Sabe quando você tem uma lista de livros para ler, começa todos e, um a um, nas primeiras páginas vai dizendo “esse agora não”? Pois bem, era assim que eu estava, nada “descia”. Então, pensei, nunca li nada do Harlan Coben, tenho um livro dele guardado há um bom tempo, por que não? Livros de mistério são sempre bons para quebrar esse “bloqueio”, já que – normalmente – eles deixam o leitor curioso. E foi justamente a curiosidade que me fez virar as páginas de Não Conte a Ninguém.A história gira em torno de Beck, um médico cuja esposa fora brutalmente assassinada, 8 anos antes, quando eles estavam juntos em um lago. Beck e Elizabeth eram apaixonados desde que eram crianças e ele nunca a esqueceu. Um dia, recebe um email misterioso com informações que só ele e Elizabeth poderiam saber e passa a desconfiar que ela possa estar viva. Nesse mesmo período, dois corpos, que podem estar ligados ao assassinato, aparecem e tudo o que se sabia pode mudar.E agora, ela está viva? Ele está delirando? Com quem ele pode contar? Em quem confiar? Ficamos cheios de porquês e querendo descobrir todo o mistério em questão. Tem quem descubra tudo logo de cara, mas não sou dessas. Até elaboro teorias, penso em possibilidades, acerto alguma coisa, mas tudo muito vago. Para quem mata a charada rapidinho, não sei se é um livro interessante, pois a graça está só, e somente só, no desenrolar dos fatos.A escrita é bem pobre e isso me surpreendeu bastante, dada a fama do autor. Ele sabe contar a história, sabe deixar os ganchos no final de cada capítulo, sabe como prender o leitor, mas é só. Ok, saber fazer isso tudo já é muito, mas, mesmo tendo gostado do livro, eu confesso que esperava um pouco mais, mais Uaus! e Ohs! durante a leitura.O livro todo tem um ar de filme, é muito visual, rápido, sem grandes aprofundamentos. Aliás, me senti assistindo aos filmes que via quando era adolescente, desses filmes policiais a lá Tela Quente.Por ter sido lançado no ano 2000, o “atraso” tecnológico me deu um pouco de agonia – e aí, claro, não é culpa do autor, é loucura minha mesmo. Ele fala em internet discada, em bipe, Yahoo, Netscape, e isso marca bem uma época que talvez esteja próxima demais. Isso me fez lembrar de um livro que li em 2013 e usava drones como algo super tecnológico. Apenas dois anos depois qualquer pessoa pode usar um deles e isso tira um pouco a graça da história de quem a lê hoje, me entende? Ou é loucura minha? Talvez enfatizar demais marcas, modelos e tecnologia de uma determinada época deixe o livro com um prazo de validade curto.Apesar dos pesares, o livro me prendeu do começo ao fim, eu não conseguia parar de ler. E quando isso acontece é preciso reconhecer que ele cumpriu seu papel de entretenimento. Muito bem, por sinal. Quero ler outros livros do autor, especialmente quando quiser algo que me prenda bem. Para quem gosta de livro com cara de filme, é uma boa pedida. 3.5 de 5www.historiasdepapel.com.br
Before I read this book I'd heard that the ending was a bit odd and I've read advice to stop reading a few pages before the end which seemed like very very odd advice for a mystery. It's also impossible advice to follow. As I neared the end of this book I found myself thinking "Well that's not as bad an ending as I'd expected" and I just had one unresolved question that I wanted to read on and answer. But it's the answer to that unresolved question that's the weird thing at the end of the book, the weirdness in the ending is entirely necessary to complete the plot, to stop reading before the final ending would be to cheat and have read an entirely different story. As you can tell, it's hard to explain this without explaining what the twist in the tale is which I'm trying not to do.I'm torn between thinking the ending is bloody awful and thinking that it's very clever, I'm not sure if I'll make my mind up. It might be one of those things where I just have to accept that it's both extremes together.This story is mixture of mystery and suspense and concerns Dr David Beck (an unfortunate moniker on the right side of the Atlantic since it's hard to read the book without picturing the English footballer David Beckham and it's also hard to imagine David Beckham as a paediatrician) who gets sent an anonymous email to tune into a webcam at a certain time. When he looks at the webcam he sees his wife walk by - she died eight years before. The narrative switches between a first person view and the odd section of third person view. In the beginning of the book these viewpoints are kept in separate chapters but as the book goes on they begin to flip back and forth more often and for shorter periods of time. I don't have a huge problem with this device other than finding it a bit weird to have a first person narrator and yet to know more than him. On the whole it added to the suspense for the reader to have greater omniscience. It did get confusing in parts where it wasn't immediately clear to me at the start of a section which viewpoint we had. There's a ton of technological bits in this book, lots of email, web stuff, digital imaging etc. I can't help but wonder if Coben was planning on selling the film rights to this when he wrote it. My feeling is that it will make a better film than it does a book. The twist at the end would make you leave a cinema thinking whereas it makes you close the book shrugging. On the whole it's a good book if the ending doesn't throw you too much, and you don't let the prospect of a bit of bizarre stuff put you off the rest of the book. It feels like it was written both for the screen and to move Harlan Coben off the mystery shelves and onto the bestseller racks at airports. I can hardly blame Coben for wanting to make his fortune and he's a lot better writer than many who feature on those bestseller racks. [p.s. it looks like this will indeed become a film.]
What do You think about Tell No One (2002)?
رواية كويسة, شديدة التشويق هتصدمك العقدة فى أول الرواية وهتنتهى نهاية مقنعة وشبه صادمةبتحكى عن واحد مراتو ميتة بقالها ثماني سنوات وفجأة بيلاقى رسالة على الإيميل بتقولو ان مراتك عايشة وبيشوف فيديو ليها وبتذكر حاجات محدش غيرو هو ومراتو عارفينهابس زى ما فى فيلم عربى قديم فى فيلم أمريكانى قديم بيحتوى على جميع العوامل التجارية: قصة حب من أيام المدرسة, واحد اسود بيتاجر فى المخدرات وعاوز يسبها عشان يربى ابنوالدكتور الأبيض الكويس, رجل الأعمال الأبيض الغنى الفاسد اللى عندو ابن مدلع هو سبب المصايبأنصح بقراءتها
—محمد مختار
David Beck lost the love of his life 8 years ago in a kidnapping and murder. He can not move on from that horrifying night. Two murdered men are found near the lake where his wife was abducted. Then Beck gets an e-mail to watch a webcam. He sees his wife. What is going on?The FBI are trying to pin her murder on David. The facts of her case just don't add up. There are so many twists and turns. Just when you feel you have it figured out another turn in the story occurs. The bodies start piling up and the facts get murkier and murkier.A great mystery but I felt the final twist was a bit too much!!!
—Dana
Once again, I was trying to broaden my horizons and decided to try this 'suspense/thriller' book someone recommended.Okay, I'll admit, it was a page turner. My curiosity got me. That's not enough for me to consider a book 'good', though.I really was turned off by the gory torture scenes. After the first one, I could tell when one was coming and simply skipped over that chapter/those pages. It made for a very quick read. Really dumb.I didn't like how everything was all wrapped up so nicely in the end. Too hoakey. I didn't like the sexual references and crass humor by the detectives and FBI. I skipped those pages, too.Yuck, basically. I'll take an LDS thriller over this any day. That being said, I really don't think mystery/thriller is my cup of tea. It just doesn't float my boat or frost my cookie. Thanks, but no thanks. A book needs to be more than a page-turner to be a 'good book', whether it be clean or dirty. It needs to leave me with tools to better my life or my perception of others' lives. At least the Navy Seals lockdown book helped me appreciate the difficulty a spouse of a SEAL has in not knowing where their husband is or when he'll return...even if the portrayal was sappy.What did THIS book leave me with? A bad taste in my mouth and my being annoyed at the author throughout the rest of the week as I contemplated all of the weak points and 'holes' in his plot and writing.
—AnnaMay
