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The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
by Erin Morgenstern
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First off I listened to the audio version of this book. Jim Dale is the narrator and everything came alive as he read this book. I'm not sure if my experience would have been different if I had read the book. It is full of details and descriptions. It seemed like half this book was nothing more than imagery and the characters seemed almost secondary to the circus itself. I usually enjoy books that are much more fast paced and plot driven but this held my attention the entire time. It is beautifully written.
There is romance in this book but it wasn't the focus of the book. There was a large cast of characters who all played a large part in the story instead of just focusing on the two main characters. This has to be one of the most original, well written books I've read.
Content: (May be considered a spoiler)
There was only one swear word that I remember in the entire book (but it was the F word) and one scene with implied sex.
So if you take white out to the F word on page 10 and skip the second half of page 295 it would be a clean read. (At least those were the page #s in the ARC I have).
Rating: 5 Stars
Source: ARC from publisher but I downloaded it from Audible.com because Jim Dale is the narrator.
http://iamareadernotawriter.blogspot....
First off I listened to the audio version of this book. Jim Dale is the narrator and everything came alive as he read this book. I'm not sure if my experience would have been different if I had read the book. It is full of details and descriptions. It seemed like half this book was nothing more than imagery and the characters seemed almost secondary to the circus itself. I usually enjoy books that are much more fast paced and plot driven but this held my attention the entire time. It is beautifully written.
There is romance in this book but it wasn't the focus of the book. There was a large cast of characters who all played a large part in the story instead of just focusing on the two main characters. This has to be one of the most original, well written books I've read.
Content: (May be considered a spoiler)
There was only one swear word that I remember in the entire book (but it was the F word) and one scene with implied sex.
So if you take white out to the F word on page 10 and skip the second half of page 295 it would be a clean read. (At least those were the page #s in the ARC I have).
Rating: 5 Stars
Source: ARC from publisher but I downloaded it from Audible.com because Jim Dale is the narrator.
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10.0% | "I got the audio version and was so excited when I started it and heard Jim Dale's voice! He is such an amazing narrator! I'm wondering though... did they use the F word in the 1800s? I'm thinking not??" 2 comments |
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Hannah,I was sent 2 copies, one to read and one to giveaway. I've not read my copy yet so I don't know.
Kathy
What purpose does whiting out words in a book serve? Life is messy. So is conflict in literature. Sometimes people do bad things. Whiting something out and pretending that it's not there won't make it go away. I understand the desire to want to read clean literature, but whiting out books to reach that end is not the answer.
It is the answer for me and my children and for others as well. The F word in this book is so completely random and out of place. There is absolutely no reason it should have been put in this book. It didn't fit the time period or the language used in the rest of the book. For the life of me I have absolutely no clue why the author/publisher choose to throw it in there. It completely detracts from an otherwise good book.
I agree with you Kathy. The F word is unnessesary crassness and just because an author chooses to put it in a book doesn't mean we have to subject ourselves to it without question.
I'm not concerned with clean reads for myself, but I totally agree about the F word in this book, it only occurs once but it doesn't fit with the time period at all! I mean, I don't know historically exactly when it started being used but it feels so out of place in the book and I really don't understand why it is in there.
That's exactly my issue with its use in this book and why I would recommend whiting it out. It is out of place and not needed.
Yeah, the reason I questioned its historically accuracy was because the rest of the book just has this magical feel to it and the one use of profanity just feels jarring. And the wikipedia thing does say "did not appear in any widely-consulted dictionary of the English language from 1795 to 1965" so it certainly wasn't the norm when the novel occurs and wasn't needed in that sense.
I absolutely loved this book- and for the life of me can't remember the F word being in it. Guess I was just so mesmerized by such a beautiful story I didn't even pay attn to it.
Andrea wrote: "I absolutely loved this book- and for the life of me can't remember the F word being in it. Guess I was just so mesmerized by such a beautiful story I didn't even pay attn to it."You know both Kathy and I listened to it on audio so I wonder if that played a role? Sometimes things my eye just scans over on the page becomes really obvious when listening to it read alone.
I missed the F word too, and I listed to it on audio (Jim Dale is just amazing!). I pretty much started re-reading the hard back book immediately after I finished listening to it, and that's when I noticed the f word. I personally don't have a problem with it, but I can understand why some readers might feel that it was a bit jarring. Overall The Night Circus is a beautifully written novel!
