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no harm, de Carol Topolski, é um dos livros mais estranhos que tenho lido nos últimos tempos, Compreio pela capa again mas também porque teria algo a ver com We need to talk about Kevin,
Todo o livro se desenrola em torno de Virginia, uma ginecologista obstetra brilhante, admirada pela sociedade médica e com quem qualquer aspirante deseja trabalhar.
Virginia é uma mulher solitária, que vive para o trabalho e que piscologicamente não é assim tão estável, a julgar pelos ataques de apetite voraz, por ser antissocial e por ter uma amiga imaginária desde a infância, Ruby.
Uma daquelas amigas que nenhum pai desejaria para uma filha, porque só a leva por mais caminhos,
Acompanhamos a vida de Virginia alternadamente nos anos, durante a sua infância solitária apenas preenchida por Ruby, e nos, onde se dedica à prática médica.
Pelo meio, conhecemos Gilda, uma paciente cujo bebé salva e de quem se torna madrinha, e Faisal, um colega admirador do seu profissionalismo.
E assim andei durante umaspáginas de um inglês um pouco mais difícil do aquele a que estou habituada, sem saber muito bem no que o livro ia dar.
Até que algo acontece na vida de Virginia, E até que o seu comportamento profissional perde a ética uma ou duas vezes, E mais não posso contar, Mas gostava de ter mais opiniões acerca deste livro, de que estive para desistir e de que agora me congratulo por não o ter feito.
I must admit that I thought this would be great after 'Monster Love', but it didn't grip me and I ended up wondering why I was reading it.
Disappointing! Plodding and was quite a chore to get through as it didn't really hold my attention, I'm glad I read sitelinkMonster Lovefirst because I don't think I would have read it after this one.
Not quite as inventive as the author's other book, Monster Love, but in a way that's a good thing.
The other title is positively stomachchurning, The neuroses and compulsions of the protagonist were fascinating to me, and the plot was fulfilling to the end.
One should be a very experienced reader of violent and perverse titles before attempting any book by Ms.
Topolski, in my opinion. Ye have been warned.
Regardless of what it may say about me as a reader, I do hope that Ms.
Topolski is hard at work on another title, Her brand of unhinged makes, for me, a feverish read,
Having not read Topolskis first novel Monster Love, I had no expectations,
I like a good page turner though, and that's what the blurb on the back promised,
No such luck unfortunately,
I had to wade through the long, drawn out first half of the book,
A very, very slow build up to the actual story,
It gathers up some speed towards the end, but the end is predictable and disappointing,
A few medical mistakes, a woman heavily in labour in the third stage springs to mind, think she means first stage!
And were we really that heavily into food from the delicatessen shop and real coffee in the's
It tried to draw me in, and I really tried cause I like the concepts she used, but it failed, which is a real shame.
Well, kept thinking that 'this isn't my kind of book' but persisted to the end.
Found it to be very disjointed and I had to keep going back to check what year we were in and concentrate on who I
thought the current person was.
I did work out how this book was going to end but this definitely isn't my kind of book at all not something I'd follow up with.
At first the book is very confusing in the very way it's written, One chapter for each character, The book mixes up the years and travels from past to present back to past, After the dizziness of traveling in time, I found myself completely addicted to the story and with a terrible hunger for knowing where the author wanted to bring me.
The reading took me a while though, I had to stop several times, finding myself sick and disgusted by what I was reading, The ending was worth putting myself through this,
I'm gonna wait for a little while but I most certainly will read the other novel she wrote: Monsters Love.
Takes a bit of getting into, There are several characters storylines going on all at once and across various timelines, Once you've got it all sorted out, it starts to get interesting you get absorbed with their lives.
Long before the end you start to realise that things are a bit off and the story becomes increasingly chilling.
Not a format that I enjoy, but a brilliant piece of work nonetheless, Really difficult to read. So much jumping backwards and forwards in between characters and dates with no real indication or marking of what's what.
Strange book, I really enjoyed Monster Love and was so looking forward to this, The writing was excellent but the story line didn't pick up for me until the last fifty pages when it steamed along nicely.
The only character I actually liked was Fasail, A darkly written book that took me forever to read, Loved the story it was great, Will be interested to see what other people think of this book, Everyone knows about Virginia: about her stellar reputation as a gynaecologist about her commitment to her women patients.
But does anyone know about the knives Everyone knows about Faisal too: about his gentle charm and his delight in his family.
But does anyone know he's a traitor Creepy, dark and clever, Darkly funny, incredibly detailed portrayal of insanity, The character Virginia is a literary triumph, My only gripes with this book are firstly the way the story kept jumping back and forth in time and between various characters who are drawn into Virginia's orbit.
Early on this was quite confusing, And then there's the implied reason for Virginia's madness: I don't feel her emotionally vacant mother is just cause.
However, it's possible a person can be born with madness rather than made, so I can ignore this.
Despite these qualms, the story and stories within stories, are so gripping I read every word, Highly recommended. A real disappointment I don't even know how to start, . . Carol Topolskis first novel was called Monster Love, It was extraordinary. Dark. Disturbing. Flawed. But still extraordinary.
And so when I saw Do No Harm, her second novel I was torn, I was intrigued, but I was also a little scared,
In the end, of course, I had to pick it up, I found a very different book, but those four words still applied,
Dark. Disturbing. Flawed. Extraordinary.
Do No Harm is the story of a doctor,
Virginia Denham is a doctor at the very top of her profession: she is a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology in a big London hospital.
Her patients were reassured by her interest and understanding, and by her professionalism,
Her colleagues and her staff were equally impressed by her professionalism, and by her intelligence and skill.
But she had a secret life, and she guarded her privacy ferociously,
A stunning opening chapter revealed a model professional, and a deeply flawed and disturbed woman, An accident waiting to happen,
The chapters that followed moved backwards and forwards through time to build a detailed picture of Virginias difficult life.
She was an extraordinary character: complex and frighteningly real,
I wanted to understand that character, to know what made her, and the suspense was palpable.
In the end something did go wrong, And it was devastating.
Im deliberately holding back details,
Because this is a novel driven by characters rather than plot, And to tell any more than I have would, I think, be telling too much,
A disturbing story of a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology is not for everyone, and I half wished that I hadnt picked it up.
The writing, the characterisation, the suspense so much in this book was brilliant, I had to keep reading I had to know,
I just felt that the balance was a little off: the balance of plot and character.
A flaw, but not a fatal flaw,
Because I really cant think of another author who deals with such difficult subject matter with such insight and intelligence.
And now I am torn between pushing such dark books away and wondering what Carol Topolski will write next
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