Um pouco cansativo, por vezes, mas gosto de certas vibes. A famÃlia faz-me pensar nos Wemans - há algo de peculiar, uma sensaçãoOferecido pela Giulia.
Um pouco cansativo, por vezes, mas gosto de certas vibes. A famÃlia faz-me pensar nos Wemans - há algo de peculiar, uma sensação de haver certas regras e tradições, ser uma famÃlia tradicional em algum sentido. Acho que capta bem uma sensação de nos dar uma percepção mais familiar de uma famÃlia, e dá mesmo essa sensação de familiaridade, já, com as manias, hábitos, dinâmicas e meme internos - as frases repetidas, os poemas, os versos, as "bickeries".
Tem passagens muito bonitas, como aquela sobre "She trusted him. Why did she trust him? Because of his [xxxx]. Were those good reasons to trust? She dTem passagens muito bonitas, como aquela sobre "She trusted him. Why did she trust him? Because of his [xxxx]. Were those good reasons to trust? She didn't know."
Ainda assim, acaba por ser um bocado repetitiva, a maneira de escrever. É muito pausada e assim. Acho que gostei mais de ler quando li a primeira metade em voz alta....more
I was very confused during the last part of the book but what I felt was that I couldn't make up my mind about who was right and who was wrong. Who waI was very confused during the last part of the book but what I felt was that I couldn't make up my mind about who was right and who was wrong. Who was the bad guy? Grace? I didn't like Grace, she looked manipulative. And she also looked a little like Mori in that she could predict the future and everything. She had ulterior motives when wanting to marry Thaniel and her relationship with her and Mori started to become paranoid.
Mori on the other hand also had ulterior motives the whole time. Grace made good points - Mori worked Thaniel like clockwork. At the end they're together. Mori didn't want them together and disliked her from the first moment, which also made me as a reader wary of her. Thaniel did sort of "marry" Mori at the end, and isn't that what he possibly wanted?
She's no angel and she's certainly controlling (ordering the trees to be cut down, didn't care for Thaniel's passion for the piano and every time she talked with Mori she also had ulterior motives. The first time she was doing an experiment but that's still manipulative. The second time she wanted him to work with her for her science and he didn't, and she reacted rudely. I do want my foreign friends to learn my language but am I rude to them if they're not comfortable to try speaking what they know and spite them for giving up? No what the heck. They're not interested, let's change subjects)
Anyway I think in a way that was clever. We never really know if Mori is playing Thaniel (no matter how clever Thaniel is). And we also don't really like Grace much. But it doesn't feel much untidied, the story. It doesn't feel too open ended. I liked it more in the first two thirds just like you and would have rathered to see a happy ending but the twists seemed clever to me, though they ruined two characters, no one died and like the ether and clarvoyance, the future is open to our interpretations and the probability... We can't know!
PS: Gotta also say I also found it a little creepy that he was waiting for Thaniel to grow up. Though I did also think that Mori only planned for them to meet and be friends, or the possibility/probability of it - he wouldn't know if the future would have turned out how he planned it, and he seems to balance his life to living on a whim as well as clockwork. Not everything he does is carefully planned, I think. I also didn't think of it as him knowing that they'd be lovers. That only developed when Thaniel met him. But what do I know? This clarvoyance thing is pretty complex.
But also, yeah. It's messed up that he let people die with that bomb just to meet Thaniel. That was pretty dark and now that you pointed it out, I'm disappointed that the book didn't address that. If Thaniel is that clever he'd have asked about that as well; the book would have made us think about it. It didn't, and that's a bad thing against the book....more
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