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Thought this book would be too dry and stuffy as it delves into New York 'Society' during the 1770s - turned out this was what made it so interesting to read.
Too wierd for me but I wanted to know the ending so I kept reading. I should have just stopped and read the last couple of pages.
Impresionante! Martin ha venido jugando con mi mente para que en este libro me lleve sorpresa tras sorpresa, volviendo la historia envolvente y no he podido soltarla. Ese estilo de tanta especificidad en los personajes no llega a ser tediosa, sino por el contrario me han parecido más reales, ajenos a estereotipos, donde los "buenos" ni los "malos" existen sino...todo lo contrario! Eso si, 2,600 páginas en ese capítulo de la Red Wedding, si ameritó una pausa y creo que es uno de esos momentos por los que vale la pena hacerse adicto a la lectura. Pura fantasía, es cierto, y no creo que en el papel me quede nada práctico para usar, peroes de esos libros que HE disfrutado a conciencia.
I have not read a review of this book that seems fair, so I decided to write one of my own. This is a story of loss, unhealed grief, betrayal, love, loyalty all based around a small publishing firm that does important and interesting and challenging books not very profitably. The main character Sam Lilley, is likeable, intelligent, successful in many ways, emotionally undiscoverable in many ways. The strength of this book is not just the plot within the confines of Lilley and Chase and its story, interesting enough. especially for booklovers, booksellers, anyone who loves anything about the business of getting books to people; it is the story of its main players, particularly Sam, but also the lesser ones, the attempt to portray the individual emotional conflicts, the reasons, the inter-connectedness of all of them in their relationship to Sam. I haven't quite finished the book, but I sense where it is going. I particularly liked the fact that I felt I had learned something important about the male psyche, as I often read books with women as central (or at least shared centrality) characters. I finished the book, and while the ending is somewhat less resolved than I was expecting, it is very believable. I enjoyed this book; it is a bit quirky and book-world specific, but I think many people would enjoy reading it.