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Тэкст ад Kseniamultilingua - English

  • The Casual Vacancy - not my cup of tea

  • If you want to read The Casul Vacancy, pay no attention to what I say below, I am not a literary critic, even not a native-English speaker, so my humble opinion hardly counts.
  • Well, closing this unusually thick volume of five hundred pages I can finally say that I didn’t like the book.
  • Nor can I admit that I really enjoyed reading it.
  • I very much agree with a review in The Daily News.
  • I felt something wrong almost as soon as I started and it turned out that my intuition knew better.
  • But back at the beginning I decided to give it a try, to read till the page fifty and then ask myself again if I liked it or not.
  • Well, by the page fifty I had been already involved with the stories of the main charecters, so I was naturally interested what ending had J.K.
  • Rowling envisaged for the heroes.
  • Actually, I don’t quite understand why the book is titled The Casual Vacancy, because it is more about personal dramas than about who will get this vacant seat in the Parish Council.
  • This novel has only one feature I appreciate in a good book — an intricate plot.
  • That was why I finally made it through.
  • But, still the stories were not SO very captivating that I would read this book in Russian. No, never.
  • By the way, the other two indespensable features in the books I choose to put my eyes on are the style and the ability to make me laugh.
  • With The Casual Vacancy I did not laugh.
  • Not one little bit.
  • But this we can easily omit because nobody was saying this book was funny.
  • But the style… well, it didn’t come up to my expectations.
  • At least it was not to my liking.
  • It was immensly useful for me as a non-English speaker to pick up a few uselful words and phrases, but… I just didn’t feel anything special about the writer’s style.
  • I would not be able, I suppose, to recognise it at once if I was given another book of hers.
  • «Harry Potter» doesn’t count because there J.K.
  • Rowling expressed herself in a different way.
  • Why style is so important?
  • Well, when I take a book I am ready and I yearn to marvel at the way a writer puts the words together, because I myself cannot do it properly in any language.
  • So that is why the style matters so much for me.
  • I was just looking through the review on the Amazon page of the book and I cannot agree with any of the newpapers’ critics, they are all paying their tribute to «the great novel», well tasted differ.
  • And we have a very interesting picture with the customers’ reviews.
  • 639 rated the book five star, but 697 gave it only one star and while looking at these reviews you can learn loads of adjectives conveying the idea of «something not worth reading» (dull, dismal, disappointing, awful, not my cup of tea, dreary, depressing, lackluster etc.) Some of the customers mentioned «depressing» and the book really is so.
  • Everybody in the little town of Pagford is unhappy and miserable.
  • I that is one of the main reasons I didn’t fall for The Casual Vacancy.

КАЛІ ЛАСКА, ДАПАМАЖЫ ВЫПРАВІЦЬ КОЖНЫ СКАЗ! - English