Steff Doles

Okay, So hear me out...

Revisado: 06-09-21

If this book had been translated into English by Winnie the Pooh, it would be Eckhart Tolle "New Earth"... That is the best description I can give you because My brain is a really weird place to live but I promise this is accurate. It's worth a read and some mindful contemplation and isn't as pompous or self-indulgent as many of its contemporaries. I found it really enjoyable.

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A rather unsettle reality check...

Revisado: 06-09-21

Orwell shows off his personal prejudices more than a few times in this book but I think that only adds to the reality check that it provides for those of us who like to believe that we aren't really part of a class system. It's certainly worth a read and some good self-reflection. Like all of Orwells work it's thought-provoking and poignant and he didn't have to delve into the world of make-believe to show us just how unfair and wrong we can be. Animal farm is still my Favorite Orwell but I would recommend this book to anyone. :)

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The Male Gaze...

Revisado: 06-09-21

I went into this story expecting great things and found just a man who treated women like objects his whole life and called it love so he could martyr himself on the alter of romanticism. The author is good at painting pictures of places and times but these characters are garbage. The women are underdeveloped and the leading man is just an obsessive jerk who has idealized and put one woman on a pedestal without ever really bothering to get to know her or take who she really is into account and while he Obsessives(not loves) over the false Modona he has created for himself he sleeps with and takes advantage of every other woman he possibly can for sex and comfort, thinking only of himself 1000% of the time even going so fare as GROOMING and MOLESTING a child that he has been trusted to care for! The Narrator did a great job but this story is just The epitome of the male gaze romanticizing the Objectafaction of women and putting us all in either Modona or Whore camps to justify the kind of objectification we get from them i.e Obsessive 'love' or Use and degradation. Ok, thanks for coming to my rant....

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Things I didn't know I wanted to know...

Revisado: 09-23-20

I feel like my only issue woth this book is that it was too short, I wanted more detail quite a few times when the story just grazed over things and moved on but I always want more story so that's just me... The story itself gives more life and character to a person I always saw as very stoic, and made her layers under that perfect surface so much easier to see and understand. Overall a really good read!

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A Beautiful New Perspective

Revisado: 08-25-20

This story was well thought out and written, compelling, and compassionate. I particularly liked the way she told some of the old stories with updates or in first person making them hit much closer to home.

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A Little Too Close For Comfort...

Revisado: 08-20-20

Firstly,
I gave George Guidall's performance 4 instead of five stars simply because he way of voicing certain characters in the book was IMO stilted and or too quick, while I understand that these things are used to differentiate the characters voices some of them really grated on me but I acknowledge this is most likely a personal issue more than something that Mr. Guidall did wrong and indeed his overall performance was quite good but I can't say that I would go out of my way to find his work in the future.

Now to the book itself.

Of course like all great politically philosophical writers Dostoevsky paints a picture that could easily be slipped into a modern frame and used to parallel many of the ugly parts of our own current society.
What I found most compelling and interesting about Dostoevsky is how achingly human his characters are, and how his whole world seems dirty and I don't mean in a crude way but more like in a real way the way that no matter how clean things are dust always collects at the edges of things, in our modern world of photoshop, filters, and carefully cultivated facebook fantasy lives we desperately try and keep the dust out of the picture but Dostoevsky presents his world to us in all its muck covered glory and that makes it so much more painful and powerful to read.
How he managed to make such horrible characters that I also wanted to weep with and for is astounding, that's the thing he does, he doesn't make monsters and men he makes monsters of men and that is much more true to the human condition.

I must admit that for perhaps the first half of this book I felt that I was dragging myself along just waiting for something, but then it all just starts to go off like fireworks around you, and the second half of the book pulls you through at breakneck speeds. So if it takes you a little while to get into, just keep trudging along and it will be worth it in the end.

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An unexpected treat.

Revisado: 01-19-20

I enjoyed this story much more than I thought i would, I expected to be upset about Marie's work being grazed over but this story was about a time when her work wasn't the main thing in her life and was very humanizing. I loved the real friendship between these two extraordinary women and love the performances of the two voice actresses it really took it to another level.

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Interesting moral ambiguity...

Revisado: 01-19-20

This story is an interesting snippet of a time and place in history that makes men who could easily just be cast as villains into anit-hero's instead. It reminds us that things are seldom just black and white and that sometimes a bad guy can be a good man...

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Always a Classic

Revisado: 01-09-20

Always a classic but the full cast makes this something special :) My only issue was the background music was sometimes distracting to me but nothing terrible.

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A conversation with a wise man.

Revisado: 01-07-20

I enjoy Baldwin's work because he always makes me feel like I'm having a conversation with a wise man. The way he writes is so personal like it's meant just for you from him, His ideas, thoughts, and feelings, laid out plainly for you to take in with a genuine hope that you'll understand. So many writers of any sort of opinion works make the reader feel like a naughty child in need of a lecture but Baldwin always feels like speaking to a friend who believes you have the ability to understand if given the chance. This is a wonderful book by a wonderful writer.

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