¡Me encantó! | El Juego del Ángel (Vintage Espanol)

EL JUEGO DEL ANGEL | El Juego del Ángel (Vintage Espanol) | Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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	• El Juego del Ángel (Vintage Espanol) Carlos Ruiz Zafon Vintage, 2008 - 672 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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I Didn't "Get" It

(NOTE - I read this book in Spanish, it's due out in English in June 2009)

The book is beautifully written, there were literally parts I read two or three times for the sheer beauty of the writing. However, I just couldn't get into the story.

Unlike his prior book, "La Sombra del Viento" ("Shadow of the Wind"), which I consider one of the best books I've ever read, I was never engaged with the characters. I found the story to be too long.

I thought it was too slow, had too many characters, had a confusing plot and had an unlikable (at least to me) protagonist. And then, Ruiz Zafon went all magical realism on me. He completely lost me. By the end of the book I really didn't know what was going on, or why.

But again, the writing is just so beautiful that I pretty much finished the book just to keep reading the writing, not because of the story.

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¡Me encantó!

Una vez empiezas esta novela, es difícil parar de leer. El libro está escrito en un lenguaje sencillo y de acción rápida - de una sorpresa a la otra. La descripción de Barcelona y sus alrededores pone al lector en el centro de la acción. El lector sigue el personaje principal a través de sus desventuras e intrigas para culminar en un final que, lejos de explicar el misterio, deja muchas de las historias sujetas a la interpretación del lector. Este libro lo deja pensando y atando sus propios cabos. Merece una segunda lectura.

EL JUEGO DEL ANGEL

I bought this book after I had read LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO written by the same author. To be honest, I liked much more La sombra del Viento, and I think that El juego del angel is a book that in general is based on the same idea of the previous one and in some way is takes the conceptual arquitecture of the one and bilds the argument of the second. The truth is that I enjoied much more LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO.

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En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20, un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.

Con un estilo deslumbrante e impecable el autor de La Sombra del Viento, nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance y tragedia, a través de un laberinto de traición y secretos donde el embrujo de los libros, la pasión y la amistad se conjugan en un relato magistral.

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