I was enthralled by the description on the back cover of this book. But, I made it to about page 100 and gave up. The writing is laborious to say the least. Pretentious may be a better word. I found that I was skipping pages, looking for some dialogue in quotation marks in the hope that it wo...
Conflicted. Giving this a four even though for me, it was a 3. I think. At times I might almost have rated it a 2 for me but with a few weeks' distance, given how compelled I felt to think about it afterward, a 4 seemed more accurate to the total experience. This book caught my eye in my local in...
No, I did not read the Spanish version, but wish I could. The English translation is now available: "The Infatuations". Thought provoking narrative of mostly internal dialogues. Macbeth's "she should have died hearafter" weaves throughout this tale of love and murder, making me reinterpret that f...
A tapestry of dialogues and fictitious dialogues woven on a fabric of a relatively simplistic plot and characters. Oh but what a brilliant and beautiful tapestry that is!As others have commented, the plot and characters in this novel seemed to serve the sole purpose of channeling the author's opi...
«No debería contar nunca nada», empieza por decir el narrador de esta historia, Jaime o Jacobo o Jacques Deza.Y sin embargo su tarea va a ser la contraria, contarlo todo, hasta lo aún no sucedido, al ser contratado por un grupo sin nombre que durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial creó el M16, el Serv...
I had travelled a fair way along the path typically followed by all audacities (if it wasn't, in fact, mere insolence). You begin by prefacing everything with 'I don't know', 'I'm not sure'; or by qualifying and modifying as much as possible: 'It could be,' 'I would say that. . .', 'I can't be su...
Fortunately, Tupra did not also oblige me to go to the concert Dearlove was giving at the Festival beforehand, although he did force me to pretend that I'd watched the concert from the first chord to the last with indescribable enthusiasm: 'Remember to mention his fantastic renditions of "Peanuts...