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Title: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Jonathan Davis, Lucia Graves ISBN: 0-14-280080-5 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 16 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Savor every moment of it...
Comment: Ruiz Zafón has created a near-perfect novel: seductive and intriguing characters, a brilliant Spanish locale, and a lyrical style reminiscent of past literary masters. I found myself reading passages countless times just to savor the words. The language was so solid and mesmerizing, I could not believe it was a translation. The story lingers in your mind hours and days after reading it, and I become nostalgic; wishing I could read it again for the first time.
When Daniel Sempere first enters the labrythine "Cemetary of Forgotten Books", he does not know that this single episode will change his life forever. Daniel discovers a novel entitled "Shadow of the Wind" and makes it his mission to find other books by its enigmatic author, Julian Carax. When he learns that Carax's novels have been systematically destroyed by an elusive stranger, Daniel must protect his volume from the flames. The more Daniel learns about Carax, the more he realizes the similarities and parallels between his own life and that of the author.
Allot a good amount of time for this book, you will not be able to put it down.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perhaps the best novel I've read in my life
Comment: I finished reading this intensely seductive and rewarding masterpiece two days ago. Since then I've been unable to get it out of my mind, and I think you won't either. The characters, the plot and specially the extremely powerful and clever brand of storytelling deployed here seem to have left me under a spell that I can't remember experiencing with any other book I've read in the last 25 years. The promise of the magic first few pages, a stunning and seductive journey to a wonderful place called "the cemetery of forgotten books", not only doesn't let down, but steadily builds up into a magnificent saga of intrigue, romance, passion, murder, satire and even spine-chilling touches of gothic suspense. This is literature of the highest order, but I think it is also the most intelligent, often wickedly so, piece of entertainment I've come across. It manages to be at the same time an epic love story, a spellbinding mystery about enigmatic books, a meditation on the power of literature and the boundaries between fact and fiction and a grand saga in the tradition of the 19th century classics. I could see a lot of Dickens and Victor Hugo here, but somehow powered and intensified by an mesmerizing cinematic drive that places the reader inside the story and its world. I read for hours on end, marveled by the language, the wonderfully drawn characters and the many secrets of the story. I felt echoes of Poe, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Eco, Wilkie Collins, Balzac and many others. But the voice here was entirely original, unique, unlike anything else I've read before. And modern, very modern, despite the references to those classic novels. I think a book like this comes once in a reader's lifetime. It becomes much more than a engrossing read, it reminds you why you are a reader and makes you much more aware of the power of great literature to touch your life. Above all, I don't remember having this much fun in ages, and at the same time I was moved, sometimes to tears, sometimes to terror, sometimes to hysterical laugh, beyond what I had thought a book could take me to. As I was reaching the conclusion, I felt I did not want it to end. I would reread scenes or chapters, much like young Daniel does in the novel when he finds the book that will change his life. In many ways this shadow of the wind made me a young Daniel, made me experience again the thrills of first love, the times when life held mystery and promise and I dreamed some day I could find and experience such a extraordinary work of fiction as this one. I recommend this novel 100%. I would even urge you to read it and not miss what most possibly will be one of the most intense, engrossing, rewarding and magical experiences in your life as a reader.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb!
Comment: This has got to be with out a doubt, one of the best books that I have read. If you can read the book in Spanish, even if you must strugle a bit, better yet! Zafon simply takes the language of Cervantes and uses it as a brush with which to paint this wonderful and intriguing story of a father and son in 1940's Barcelona. This is a must book to read and treasure. It holds its own with the great ones.
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Title: The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Andrew Hurley ISBN: 0399151850 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason ISBN: 0385337116 Publisher: Dial Books Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Codex by Lev Grossman ISBN: 0151010668 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 08 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Ghost Writer by John Harwood ISBN: 0151010749 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 05 July, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler ISBN: 0399151613 Publisher: Marian Wood Book Pub. Date: 22 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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