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redsilva95's review against another edition
3.0
"Tem coisas que a gente quer viver e nunca vive. Porque não pode, porque não se permite. Essas coisas são monstrinhos criados no porão. Eles crescem. Murcham. Se deformam. Não se pode saber o que o porão vai fazer com eles. Mas ficam lá. A única coisa que não acontece com o monstrinho é sumir. Enquanto vivemos, ele vive."
Livro muito bem escrito e reflexivo. Aborda com uma realidade impressionante a questão de expectativas x realidade, como a vida foge do que esperávamos, como as coisas fogem do nosso controle...Enfim, leitura recomendada. Ainda estou processando as reflexões apresentadas.
Livro muito bem escrito e reflexivo. Aborda com uma realidade impressionante a questão de expectativas x realidade, como a vida foge do que esperávamos, como as coisas fogem do nosso controle...Enfim, leitura recomendada. Ainda estou processando as reflexões apresentadas.
mzshroomboy's review
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
It’s a very different writing. I didn’t love but I didn’t hate it.
chfugal's review
3.0
Library audio
Overall I liked the book but didn't like the divergent into all the characters sex lives. That took away from the main story. I wanted more of Andre, why was he called Duke.
Overall I liked the book but didn't like the divergent into all the characters sex lives. That took away from the main story. I wanted more of Andre, why was he called Duke.
mayajade1701's review
4.0
This book was a heavy read. I can't tell if I loved it or hated it. Although it was written in 2016 and takes place in a country I have never been to, it felt eerily familiar with my own life and existential questions and daily challenges. The characters struggle in a world that feels as bleak as our own landscape now and I don't know if it was comforting to see other people navigating that or a reminder of how things don't always change or get better. I didn't realize at first that the book changed between narrators at the chapter breaks so I managed to confuse myself a bit as well.
katemariea514's review
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
opldxblqo's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Wow. Beautiful & cynnical, full of shitty people acting out their vile & selfish impulses. I loved this.
I resonated deeply with Aurora & her disillusion, her belief that we are living through the end of everything, her loneliness.
This little diatribe delivered by Anterro, a self important ad-man stuck in the peak of his beauty and youth really stuck with me:
"At the height of the so-called June Days, demonstrations oragnized by the Left in protest of the fare hike had morphed into cathartic movements against corruption, the World Cup, the wrongs committed against minorities, and everything else that was fucked up about humanity and our country...Even though my heart had been with the voices on the street, my motivation that afternoon was primarily ethnographic. I had wanted to see the march with my own eyes, to watch people and feel their energy on my skin, to capture their desires, dreams, aspirations, and frustrations as accurately as possible. After all, they were our near future consumers, and it was important for me to understand which products and ideas would best suit their egos and desires."
Now that's the kind of person you can revel in schadenfreude over, no?
I resonated deeply with Aurora & her disillusion, her belief that we are living through the end of everything, her loneliness.
This little diatribe delivered by Anterro, a self important ad-man stuck in the peak of his beauty and youth really stuck with me:
"At the height of the so-called June Days, demonstrations oragnized by the Left in protest of the fare hike had morphed into cathartic movements against corruption, the World Cup, the wrongs committed against minorities, and everything else that was fucked up about humanity and our country...Even though my heart had been with the voices on the street, my motivation that afternoon was primarily ethnographic. I had wanted to see the march with my own eyes, to watch people and feel their energy on my skin, to capture their desires, dreams, aspirations, and frustrations as accurately as possible. After all, they were our near future consumers, and it was important for me to understand which products and ideas would best suit their egos and desires."
Now that's the kind of person you can revel in schadenfreude over, no?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
dfparizeau's review
2.0
Navel gazing wank. Like reading Douglas Coupland but replace Gen-Xers with Millenials and Vancouver with Porto Alegre.
gerolencia's review against another edition
5.0
"Antes de desligar o computador, contudo, entrei no Facebook. Era só pra dar uma olhadinha. De seus postos de observação solitários no oceano das polêmicas e virais, o povo do milênio disparava seus sinalizadores aos céus e suas garrafas com mensagens ao mar. De eventuais respostas dependia a autoestima de todos."
cintiandrade's review against another edition
2.0
Esse livro sofre daquele mal que é querer tratar sobre absolutamente todas as questões possíveis: a digitalização e mecanização das relações humanas, feminismo, homossexualidade, aborto, veganismo, privacidade, as relações entre as pessoas e o capital. Eu enxergo aqui muito da influência do DFW no Galera. Só que esse livro tem 200 páginas - [b:Infinite Jest|6759|Infinite Jest|David Foster Wallace|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1446876799s/6759.jpg|3271542] não tem mais de mil à toa não, rapaziada. Acaba ficando para mim a impressão de ser um recorte de falas "poderosas" de personagens sobre determinados assuntos, mas que a cola nunca chega a funcionar e tornar aquilo um todo que faz sentido. Galera é um bom escritor e eu amo o [b:Barba ensopada de sangue|16089464|Barba ensopada de sangue|Daniel Galera|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1401077510s/16089464.jpg|21892868], então torço para que os próximos sejam melhores.