lil_em's reviews
14 reviews

lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.75

I've read it only because it was for a book club, otherwise I would have passed my way. The problems the characters encounter are resolved way too easely. It is described as a book of lownstakes, which is definitely true, but it becomes boring and predictible quite fast.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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challenging dark tense medium-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

3.25

Overall, I can't say I liked this book because of all the "ultraviolence" in the novel, but I admit the author uses a very creative language (quite difficult tonunderstand, definitely a challenge of this book also) and has a couple of interesting reflexions about jail, political strategies, and the notion of punishment.

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Not my favorite book by Hemingway. I liked the descriptions, but I found the dialogues mostly shallow most of the times (probably because the characters are drunk 90% of the time). The part in Spain is more vibrant than the one happening in Paris.

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

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challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

Although it took me quite a long time to finish the book, I overall enjoyed it. The character development is quite interesting (except from Rosemary who is still naive). The flasback structure felt a bit strange at the beginning, but I felt it made more sense as time went by.

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

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adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

I enjoyed the premise of the story, but I did not like how it was developed. Sometimes it felt like a biology class and that tended to break the rhythm, especially in the middle of dialogues. I felt the ending was quite rushed and that some characters were added in a random way (and they acted quite randomly as well).

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.

Had to bring it back to the library and did not like it enough to borrow it again. Sounds too much like a physics class and I did not like that.

La fée carabine by Daniel Pennac

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funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced