Carregue numa fotografia para ir para os Livros Google.
A carregar... The Clubpor Takis Würger
Nenhum(a) A carregar...
Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. First line: In the south of Lower Saxony is a forest called the Deister, and in that forest there was a sandstone house where the forest ranger used to live. The club in the title is the Pitt Club at Cambridge. How we end up there from the opening sentence is honestly not that interesting. The main character, Hans, is orphaned and although he has an aunt named Alex who lives in England, she does not step in to raise him. In fact, he doesn't hear from her until he's of an age to start college and she contacts him to tell him that she would like him to attend Cambridge and help her solve a crime by getting into this Pitt Club. Hans of course goes and wiggles his way into the club with the help of the father of a young woman he's met. There's boxing, and Look, I'm getting bored all over again writing this. Don't read this book. It is the typical bullshit about an exclusive club for privileged, obnoxious boys and keeping secrets for bro code and mistreating women. There was nothing about Hans getting into this world and being accepted that was believable. The woman he gets involved with, Charlotte, was not believable as a female human being. There were shifts to points of view that added literally nothing to the story, including multiple times to one student who desperately wants to get into the club and I guess maybe he does? I don't know, it was unimportant whether he did or not. I guess the author just wanted to put in a character who would list his breakfast, time and location of masturbation, and aphorism every day. There is the egregious, repeated use of the r-slur, not just by the mustache-twirling villain. Avoid. Hans Stichler stammt aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Er bekommt ein Stipendium für die Universität in Cambridge - als Gegenleistung soll er dort ein Verbrechen aufklären. Er schafft es, Mitglied im elitären Pitt Club zu werden - dem Club mit dem Schmetterlingssiegel -, und verliebt sich in Charlotte, die ihn in die Bräuche der Snobs einweiht. Bald merkt er, dass hinter den alten Mauern der britischen Oberschicht Geheimnisse lauern, über die keiner spricht. Was ist Hans bereit zu geben, um dazuzugehören? Muss er das Falsche tun, um das Richtige zu erreichen? sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"The Club is a blistering, timely, and gripping novel set at Cambridge University, centering around an all-male dining club for the most privileged and wealthy young men at Cambridge and following an outsider who exposes the dark secrets of this group, the Pitt Club. As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable. A visit from Hans's ailing English aunt Alex, who comes to stay for an entire summer, has a profound effect on the young Hans, all the more so when she invites him to come to university at Cambridge, where she teaches art history. Alex will ensure his application to St. John's College is accepted, but in return he must help her investigate an elite university club of young aristocrats and wealthy social climbers, the Pitt Club. The club has existed at Cambridge for centuries, its long legacy of tradition and privilege largely unquestioned. As Hans makes his best efforts to prove club material and infiltrate its ranks, including testing his mettle in the boxing ring, he is drawn into a world of extravagance, debauchery, and macho solidarity. And when he falls in love with fellow student Charlotte, he sees a potential new life of upper-class sophistication opening up to him. But there are secrets in the club's history, as well as in its present--and Hans soon finds himself in the inner sanctum of what proves to be an increasingly dangerous institution, forced to grapple with the notion that sometimes one must do wrong to do right"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)833.92Literature German and related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1990-Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
É você?Torne-se num Autor LibraryThing. |
Once Hans reaches England, Alex arranges for him to meet up with Charlotte, one of her graduate students. At first, Charlotte is necessary for Hans to gain entry to the Pitt Club's world, through her wealthy and well-connected father, but the two form a genuine connection. Hans gets drawn deeper into the Club as his pugilistic talents cement his place inside of it. But Alex didn't ask him to become one of them for his own enjoyment...she has plans to expose a secret and revenge a wrong in a way that could bring it all crashing down.
Look away if you're not interested in spoilers! Though it hardly feels fair to talk about it as such. The secrets here are not too difficult to guess at: there's no surprise that groups of young, privileged men engage in drug use and sexual assault, and then manage largely to escape consequences for it. What makes this particular account of this phenomenon more interesting than many is its air of reality: Wurger himself attended Cambridge and was a member of the Pitt Club before leaving the university. And the book is lucky that it has that additional angle, because as a mystery/thriller it isn't really successful...the plot development is straightforward and goes pretty much exactly where you expect it to go.
Which isn't to say that it doesn't do some things well! Wurger's technique of narrating the story through multiple perspectives (Hans is the most prominent, but Charlotte, Alex, fellow Club member Josh, and a Chinese student desperate to be accepted are heard from, among others) is effective and keeps the story moving forward briskly. Hans, drawn as a self-sufficient introvert, is a refreshing character to spend time with...while he certainly does appreciate the finer things in life he's able to access once he's inside, we don't get the dazzled-then-disillusioned arc typical in this kind of work. The subject matters feels timely and relevant. If you like these kinds of books, you'll likely find this solid yet unremarkable. If you're looking for something to take you somewhere unexpected, though, look elsewhere. ( )