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Wahr (2010)

by Riikka Pulkkinen(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: There are certain topics I never liked, that I wish I never needed to read. Unfortunately, you can't always avoid your abstinence. You might as well go on with your choice (once you pick up a book).The relationship between Martti and Eeva is personally unlikable. Something I couldn't understand, something I couldn't sympathize to. Something, to the extreme, disgusted me. And, so, as you might expected, it stole away my initial innocent love for the book. It was painful for me to read through the pages when Riika built up Martti-Eeva story. I hated Eeva. And perhaps Martti too. And I think Anna was too hipster and she was spoiled by her own self-pettiness. But, hey, that's life. That's what people out there experience. What had happen to Ella, Eeva, Martti, Anna, Elsa in "T... moreotta" was as real as the world outside my walls.Now the huge bright side. The author, Riika, is actually brilliant for her psychological opinions towards her "humans" in Totta. She expanded a strong causality for the background of her characters, for the background of her story and for the background of any general opinion she may have towards life. Why they do that, why she grew up being that way, why she experienced that, why the stories ended up like that. For this reason, I admire Riika. For being so careful. For, somehow, being trustworthy for her work. I know it is not easy at all to defend the choices you make for your stories as writers. I once closely befriended a literature graduate student and also once had a roomie for three months who's writing her thesis in literature. When writing stories, when they need to write let's say just a little part of story of a sick person, they need to do research on how a sick person feel, generally behave, their emotional states and their physical limitation. That's a lot for a little part. That's how you need to make sense of what you're writing.This book, Totta, is perhaps the first and the only book I've ever read that is 'righteous' and is 'found guilty' in almost everything, according to multitude laws of psychology. For me Riika experimented with her cognition, patiently built the conflict and finally resolves it just as it supposed to be.I liked Riika's opinions and comments about life and relationships. Some are trivial, some are important. And probably one of the best remarks of the book for me is, that Eeva didn't hate Elsa. I can even say that she admired her. Though for me in some parts, the conversations were just too cliche, the feelings are too tense out of nowhere, and the characters are too unpredictable to be real humans. All in all, Riika's work is a fifity-fifty, she mainly lost her stars not because she sucked, but because her characters did.Totta will be one of those book that sits o my window and gives me a mesmerizing feel everytime my eyes may fall on it. I might once see it, and remember how for several days, it pages gave me a privilege to be a part of a family who has learnt life from lies, forgiveness, hurt and most importantly, truth.
review 2: A book of deep sensitivity that evokes impressionist painting. Riikka Pulkkinen subtly describes love, loving relationships between family members, mood swings that sometimes disturb the daily balance, but also conflicts that are forgiven but not forgotten.I enjoyed reading this book. However afterwards, I keep a vague remaining of it. As if I had been immersed in a slow dream that disappears at wake up. The writing is strong, but where is this story trying to lead us? less

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