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Cargando... The Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen, and a Joker (2010)por Louis Sachar
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a teen book about Bridge. The card game Bridge. I feel like it's the kind of book that adults are going to LURVE because 1) it's Louis Sachar and 2) insight-multigenerational-personal-growth blah blah etc but has almost zero teen appeal. I mean, zero. That said, I liked it. The main character was likeable (although his mother? sheesh, she was horrific. like, almost cartoonishly awful.) and the relationship between Alton and his Uncle was lovely and well developed. A fast read, and it made me want to learn Bridge (which I will not actually do because it's insanely complex). I guess it isn't possible to make bridge exciting*, although Mr. Sachar really gave it the ol' college try. The non-bridge playing parts were enough to keep me interested though, with some really charmingly real characters. *Although I have to wonder: if the narrator hadn't repeatedly told me how boring it was, would I have found it as boring? sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Overall, I hated the relationship between Toni and Alton on a romantic level. It just felt weird once they had Annabel and Trapp “talking” to them during the national game.
The whale symbol and summary inclusion definitely saved me from DNFing the book as Bridge talk would certainly bored me ( )