[QTT]⇒ [PDF] Gratis Wasteland Francesca Lia Block Books

Wasteland Francesca Lia Block Books

Download As PDF : Wasteland Francesca Lia Block Books

Wasteland Francesca Lia Block Books

This book was so confusing to me. I didn't like the way the chapters were set up AT ALL. It went from being third person, to first person of Marina to first person of her brother; books like this are hard for me to follow. I finished it because I'm a fan of FLB and her writing style is exquisite, but I was extremely hyped to read this, and I was let down. There is a very important twist at the end that I would have never expected. If you're a fan of FLB, go for it.


Tags : Amazon.com: Wasteland (9780064408394): Francesca Lia Block: Books,Francesca Lia Block,Wasteland,HarperTeen,0064408396,Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings,Brothers and sisters;Fiction.,Incest;Fiction.,Los Angeles (Calif.);Fiction.,Brothers and sisters,California,Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12),Family - Siblings,Fiction,Fiction-General,Incest,JUVENILE,Juvenile Fiction,Juvenile Grades 10-12 Ages 15+,TEEN'S FICTION - GENERAL,United States,YOUNG ADULT FICTION,Young Adult Fiction Family Siblings,Young Adult Fiction Social Themes Emotions & Feelings,Young Adult Fiction Social Themes Suicide

Wasteland Francesca Lia Block Books Reviews

I absolutely love the book. It arrived quickly and it was in perfect shape. My only complaint is that I ordered a hardcover version and I received a soft cover one. I can't really complain though because I only paid a penny for the book!
The imagery that this author provides is outstanding. Anyone should read this book. The book itself was in great condition and shipping was lightning fast. I recomend this item and seller to anyone. An all around A+++ experience. =)
Block has such an amazing way of writing. I love all of her books. They are so original and create a sort of fantasy world inside reality.
It seems clear that Francesca Lia Block is at her strongest when she adheres not only to the style of poetry, which her lush and imagistic prose usually does, but to the structure as well. For me, the multigenerational Weetzie saga has exhausted itself, and in works like "Echo" and "Nymph" she gets so distracted introducing new storylines and characters midway that she loses sight of what interested her-- or the reader-- to start with!

So a claustrophobic tale like "Wasteland" plays to her strengths. During the magnificent first third of the book, she seems to be rewriting "Wuthering Heights" or creating a YA version of "The Virgin Suicides." "Wasteland" shares with both a perfervid sense of doomladen emotional overdrive, borrowing the (suggested) incest of the former and the indeterminate narrative voice(s) of the later. Also reminiscent of "The Virgin Suicides" is the interloper West, an idealistic lad who looks on from without, wishing to save our heroine Marina from the evil fate that haunts her. This is however problematic, since the reader inevitably feels like Marina and her dead brother Lex were somehow "meant" for each other, if only by their tragic self-abandonment to a forbidden love. But the sense of yearning, on all sides, is deeply felt, etched into the reader's senses through explosively poetic passages like the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" chapter set on a rooftop at New Year's.

Of course, the careful reader already suspects that Block will try to have her cake and eat it too! This is undoubtedly a flaw, since there is really no comfortable way to rationalize what happened, as Marina recognizes; at the same time, fans of Romantic literature may wish that Block had simply embraced the forbidden, this being a story. At any rate, this shift is introduced with great clumsiness. More clumsy still, however, are the plot mechanics that get us there. When Marina suddenly wonders if, gee, her late brother could have left a suicide note in the 'mailbox' they used to pass notes to each other, I coulda pulled my hair out!! A Hardy Boys mystery could be a little less obvious. What's maddening is that Block has such clear literary gifts, and also (as this novel advertises!) has studied some great literature. If, as she has always claimed, she doesn't really write for the YA "genre" then she should do right by her audience and work to be convincing.

And why oh why does Marina keep venturing back into that crappy nightclub like a dog going back to its own vomit, never finding anything but trouble, until West finally makes her drop it? Marina comes across as a moron. Block pretends that these forays will move the plot forward, but they contribute nothing, aside from the oblique clue that Lex's mom had something to do with his death (i.e. by witholding the truth; but this is only an interpretation). Nor is it ever clear just why this book is set in a circa-1979 punk vs. disco world-- the narrators are not looking back on this from their adulthood, so why does Block feel it necessary to place this book in times past? It's unlikely that Marina and Lex would've gone off for their own DNA testing! For an author as self-consciously hip as Block (there's something to be said about advertising that you're voted 'one of L.A.'s coolest people'!), she should have no trouble introducing contemporary pop culture signifiers into her work. And just why can't a girly writer like Block let her poor heroines enjoy a little disco-dancing without some smartypants punk telling them they need to "get educated"? Block's unabashed love of kitsch, glitter, fairies and androgeny has vastly more in common with the rave aesthetic than anything "punk", but she seems to have missed the memo!

All this is major trouble for a book striving towards excellence. Still, I recommend the experience, for there are so many lovely passages full of vivid emotional extremity. Marina is a deeply affecting vessel of suffering, and while Lex is a somewhat distant character and, with his highfalutin' extracurricular reading and his bald head, somehow unpleasantly suggests Superman's nemesis, West on the other hand is a very likeable and empathetic person, and Block wisely gives the reader, as well as Marina, time to let go of the Lex-Marina affair before letting him bring on the healing. Though not as consumate a work as "The Hanged Man" or "Violet & Claire", "Wasteland" shows Block still in possession of her fiery poetic sensibility, and I will still be collecting her new tomes, hoping for at least the same rich textures, even if they don't always cohere into meaningful wholes.
My absolute favorite book
Another thought provoking and edgy topic but with a crappy ending. I don't know why authors bother to stay typical. The characters felt like two ghosts passing through. You get suckered into the mirage but discover you are still on dry arid land. Ah but in keeping with age group the ending could have used an upgrade.
'Wasteland' is worth the price alone for its high moments; both the beauty and tragedy of incestuous love is explored here, and Marina and Lex's story is unforgettable once you've experienced it. The author's style is uniquely her own, and there are passages here that will quite simply take your breath away. It takes a bold author to write so deeply and openly about such a taboo topic and come off with a book that does more than exploit the shock value and erotic undertones involved in the act. Here, the unlikely lovers are the victims, and our hearts are with them (and their mutual friend West, who knows what's going on), all the way. 'Wasteland' will break your heart, over and over again.

But for some reason Francesca Lia Block takes a shocking and completely unnecessary U-turn at the end of her book that not only adds nothing significant to the story, it in fact betrays the themes that the rest of the book - as insightful and delicate as it is - had worked SO HARD to build up.

There is a perfect moment in the book that she could have chosen to end her story. If it ended right then and there, Wasteland would be a certified classic. Dear reader, you will know when the climax of the story is when you read it, and it really is best at that point to simply close the book and put it down. I know this advice will likely not be taken, but I hope that if you do choose to continue on after the book's 'true ending' you will not feel the extreme disappointment that I did.

My opinion is perhaps a bit skewed. As an ardent fan of incestuous literature (it intrigues me because is the last taboo, and sure to stay that way - it is the only taboo that is present in every culture in the world), I have different expectations from books dealing with the subject. I suspect that most people who read 'Wasteland' expecting an honest and engaging emotional story will enjoy it immensely. Yet for those of you seeking a truer, less tragic (and much more sexually intense) exploration of brother-sister incest, I suggest picking up the Nabokov classic 'Ada, or Ardor A Family Chronicle'.
This book was so confusing to me. I didn't like the way the chapters were set up AT ALL. It went from being third person, to first person of Marina to first person of her brother; books like this are hard for me to follow. I finished it because I'm a fan of FLB and her writing style is exquisite, but I was extremely hyped to read this, and I was let down. There is a very important twist at the end that I would have never expected. If you're a fan of FLB, go for it.