rozarka's Reviews (876)

I just couldn't anymore. I'd rate it two stars for Uncharles alone, he was a gem. The rest of it... not so much.

I quite liked the first part, in the manor. It was odd and a bit creepy, the way Uncharles couldn't grasp what happened at first, I was hooked. But when he progressed with his journey through the postapo world, I realized the book's tone and style of writing were completely different from what I was expecting judging after the first chapters, and I just couldn't get into it. The author had a mission to show you, the reader, the pointlessness and absurdity of the fallen world, and he decided to do everything in his power to hammer it into you. To show, to explain, to show again, and oh god, what if you didn't understand it yet, he'd do it again and again and he would use the most obvious metaphors and parallels in existence (the farm? really? are we so daft we wouldn't understand without that?)... In the end, it felt like a parody.

Life is too short to read mediocre books.

I picked this one up because of the narrator and I was not disappointed by his performance. I need to find more of his works.

The book itself was good. I like urban fantasy and this was much more fantasy-heavy than I expected (not a bad thing). It was also much more plot- and action-heavy, and sice I am not a fan of murder mysteries, I'd much prefer if the author put more emphasis on the romance.

Výborné. Málokdy mnou rezonuje tolik básní (nebo aspoň veršů) v jedné sbírce.

Zajímavé téma zábavně popsané.

It was too long, which is probably a weird thing to say about a novella, but I honestly think it would be better as a short story. There was not enough substance to fuel the whole book, I was bored half the time. The setting was vivid and interesting, but not interesting enough, I needed more plot, more action, more emotions, more character development, something to happen so that it didn't feel so slow.

It took me half a year to read through this book, and I still feel like I didn't understand most of the poems. Sometimes it was the language issue, other times I just didn't get the meaning, or I did but the words themselves didn't work for me. There were some poems that did, I'm glad I read the book, but I feel like I should try again sometimes in the future. The book itself is beautiful, I love the cover.

Když jsem si knížku vybírala (resp. když jsem pro ni hlasovala v našem book clubu), vůbec mi nedošlo, jak je stará. A jak je zastaralá: nechci hodnotit diagnózy samotné, na to nemám vzdělání, ale přístup k pacientům, autorův způsob uvažování o nich a jejich hodnocení, to byla přehlídka osobních biasů, ze kterých se mi občas kroutily prsty na nohou. Míchání náboženství do diagnóz je pro mě taky za hranou (pacient A chodí na mši, takže ještě má duši, ale pacient B nic takového nedělá, ten už duši ztratil... ugh).

Nesedl mi ani styl psaní, četlo se mi to velmi těžce a několikrát jsem to chtěla vzdát. Dvě hvězdy to získalo jen díky tomu, že příběhy pacientů samotných byly zajímavé - a kvůli nim jsem tu knížku vůbec brala do ruky.