LeighaMar 2, 2022 04:33 AM (This post was last modified: Mar 2, 2022 04:42 AM by Leigha.)
Yes! It’s soooo good! I just love it so far. The writing style - it’s very immersive. It has a smidge of magical realism in the plot line as well, which creates a mystery that is both suspenseful and believable. You must read it
“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.” (The Shadow of the Wind)
LeighaMar 4, 2022 08:54 PM (This post was last modified: Mar 4, 2022 09:10 PM by Leigha.)
I'm obsessed with this book - it's just perfection, so immersive - the way this author tells a story, you just feel like you're living it along with the cast of characters. And it's not easy to blend an intriguing plot with well developed characters, usually one or the other lacks, imo.
But, I was saddened today to read that the author has decided to never sell the rights to his books (''Shadow of the Wind'' is one of four in the series) for a movie adaptation. Sigh, I was hoping.........but, I'm thinking that something would be lost in a series or movie - this is perhaps a story only meant to be read, because the author's style is so captivating. A movie production wouldn't be able to provide the audience with something as wholesome as the book.
(Mar 4, 2022 08:54 PM)Leigha Wrote: [...] But, I was saddened today to read that the author has decided to never sell the rights to his books (''Shadow of the Wind'' is one of four in the series) for a movie adaptation. Sigh, I was hoping.........but, I'm thinking that something would be lost in a series or movie - this is perhaps a story only meant to be read, because the author's style is so captivating. A movie production wouldn't be able to provide the audience with something as wholesome as the book.
Sounds like J. D. Salinger -- he wouldn't budge, either. At least Harper Lee wasn't that way (only two years from the novel to the movie, so I'm purely assuming that she readily accepted).
LeighaMar 10, 2022 11:32 PM (This post was last modified: Mar 10, 2022 11:37 PM by Leigha.)
(Mar 10, 2022 09:11 PM)C C Wrote:
(Mar 4, 2022 08:54 PM)Leigha Wrote: [...] But, I was saddened today to read that the author has decided to never sell the rights to his books (''Shadow of the Wind'' is one of four in the series) for a movie adaptation. Sigh, I was hoping.........but, I'm thinking that something would be lost in a series or movie - this is perhaps a story only meant to be read, because the author's style is so captivating. A movie production wouldn't be able to provide the audience with something as wholesome as the book.
Sounds like J. D. Salinger -- he wouldn't budge, either. At least Harper Lee wasn't that way (only two years from the novel to the movie, so I'm purely assuming that she readily accepted).
I get it; it’s a personal choice so to each their own.
Contemporary authors may decide against it after watching the butchery that HBO did with the final season of Game of Thrones. Poor GRRM.
An update to my last post - I just discovered this week that the author of The “Shadow of the Wind” died two years ago of cancer. RIP Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
This book. Sign, it's so so good. It's funny, it's deep, it's whimsical, it's a bit historical. It has more to do with character development than it being plot driven, and the cast of 'humans' is assessed through the eyes of a nameless, wandering cat that just makes the story rich with satire and allegory. It speaks to deeper things, in terms of what the cat notices about human interactions, but it's definitely not a book for those who want drama and intrigue. It's really a book about philosophy, and it's utterly heart warming. I've read a lot of fictional books, many were fantastic, but they were written with a specific purpose. This novel was intended to be a short story, but it grew in popularity and the author decided to make it into an epic novel.
I'm only on page 100, but so far, it's just perfect.
“It would seem that for my master a book is not a thing to be read, but a device to bring on slumber: a typographical sleeping-pill, a paginated security blanket. ― I Am a Cat
“The prime fact is that all humans are puffed up by their extreme self-satisfaction with their own brute power. Unless some creature more powerful than people arrives on earth to bully them, there’s just no knowing to what dire lengths their fool presumptuousness will eventually carry them.”― I Am a Cat
Those are quotes from the cat who is the narrator.
(Mar 17, 2022 07:59 PM)Leigha Wrote: [...] It speaks to deeper things, in terms of what the cat notices about human interactions...
[...] “It would seem that for my master a book is not a thing to be read, but a device to bring on slumber: a typographical sleeping-pill, a paginated security blanket. ― I Am a Cat
“The prime fact is that all humans are puffed up by their extreme self-satisfaction with their own brute power. Unless some creature more powerful than people arrives on earth to bully them, there’s just no knowing to what dire lengths their fool presumptuousness will eventually carry them.”― I Am a Cat
Those are quotes from the cat who is the narrator.
Vaguely called to mind that "adopt-a-cat" commercial some years back...
(Mar 17, 2022 07:59 PM)Leigha Wrote: [...] It speaks to deeper things, in terms of what the cat notices about human interactions...
[...] “It would seem that for my master a book is not a thing to be read, but a device to bring on slumber: a typographical sleeping-pill, a paginated security blanket. ― I Am a Cat
“The prime fact is that all humans are puffed up by their extreme self-satisfaction with their own brute power. Unless some creature more powerful than people arrives on earth to bully them, there’s just no knowing to what dire lengths their fool presumptuousness will eventually carry them.”― I Am a Cat
Those are quotes from the cat who is the narrator.
Vaguely called to mind that "adopt-a-cat" commercial some years back...
In truth, I stumbled upon the book at B&N, and at first glance was like...oh brother, a cat is the narrator? But, it's so funny, witty, and in a way, sad...because it focuses on how humans put each other down in classist early 1900's Japan, and he's the lowest of 'em all, since he's 'just a cat.'
Mar 2, 2022 04:33 AM
(This post was last modified: Mar 2, 2022 04:42 AM by Leigha.)
Poor GRRM.
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