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Cargando... Perfect Days: A Novel (2014)por Raphael Montes
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Horrific, if you like that sort of thing. Which I do. ( ) This was a crazy ride! There were so many twists to it. It opens with Teo, a med student, talking about his obsession for a corpse used in one of his classes. She, presumably, is his first “love.” He then meets Clarice, a live girl who gives him a drunken kiss. He decides to kidnap her to “help” her finish her screenplay called Perfect Days. He imagines they will have perfect days together and she will fall in love with him. Then comes marriage in his fantasy. From that moment on it’s just absolute insanity. At one point, I didn’t know who was captive and who was torturing who. You need to read it to find out how that occurred and if anyone survives. I will say the ending had me hyperventilating a little with how crazy it could go. To be honest, the only character I really liked was the dog and maybe Clarice’s father. I normally don’t enjoy a book where I dislike so many characters. In this one, though, I was caught up in the craziness of everything. The author either has an amazing imagination or is in need of therapy. If you are looking for a crazy thriller, try this one. This was just a whole bunch of meh. I first learned of this book through a promotional video. It did its job and intrigued me. In case you're wondering, I believe the three pages in question from the video are pages 196-198 of the hardcover version, which to be honest, I didn't find all that shocking, but they're the only three pages that could possibly elicit that kind of a response. If you liked [b:Gone Girl|19288043|Gone Girl|Gillian Flynn|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1397056917s/19288043.jpg|13306276], or even the movie Boxing Helena, you might enjoy this. Might. Depends on whether you can excuse the mostly plotless plot, or the oceans of tell, don't show (that I'm not sure whether to blame on the author or the translator). The entire book is stuffed to the brim with He did this. He did that. He knew this. He felt that. He said this. He understood that. I found myself craving some actual action, some specific dialogue, or for the plot to finally advance. I will say, it did pick up some steam around the halfway point, when finally...something happened. But, then the author must have realized he was getting into some actual thriller writing and quickly shut that shit down again, right about at the point where the promotional video chose to showcase those three pages. So, don't fall for the video. For a thriller, this is one of the more toothless ones I've read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, Teo kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he keeps digging himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley--a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath. It marks the English language debut of one of Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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