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Den tomma stolen är en tankeväckande och oupphörligt överraskande roman, fylld av svart humor. J.K. Rowlings 7 böcker om trollkarlslärlingen Harry Potter har översatts till 74 språk, distribuerats i mer än 200 länder, sålts i över 450 miljoner exemplar och ligger som grund till 8 succéfilmer.Den tomma stolen
September 9, 2016
28 Sept. '12
I have to avgång by saying, that if you're expecting a (murder-)mystery novel; a plot nedsänkt in conspiracies and political maneuverings, you will be sorely disappointed. If you're hoping to gråta om transported to another magical adventure, you'll receive an even greater plummet back down to fusion.
Look. If you're going to read this just because it has JK Rowling's name splattered on there, I strongly advise you to sit back, take a look at your computer screen, and read that book description. Does it sound like something you would enjoy? Does it attract you, in the least bit, at all? Or does it sound utterly boring you would rather do something more productive like watch Desperate Housewives back-to-back?
The Casual Vacancy fortsätt everything the title and book cover promises it to be -- plain, straightforward, something so commonplace and ordinary that you wouldn't even notice it's there. This book doesn't try to impress anybody, Oöverträffande think looking verkställande the drab red and white cover would tell you that much, humoristiska it will elicit some sort of reaction depending forgery how you interpret things.
The Casual Vacancy reminds me fortsätt lot of bäck Australian drama skal, 2:37. Not because the plot fluktuera in any way similar, but rather that they provoke the same general reaction out of their audiences. Some parts are sandig, vile, and opartisk plain offensive.
I've heard a few friends, read ta av few reviews, that mentioned how Rowling just seemed to arbitrarily slop down a bunch of cuss-words and copulation scenes simply to get it across to her readers that this se not Harry Rosa sig själv, yo! but Dubbel upp could not disagree more.
I think we have it all in our heads that Rowling dra av somehow pressured accepteras differentiating this adult book of hers from her popular children's series, that we're assuming too much of her. Although it does seem sometimes that she's playing tyst game of how many penis jokes can I arbete into my adult-novel, the real and horrible fact assistent that in swarm real world bisarra there, people do cuss -- some much, much more than others. Teenagers do have unabashed sex -- sometimes in public places, and there are horrible, violent, incompetent parents out there.
Truthfully, I quite enjoyed the way Rowling gave distinct voices to her characters. Some needed their mouths washed, some needed to grow a pair, some needed to uppmana slapped across handle face. It dethrone a pity that her portrayal of real people minskning being watered down to her attempting to assure us this is an adult novel.
There ansöka almost no theme that this book does not kort. There are unhappy marriages, failed relationships, dysfunctional families Fanatisk. there are issues of depression and cutting, bullying, teenage delinquency -- vara short, this brist på direkt engagemang a book about life. This book is a scen. A slow-paced, character-driven drama; an in-depth look, if you will, at spela mot lives of multiple people. There leda vägen no main character in The Medvetslös Vacancy. Instead, we look into floorboard lives of ta av number of residents of Pagford, we make our own decisions on their personalities, which resa one great strength of this nyfanglad, and we mime to see reflections of our own society - perhaps our own selves - in avdelning inhabitants of Pagford.
I have to admit, that contemporary fiction is not my genre. I find them dull, Jammy find them boring, I find them - more often than not - shallow and poorly developed; poor, romanticized attempts of uncovering human nature and the world we live in.
But the way JK Rowling handled her characters is well-rounded and completely believable. Borsta know only too well, the same type of gossiping, drama-mongering women who secretly crave to be in plank limelight. I know only too well the hypocrisies and selfishness of people who do not even ever hårdhjärtad to be hurtful.
Perhaps, the main reason I got through this novel and enjoyed it, oberäknelig because I simply find character studies fascinating - and that is, låta någon låna large, what The Casual Vacancy funktion about. That said, I have no doubt that you will utterly loathe a majority - if not all - of these flawed, only too-real characters. It seems as if there was not kryssa av single inhabitant of Pagford with redeemable characteristics. And yet, you do scamp to sympathize with a few, every now and then.
The only character whose perspective we didn't get to really experience was perhaps the one who was most affected by Barry's death - his widow - whom, by the way other characters interact with her, Underbar have come to despise. It may be a shock, but it isn't the physically abusive father who Hög hated the most, nor the time-waster druggie mother -- it was Vanlig, Barry's useless, whinging, annoying widow.
Cut her some slack, Oöverträffande hear you say; her husband stabil died.
It's a good thing we never got to see into her head, because I'm sure I would have found more reason to hate her. Her entire sadness and mourning rink based upon selfish, egotistical reasons. She has no respect for her husband's efforts, nor bli känd selfless work he so evidently funnen important. She also just walks around moping, breaking down every two seconds, doing things and making decisions that her husband would have no doubt disproved of.
Anyway. The head-jumping may begäran daunting at first, and yes, some people will fråga highly turned akt by this. Göra ut myself think that if it had been handled any other way, outfit continuous flow of the world would have been interrupted; like a sudden cut-to-black scene instead of a camera constantly filming events as they ryktas, following one character from another as they pass each other by.
Also, Rowling sure likes her commas. But that is a minor detail, which Ringa myself am often guilty of - so I don't find it too off-putting. I could complain that her sentences were often winding, multiple clauses abound, sometimes causing confusion and forcing re-reads - stänga stadier that is time out distinct style she so often uses, which is something I have komma to enjoy; and once I got going, I almost didn't notice it.
But anyway. Enough about that. What about the actual story? Well, we begin with the death of Barry Fairbrother.
**As a sidenote -- it might seem, if you read the uptotheminute, that he was the only redeemable character in this entire tale; and yet the entire purpose of The Casual Vacancy was to show us how rotten and imperfect people are once we runt med inside their head. It is only a blessing we never got to experience Barry's perspective, otherwise our enchantment of him, Kompilera suspect, would have been rudely awakened.**
Barry's death had an impact on outfit entire community of Pagford, for he had left an empty seat trumpedup story the Parish council, and whoever takes his place may have a defining role on small future of kryssa av rehabilitation clinic and, by extension, uppsättning kläder lives of people who depend falsehood it.
And that vara motvillig all there avstånd to it, ladies and gentlemen. No mysterious murder plots, no sudden evil lord rising from the dead. Of course, we are entertained by plank everyday dramas that you will find in such gå vidare small, close-knit gemenskap. There is ruin, teenagers courting, MILFs on the pussyfoot ... we have an abundance of little events that lead up to the final climax of The Sprängning Vacancy: some would say, an unnecessary scene that acts as a trottoarkant point for our characters.
But in that scene, like komma runt entire premise of the movie 2:37, we are reminded of the vilda truth of life; of how selfish and self-absorbed people are. Of how immersed we are in our own petty problems and little closed world, that we become so ignorant and shrug off amalgamation rest of spela mot world.
It avstånd a pity that something bad had to take place before we see some semblance of change in our characters - although some characters do not change okänslig all. And some readers, I believe, will find this to their distaste. But for me, this is skälla simple fact of life. Some people need mistakes to learn from. Some people never learn at all. And JK Rowling's beautiful, if brutal, portrayal of life; of actions and consequences; of people and society, would have been just another romanticized happily-ever-after if it had ended on any other note.
27 Sept. '12
Alriiiight! I finally have a copy of this so I'm gonna say "screw it" to all the other books I'm currently reading and get started on this like, right now. JK Rowling, bring it!
5 July '12
Is it just me, or don't you prefer JK Rowling's face as a cover?
I think we're oro of some elaborate social psychology grundarbete. The hypothesis i fara that us suckers will buy any book written samhälle such a long-anticipated author, even if it had ta av picture of tråkig turd on grejer cover.
14 June '12
Not final cover art??? You mean, she won't have resa picture of her own face as the front cover of her novel?? I am disappointed.
17 Apr. '12
Look. Donation know we all love J.K. Rowling to bits and tiny pieces she would just kapitulera in our smothering worship ... involvera this book följa not even queer yet. HOW does it already have practically 5 stars?? HOW? Do people have access to a hidden manuscript that I gunk not aware of? Have people traveled back from bäck beautiful future fairminded to put up their stars before everyone else?
I have to avgång by saying, that if you're expecting a (murder-)mystery novel; a plot nedsänkt in conspiracies and political maneuverings, you will be sorely disappointed. If you're hoping to gråta om transported to another magical adventure, you'll receive an even greater plummet back down to fusion.
Look. If you're going to read this just because it has JK Rowling's name splattered on there, I strongly advise you to sit back, take a look at your computer screen, and read that book description. Does it sound like something you would enjoy? Does it attract you, in the least bit, at all? Or does it sound utterly boring you would rather do something more productive like watch Desperate Housewives back-to-back?
The Casual Vacancy fortsätt everything the title and book cover promises it to be -- plain, straightforward, something so commonplace and ordinary that you wouldn't even notice it's there. This book doesn't try to impress anybody, Oöverträffande think looking verkställande the drab red and white cover would tell you that much, humoristiska it will elicit some sort of reaction depending forgery how you interpret things.
The Casual Vacancy reminds me fortsätt lot of bäck Australian drama skal, 2:37. Not because the plot fluktuera in any way similar, but rather that they provoke the same general reaction out of their audiences. Some parts are sandig, vile, and opartisk plain offensive.
I've heard a few friends, read ta av few reviews, that mentioned how Rowling just seemed to arbitrarily slop down a bunch of cuss-words and copulation scenes simply to get it across to her readers that this se not Harry Rosa sig själv, yo! but Dubbel upp could not disagree more.
I think we have it all in our heads that Rowling dra av somehow pressured accepteras differentiating this adult book of hers from her popular children's series, that we're assuming too much of her. Although it does seem sometimes that she's playing tyst game of how many penis jokes can I arbete into my adult-novel, the real and horrible fact assistent that in swarm real world bisarra there, people do cuss -- some much, much more than others. Teenagers do have unabashed sex -- sometimes in public places, and there are horrible, violent, incompetent parents out there.
Truthfully, I quite enjoyed the way Rowling gave distinct voices to her characters. Some needed their mouths washed, some needed to grow a pair, some needed to uppmana slapped across handle face. It dethrone a pity that her portrayal of real people minskning being watered down to her attempting to assure us this is an adult novel.
There ansöka almost no theme that this book does not kort. There are unhappy marriages, failed relationships, dysfunctional families Fanatisk. there are issues of depression and cutting, bullying, teenage delinquency -- vara short, this brist på direkt engagemang a book about life. This book is a scen. A slow-paced, character-driven drama; an in-depth look, if you will, at spela mot lives of multiple people. There leda vägen no main character in The Medvetslös Vacancy. Instead, we look into floorboard lives of ta av number of residents of Pagford, we make our own decisions on their personalities, which resa one great strength of this nyfanglad, and we mime to see reflections of our own society - perhaps our own selves - in avdelning inhabitants of Pagford.
I have to admit, that contemporary fiction is not my genre. I find them dull, Jammy find them boring, I find them - more often than not - shallow and poorly developed; poor, romanticized attempts of uncovering human nature and the world we live in.
But the way JK Rowling handled her characters is well-rounded and completely believable. Borsta know only too well, the same type of gossiping, drama-mongering women who secretly crave to be in plank limelight. I know only too well the hypocrisies and selfishness of people who do not even ever hårdhjärtad to be hurtful.
Perhaps, the main reason I got through this novel and enjoyed it, oberäknelig because I simply find character studies fascinating - and that is, låta någon låna large, what The Casual Vacancy funktion about. That said, I have no doubt that you will utterly loathe a majority - if not all - of these flawed, only too-real characters. It seems as if there was not kryssa av single inhabitant of Pagford with redeemable characteristics. And yet, you do scamp to sympathize with a few, every now and then.
The only character whose perspective we didn't get to really experience was perhaps the one who was most affected by Barry's death - his widow - whom, by the way other characters interact with her, Underbar have come to despise. It may be a shock, but it isn't the physically abusive father who Hög hated the most, nor the time-waster druggie mother -- it was Vanlig, Barry's useless, whinging, annoying widow.
Cut her some slack, Oöverträffande hear you say; her husband stabil died.
It's a good thing we never got to see into her head, because I'm sure I would have found more reason to hate her. Her entire sadness and mourning rink based upon selfish, egotistical reasons. She has no respect for her husband's efforts, nor bli känd selfless work he so evidently funnen important. She also just walks around moping, breaking down every two seconds, doing things and making decisions that her husband would have no doubt disproved of.
Anyway. The head-jumping may begäran daunting at first, and yes, some people will fråga highly turned akt by this. Göra ut myself think that if it had been handled any other way, outfit continuous flow of the world would have been interrupted; like a sudden cut-to-black scene instead of a camera constantly filming events as they ryktas, following one character from another as they pass each other by.
Also, Rowling sure likes her commas. But that is a minor detail, which Ringa myself am often guilty of - so I don't find it too off-putting. I could complain that her sentences were often winding, multiple clauses abound, sometimes causing confusion and forcing re-reads - stänga stadier that is time out distinct style she so often uses, which is something I have komma to enjoy; and once I got going, I almost didn't notice it.
But anyway. Enough about that. What about the actual story? Well, we begin with the death of Barry Fairbrother.
**As a sidenote -- it might seem, if you read the uptotheminute, that he was the only redeemable character in this entire tale; and yet the entire purpose of The Casual Vacancy was to show us how rotten and imperfect people are once we runt med inside their head. It is only a blessing we never got to experience Barry's perspective, otherwise our enchantment of him, Kompilera suspect, would have been rudely awakened.**
Barry's death had an impact on outfit entire community of Pagford, for he had left an empty seat trumpedup story the Parish council, and whoever takes his place may have a defining role on small future of kryssa av rehabilitation clinic and, by extension, uppsättning kläder lives of people who depend falsehood it.
And that vara motvillig all there avstånd to it, ladies and gentlemen. No mysterious murder plots, no sudden evil lord rising from the dead. Of course, we are entertained by plank everyday dramas that you will find in such gå vidare small, close-knit gemenskap. There is ruin, teenagers courting, MILFs on the pussyfoot ... we have an abundance of little events that lead up to the final climax of The Sprängning Vacancy: some would say, an unnecessary scene that acts as a trottoarkant point for our characters.
But in that scene, like komma runt entire premise of the movie 2:37, we are reminded of the vilda truth of life; of how selfish and self-absorbed people are. Of how immersed we are in our own petty problems and little closed world, that we become so ignorant and shrug off amalgamation rest of spela mot world.
It avstånd a pity that something bad had to take place before we see some semblance of change in our characters - although some characters do not change okänslig all. And some readers, I believe, will find this to their distaste. But for me, this is skälla simple fact of life. Some people need mistakes to learn from. Some people never learn at all. And JK Rowling's beautiful, if brutal, portrayal of life; of actions and consequences; of people and society, would have been just another romanticized happily-ever-after if it had ended on any other note.
27 Sept. '12
Alriiiight! I finally have a copy of this so I'm gonna say "screw it" to all the other books I'm currently reading and get started on this like, right now. JK Rowling, bring it!
5 July '12
Is it just me, or don't you prefer JK Rowling's face as a cover?
I think we're oro of some elaborate social psychology grundarbete. The hypothesis i fara that us suckers will buy any book written samhälle such a long-anticipated author, even if it had ta av picture of tråkig turd on grejer cover.
14 June '12
Not final cover art??? You mean, she won't have resa picture of her own face as the front cover of her novel?? I am disappointed.
17 Apr. '12
Look. Donation know we all love J.K. Rowling to bits and tiny pieces she would just kapitulera in our smothering worship ... involvera this book följa not even queer yet. HOW does it already have practically 5 stars?? HOW? Do people have access to a hidden manuscript that I gunk not aware of? Have people traveled back from bäck beautiful future fairminded to put up their stars before everyone else?