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Un libro exquisito, inusual y adictivo.......2007-08-26
Hace mucho que no leia un libro que me atrapase de esta manera. Lei La sombra del viento en 4 dias, aun cuando ya me caia de suenio. Este libro tiene la frescura de los libros de Laura Restrepo y un toque de Alfred Hickok.Es imperdible!
Simplemente maravilloso..........2007-08-19
Cuando empece a leer tenia grandes espectativas sobre este libro y me complace poder afirmar que no me decepcionó en lo absoluto.
La Sombra de Viento es una novela donde el misterio y el amor se entrelazan magistralmente en una serie de historias que te haran sentir que realmente te encuetras junto a Daniel y Fermin recorriendo las calles de la Barcelona de mediados del siglo XX, tratando de decifrar el misterio alrededor de ese libro titulado "La Sombra del Viento".
Si quieres tener una lectura que te atrape entre sus páginas debes leer este libro, créeme será todo un viaje...
La sombra del viento.......2007-07-27
Lei este libro por casualidad. Estaba conversando sobre libros con una nueva amiga y ella me comento que habia dos libros que ella atesoraba especialmente, y La sombra del viento es uno de ellos. Lo lei en castellano y me encanto, es un libro que devuelve al lector la maravilla de la lectura, es historico, romantico, semi thriller, escrito con ganas! He leido muchos libros en mi vida pero este esta entre mis favoritos dentro de este genero. 100% recomendado especialmente si se quiere motivar a alguien a que entre en el mundo magico de los libros. Llore, rei y una sonrisa me aparecio en la cara durante y despues de la lectura. Que lo disfruten! Por cierto, me acabo de comprar la version en ingles para echarle un vistazo y ver que tal.
Infantilising pap.......2007-07-13
This is the emperor's new clothers of recent book successes. Its appeal is the same lazy, infantilising escapism that has driven many adults to reading trash like Harry Potter with herd-like conformism. The writing is stale, even when describing the drearily fantastical, and shows a Disneyfied Barcelona akin to the London of Mary Poppins. My toes curl when I hear intelligent people gush praise over this schlock.
Of course, as with all negative reviews on Amazon, this one will be judged "unhelpful" by those wishing to confirm their conformist hunch. But I hope a few among you won't waste your precious life with this cartoonish pap when the masterpieces of the Spanish-language canon sit unopened on your shelves, or are just a click away on Amazon.
The Shadow of the Wind.......2007-04-21
I read it both in Spanish (original language) and English (translation) and in both forms this novel is exquisite, unusual and captivating. It is a very rare form of the "love story" theme.
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Las Sombras De La Escalera/the Shades Of The Stairs (A La Orilla Del Viento/at the Edge of the Wind)
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Title: De todas las historias de amor que ha visto en el cine, ¿cuál es su favorita?(TT: Off all the love stories that you have seen in the theater, which is your favorite?)
Author: Eugenia Alvarez
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Title: "La sombra del viento".(Reseña de libro)
Author: Jorge Munguía Espitia
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Title: La sombra del viento: Carlos Ruiz Zafón.(Reseña de libro)
Author: Humberto Guzmán
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The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.
As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons-The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?-but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, "The originality of Ruiz Zafón's voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature." An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller's art.
Translated by Lucia Graves.
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Engaging story, told well.......2007-10-10
I wasn't looking for deep thoughts, but for entertainment. This book delivers, an engaging tale spiced with hidden family histories, dark secrets, and a tragic hero. It finishes on an overly melodramatic note, building up to more of a climax and confrontation than was necessary. I'd deduct half a star, but not a whole one.
Shamelessly indulgent........2007-10-07
My sister strongly recommended this book when I was visiting her this year. So I picked it up when I saw it being sold at train stations and airports all over Europe.
First, I have to say that this was a nearly compulsively pleasant read. The literary equivalent of a hot bath and a glass of red wine. The Shadow of the Wind is a coming of age story with mildly supernatural/mysterious overtones with a strong theme of books and book lovers. In order to ensure that his readers are completely blissed out, Zafon includes romance, gothic family histories and political corruption. There is even a mysterious stranger with a hidden face who may or may not be the devil. Think Anne Rice in some of her better moments, and you'll get the idea.
The Shadow of the Wind is a reader's guilty pleasure. It harks pleasantly back to another time. It is evocative. It keeps the pages turning.
Sadly, it does not deliver on its promise. That is almost inevitable, given how many doors it opens and how many different themes Zafon tries to keep in the air. There are a few too many implausible ways that the loose ends are tied up in the last third of the book. The resolution is not really as satisfying as I had hoped. The flaws keep The Shadow of the Wind from being a really high quality novel, even though they do not really detract from the entertainment value.
In a way, the failure of the end is caused by the magnificent success of the beginning. The first half of the novel was always going to be a hard act to follow. Still, I would more than recommend it for readers willing to take it for what it is-- great entertainment value.
A good, moving story.......2007-10-03
The protagonist, Daniel Sempere is the son of a bookstore-keeper. At the age of 10, he finds a rare book by one Julian Carax in the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books". After finishing it, he finds out that there's someone who is trying to destroy all existing copies of Carax's books. This is how begins a complex plot that lasts about 10 years, and involves lots of mysteries and original characters.
"Original" is a good summary of this book. On one hand a typical thriller, but on the other hand not quite. There is something special about this book, about the way it is written. It's not a deliberate page-turner like many modern fiction novels aspire to be, although it could be, since it's obvious from the start that the author has the skill to make it so. Instead, its plot unfolds in a more relaxed tempo, spanning over a longer period of time.
There are many exciting characters in this book - like Fermin. This guy made me laugh quite a lot, he's a hysterically funny guy. Inspector Fumero is also a very unusual and interesting character, in his own wicked way. Another character is probably the city of Barcelona, where all the plot takes place and that's described beautifully.
I like books about books, so "The Shadow of the Wind" was a delight in this aspect. Additionally, I felt there's a certain closed loop in it - the enigmatic resemblance of Carax's and Sempere's lives. The difference is that Carax's life turned extremely tragically, while Sempere's ended well. There's a strange kind of emotionality hidden in this concept, and I found it very moving.
To conclude, this is a very good book. I can't say it's perfect - the author seems a bit inexperienced and there are some omissions and inconsistencies. However, in the whole, I loved reading it and hence recommend it.
A real page-turner.......2007-09-30
This book is CRAZY! It has absolutely everything: love, murder, betrayal, incest, and more! "The Shadow of the Wind" is set in post-war Barcelona in the year 1945. Daniel, a young boy, accompanies his father to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books one evening and finds a book written by Julian Carax. After reading the book, Daniel is so engrossed that he attempts to locate other books by the same author, but cannot find any. However, he does discover stories about a mysterious man named Lain Coubert, which is the same name Carax uses for the character of the devil in one of his novels. Lain Coubert has spent years tracking down copes of Carax's books and setting fire to them. In time, Daniel comes face to face with Lain Coubert, and Daniel soon finds himself immersed in a story that began many years ago and may very well threaten his own life.
This is a truly excellent book that has the makings of a great gothic novel. It took me a long time to finish reading it because there are so many characters and plot twists to keep track of, but the intriguing story was well worth the effort I put into it. I couldn't put this book down. I highly recommend it.
For Every BOOK Lover..........2007-09-26
Whenever I read a book I underline key phrases or words that impact me in some way or another. During my recent flight from NYC to Los Angeles I finished a fabulous epic novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. In July, I was vacationing on the Carribean Island of Anguilla and I came across the book inside a basket in the living area of the Cove Castles restort. I started thumbing through the pages and thought it might be something I'd like to read. I was attracted by the fact that it was an epic Gothic-type novel that had spent two years on SPAIN's best-seller list. In the early pages a critic wrote that like A.S. Byatt's POSSESSION it is an ultimate love letter to literature. I found that to be true. The more lines I underline will determine the goodness of the book (for me). And so, I now share with you to decide.
Here are the fabulous LINES in the book that captured me:
"Some things can only be seen in the shadows."
Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
...frilly words.
Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.
I bought the book on a whim. The title seemed suggestive.
That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely.
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss.
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
His favorite language was money, the rest was neither here nor there.
"Age--the price we all must pay."
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't complicated enough.
"Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them."
If you ever have a daughter--a blessing I wouldn't wish on anywone, because it's Murphy's Law that sooner or later she will break your heart--if you ever have a daughter, you'll begin without realizing it, to divide men into to camps: those you suspect are sleeping with her and those you don't.
"Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't have to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers."
Cinemas are full of lonely people, I thought. Like me.
Disamred, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.
I slipped on my trademark angelic smile.
I can assure you without a shadow of doubt that the girl was no apparition. I could even describe her smell. Lavender, only sweeter. Like a little sugar bun just out of the oven.
Real women are won over bit by bit. It's all a question of psychology.
The female heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
If you really want to possess a woman (or man), you must think like her (or him), and the first thing to do is win over her (his) soul. The rest...is a bonus.
If you want problems, you'll get them. Life isn't like novels, you know. In Life you have to take sides.
To go in pursuit of your dreams...
All I wish is for you to be happy...that everything you aspire to achieve may come true.
At the bottom of the cupboard, I kept an old tin cookie box, a treasure chest of sorts. There I stored a menagerie of useless bits of junk that I couldn't bring myself to throw away: watches, and fountain pens damaged beyond repair, old coins, marbles, wartime bullet cases I'd found in the park, and fading postcards.
...hit songs by the celebrated crooner Antonio Machin.
The leopard cannot change his spots.
If a fly finds its way into his shop, he'll open the door and windows wide so that the insect, one of God's creatures, is swept back by the draft into the ecosystem.
The trouble is, there are some low moments, and when those strike close to home everything looks blacker.
The only card I could play was to tell the truth.
He would stare at you without saying a word, and you wouldn't know what he was thinking, and so, like an idiot, you'd tell him things it would have been better to keep to yourself.
He gave the impression that he was one of those people who cannot be happy anywhere.
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in people.
He was living in the past, lockied in his memories. He lived within himself, for his books and inside them--a comfortable prison of his own design.
Time is a great healer.
His soul is in his stories.
"We exist as long as somebody remembers us."
"Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
"Don't be offended, but sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger that to people one knows. Why is that?"
I shrugged, "Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are."
"And how do you see me?"
"Like a mystery."
At last I managed to retrace my steps within the tangle of corridors and tunnels until I entered a narrow passage that felt like a gangway stretching out into the gloom.
"You can see a mile off that she's worth a million bucks, but the crux of the matter is this:
is she the sort who makes one fall in love or the sort who merely stirs up the lower parts?"
In good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure.
Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. In this world a surname is less lasting than a sugared almond.
Like old cities, Barcelona is a sum of its ruins. The great glories so many people are proud of--palaces, factories, monuments, the emblems with which we identify--are nothing more than relics of an extinguished civilization.
Greed will corrupt us all in the end.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
"The fragrances of the eternal feminine no longer overpowers me the way it mesmerizes you. At my age the flow of blood to the brain has precedence over that which flows to my loins."
"People who have no life always have to stick thier nose in the life of others."
"Life flies by, especially the bit that's worth living."
I imagined she was thinking that I was dying of curiosity and impatience, so I decided to adopt a nonchalant air, making it very clear that if she wanted to play mystery games with me, she had every chance of losing.
"I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even thought we don't understand it....It's all part of someting we cannot comprehend, something that owns us."
"And keep your dreams," said Miguel, "You never know when you might need them."
Some of us suffer from an excess of juvenile ardor and a lack of strategic grasp of the situation.
Death makes evryone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
When you're eighteen, in the absence of subtlety and greater experience, an old bathroom can seem like paradise.
Have you ever covered a woman (or man) with oil, from head to toe, completely and meticulously?
Contrary to what you firmly believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. Other factors influence the evolution of mankind.
It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe in what they say.
There are people you remember and people you dream of.
There was another silence, of the kind in which gray hairs seem to creep up on you.
I tried to conjure up the words I wanted to offer...but I was incapable of writing or feeling.
"We all do what we're best at."
"...what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets."
Time goes faster the more hallow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.
A story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
He was learning to see the world again through your eyes, to recover the boy he had once been.
So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
He's not a bad person. We all love in our own way.
We're all whores sooner or later.
All that remains in my memory is the touch of her lips...
I often catch her marooned in one of her silences, alone with herself.
She still sees her old music teacher whose symphony is still unfinished and who, it seems, has made a career as a gigolo among the ladies, where his bedroom acrobatics have earned him the nickname "The Magic Flute".
Father and son disappear into the crowd, their steps lost forever in the shadow of the wind.
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Title: Zumbidos.(breves notas sobre política y cultura en España)
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La Sombra Del Viento
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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La Sombra Del Viento
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- A gripping story!
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Last Girl Dancing
Holly Lisle
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Obsessed with discovering what happened to her missing sister, Atlanta detective Jess Brubraker is willing to disappear into a sordid nightworld to find the answer. But that means leading both herself and her lover into the most intimate and terrifying trap of all.
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Disappointing, underdeveloped plot and characters.......2006-12-02
I was expecting more out of a plot that was set in the sleazy world of strippers and prostitution but this book was so superficial in its usage of this plot device that it would have been better to have chosen something different. The two protagonists are also not well-drawn though the heroine fared better than Hank, the hero. All throughout the book, he came across as boring and conservative - which did not gel with the author's description of him as an ex-Ranger AND a psychic. I mean, wow - as an ex-Ranger, Hank would have some back story but nothing is said about him. I didn't know what he was like, what events in his life shaped him into the man he is today, who his friends were and what drives him; His whole character is made up of a guy who operates a martial arts school after being an ex-Ranger. He was like an inanimate object in the book at worst and at best, a Labrador seeing-eye dog. At least Jess had some emotional aspect to her but not much either. The annoying thing is that both the plot and the characters had so much potential.
For a much more satisfying police procedural, Karen Rose is much better bet because you'll get great romance and great characterisation. I haveLisle's I See You but after LGD, I did not feel like another Lisle.
A gripping story!.......2006-10-19
I read this book straight after Midnight Rain by the same author and I have to say that I felt this book was a definite step up. Jess Brubaker is a workaholic police detective, driven by the memory that her sister went missing - Jess uses her spare time to try to find out what happened to Ginny. Hank is a former Ranger who has been medically retired and, since receiving his dreadful wounds, has gained a psychic touch ability - if he touches someone, or something they have recently handled, he gets an idea of their thoughts and emotions. Jess lost a lot of money through a fake psychic who promised to help her find her sister, Hank was taken for a ride by a very beautiful woman and so is wary of women like Jess. The initial antagonism is clear - although it doesn't last very long.
Jess ends up having to go undercover (or rather the opposite) in a strip club - three women's bodies have been found and they were all strippers at the club. The police suspect there were more than three women killed and so Jess is there, with Hank as backup, to try to find out who the killers (and the police think there are three) are. She ends up becoming the target of the killer herself as more women are killed.
The psychic angle was pretty effective in this book (it didn't work too well for me in Midnight Rain) and the story carries you along. Holly Lisle portrays her characters very well - we understand Jess and Hank and their issues and problems, including the disagreements that they have. I enjoyed reading it very much. My one slight reservation is that I guessed who the baddie was before the end so it wasn't a surprise but perhaps I was meant to! Anyway, it's a good book, well worth reading, so buy it and enjoy!
Disappointed.......2005-12-06
Despite the fact that I like this author and that the book was overall quite good, I was very disappointed by both the romantic elements and the ending. I would have thought that the ending had been written by another author, had I not paid attention to the stilted romance. I felt like a whole chapter was missing at the end. The wrap-up showed the main character making major life changes without the thought process that accompanied them. I realize my explanation for my problems with the book sounds stilted, bt I wanted to express my dissatisfaction without spoilers.
A Star On The Rise!!!.......2005-09-17
The first time I'd ever read anything by this author was her title "Midnight Rain." I quickly ran out and checked out this author's backlist. I was thrilled to find out that she had a new romantic suspense being released. I quickly pre-ordered it and waited not so patiently for it to arrive. It was well worth the wait.
Atlanta Police Detective Jess Brubraker is good at her job but she gets no thrill from her sucess. It's more of a means to an end really. She became a cop in order to find her missing twin sister. In the mean time she will do what she must in order to see that happen. When a chance in a lifetime job gets handed to her she will do whatever she must in order to find a killer. If she has to put her feelings about psychic's on the shelf, well, that's what she will do...maybe. But, when this psychic just so happens to be the owner of a beautiful voice, nice hands, and a rear end that just won't quit well, it might just work. But, what will happen when she finds out that Hank is more than a partner or psychic, but the owner of her heart?
Hank if a former Ranger with a special talent when it comes to psychic abilities. He doesn't do this for just anyone and when his friend approaches him, needing his help to solve a serial murder case well, he's on board. The fact that his partner is everything that he wants to avoid is beside the point. When he touches her he sees the truth, she is not put off by his scars and for the first time he trust that a beautiful woman wants him...and only him. Now if only he can keep her safe from a killer that wants her dead.
Hank and Jess were wonderful characters, and the chemistry between them was wonderfully tense! This story although not a new one was done in such a way that the reader will truly be kept guessing until the final few pages as to who the killer really is. Ms. Lisle really knows how to keep the suspense going while at the same time moving the story forward. This is one author that I highly recommend for edge of your seat reading with the added bounus of a sensual romance as well.
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Writer's breadth of skill amazes me...........2005-08-24
I read Holly originally for her fantasy novels. While there certainly is a fantasy element in "Last Girl" the mystery-thriller far overrides all else. Warning: this is a book that's hard to put down. Lisle writes compelling and sympathetic characters and imbeds enough hook into the tale to leave you turning pages well into the night. The one downside is I'm not sure I enjoyed the view of the strip clubs. Ms. Lisle did her research well--she managed to give her strippers vivid character.
The plot: A trio of serial murderers is killing strippers in one of Atlanta's best strip clubs, Goldcastle. Police detective, Jess Brubeck, is called in to go undercover--as a stripper. This is her big break to become one of the Grand Old Men of Crime--and secretly her hope to find out who killed her twin sister Ginny 13 years before.
But, things do not go as well as she'd have liked. She's teamed up with a psychic. Enough of those fakes took her for everything she was worth when her sister disappeared. But this one, Hank Kamien, is the real thing. The Ex-Ranger who gained his powers at the cost of scars over half his body is the Real Thing. Jess and Hank quickly suspect the attraction they feel for each other is the Real Thing, too.
"Last GIrl" is definitely a tough, gritty novel with some interesting surprises. This is a departure from much of Lisle's fantasy writing, which could be termed for more of a family audience. Definitely worth setting aside several hours to read if you are a thriller fan.
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Last Girl Dancing
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