Books by David Vann
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review 1: The book jacket said "thoroughly barbaric and wickedly funny". I didn't find one kernel of humor here - it might have saved the book. I'd be willing to try another book by this author - some of the writing was beautiful on a descriptive level - but I didn't like, understand or ...
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review 1: Je n'ai pas aimé ! Surtout la deuxième partie, centrée sur le père. Un type lâche, qui a tout râté dans sa vie sans jamais se remettre en question. Pourtant le début m'avait paru intéressant, plongé dans une ambiance mystérieuse, une cabane en pleine nature, sur une île en Alaska...
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review 1: Over Vann's pen weinig op te merken. Ik zie hem in staat om op duizend verschillende manieren een en hetzelfde voorval of innerlijke drijfveer te beschrijven. Dat blijkt ook in deze roman die aanvankelijk erg pakt door de meer dan zieke familieverhoudingen die tenslotte leiden n...
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review 1: Most of the reviews people have given this book are true. The characters are an emotional train wreck that keeps happening. And you watch. You watch as the train leaves the track and goes airborne. And you turn each page as more bodies keep falling out of the train and it careens...
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review 1: When I picked up this book at the library I had no idea of what I was about to experience. It took me off guard because Galen's life resonated with mine at first. He is a fanatic of spiritual schools of belief and he spends his time thinking about how his perceived reality is the...
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review 1: Having read Caribou, and really enjoying David Vann's writing, I was on the look-out for other books by him. This book, was certainly not a good example. Matter of fact, had I read this book first, I definitely wouldn't have sought out anything else by him. I felt like I needed a...
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review 1: David Vann paints a dark and depressing picture of Alaska and people living there. In his 'Caribou Island' we watch (family) history repeating itself with the main characters making the same erroneous choices in relationships throughout there lives. A weak point of the novel is t...
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review 1: I agree with most of the other reviewer's on this book in that it is very confusing until you realise that it's not a novel, or even short stories, but more a collection of different view point's. All the separate tale's overlap but the main bolt holding this book together is def...
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review 1: David Vann’s Caribou Island is one of my all-time favorites and though this is well-written and gripping it just cannot compare (indeed, nor can most other books). Vann goes quite dark in his books and there is no redemption for his characters. I think what put Caribou Island a n...
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review 1: I really struggled to finish this book. The premise was great and the story should have been gripping, but instead I found it dull and repetitive - if I had to read about the poison oak welts one more time I would have thrown the book across the room - and the constant sentence f...
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review 1: A veces me pongo a pensar en todos esos mensajes que escribe la gente respecto a la bendición que representa la familia y me pregunto ¿Es realmente una bendición? Y si así fuera ¿Por qué lo es? Uno no escoge nacer, simplemente se llega a este mundo y tiene que vivir y sobrevivir,...
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review 1: Jsem na rozpacích. První část knihy mě nadchla, dala bych pět hvězdiček, z druhé části jsem naopak byla docela rozčarovaná. Nechci moc prozrazovat kvůli spoilerům, ale dojde k jistému zlomu, který skoro vyrazí dech a musela jsem si ho přečíst několikrát, jestli se nemýlím. Bohuže...
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review 1: Brilliantly honest, this dark domestic drama, Caribou Island, captures the story of a husband and wife at odds - Perhaps they never should have married? Set in the remote area of Alaska in a place of exile, the end of the line.The characters were very dysfunctional and ones th...
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review 1: This review is from end of 2009, I am just now adding to Goodreads:I seem to be in the minority, and I almost feel guilty that I did not love David Vann’s novel - my father took his own life when I was eight, so I have an obvious interest in the subject matter. However, I found t...
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review 1: I've been ignoring my literary reading in favour of quick&dirty detectives and farmville lately... This book (although I'm only a third into it) has made me realize why reading is bliss. Wow. Update: Finished it. Weird, stunning, moving and very very harsh. This story of a boy co...