tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post4559918132779732471..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: Gute BücherHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-18234104934064627292008-05-21T20:48:00.000+00:002008-05-21T20:48:00.000+00:00Did the reader mean "little display of emotion" as...Did the reader mean "little display of emotion" as in the book itself had no emotion, or did they mean "little display of emotion" as in the main characters very seldomly displayed/expressed their emotions?<BR/><BR/>If the reader mean the former, then I disagree. The book has a lot of serious emotion to it, as well as a lot of humorous emotion too. That's one of the things I personally like about the book: its balance between seriousness and lightheartedness.<BR/><BR/>If the reader meant the latter, I would have to say that the main characters don't display their emotions all over the place because it wouldn't be very realistic if they did. Maybe the reader is a big soap opera fan and is disillusioned into thinking that every thought and emotion must be outwardly expressed by every character. The emotions the characters are feeling are displayed to the reader due to the first person narration of each character, and though they don't always express to each other what they are feeling, the emotion is there.<BR/><BR/>The part with Ludo and Red Devlin choked me up pretty bad, I have to admit.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the emotion the reader thinks the book is lacking is really lacking in the reader.nsiqueiroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308615062238352158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-31537795656155587422008-05-20T15:36:00.000+00:002008-05-20T15:36:00.000+00:00but the last samurai has the most display of emoti...but the last samurai has the most display of emotion out of any book I have ever read. I think someone needs to study hard the politics of emotion--when and where did anyone decide ideas and knowledge exchange is not an emotional act? I know that when I handed in my linguistic anthro project this morning online I thought it was very emotional, I think if I was a boy I would say even hormonal. <BR/><BR/>SMBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-63554361921593531452008-05-20T15:35:00.000+00:002008-05-20T15:35:00.000+00:00Though some early scenes were electric (and some o...Though some early scenes were electric (and some of the incidental realism of the women's environment was casually impressive) I found <I>Beyond Black</I> somewhat frustrating, for the further I got into the book, the more what initially seemed to be organically strange, perhaps inexplicable oddities of the spirit world were reduced to artifacts of a traumatic personal history. Sensible, perhaps, but rather less interesting. <BR/><BR/>I do, however, love Mantel's memoir <I>Giving Up the Ghost</I>, precisely <I>because</I> it doesn't offer answers.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.com