![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/fugue21/magnifier-left.png)
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1935928872.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... The Dream of Doctor Bantampor Jeanne Thornton
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() Julie makes lots of mistakes, as she finds her way. Her naivety rings true; when you think back to being 17, her certainty and seeing things very black and white are well approached too. Julie grows up tortuously and you really wish someone would give her some guidance and support, but even those who try get brushed aside. The people she does seek support from are not always well equipped to help. I found the novel a bit rambling and heavy going. I didn't generate much sympathy for Julie or for Patrice, who felt like a strange one-dimensional character throughout the novel, only really coming out of the shadows occasionally. This feels like a either a failing of the writing, given that Julie was grieving her sister and getting no family support, there should have been lots of sympathy or a very clever novel, not sinking in to teenage angst and obvious heart-string pulling. ![]() I guess I would describe it as a coming of age story with a difference, with our anti-heroine Julie learning to deal with loss, her budding sexuality and somehow negotiating between staying true to yourself while at the same time having adult responsibilities. Through the major flaws and weakness she sees in others, starting with her older sister's suicide, Julie figures out at a relatively young age that she only has herself to rely on, and embarks on a predictably messy journey of self- discovery. While making some spectacularly bad decisions along the way, her common sense and intelligence are clearly apparent all along through her humorous observations and biting self-awareness. Unlike most of the other characters in the book, who seem to carry auras of damage and doom around with them, Julie always gives the impression that she will come out OK in the end. ![]() (I received this book as part of the Early Reviewer program.) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Premios
Jeanne Thornton's debut novel is a love story unlike any other, featuring Julie Thatch, a tough-as-nails, chainsmoking, wise-cracking 17-year-old Texan. Her idol, her older sister, jogs headlong into the lights of an approaching car, and dies. And Julie falls in love with a girl who both is and isn't an echo of her older sister, a long-limbed Francophone named Patrice—who is also a devotee of the Institute of Temporal Illusions, a Church of Scientology-like cult. In Julie Thatch you cannot help but see shades of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. Jeanne's former writing teacher at the University of Texas, Alexander Parsons (author of Leaving Disneyland and In the Shadows of the Sun) writes: "The Dream of Doctor Bantam is one of those books you read every few years in which, page by page, you come to think of the characters as a part of your own dear, weird, and intransigent family. In Julie Thatch, Thornton has written a character as memorable and compelling as Holden Caufield or Oedipa Maas. She is alternately hilarious, maddening, and enchanting, a fearful and fearless smartass who enlivens every page of this fine novel." With illustrations by the author. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Antiguo miembro de Primeros reseñadores de LibraryThingEl libro The Dream of Doctor Bantam de Jeanne Thornton estaba disponible desde LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
![]() GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:![]()
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
I genuinely find it hard to express just how or why I adore this book so much being a sad, broken Queer disaster who loves nothing more than reading beautiful, ugly, wonderful books about her people.
***
I've given it some time, but I am struggling to write a review for this book because I loved it so very much, but can't exactly out my finger on why. I have been thinking about it so often since and, honestly, I can't wait to read it again. It's just so nihilistic and bleak, but hopeful and real and raw and grimy and hopeless and ugly and beautiful. I just can't get my thoughts together enough to do it justice. I don't think I've ever lived a book so much that I actually found it difficult to talk about.
I will re-read it once I put a tiny dent in my TBR and see how I do then.
...
This book has absolutely shattered me in the best worst, worst best way.
I can't remember a book made me just lose it sobbing this much.
This is probably my favourite book of all time.
I'll hopefully have more words once I have put myself back together. (