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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
5.0
PLAYLIST RECOMMENDATION:
Yann tiersen - comptine d'un autre ete - l'apres midi ON REPEAT
PARIS, JANUARY 1903
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay,no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings.Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl.And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act?
This book is going to be absolutely HATED by a lot of readers. I wouldn't really blame them. There were times I was so disoriented, jumping from one chunk of prose to the other, that I needed to take a step back. But I went into it knowing full well it was dreadfully slow and required a lot of patience. So I indulged myself, let myself shamelessly like things;let myself be drawn into the Night Circus. It's essentially a love story and doesn't really involve a 'fierce battle' as the book blurb would have you believe.
The story is painfully slow while the prose is painfully descriptive. The ending, vague to the point of being abhorrent.
But having said all that, I WANT TO GO TO THE NIGHT CIRCUS.
And on turning the last page ( well ok on scrolling down the last page :P ), it just felt like i had lost an old friend...or like the circus had left town.
I get incredibly sappy in my reviews sometimes. Screw you.
Yann tiersen - comptine d'un autre ete - l'apres midi ON REPEAT
PARIS, JANUARY 1903
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay,no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings.Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl.And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act?
This book is going to be absolutely HATED by a lot of readers. I wouldn't really blame them. There were times I was so disoriented, jumping from one chunk of prose to the other, that I needed to take a step back. But I went into it knowing full well it was dreadfully slow and required a lot of patience. So I indulged myself, let myself shamelessly like things;let myself be drawn into the Night Circus. It's essentially a love story and doesn't really involve a 'fierce battle' as the book blurb would have you believe.
The story is painfully slow while the prose is painfully descriptive. The ending, vague to the point of being abhorrent.
But having said all that, I WANT TO GO TO THE NIGHT CIRCUS.
And on turning the last page ( well ok on scrolling down the last page :P ), it just felt like i had lost an old friend...or like the circus had left town.
I get incredibly sappy in my reviews sometimes. Screw you.