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endaglivet's review against another edition
2.0
Hmm... Değişik bir kitap olduğunu söyleyebilirim. Olağan dışı bir işlenişi vardı. Hayal gücünü gerçekliği bükmek ve kendine serbest bir alan yaratmak için tüm kitap boyunca kullanmış. Eleştirileri ve sorgulamaları anlaşılmayacak türden değildi bence, yine de biraz olsun psikoloji, sosyoloji gibi alanlarla ilgilenmiyorsanız kitabın sizlik olmadığını önerisinde bulunmam yanlış olmaz sanırsam.
Açıkçası, pek sevmedim. Tıkanan bir kitaptı benim gözümde. Olduğu haliyle yeterli olduğunu düşünmüyorum, gereksiz bulduğum yerler vardı ve bunlar yazarın gözünde gerekli dahi olsa ben ciddi anlamda bunaltıcı buldum. Herkese hitap eden bir kalem olmadığını düşünüyorum.
Açıkçası, pek sevmedim. Tıkanan bir kitaptı benim gözümde. Olduğu haliyle yeterli olduğunu düşünmüyorum, gereksiz bulduğum yerler vardı ve bunlar yazarın gözünde gerekli dahi olsa ben ciddi anlamda bunaltıcı buldum. Herkese hitap eden bir kalem olmadığını düşünüyorum.
heatherslevin's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
isseyreads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition
3.0
This is a strange book. I suppose post modern is what some would say. Historical fiction is what others would call it.
It’s about rivers and how rivers – the Thames, Delaware, Schuylkill, St. Laurent, Ole Man River - are time. How cities are time. How everywhere you step, you step into, out of, from the shadow of time.
Jordan is found in a river and named for a river. He travels like a river while his mother is the anchor, is the ship, is the mass of land at the end.
And then there are the princesses who he meets and who tell stories like Robert Browning wrote poems.
And that is the story.
It’s about rivers and how rivers – the Thames, Delaware, Schuylkill, St. Laurent, Ole Man River - are time. How cities are time. How everywhere you step, you step into, out of, from the shadow of time.
Jordan is found in a river and named for a river. He travels like a river while his mother is the anchor, is the ship, is the mass of land at the end.
And then there are the princesses who he meets and who tell stories like Robert Browning wrote poems.
And that is the story.
sarabearian's review against another edition
This gloriously surreal and imaginative book weaves a beautiful story of love, time, and adventure. Set in two different time periods and skipping between narrators, Winterson tells the story of the Dog Woman, a giant capable both of horrific brutality and unlimited love, and her adopted son, Jordan, in Elizabethan England and later, reincarnated, in the modern era. At the same time, the reader follows Jordan on his journeys through space and time, as he looks for excitement, himself, and "the dancing girl". Winterson's fantastical world sketches the lovely, the monstrous, and the unknown with the inspired touch of magic realism. Utterly fascinating, this book will bring you to question your own existence and the very fabric of time and reality.
-- Karen H. --
-- Karen H. --
judyboom's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
naledi's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.75
mxmixter's review against another edition
3.0
A sometimes confusing, yet fascinating read, at turns philosophical and fantastical. "The Nature of Time" was my favorite section, particularly for this quote: Thinking about time is like turning the globe round and round, recognizing that all journeys exist simultaneously, that to be in one place is not to deny the existence of another, even though that other place cannot be felt or seen, our usual criteria for belief. Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lighting along the coil of pure time, that is the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain. (87)
perino's review against another edition
slow-paced
1.0
I had to push myself to finish and normally I love Jeanette Wintorson books. Too confusing jumping from story to story. Longest 144 pages of my life