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A review by lalalaluziie
Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
2.0
why did I read this
the last story was the best but they were all pretty weird and unnecessary and strange (not in a good way) and very clearly written by a man and this was a waste of my time even twilight was more of a literary masterpiece than this.
i had really hoped for Barcelona as a city/place to play more of an active role here and take on a sense of character in itself. Instead he just mentioned a few places in the city and left it at that. There was little sense of place and it could've taken place in any other city. I wanted to experience Barcelona and feel the heat, the smells, the sounds seep through the pages. But, alas. None of that. I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.
i tagged it "adventurous" and "challenging" in the sense that you never knew what kind of fucked up shit he would start mentioning next and that I found it very challenging to finish and not dnf it.
The first story felt orientalist and all of them a bit strangely misogynistic but I can't put my finger on why quite yet. It felt like the characters and by extension the author think too highly of themselves.
the last story was the best but they were all pretty weird and unnecessary and strange (not in a good way) and very clearly written by a man and this was a waste of my time even twilight was more of a literary masterpiece than this.
i had really hoped for Barcelona as a city/place to play more of an active role here and take on a sense of character in itself. Instead he just mentioned a few places in the city and left it at that. There was little sense of place and it could've taken place in any other city. I wanted to experience Barcelona and feel the heat, the smells, the sounds seep through the pages. But, alas. None of that. I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.
i tagged it "adventurous" and "challenging" in the sense that you never knew what kind of fucked up shit he would start mentioning next and that I found it very challenging to finish and not dnf it.
The first story felt orientalist and all of them a bit strangely misogynistic but I can't put my finger on why quite yet. It felt like the characters and by extension the author think too highly of themselves.