And then just a few other pet peeves: 1. The long philosophical conversations that are supposedly so profound?
In fact, they often devolve into syllogistic jokes that are neither interesting nor meaningful to the story. The Phaistos disc. I thought you were going to take that somewhere -- anywhere! But no. What a waste. What was with the sudden switch up for the past or so pages. Suddenly I was reading something uncannily like The Da Vinci code. It was much more entertaining. An ambitious book. So the main characters are all polymaths, well-read but otherwise shallow, symbols really. And they're male too.
Oh, there are females characters, but they conceive and then get felled by a lightning-struck tree; or they sneak in a younger man's bedroom and then leave in the morning without speaking. Although, in gender-fairness, a male can be sitting, about to uncover the secret to the universe, and a meteorite comes out of the sky and pulverizes him.
Sorry, I'm just bitter because the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday clinched their record-setting 20th consecutive losing season. And then there's the whole Ryder Cup thing. This book had more than a few wonderful moments.
A father? What about you? Never quite thought about it that simply. Ultimately, I thought the plot couldn't keep up with the lofty ambition of the book.
They go searching, searching, searching for the true, the only answer, the key to unlock it all. It's drumroll, please , the, uh, Ark of the Covenant, and the Ten Commandments. Raiders of the Lost Ark but without the whip and the snakes. But, c'mon. The whip and the snakes were the best part. A highlight of Dutch literature, but a bit uneven in quality. The first pages are sublime, especially in the drawing of the love triangle Onno-Ada-Max.
Every page is a gem, and the situation sketches sometimes are very ingenious. But then the story falters: starting with the comatose state of Ada the suspense slips; the Bildungsroman that follows around Quinten is quite readable, but the detective story with which the novel ends in the final chapter to me was an anti-climax.
Just like Hugo Claus the king of Flemish literature , Mulisch the king of literature in the Netherlands seems to lapse into automatisms: often pedanticly boasting with his knowledge and insights, often also too verbose and inserting personal experiences in a too obvious way.
Nevertheless: this is absolutely worth reading! Michael Hall. No mere summary could cover the depths to be found within this novel.
Trying to summarize it would not give justice to it's brilliance and complexity. It is not a book to be taken lightly as it requires time to be set aside for it. You will need to want to be challenged as well as entertained before beginning this book. At only pages it still took me three weeks and some odd days to read. Not because it was slow and boring, but because it often distracted me enough to put the book down in order to go wander around thinking about something that arose from the dialogue within.
This is a beautiful tale of friendship and family delivered in the midst of ideas. Ideas of an epic scale. The discussions are everywhere: science, religion, politics, architecture, family, linguistics, art, music, and almost everything else that you will find in a full and rich life. There are many philosophical, as well as meta-physical, tangents that spring up in almost every conversation. Converstions that are intelligent, diverse, probing, witty, and often complicated.
My only complaint is that at times I would feel that the main character, Onno, liked to talk just a little too much! The overarching plot, that wraps around the story of our characters, deals with a conversation between two angels in which a subordinate, tasked with having the Ten Commandments returned to Heaven, is explaining his reasoning behind actions that result in certain coincidences that affects the fate of each character involved in order to lead up to the conclusion at the end.
Human knowledge frightens and appalls the divine, and actually threatens their superiority -- so something must be done! Kudos for Mulisch for writing such a masterpiece that is so much more than the usual literary fluff found on a bestseller list. Cinzia DuBois. Author 1 book 2, followers. Ok, so I was incredibly excited to read this book. It's one of those books I've put off for a couple of years to 'savour' the excitement. I began reading and was immediately disappointed with the contrived and forcefully formal dialectic and narrative in both the prologue between two overtly sexist angels and chapter one.
I decided to try and round off these two factors formality and sexism as perhaps character traits which would blend into a narrative and become either criticised or mocked. The angels' philosophical discussion was One angel asked the other about a subject, the other angel acknowledged they knew about the subject, and yet the former angel proceeded to tell the other all about the subject in great detail as if the other angel was totally ignorant of the subject.
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