The Storyteller: A Novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Author: Mario Vargas LlosaTranslator: Helen Lane
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11-03
ISBN: 0312420285
Number of pages: 245
Publisher: Picador
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- ISBN13: 9780312420284
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Storyteller: A Novel
Book Review: A book with no meaning
Summary: 2 Stars
My opinion of this book is that it has a slow plot, no action, and is difficult to follow. In the beginning, the narrator is in an art gallery in Venice, Italy.(This you don't even find out until the end of the book). During this flashback, there are storys within the flashback, you can never tell whether it is a memory or a fictious story about the native tribes. Throughout the whole book, you believe that the narrator is searching for his lost friend saul, when in fact he is just remembering the past experiences he had during his time spent in South America.
The book has no action at all. Near the end, about 200 pages into the book you expect a climax or a life threatening situation, but you are quickly dissapointed as you near the end of the book, about page 235, because there has not been any action. There wasn't even an instance in the book where a tribesman or any other person in the book faced a dillema.
When you near the end of the book, it is evident that the book had not gone anywhere, it ended in the same place it started, back in the art gallery in Venice. The plot is dry, also. To make the story somewhat interesting, the author decided to add mythical machiguenga story's passed down for over one thousand years. These instances are where the book gets confusing, because the author does not specify where these story's come into play in the book, they often pop up in the middle of a thought or paragraph. If the author had not "padded" his story with these irrelivant story's, the book would be half as long, and thus, half as boring.
My opinion is this book is dry, boring, long, and seems to drag on. On top of all this, the book is very confusing, and the chapters are so spread out that it is hard to stop reading in the middle of a chapter, or you will be lost the next time you pick up the book. This is not a recommended book by me.
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