tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22396877.post1919855540428416028..comments2024-03-28T13:14:57.470-05:00Comments on The Book Blog of Evil: The Sense of an Ending, by Julian BarnesAmy Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00085705321950169094noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22396877.post-84027632411600761332021-09-28T00:32:11.847-05:002021-09-28T00:32:11.847-05:00Yes Adrian's psychological damage also stems f...Yes Adrian's psychological damage also stems from childhood. I also new an absolutely brilliant young man long ago who took his own life in his thirties. <br />I liked Tony. How should he have known the truth. Nobody telling him anything.<br />The mean letter. He was so young. I can utterly forgive him for that. Veronica was always sexually a cold fish and unkind person holding grudges right throughout her life. <br />Refusing to tell Tony. Refusing to give him the diary which Sarah left to him. Not to Veronica. <br />Feeling her challenged brother is a burden a shame and something to hide away.<br />She was in deep unresolved pain. Did no work on her own to try to heal. To get honest.<br />Grumpy old thing.<br />Tony was just an ordinary man.<br />Nothing wrong with that. <br />But yes. It was a horrible letter wishing his friend and ex-girlfriend so much I'll luck. But he was in no way to blame that Adrian and Sarah fell in love. At the end he could have told or written to Veronica to apologise for what he has done. So no. He was also weak? Few people will. He just left it at that. But in a movie he would probably from then on take an interest in mentally handicapped Adrian. He did have so money for transportation to where Adrian lived in that community. But again. He didnt want to interfere more. Thinking just more damage can be done by Veronica who forgave no one. Which I can understand. They fucked up her life. So no. Brilliant ending. Brilliant book.Annora Eksteenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10300803375133471486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22396877.post-22243375371046117772018-02-15T12:06:19.403-06:002018-02-15T12:06:19.403-06:00In it Julian Barnes reveals crystalline truths tha...In it Julian Barnes reveals crystalline truths that have taken a lifetime to harden. He has honed their edges, and polished them to a high gleam. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.iranketab.ir/book/36-the-sense-of-an-ending" rel="nofollow">کتاب درک یک پایان</a><br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04188795354929245893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22396877.post-91346787155427504552016-10-16T05:56:33.165-05:002016-10-16T05:56:33.165-05:00This is so wonderful to read as I was all sympathe...This is so wonderful to read as I was all sympathetic with Tony and Adrian, but now, after reading this... Veronica. Most possibly abused by her mom all her life. Shame, she probably felt like the virgin Mary later on. I went through major abuse by my religious freak of a mother (it takes different shapes... the abuse of little children,) but in the end it is true... what I remember (after 50 years trying not to really face it,) is probably very different than what my siblings remember. Adrian was very complex, he lived with unbearable emotional pain and that is why he committed suicide. A tragic story, but I'm glad Tony and his ex-wife could remain friends... or kept in touch. I couldn't.Annora Eksteenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10300803375133471486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22396877.post-34017585153747690142013-01-28T11:05:33.614-06:002013-01-28T11:05:33.614-06:00I cannot believe there are no comments on your rev...I cannot believe there are no comments on your review. You did a great job of summing it up. I just finished it this morning and have so many questions. I listened to it on audio and felt sure that I missed something, but I see that I did not!<br /><br />I do believe we are on the same page with what went down, but the hand gesture is odd to me. I can't make out what it could have been but knowing it seems significant. Another blogger suggested the gesture to indicate masturbation. <br />Really?<br /><br />I also do not understand the Veronica/Mary reference. Why call yourself Mary when your name is Veronica? Many bloggers seems to think that V was a pimp for her mother. That she regularly pimped her boyfriends out to her mother. That seems out of character. Anyway, just checking out blogs to see what everyone else has to say. I don't know how I will ever write the review for this one. Tihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00926060806244061354noreply@blogger.com