Posted by guillermo maynez
on 30/3/2012, 17:46:52, in reply to "Re: Room"
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Thanks for the link. I've read "Little Women" (when I was 13 or so), and I agree about Jo's fate being less than what she deserved; "Alice in Wonderland", and disagree about the disappointing ending; and "Wuthering Heights", and also disagree.
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: Pretty close to our assessments. Although we didn't
: think it was a fantastic novel, we agreed that the
: first part was more interesting than the second part.
:
: Lale
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: I ran across an online article from The Atlantic
: profiling "10 Fantastic Novels with Disappointing
: Endings"
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: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/10-fantastic-novels-with-disappointing-endings/253722/
:
: Room by Emma Donoghue
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: "This deeply affecting book follows a woman who
: was kidnapped as a college student and has spent seven
: years captive in a tiny shed, accompanied for five of
: them by the son she conceived by her captor.
: Donoghue’s decision to make the boy her narrator lends
: a rare lightness to this dark subject matter. The
: story is riveting until, after the pair’s
: heart-pounding escape and bumpy homecoming, we
: understand that life outside the shed is difficult and
: painful in a different way for both mother and son,
: and the plot dissolves into a case study better fit
: for a child-development text than a novel."
:
: I wasn't actually looking for something on Room , but
: just happened to notice the link while reading this
: article:
:
: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/a-slow-books-manifesto/254884/
: on "A Slow-Books Manifesto."
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