So good to watch your review of such an exceptional book. I have just finished re reading it, and as always I am stunned by its breadth and depth, the narrative the frankness and the sheer bavura style. A novel which like a many fasceted diamond rewards multiple views and as I have matured it has shifted its meaning. Thanks.
@booksandallthatjazz16546 жыл бұрын
I enjoy your short book reviews. I agree with you about Golding. I will look out for Free Fall. Lord of the Flies and The Rites of Passage are powerful reads. I just read Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice. A stunning, short read. Another is Albert Camus's The Outsider. Two books I highly recommend.
@CloselyObservedLiterature
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind comment. I've actually got a review of The Outsider that I'll be uploading in the next few days - funny you should mention it!
@martm2163 жыл бұрын
Good review.
@nikitanikitanikita5945 жыл бұрын
It is stunning. And yes, it does ask a lot of questions and does not answer all of them precisely, which is always a trait of any good literature imo. I have actually thought about a lot of things that Golding delivers in this book. For example the extent of all of our life experiences influence our life decisions (or not even decisions but how we percieve and how we act, and essentially everything we do). And that stretches even further if you think about it, then a question comes up: are we ever even free to choose how to act and which decisions to make, if it all essentially is an outcome of our previous life experience? And is it fair then to judge "objectively" bad human beings so much? Idk if these are fair questions, but it is the thought that i had prior to reading Free Fall and an even stronger thoght i came out with after this book. (Sory for me bad englais im not nativ speker)
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So good to watch your review of such an exceptional book. I have just finished re reading it, and as always I am stunned by its breadth and depth, the narrative the frankness and the sheer bavura style. A novel which like a many fasceted diamond rewards multiple views and as I have matured it has shifted its meaning. Thanks.
I enjoy your short book reviews. I agree with you about Golding. I will look out for Free Fall. Lord of the Flies and The Rites of Passage are powerful reads. I just read Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice. A stunning, short read. Another is Albert Camus's The Outsider. Two books I highly recommend.
@CloselyObservedLiterature
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind comment. I've actually got a review of The Outsider that I'll be uploading in the next few days - funny you should mention it!
Good review.
It is stunning. And yes, it does ask a lot of questions and does not answer all of them precisely, which is always a trait of any good literature imo. I have actually thought about a lot of things that Golding delivers in this book. For example the extent of all of our life experiences influence our life decisions (or not even decisions but how we percieve and how we act, and essentially everything we do). And that stretches even further if you think about it, then a question comes up: are we ever even free to choose how to act and which decisions to make, if it all essentially is an outcome of our previous life experience? And is it fair then to judge "objectively" bad human beings so much? Idk if these are fair questions, but it is the thought that i had prior to reading Free Fall and an even stronger thoght i came out with after this book. (Sory for me bad englais im not nativ speker)