Daniel ZEHE

Disappointed

Revisado: 09-15-24

Like other commenters, I agree that this author did not sufficiently know the character of Salander. Blumqvist felt very stiff and mundane, never really doing anything. Time jumps are always difficult but so much changed with his daughter that went unacknowledged, and then her story was never really resolved, at least not with her father. So much in this book was set up for success, but at the 3/4 mark I realized that the pacing was off. A good enough amount of set up but not enough resolution.
It would be one thing if this was the fourth book, but this far into the series there is a very prominent rhythm each book follows, and for good reason, that this book didn’t even come near to. Certain subtle changes were very obvious but not bothersome, though it seemed like the author was more interested in establishing her own characters than developing the originals.
Salander never watched movies, why would she know everything about Kill Bill Vol. 2? Little things like that, which felt off. The things Salander has gone through would never make one think that she would go see a therapists, especially a male one.
The villains weren’t fleshed out at all, you see near the end that the eagles nest had a whole network of people working there, were they all murdered for no reason? We aren’t told, nothing is wrapped up. Maybe too large a task for this author to handle. Salander used to be a badass, super cool and didn’t take shit from anyone, what happened to that?
Let down, but hopeful for a better follow-up.

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Wow, Steinbeck’s best

Revisado: 01-22-24

I came to this book after reading a good bit of Steinbeck’s stuff and did not expect to be this blown away. Deep, profound, profound, profound.

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The allegory is endearing!

Revisado: 12-15-23

I thought this book would be more scary, and horror. It really isn’t, it’s more of an adventure story/coming of age tale, that’s pretty rated R. Then an 11 year old girl has 6 other 11 year olds run a train on her.
Other than that, cool book.

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Wow! So glad I listened, so much better than the movie!

Revisado: 11-27-23

The full story adds so much more death than the film I grew up with! I never knew the book had but published serially either! I’ve only read a few of King’s books, but this one so far is my favorite!

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Enlightening & Entertaining

Revisado: 11-05-23

I really enjoyed this book! I haven’t attended any college but consider myself pretty well read a scattering of different fields, and this book exactly appealed to THAT! A bunch of different people and subjects, anecdotes and stories that all loosely curtailed into one another, super entertaining and thought provoking! Bought the hard copy before I was even done listening!

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Amazing! Bukowski-esque!

Revisado: 10-30-23

Loved this book! The thoughts are hilarious and thought provoking, and there are so many titillating factoid nuggets, like how random things came to be or random people who died, and how they died. It’s a plethora of little elements, and classic stand-up “callbacks” laced throughout that made me really enjoy this book.
Harold’s thoughts and nonsensical meanderings are EXACTLY what it’s like to be a young boy, and Wright adds humor and emotion to a simple scene, that we’ve all experienced. Sitting in class all day, escaping the monotony and wandering into our weird brains until “after 13.8 billion years and the 3 o’clock bell, the school day ended.”

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Review from American male born 1999

Revisado: 05-23-23

I felt the book was very thought provoking;
I appreciated the questions it brings one to ask about themself, their beliefs and what we all desire in life.
Parts were hard to follow, though I imagine that was due more to the audiobook and not being able to see paragraph brakes

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Amazing example of literature as art

Revisado: 05-16-23

This book shows so many ways that literature can be used as an art form. Wonderful book.

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Humble beginnings for Kerouac

Revisado: 04-17-23

I consider Kerouac to be my favorite author due to the works of On The Road and Dharma bums alone. Coming from that end of his works, I’ve progressed back to his beginnings here with this book and it shocked me! This book is so SOBER, and anyone who loves Kerouac knows that SOBER is entirely different from his later works, or really his life at all.
I loved this book, I loved Kerouac’s prose, direct story telling.

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Classic

Revisado: 03-17-23

A wonderful classic work, by such an influential writer; fans of her poetry will love this.

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