I find myself thinking about this book a lot. It's an existential mystery, which I love, set partly in the 70's, in Western Washington and at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. It poses the question 'how can idealism and absolutes exist in the world?' and I can't say that the answer is very upbeat. Favorite Quote: You've been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you're someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy. Sinopsis: Verano de 1935. En un pueblo de Nueva Inglaterra, la gente no para de hablar sobre la epidemia de muertes que está asolando el hogar de los Perry. Vining y Russell Perry, padre e hijo, han sido misteriosamente asesinados. Otro de los miembros de la familia se ha ahogado mientras patinaba. La viuda de Vining se cae por las escaleras… ¿Se trata de simples accidentes? Los hijos gemelos de los Vining son de lo más peculiar: cada uno podría leer los pensamientos del otro, pero no podrían ser más diferentes. Holland es sarcástico e introvertido, y todo el mundo le considera una mala influencia, mientras que su gemelo, Niles, es agradable y generoso, adorado por todos. Ambos están inmersos en un extraño juego telepático con su abuela rusa. Y puede que el juego se les esté yendo de las manos... Guterson analysiert eine ungewöhnliche Männerfreundschaft, die ein aufsehenerregendes Ende nimmt. Sein zutiefst philosophischer Roman verknüpft mehrere Zeitebenen, die nicht immer sofort klar voneinander zu trennen sind. Der inzwischen gealterte Neil baut in seine Geschichte Ansichten seiner Frau Jamie über John ein, Auskünfte einer Jugendfreundin Johns und befragt schließlich Johns betagten Vater über die Familie. Mehrere Handlungsstränge spielen zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten in Neils Leben. Eine lineare Erzählung hätte dem Reiz der Geschichte meiner Ansicht nach nicht geschadet. Ich habe den Roman mit Gewinn gelesen, empfehle ihn jedoch aufgrund des verschachtelten Plots mit einiger Skepsis. This book is about two twin boys. Niles and Holland. They are children. It takes place in the country in New England.

Un gioco di prestigio crudele e ben costruito, che spiazza il lettore giocando con le sue aspettative, imprigionandolo in un caleidoscopio di immagini dove alla magia dell’infanzia ed ai suoi tesori, giochi ed innocenti filastrocche per bambini, si sostituiscono orrore e morte come in uno dei lugubri spettacoli di magia che ai due protagonisti, gemelli inseparabili nati prima e dopo la mezzanotte, piace inscenare in cantina. NYRB Classics presents the landmark psychological horror novel about 13-year-old twins living in a bucolic New England town—one good and the other very, very evil. This gorgeous book pays homage to Pride and Prejudice - and follows Mary Bennet, the overlooked middle Bennet sister. It's a wonderfully warm, comforting read - perfect on a winter's night.' - The Sun The boys, while directly affected by these sad occurrences often cope by playing a game with their grandmother in which they pretend to be animals or even plants or flowers, literally transferring themselves onto these objects with their minds and imaginations. Narrada en primera persona por la propia María Bolena, abarca desde la primavera de 1521 hasta mayo de 1536, fecha de la ejecución de Ana. Más que contarnos con detalle los acontecimientos históricos, se centra en la relación que mantenían los tres hermanos Bolena, María, Jorge y Ana y en los tejemanejes de su familia para medrar a costa de lo que fuera.The thing you must realize about this book is that it is, first and foremost, a novel. A novel based on actual historical events, yes, but still a work of fiction. So for those that criticize it for its historical inaccuracy, your criticism is misplaced. This is not a biography of Mary Boleyn or Anne Boleyn and it doesn't pretend to be. However what put me off was the absolute ignorance of historical fact and total villification of Anne Boleyn - yes this is a fictional interpretation but now it has made it to the big screen, there are a few who will think this is what really happened. El final, al principio pensé... se veía venir pero y ese giro del final...?? pues eso no lo vi venir y por eso le subo 0.5 más, una pena, esperaba más.

As the "other," John William makes a fascinating study well worth exploring, and, as in his other novels, Guterson juggles time deftly as aspects of the past comment on the present, the storyteller's decisions, and the narrator's and other's experience. Anyone who's lived will recognize the way we make sense of our histories and struggle to account for this place we find ourselves.It is also documented in history that the saintly, oh so pure of heart, so good Mary as portrayed by Ms. Gregory, went nowhere near Anne or her brother when they were sent to the Tower and did not see them for some time before that happening. Her support was as absent as she was - preferring to keep her distance and save her good self perhaps? Who knows. In 1521 England, Queen Catherine of Aragon's failure to provide King Henry VIII a male heir has strained their marriage. Thomas Boleyn and his brother-in-law Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, plan to install Boleyn's youngest daughter Mary, wife of courtier William Carey, as the king's mistress. Mary's sister Anne, who recently returned from the French court, and brother George help Mary prepare, and Henry soon takes a liking to Mary. Queen Catherine, meanwhile, becomes displeased with the situation, as she considered Mary one of her dear ladies-in-waiting. Before long, Mary becomes pregnant with the king's child.

On the other hand I thought it was brilliant to have the story narrated by Mary. I preferred seeing Anne from Mary's eyes. If anything it made me sympathetic towards Anne, the way Mary was, regardless of all that Anne put her through. If you don't have a sister you'll probably never understand what it's like to love someone unconditionally even while you hate them passionately. But, as our narrator relates these events, we are uncertain if all is as we have presumed it to be, if we can even trust the storyteller, but worse still, we are held helplessly spellbound as we imagine what emotional punch will be served up next and by whom-

Like most professional writers, I resent Tom Tryon’s The Other, since Tryon should get on with the job of being a good actor and not write good books as well. Enough is enough already. The Other is a highly readable chiller.” One quarter through 'The Other', I was getting used to the writing style. Sometimes dreamy, at times overwritten. Don't get me wrong, I'm like many that enjoy a good literary fiction novel. I like words that ebb and flow to a point of satisfaction, but at this point they were more tedious than not. The story and characters were being brought forth and many seemed derivative and unappealing. In the same interview, Tryon also hinted that he initially had been considered to direct the film before Mulligan was hired for the job: "It was all step-by-step up to the point of whether I was going to become a director or not. The picture got done mainly because the director who did it wanted to do that property, and he was a known director; he was a known commodity." [14] Legacy [ edit ] But the more Philippa Gregory tried to beatify Mary into this Saint the more she needed to make Anne a monster she clearly wasn't, a villain she never was. Sometimes unnecessarily so, to the point of senselessness, after a while the whole Anne-shaming just became nonsensical, making a vastly talented writer look stupid. Did she really believe that, that that's how everything happened? Gregory blamed Anne for everything, every single solitary thing that she could blame Anne for she did. I mean everything, not a single thing that could be missed was missed. Gregory charged Anne with the charges that were once laid at her feet, charges she has long since been acquitted of..... from people better and far more legitimate than Gregory. Oh man, no one distorts history with such aplomb quite like Philippa Gregory does.