Thursday, November 29, 2007

Impressions


Personally, I found the book absolutely stunning. The first thing that is special is that everything except the author’s speech is written in slang and in the way that it sounds. This helps you to imagine events and dialogs more vividly, makes you think even on simple words and in the end you realize that those simple words can often mean much more than they seem.
The plot is just fascinating. The love that Janie finds at last after so many years of hardships and misunderstandings is what she deserved and is just what everybody is looking for. Although not always ideal, but true and corresponding with your emotions, it makes you feel you’re living through it together with Janie. Everything that happens in it – be it joy or jealousy, divine bliss or disaster, you find confirmation to all this in your heart and you really feel the characters, making projections on your own experience. When the author explains the acts of her characters you start to understand some things in the psychology of the sexes and even in the special traits of another mentality.
The ending is totally unexpected and at first unwelcome. You start asking yourself questions like “Why should bliss end, especially like this? Why can’t it last for ever, at least on paper if not in life?” And then comes the realization that it actually can’t, we get used to good things so quickly that soon we don’t know it’s bliss until we’ve lost it. It’s not the “…And they lived happily ever after” books that leave a trace in the soul, but those that have the open, questioning ends, that first open you up, and then make you ache, make you cry and make you learn lessons. This is just one of such books, you’ll never forget it once you’ve read it.
It might look a bit contradicting with all the aching and crying I’ve mentioned above, but I’m
SURE
YOU WILL
ENJOY!

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