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Cargando... Warp: A Novel (1997 original; edición 2016)por Lev Grossman (Autor)
Información de la obraWarp por Lev Grossman (1997)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. What the fuck was the point of this book? In the introduction, Grossman tells us it took him five years to write this steaming turd. Five years? Was that to look up all the cultural and television references? What a goddamned waste of time. The only thing that could possibly make this worse is a soundtrack of horrible 90s songs to go along with it. You know what I mean. A CD mixtape filled with Sugar Ray, Billy Ray Cyrus, Limp Bizkit, Lou Bega, Smash Mouth, Chumbawumba, and that fucking No Rain song by Blind Melon. This is the kind of book I wish Goodreads would allow zero, or negative stars for. Hollis has just graduated from college but in no hurry to find a stable job. He seems to spend a lot of time sleeping or going on mischievous trips with his friends. I like some of the characters and wish some of the relationships went deeper like Hollis and Xanth. They were interesting. They meet in a unique way. I don’t understand why he never talks to his friends about Xanth though. I would have read a whole book about Xanth and Hollis. I had hoped for more with this book. Not much happens. The story builds in many places and then never pays off. It just loses steam and becomes a story about nothing. It’s like the Seinfield of novels. If you are a fan of Catcher In The Rye then you will probably like Warp. Hollis is very like a modern-day Holden. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life." Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too much, drink too much, talk too much, and work and earn and do way too little. But Hollis does have an obsession: there's another world going on in his head, a world of excitement and danger and starships and romance, and it's telling him that it's time to stop dreaming and get serious. This re-publication of Lev Grossman's debut novel, Warp, shows the roots of his Magicians hero Quentin Coldwater in a book that is for anyone (and everyone) who has ever felt adrift in their own life. "--"Hollis lives in an area not too far from where he graduated from college. His friends do, too. They all sleep late, talk about jobs they might get, girls they might date, money their parents might send them. In other words, their lives are seemingly on hold. Everything is going to happen. But despite the day-to-day boredom, Hollis has something to bolster him: Another reality is constantly running through his head, and it's one that leads him to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, it's time to get serious. Greatly exceeding typical tales of post-graduation angst, Lev Grossman has written a lucid and immediate novel of what and where a twenty-something's mind is when it isn't even made up yet"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This was not a good introduction to Grossman's work. I only picked it up because I've heard the name and good thing said about Grossman, but I haven't read him yet.
This book reminded me of Arthur Dent (from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) trying to appreciate the literature on Bartledam: The main character gets up, repairs a road, plays netball, and dies two thirds of the way through the book from thirst because there was a throwaway line in the second chapter about a problem with the plumbing, and the rest of the book was about road mending and stopped mid-sentence at the 100,000th word because that's how long books are on Barteldam.
Nothing happens in the book. If any good has come out of reading this, I'll never speak in movie quotes again. ( )