Irene

I thrifted this book with a bunch of other crime one's for summer, for about 3euros each so I will say that for the money I paid it was perfect! 


The good: 
I liked the plot. I found the side of the crime really interesting, in about half of the book you can guess where it is going but you don't get the full picture of it. The writing is  simple, so even if your English vocabulary ain't great you won't have an issue. Plus the the ending was great. The story closed/finished beautifully in my opinion. 

I also appreciate the fact that the author worked together with real detectives and officers to write the book.

The bad:
Even though I loved the crime part of the story, I hated the way our main characters were written. It would have worked out if it was a TV series that the actors could be expressive but in the novel they felt soulless and not real. One of the biggest parts in modern thrillers is giving main characters depth. Unfortunately I can't say that the author achieved that in. We follow almost all the police team who works in this case, plus the ex policeman and all of them have something so stereotypical about them and because we follow them all, it feels like we know them all in a very superficial level. 

Not a bad crime novel, but not the most memorable you will read. I had fun reading it! 

''Richard argues that eternally youthful gay men do more harm to the gay movement than do men who seduce little boys'' yeahhhh, no I can't read this at the moment. Imagine thinking that a gay manchild(coughing baby) does more harm to the gay movement than a gay pedo(atomic bomb). Gay men fought to be separated with the pedos they share the same sexuality with, Richard's character definitely wouldn't move an inch to help about that. Haha so funny, this is the man who is dying from AIDS and I should feel sorry about? I have zero empathy points to give. I am way too sensitive at the moment for that!

Such a waste because the prose is good, the prologue is written beautifully even though the theme is disturbing. Maybe if I hadn't read what I read so recently maybe just maybe I could ignore it and move on with it but atm I just can't.  I am indeed very sensitive about that atm.

 I should have bought Carol by Patricia Highsmith. 

The movie is in my top 10, I try to watch it every 2 years or so and at one point I wanted to read on what it was based on.

Some events are different in here, the pace is different and so is the chronology order and the ending was completely different. The comic is purely a tragedy, truly a tragedy. Starts from the future and we go back to the past to see what leads to that ending and it's tragic event after tragic event, we don't catch a break at all, it's just sadness.  The good part was the diary readings that made it somewhat interesting but I can't say that I found something else exceptional and I wasn't a fan of the art either.

The movie was so realistic, so relatable to me, with the beautiful slow pace, with the events on different stages on their lives, with the perfect realistic ending and in comparison this comic feels so little. It's funny because the movie has so many harsh reviews about one ‘‘long'' sex scene between Lea and Adele when the movie is 3 hours long(btw you will never see the same harsh critic on movies with long sex scenes with gay men or even heterosexual couples) and most of them would hype the comic but like I said if you have watched the film I doubt this comic will create the same feelings the movie did, not even the 1/10 of what you feel with the movie. 

If I hadn't watched the movie maybe I could appreciate the story more but now I can't but compare the two of them.
 

I read this in 2016 I believe so my review won't be as accurate as I would want it to be but the I won't change the rating. 

I loved the theme and the hypothesis of this book, I tend to like books that focus on the relationships between mothers and daughters. The plot was genius in my opinion and that's why I loved the mini series based on it BUT I hated the writing. The way Gillian Flynn wrote was so off putting to me, it felt like it was written by a 16-18yo and with such a good plot it felt like crime.

For “the third man”. I will start by saying that I love the movie, Orson Welles plays a fantastic villain in it and the same goes for Alida Valli. 

So naturally I ended up so dissapointed with this novel. The pace and the “flow” of the story felt off from the beginningt to the end. The narrator in the novel changes abruptly and the way we follow the story on the book is so fast and the scenes are cut very sharply,  we end up seeing the characters very superficially.  Compared to the movie the book felt so “little”. 

About the “Fallen Idol” . I watched the movie while I was reading the third man, ( I didn't even know this movie existed)and I ended up being neutral about it. Unnecessarily long if you ask me, could be easily a short 60-70 min film. However the short story from the book was perfect. Interesting, well paced, good writing and I had a pleasant time reading it. The only fault I could give to it, it's about the weird vocabulary and the unnecessary short story inside the story.