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Book review: The Notebook by Agota Kristof I’m Reading a book called The Notebook (El Gran Cuaderno, Spanish title). I started last night and gave it up when I got half way through. At that time I was very tired, and this book deserves to be read paying full attention. I went to bed really stunned by the theme. The story is about the cruelty and is writing in a literary way. It’s by someone called Agota Kristof. She was born in Hungary on October,1935. At 21 years old, she moved to Switzerland, where she started learning French and written novels in that language. The first one was the Notebook. It haven’t too much pages (ninety or so, depend on the kind of edition or the size of the words). It has had a great impact and has been translated into many languages. It’s taken part of a trilogy. It has been built adding very short tales (two page more o less each one), which is good to think and take a breath before going into the next one. It has a twin’s life in it. Both of the children look at the cruelty of the world and they try to protect themselves training into the bad with an unemotional look. The writing style is nude, accurate, without adjectives. You run into the story through short phrases made of the right words. No feelings on it, anyone is attempting to explain us what is happening, Things just happen and no one can understand why the cruelty is. I find the book devastating and the great beauty. I advise it for readers who like good literature.

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Book review: The Notebook by Agota Kristof

I’m Reading a book called The Notebook (El Gran Cuaderno, is the Spanish title). I started last night and gave it up when I got half way through. At that time I was very tired, and this book deserves to be read paying full attention. I went to bed really stunned by the theme. The story is about the cruelty and is writing written in a literary way.
It’s by someone called Agota Kristof. She was born in Hungary on in October,1935. At 21 years old, she moved to Switzerland, where she started learning French and written writing novels in that language. The first one was the Notebook. It haven’t doesn't have too much pages (ninety or so, depending on the kind of edition or the size of the words). It has had a great impact and has been translated into many languages. It’s taken part of a trilogy. It has been built adding very short tales (two page more or less for each one), which is good because you get to think and take a breath before going into onto the next one. It has is about the life of a set of twins a twin’s life in it. Both of the children look at the cruelty of the world and they try to protect themselves training into the bad with an unemotional look. From knowing Spanish I think you were trying to translate entrenamiento into training but it's not the right translation. Try to find a better translation for what you want to say here. I also think you might mean "outlook" rather than look, but I can't be sure. 
The writing style is nude, Nude is the wrong word here. I think raw, exposed, or open might be what you were trying to say. Nude doesn't make sense. accurate, without adjectives. You run into the story through short phrases made of the right words. Try that sentence again. Maybe if you tell me in Spanish I would be able to help. No feelings on it, anyone is attempting to explain us what is happening, Same goes for the preceding, not making much sense there. Things just happen and no one can understand why the cruelty is there is such cruelty.
I find the book devastating and the of great beauty. I advise recommend it for readers who like good literature.

 

Thank you for the book review. Sounds like a haunting but well-written book. 

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