic. Some characters (the main character and the antagonist, for instance) are plain and the relationship they develop between each other is no... moret vane but it lacks some sort of freshness and uniqueness to be really enjoyable.The part when the main character becomes a sort of detective and starts pursuing for the truth is thrilling, when you read it you start feeling like finally something's going to happen here, and some of the clues the author leaves behind make you want more and everybody starts dying and you start trying to make some conjectures but then, then what? Then the enigma has a cheesy resolution of the kind of "the main character actually made it all up by himself because he's crazy and he needs a twisted explanation for all the horrible things he has done. Or maybe not, but we'll never actually know the truth, because all the people who could tell is dead now and the author gives us a cheap open ending". So don't waste your time reading it. It will lead you nowhere, it will teach you nothing and it's not even so thrilling like to read it just for fun of it.
review 2: I found it naive, full of clichés and common places. Some parts of the book were interesting and it does transmit a certain degree of beauty in the descriptions. It never falls down in terms of rythm, it is always flowing and I found that Isabella's character and the tension she develops with the main character is one of the strongest points of the narration. Really enjoyed their dialogues, but I could say is the only thing I enjoyed about the book. During the rest of it I was just wondering when would something of real importance would happen. The main conflict of the plot is quite used up and some episodes are unnecessarily dramatic. Some characters (the main character and the antagonist, for instance) are plain and the relationship they develop between each other is not vane but it lacks some sort of freshness and uniqueness to be really enjoyable.The part when the main character becomes a sort of detective and starts pursuing for the truth is thrilling, when you read it you start feeling like finally something's going to happen here, and some of the clues the author leaves behind make you want more and everybody starts dying and you start trying to make some conjectures but then, then what? Then the enigma has a cheesy resolution of the kind of "the main character actually made it all up by himself because he's crazy and he needs a twisted explanation for all the horrible things he has done. Or maybe not, but we'll never actually know the truth, because all the people who could tell is dead now and the author gives us a cheap open ending". So don't waste your time reading it. It will lead you nowhere, it will teach you nothing and it's not even so thrilling like to read it just for fun of it. less

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Cami

Carlos Ruiz Zafon ritorna con una storia sul Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati. Questa volta l'autore racconta di David Martin, un bambino che cresce a Barcellona attraverso una infanzia difficile e trova rifugio nei libri. Non sorprende, quindi, che con l'aiuto dei suoi pochi e buoni amici Martin cresca per diventare uno scrittore. Purtroppo non ci vorrà molto perché la sua vita si trasformi in una serie di eventi sfortunati che lo spingono a firmare un contratto con un misterioso e sinistro editore parigino. Cercando di scoprire il segreto del suo principale, Martin metterà in pericolo la sua vita e quella delle persone che gli sono sempre state affianco.Zafon scrive in prima persona e in una narrativa piacevolmente descrittiva. Dalle parti più sentimentali a quelle più cupe, lo scrittore non lascia mai fuori un pò di intelligente senso dell'umorismo che caratterizzano i suoi personaggi schietti.

karen1

This was my second time reading The Angel’s Game and I loved it just as much, if not more, than the first time. My decision to read it again came after reading book three of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, The Prisoner of Heaven. I was hoping it would tie up some loss ends that I had floating around in my head. It would seem however that these loose ends don’t get explained fully, until the fourth installment of the series, which I am now eagerly awaiting.What secrets does David Martin have, what becomes of him? This is what I will have to wait to find out.“The years have taught me to live in the body of a stranger who does not know whether he committed those crimes he can still smell on his hands, or whether he has indeed lost his mind” - David Martin, Epilogue, The Angel’s Game.

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