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rysiaczek's review against another edition
1.0
Najbardziej wciągnął mnie wstęp, a czym dalej tym gorzej. Czyli prozą Salvadora się nie zachwyciłam, a znudziłam. Najwyraźniej nie jestem zbyt wyedukowanym odbiorcą.
macewindu_93's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
taitmckenzie's review against another edition
4.0
Not the novel one imagines Dali could have written. Is mainly about the dissolution of the bourgeoisie way of life through WWII and the unquenchability of people's obsessive desires. Actually pretty tragic. Dali's language is often dense and abstract, while at the same time being absorbingly visual. Perhaps the most interesting is his technique of telescoping between objects and metaphors, so that the words in a description in one sentence become an emotional state in the next, a real fluidity of meaning that harks more from the interplay of dreams than the figurativeness of poetry.
risky_oak's review against another edition
DNF! DNF!! DNF!!!
I Did Not Finish this book. .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ .........
I am since high-school a great fan of Salvador Dalí. I have many books about him, about his art, a dossier with prints of his famous paintings, I visited an exhibition in London about him, full with his paintings and bizarre objects and sculptures, I did a project in Art at school, I saw his movie with Luis Buñuel Un chien Andalou, documentaries, interviews, videos. So you get the gist. I am a Dalí fan.
So in 2014 in a book market I saw his only novel Hidden Faces (or should I say Hidden Feces) and I decided to buy it and read it.
I went up to page 88.
This time, I decided to try again for a second time. As a more experienced reader I thought it might be easier this time around.
NOPE
It was much worse. I didn't get past page 43.
So this book is gonna get donated and simply get the fuck off my shelves!
(Sorry for cussing but I can't help it)
This book's language is SO saturated in descriptions of furniture, clothing, jewelry, facial characteristics, personality characteristics, and on and on; and when finally we reach the top of this Golgotha of descriptions the dialogues are even worse. They are about politics in France in the 1930's, a part of history that is important especially for our times, but personally I don't really give a fuck.
(cussing again! sorry)
So there was nothing to interest me in this book other than the fact that it was written by my favourite painter. Tiring descriptions, extremely tough vocabulary (I think he done this in purpose) and of course uninteresting dialogues. Now the story is not developed enough to know what's going to happen, but the best that can happen to these people is an atomic bomb to exterminate the shit out of them.
(yeah I know, did it again, cussing.)
I don't agree in awarding a book you did not finish with low rating. But this is the second time I do this with this book and I think it deserves one twinkling little star.
Before I go, read this passage from the book to take a taste how tough it was for me, a person who previously this year has read Ulysses and The Canterbury Tales in Middle English!
Our parties prefer the well-paid ignonimity of bourgeoisification of a miner to the noble and well-to-do austerity of our peasants, for they are the ones who systematically vote against armament plans!
I Did Not Finish this book. .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ .........
I am since high-school a great fan of Salvador Dalí. I have many books about him, about his art, a dossier with prints of his famous paintings, I visited an exhibition in London about him, full with his paintings and bizarre objects and sculptures, I did a project in Art at school, I saw his movie with Luis Buñuel Un chien Andalou, documentaries, interviews, videos. So you get the gist. I am a Dalí fan.
So in 2014 in a book market I saw his only novel Hidden Faces (or should I say Hidden Feces) and I decided to buy it and read it.
I went up to page 88.
This time, I decided to try again for a second time. As a more experienced reader I thought it might be easier this time around.
NOPE
It was much worse. I didn't get past page 43.
So this book is gonna get donated and simply get the fuck off my shelves!
(Sorry for cussing but I can't help it)
This book's language is SO saturated in descriptions of furniture, clothing, jewelry, facial characteristics, personality characteristics, and on and on; and when finally we reach the top of this Golgotha of descriptions the dialogues are even worse. They are about politics in France in the 1930's, a part of history that is important especially for our times, but personally I don't really give a fuck.
(cussing again! sorry)
So there was nothing to interest me in this book other than the fact that it was written by my favourite painter. Tiring descriptions, extremely tough vocabulary (I think he done this in purpose) and of course uninteresting dialogues. Now the story is not developed enough to know what's going to happen, but the best that can happen to these people is an atomic bomb to exterminate the shit out of them.
(yeah I know, did it again, cussing.)
I don't agree in awarding a book you did not finish with low rating. But this is the second time I do this with this book and I think it deserves one twinkling little star.
Before I go, read this passage from the book to take a taste how tough it was for me, a person who previously this year has read Ulysses and The Canterbury Tales in Middle English!
Our parties prefer the well-paid ignonimity of bourgeoisification of a miner to the noble and well-to-do austerity of our peasants, for they are the ones who systematically vote against armament plans!
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