Thoughts on: Night

Sadly, this is not a fiction book. It is more of a memoir kind of book. Eliezer Wiesel tells the story of how he lived through the concentration camps in WWII. It is a really captivating story, a really sad and horror story. I quite enjoyed the writing style of the author, it was smooth and to the point. I gave this book 3.5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.

Lo que pienso de: Nosotros

Éste es el libro distópico más antiguo que he leído. Fue escrito unos cuantos años después de la formación de la URSS, y en cierta medida refleja esa decepción de ver cómo la revolución se había convertido en un proyecto de nación represivo y riguroso.

"Nosotros" habla sobre un futuro en el que el Estado Único regula a todos bajo un sistema basado en el razonamiento, la lógica y las matemáticas. Nadie ya tiene nombre, todos son asignados un número, el del protagonista es D-503, y es el constructor del Integral, una nave que tiene como objetivo explorar y quizá colonizar otros planetas. En este mundo no existe un "yo individual", hay una pérdida de la individualidad, de la privacidad y de la imaginación. La fantasía es considerada una enfermedad.

D comienza a escribir una especie de diario para lanzarlo junto con El Integral, y por eso el libro está escrito en forma de anotaciones. Conforme va transcurriendo la novela, vemos como D comienza a cambiar progresivamente.

Le di 3.5 de 5 estrellas en Goodreads.

SPOILERS:

En las distopías siempre parece ser que hay alguien que afecta al personaje principal en su forma de pensar. Y, curiosamente, siempre es una mujer, como en 1984 es Julia, en Fahrenheit 451 es la niñita, en Nosotros es I-330.

Algo que creo que me llamó la atención fue que D piensa que hay "dos" como él que habitan su cuerpo; y que el verdadero es el cotidiano, cuando el oro, es el auténtico; es el que está despertando.

Finalmente, me sorprendió la similitud que tiene este libro con 1984. Sin duda, Orwell tomó muchos elementos para su novela de este libro. En especial el final, es similarmente aterrador.

Thoughts on: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I know this is kind of a classic. However, even when it is so short, it took me a while to read it because I was tremendously bored by it. I did not get the whole story, I even had to start re reading it because I spend days without opening it. I did not get why is it considered to be spooky. Honestly I did not really cared about the story that much.

I gave it 2 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.

Thoughts on: Destroy Me

This a Shatter Me novella. It is from Warner's POV. And we kind of learn more about his character and how he really is. He turns out to be a maniac for control (maybe OCD). Also, we kind of see a glimpse of his dad, the supreme commander of The Reestablishment. 

I gave this 3 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. 

SPOILERY COMMENTS: 

Turns out Warner has a reason to everything he does. For example the excuse of "using Juliette as a weapon" was just to have access to her. I mean, somehow, it is trying to prove that he too is not that bad. 

It was until chapter 8 (maybe) when I started to felt sympathy towards him, when he started to read her diary. 

What really caught my attention was that he apparently bumped on Juliette's case by looking for something else.What was he looking for? And it is related to people with superpowers?

Thoughts on: Shatter Me

This is a dystopian book that centers in Juliette, a girl that has a lethal touch and because of that, she's been locked in a kind of asylum for over 200 days. However, one day a guy enters her cell and everything changes. The government is called The Reestablishment and the section where she is is led by a young man named Warner. The world is so different, everything related to nature has vanished. 

This is a book with a really slow beginning, but somehow manages to pick up very good at the last half of it. The last 150 pages are probably the best of the novel. In general, I think I was expecting to like this book so much more than I actually did, I even thought it was really a hyped up book. 

I gave this book 3.5 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. It is not bad, I liked it, but it certainly was not really amazing. 

SPOILERY COMMENTS: 

This is a story that was kind of predictable at times. For example, I sort of guessed that maybe Warner wants everyone to be afraid of her because he does not want anyone to touch/hurt her. 

I am not so sure I like Juliette so much, I mean, I know she's been through a lot but I just do not sympathize with the idea of people who do not want to fight, who jut give up. I know her character is in constant change and she starts to develop by the end of the book, however at first I did not like that about her. Nonetheless, I really liked the character development of hers. How she was so scared and confused at first and then self-confident later. Also, that is quite noticeable in the way the book is written, the way the text is (at first there were so many crossed words and then almost none).