Livros que você já leu em 2013

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Postado originalmente por slann

As Vantagens de Ser Invisível(Stephen Chbosky) 223Pgs
*Nota 10

Li em 2 dias. Esse livro me supreendeu demais, não esperava que me envolvesse tanto em algo que olhava de canto nas prateleiras. Só tenho a agradecer a pessoa que me presenteou.

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Assisti ao filme e achei sensacional.
Comprei o ebook pro kindle, só vou terminar desespero e carrie pra começar a ler...

Li Mistborn : The Final Empire, do autor Brandon Sanderson.

É um primeiro de uma trilogia. Brandon Sanderson é um dos melhores autores que já li, a partir desse livro decidi que vou ler todos dele. Já encomendei Warbreaker e Elantris.

Páginas: 643
Nota: 8.5.
(Só não é 9 ou 9.5 por causa do final, que achei pouco realístico.)

Vou colocar aqui a review que fiz dele no goodreads, tá em inglês, mas é muito grande pra traduzir.

Spoiler: Review

Mistborn : The Final Empire is really, really good, and certainly among the best fantasy books I've ever read.

I really like Sanderson's style of building worlds that we know little to nothing about it's history and how it came to be the way it is in the sotry, but consistently find out little pieces of the puzzle about it throughout the books. It kind of creates a side story, in which we not only care about the fates of the current characters living the actual plot of the book, but also are excited to get to the end to know the reason behind all the unnatural phenomenons.

The characters are very well-written, and it's hard not to like every one of them. Some of them are somewhat stereotypical (Vin, Ham, Breeze), but that didn't bother me because they play their roles wonderfully. The caliginous environment is very fitting to the story.

In the first few chapters, I had found the magic system kind of silly and unimportant, but as Vin learns to master Allomancy, so does the reader start to really understand it. Now, by the end of the book I consider it one of the best magic systems I've ever read about, and sometimes I like to daydream about what I would do if I could burn Tin, Pewter, Soothe people or use Feruchemy in real life.

A couple aspects unrelated to the story, but that I liked about this book:
1) I like how the author gives his characters names that aren't too common to the real world but are still easy to pronounce and remember. I hate it when fantasy has unnatural names with lots of apostrophes or too many consonants.
2) The chapters' lengths are not too long, but not too short - perfect, and have a lot of small intermissions where I can stop for a quick break without losing focus.

Having said all that, I'm going to give it 4 stars for now, because there were a couple of things that really irked me at the ending (specifically, the last 3 chapters).

Spoiler: Final do livro

The first thing that bothered me is how Vin killed the Lord Ruler. Ok, I know she's supposed to be the heroin of the book and she *probably* is the new Hero Of Ages (I haven't read the other books), but she found out how to defeat him only using only a last minute realization and a small special ability, at a time where she had a broken leg and was dying of exhaustion, having only a few seconds to live. Why didn't the Lord Ruler retaliate at the time? It seemed like the author just needed an excuse to kill the bad guy before the book finished, and it ended up looking a little too easy. I mean, the Lord Ruler killed Kelsier by tearing half of his face off with a simple bitch-slap.

The other point is that, in my opinion, the author kind of threw away all of his efforts on making the world, the characters and their interrelations believable, when he made Elend king. Ok, I know he threw a bad ass speech at some point, and he studied a lot about politics and knows his nation's history. But, even though I don't know much about politics or group behavior, it seemed overly unrealistic that the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of skaa rebels in the city would accept a nobleman of only twenty-one years, who was heir to the most powerful and (as far as we know) the most oppressive noble house to the skaa, as their king. And also, could he have convinced Dockson, Breeze, Ham and Clubs to agree to that? How could they have handed the empire to a boy they barely knew and obviously had prejudice against? It would have made much more sense if Dockson or Breeze (or even Ham) had been the one to take the command.

Comecei ontem o segundo, The Well of Ascension, e depois acho que posto a review.

Desespero - Stephen King
Páginas: 686 (edição de bolso)
Nota: 6

O livro é legal e me prendeu até as ultimas 200 paginas, onde li só por obrigação pra começar a ler logo Carrie.
As ultimas 200 paginas são incrivelmente chatas e o final é ruim.

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Carrie, a Estranha - Stephen King
Páginas: 162
Nota: 10++

Incrivelmente escrito em cima de estudos e notícias sobre o incidente e sobre Carrie White.
Um dos melhores (talvez o melhor) livro que já li na vida

Desterrado - Michelle Paver
Livro 4 da série "As Cronicas das Trevas Antigas". O livro é sensacional. Injustiças e revelações do passado são o foco desse livro, bem como os delírios. O livro é mais sombrio que seus anteriores e é, sem dúvida, o melhor até aqui. Inclusive, quando terminei de ler, fiquei triste por só faltar 2 livros para concluir essa série fantastica...


Páginas: 262
Nota: 10

Admirável Mundo Novo, Aldous Huxley.

Mais um clássico pra minha lista. Livro sensacional, uma brilhante, mas ao mesmo tempo terrível e profunda evocação do futuro que a humanidade possa vir a criar. E eu quero minha dose de SOMA...

10/10

Esqueci de atualizar. Já terminei "O Reverso Da Medalha", do Sidney Sheldon, e estou quase terminando "O Processo", do Franz Kafka.

Esse que estou lendo é loucura pura, chega a ser até engraçado.

O Menino do Pijama Listrado, John Boyne..

Livro muito bom, porem com um final triste.

Nota 9

95 pag.

Sempre quis ler esse livro, tinha o pdf perdido no meu pc e por acaso achei e li..

Comecei a ler "Justiça", de Michael J. Sandel.

Re-li O Hobbit depois de ver o filme e estou re-lendo O Senhor do anéis ambos do Tolkien.

senhor dos anéis: A sociedade do anel e As duas torres.

terminando o retorno do rei.