La casa del sonno

Ένας Coe την ημέρα το reader's block κάνει πέρα - σχεδόν κυριολεκτικά. Απολαυστικό, ευφάνταστο, γνήσια χιουμοριστικο και όσο πρέπει τρυφερό και συναισθηματικό μυθιστόρημα από έναν μετρ. Οι εξωφρενικές συμπτώσεις στις οποίες στηρίζεται η πλοκή του είναι τόσο άψογα υφασμενες, που δεν ενοχλούν καθόλου, Leggi tutto

Jonathan Coe, as he has demonstrated many times, is an agile and humane writer, and this book is perfectly readable and fitfully affecting. However, it's not the complex masterpiece it's touted as being. What has been described as an intricate structure is, in reality, a protracted series of coincid Leggi tutto

Önce uzuvları yerleştirip onun üzerine gövdeyi kurmak birçok iyi eserin özelliğidir. Şöyle ki, dört tane saplantı türünden rahatsızlık ( narkolepsi, uykusuzluk, film manyaklığıı vs.) seçiyorsunuz. Onları dört karaktere yüklüyorsunuz. Biraz daha parlatıp, bir de geçmiş bağışlayarak okurun huzuruna çı Leggi tutto

Oh my freakin' duck! This book is how I've imagined LSD on bread would be like. This book is life (now I sound like a tumblrer), everything and the reason why I love reading! I live for this kind of books! Something like this of such majesty, fervour, ingenious depth has to be felt and steered perpe Leggi tutto

Το μυθιστόρημα αυτό είναι το δεύτερο του συγγραφέα που βρέθηκε στα χέρια μου και όπως και με το Τι ωραίο πλιάτσικο έτσι και με το Σπίτι του ύπνου βρέθηκα ένα βήμα πιο κοντά στο να πω ότι η βρετανική λογοτεχνία μου αρέσει. Έχοντας παραμείνει λάτρης της αστυνομικής λογοτεχνίας για πολλά χρόνια , δεν δ Leggi tutto