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If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino

25 reviews

mabe_l's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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wildbanjos's review against another edition

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challenging funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book gets very meta very fast. It is not an easy read, and it definitely starts to get convoluted by the midway. There are some fantastic moments, and some good commentary on reading/publishing/industry/etc.

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k49's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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classically_book_clubbin's review against another edition

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challenging slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Unusual focus of plot for a book: exploring the act of reading

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sokhiengtim's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The writing style is what I like the most about this book.

'The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.'

'The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.'

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astrangewind's review against another edition

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challenging funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If on a winter's night a traveler is a true masterpiece.

Some people think that the writing is very rambly, but the rambling is the purpose - of exploring a reader's relationships to stories, the relationship of stories to the reader's world. The second-person point of view brings the reader into the book immediately, starting with something that the narrator already knows in all cases: that you are about to read a book. From there, you are drawn into this world of unfortunate circumstances, of stories without an end, of a plot of falsehoods and mystery.

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gilexia's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging mysterious tense

Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

Das ist ein echt beeindruckendes Buch. Sprachlich ist es sehr gut und außergewöhnlich, und die Geschichte ist ziemlich verrückt und originell. Nur hatte ich nicht wirklich Spaß beim Lesen - gerade am Ende. Ich kann selbst nicht sagen woran es lag. Was mich auch etwas überrascht hat, dass da schon einige "heftige" Erotikszenen im Buch waren. Die waren auch total seltsam. Aber es ist eh alles seltsam an diesem Buch. Man sollte keine normale Geschichte mit einen roten Faden erwarten.

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