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Laddar... Vildingarna : en romanav Dave Eggers
   Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Very enjoyable. (  ) lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |  This was a fun quick read and probably would have ranked higher except that as an adult, I found the story less enjoyable than I had when I was a child. First, Max was not a likable character and I wanted to reach through the book and smack him. Second, there was no real resolution to anything at the end of the book. While this is true to Where the Wild Things Are, it really nagged me. However, there were some subtle things in the story that I really did like. Carol was essentially Max, something which I missed until right at the very end, and which added an extra layer of depth to the entire book. I only hope that Eggers' Max learned something from watching Carol in action. (  ) wisemetis | Jan 14, 2023 | I'm not certain if a re-telling of Where the Wild Things Are (a book that scared the bejeezus out of me as a kid, but that I love reading to my daughter) is entirely necessary, but since it exists, I'm glad that Dave Eggers wrote it. The tone is a little varied -- sometimes satirical, sometimes not -- which makes it hard to say what the book is actually going for. ( ) leahsusan | Mar 26, 2022 | Adult fiction. Dave Eggers is actually a good writer (for some reason I'd pegged him only as a "journalist" before) but I guess this is one of those things that would only be interesting before the movie comes out. (  ) reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 | Man, re-reading this book was a trip. Maurice Sendak undoubtedly created one of the strangest and most intriguing children’s stories of his generation, but this novel (and the film which accompanied it) took Sendak’s weirdness and multiplied it. Delving far into Max’s young psyche, the novel explores the motivation that drives his rebellious behaviour as we participate in the Wild Rumpus in the most intimate way possible. This book was definitely a lot of fun to read originally, but this re-read hit a lot harder than expected. Max is acting out because he sees his world spinning out of control and he doesn’t understand why. After running away from home, he throws in with a bunch of actually rather frightening characters, who at first glance seem like funny, rambunctious characters - just like Max in his wolf suit. As Max begins to see the ramifications of living a destructive lifestyle as shown by the Wild Things he begins to question his ability to lead them, to control his own life, and ultimately to feel safe. It is time to return home, and maybe time to grow up a little bit. (  ) JaimieRiella | May 13, 2021 |
 Het grote probleem van dit boek is tweeslachtigheid. Dat manifesteert zich al in de titel: zo'n half–Nederlandse, half–Engelse en half tussen haakjes gestelde titel doet vreemd aan. Ook de inhoud heeft de air van besluiteloosheid: is dit een roman of een kinderboek? Niemand die het weet. De metaforiek – monsters die allerlei minder prettige menselijke eigenschappen in zich herbergen – is die van een volwassen roman, de ongeloofwaardige opbouw van het verhaal doet aan een belegen kinderboek denken. In feite is Max (en de Wild Things) een moderne versie van Godfried Bomans' klassieker Erik of het klein insectenboek, vol dieren met menselijke trekjes, een intelligent jongetje dat hen iets bij tracht te brengen en een onduidelijke mengvorm tussen kinderboek en roman voor volwassenen. Maar waar Bomans' boek een afgerond verhaal is, vol van humor, daar is Max (en de Wild Things) vooral leuk voor zover het zich afspeelt in de gewone mensenwereld. De hype rond Eggers mag dan verdiend zijn, niet alles wat hij aanraakt verandert in goud. Zelfs niet in januari. There are seven Wild Things all told, and getting to know them all within a 2-hour film is made easy by the fact that they are so broadly drawn. They have the lively, well-traveled banter of a family, making fun of each other’s quirks and accommodating them at the same time. It helps a lot that they’re cute. But they crowd the story in Eggers’ novel. Their family bickering, which is quick and witty in the film, makes for pages of dialogue in the novel, during which I frequently lost track and who was who. Max’s personal journey starts out as a basic hero’s quest from home to unknown, at which point it breaks down into seven different quests as Max works out his personal issues with each of the Wild Things. If this sounds like pop-psych jargon, it’s because that’s what the weakest parts of the novel remind you of.  My resistance began from the very first sentence. Max is chasing his little white dog down the stairs. In Where The Wild Things Are, the dog is a nameless, terrier-shaped blob rushing anxiously out of frame. In The Wild Things, he's called "Stumpy". Worse than just the name – it's obviously wrong, isn't it? – is that something ethereal and elusive has become so distressingly concrete. Har bearbetningenInspirerades avPriser
During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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