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The Sense of an Ending
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bookshelves: booker, short, british, mcewan-barnes-coetzee-and-co, favorites, 1001
Sep 26, 2014
bookshelves: booker, short, british, mcewan-barnes-coetzee-and-co, favorites, 1001
4.5*
Update: There is going to be a movie after the book and it is coming out this month! if interested you can see the trailer here: https://www.facebook.com/vintagebooks...
A story about the unreliability of memory and how we can chose to forget or to reinvent the past in order not to remember disturbing truths.
I discovered this book by Julian Barnes when reading comments about Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan which is a book I also enjoyed. The tone of the story is quite similar in some ways. Barnes, McEwan and Coetzee have a way with words that I find brilliant. They use simple prose but with such a punch.
I am not fully satisfied about how the author finished the book and left some of the events unexplained. Maybe that was the intention but I would have liked to understand a little bit better the reason behind some of Veronica's behavior.
Update: There is going to be a movie after the book and it is coming out this month! if interested you can see the trailer here: https://www.facebook.com/vintagebooks...
A story about the unreliability of memory and how we can chose to forget or to reinvent the past in order not to remember disturbing truths.
I discovered this book by Julian Barnes when reading comments about Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan which is a book I also enjoyed. The tone of the story is quite similar in some ways. Barnes, McEwan and Coetzee have a way with words that I find brilliant. They use simple prose but with such a punch.
I am not fully satisfied about how the author finished the book and left some of the events unexplained. Maybe that was the intention but I would have liked to understand a little bit better the reason behind some of Veronica's behavior.
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September 26, 2014
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True, but it has a fabulous cast, including Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode, Emily Mortimer, and James Wilby.
True, but it has ..." I am excited about the cast as well.
The promise was fulfilled, imo.
The promise was fulfilled, imo." You saw the movie? How was it? Was it faithful to the novel or a bit changed?
I read The sense of An Ending 3 years ago but I answered to a comment and that's why it got into my feed. However, I am currently reading his new book. it is obvious from the beginning that one of the main themes is the unreliability of memory, the same as in this one. It is so obvious, that everybody who read both books started comparing the two novels. I wonder if it was a intentional, If he wrote it as a Sense of An Ending part 2?
The link worked. Thanks! It looks like an interesting movie
perceive it as a philosophy of human nothingness, and the need for constant search, in the satisfaction of pride. And you know what ? Both sides see correctly.
perceive it as a philosophy of human nothingness, and the need for constant s..." I would probably see both. I would say something like men and their pride :))
Two defining features...