Votaciones para el Club de Lectura en Inglés del 1° Trimestre.

[kriek 0]

Se podrá votar hasta el 25, y las propuestas son:

The Calling of the Grave, Simon Beckett. -------2 votos.

Freedom, Jonathan Franzen. ------1 voto.





(nos veo leyendo los dos, faltaría plus, pero bueno, las formalidades son las formalidades)

Besos.

[kriek 0]

Como recordatorio, estas eran las propuestas:

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world.

But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become “a very different kind of neighbor,” an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom’s characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

The Calling of the Grave is the 4th installment in the series. While it can be easily read as a stand alone novel, i highly recommend that u go through the series in order as some important facts regarding the 2nd Hunter book are given away here that may spoil a bit of your enjoyment later on.

As usual Beckett is an excellent researcher on everything he writes on about and he manages even this time round to give us an excellent picture of the bleak atmosphere of the setting the story is set in. Really liked that the novel starts with 8 years in the past, as it gives us a glimpse in the life of Hunter before we knew him.

Roughly without giving anything away the story starts with Hunter aiding the police in locating the bodies of a convicted serial killer. However all their attempts fail miserably and they return empty handed. 8 years later,after learning of the killer s escape from prison Hunter receives a phone call from one of the original members of the search team. And before long Hunter finds himself immersed in a case that was long buried and forgotten...

The typical twist in the tale at the end that Beckett is so good at makes him one of the best authors in my opinion and i m really amazed to learn that he is not so popular in the UK, country of his origin. Guess we ll have to wait quite a bit for the 5th Hunter book, but i m sure that as always it will be worth the wait.

Besos.

[ilargi08 41]

Pues seré la primera votando... y voto por The calling of the grave

[vicvel 1]

Creo que me voy a animar... mi voto para nuestro amado Hunter y The calling of the grave

[senin 1]

Mi voto es para Freedom, aunque yo creo que antes o después leeré los dos. Saludos

[kriek 0]

Actualizado, gracias por votar!

Besos.

[senin 1]

Hola, tengo un problemilla, no encuentro ninguno de los dos libros en mi biblioteca habitual, ni en la otra que me pilla un poco más lejos. ;)Alguna los tenéis y me los podéis dejar ?? Muchas gracias.
No voy a leer los dos a la vez, claro, y aunque sospecho que va a salir The calling of the Grave, me apetece mucho leer Freedom en inglés.

[vicvel 1]

Yo tengo los dos localizados Ningún problema en prestártelos!!

[senin 1]

Gracias vicvel, si te parece te pongo un privado y nos organizamos. Por cierto, al final una amiga me ha dejado el de Freedom, así que sólo necesito el otro. Pero me he dado cuenta de que es el cuarto de una saga y no he leído los anteriores, así que no sé si me atreveré con él. Se puede leer si no se han leído los anteriores, o resulta muy difícil de entender? Un saludo y muchas gracias de nuevo.

[ilargi08 41]

Por poder, se puede leer, ya que las historias son independientes, pero siempre es mejor haber leído los anteriores para ir viendo la evolución del personaje.