Pros: Great feel for the main character, amazing writing style that matches Hemingway. Cons: The ending tapers off a bit...
The tragic death of a young Greenlandic boy named Isaiah plants the seeds of conflict, which eventually grow into a conspiracy involving the deaths of the boy’s father and several other Arctic explorers. Strangely, the police seem rather quick in...
Pros: Too many evil villians to keep track of Cons: A bit breezy, slangy, not the best ending
Smilla's Sense of Snow is a story that may have been calculating in its thriller/mystery plot style (as the Thornbirds was meant to be a tearjerker), yet it takes a very interesting ingredient: that of a deep and interesting woman, angry at her...
Pros: Complicated plot Cons: A bit mysterious in the beginning
Just as eskimos have many words for what we just call snow because they actually 'see' many different manifestations of snow, so does Smilla have a sense of snow which leads her to investigate a boy's death. This book is written in a very taut,...
SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW is a keeper. I only saw brief sections of the film but saw that popular casting had taken precedence over the strong film-transformation of a powerful novel with unforgettable characters. Hoeg's Smilla is tough and unique. Her...
Pros: One of the Most Uncompromising Heroines in Modern Fiction Cons: The Plot is Forgettable
As a thriller, SS of S isn't bad. It's just not that great, and that's not because the action was so poorly translated onto the screen - the tautness and psychological mystery lose something in the translation and end up more beneath the surface than...
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a stra...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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