مثل بقیه کتابهای ال ام مونتگومری زیبا و دلنشین بود و خوشحالم کرد، دلم نمیومد بخونمش چون میدونستم دیگه کتابی با این فضای خوب پیدا نمیکنم :(

کاشکی مترجم انقدر اسم های ساده ی شخصیت هارو سخت ترجمه نمیکرد!

Not my favorite by LMM, but it was a fun read. The plot itself was pretty basic, but the interconnected story threads were numerous and difficult to track. But some of those supernumerary storylines were quite enjoyable and engrossing. Maud seems to have been examining the contrast between what we wish for, what we get, and which is the most desirable. It's definitely worth considering and pondering!

Ehh. Her style changed a little bit, after Anne, and I didn't care for it as much. I missed the sweet wholesomeness! The stories of people are nicely woven together. I don't plan to ever re-read this, as I will my dear Anne.

It took me a good long while to get into this book, but when I did, I fell hard. I was actually thinking about why I was struggling with it—there are too many characters, I can’t keep track of what’s happening, things are muddled—when I realized that this was the whole point. The book was a tangled web, just like our lives, just like the webs our stupid decisions create. People weave in and out of our lives leaving tangled knots. The characters came alive for me. I couldn’t put it down in the end. Well done.

I hate rating a book from L.M. just 2 stars, because I love her and I think she had a wonderful imagination, telling so many stories from so many people in just one book. A Tangled Web is not different. There are so many characters, and all of them are Dark or Penhallows. But I couldn't love the book, although it definetely has L.M. Montgomery's touch.

First of all, that racist remark everybody talks about... It is unpleasant, and the same with Margaret wanting a "rosy, blond-with-blue-eyes baby". If she wanted so badly to be a mother, she should like any child.

All the love stories in the book are unbelievable. Peter and Donna... hating each other since forever, and then, the first time they met, just with one look they are completely in love. Gay and Roger... she was suffering for one year the lost of Noel, and suddenly, she doesn't love him anymore and finds out she loves Roger instead? And finally Joscelyn and Hugh... Joscelyn was such a bitch, leaving him after just hours of getting married because "she felt for another one" just by looking at him. And then, 10 years later, after seeing him so un-handsome, she realizes she loves Hugh again? She just wanted the house she lost after dumping him... I think she was the most disagreeable character in the whole book.

Another thing I alwasys love about L.M. books is that they make me care for the characters, and I laugh and cry with them. Not in this case. I did not like any of the characters... maybe Little Bryan, but that is all. It is not a bad book, but it is not great as I am used to.

4,75
ازون کتاباس که از تموم شدنش ناراحت شدم و موقع خوندنش واقعیت و اطرافمو از یاد برده بودم
واسه همین انقد واسم دلچسب و شیرین بود
توصیفاتش هم خیلی دل انگیز و گوگولی بودن

Aunt Becky Dark is eighty five and expects to die soon. For generations two families,the Penhallows and the Darks, have intermarried, so that Aunt Becky is related to most of them. She gathers them all together and bequeaths her belongings to various family members, but the most coveted possession, a hideous antique jug which has been in the family for a long time, is to be kept for a year until the name of the inheritor is announced. During the year of waiting, various relationships are worked out, most that happens is not likely to surprise the reader much, you can see most things coming. The only person I really cared about was the little boy, Brian, I thought he was sweet and was genuinely relieved when things turned out all right for him in the end. As for the adults, I can’t say I cared that much about their various matrimonial entanglements, possibly there were just too many of them to hold,my interest. And their rather odd obsession with only marrying relations is a bit disconcerting. It is all entertaining enough though. There is one really distressing incident, the killing of a cat, which occurs towards the end. And the book ends with a rather jarring note - I feel the rather crude and racist joke is a strange way to end the book. I would have expected better taste from the author.

A Tangled Web is a sentimental favourite for me. The story revolves around two branches of the same clan - the Penhallows and the Darks. The matriarch, Aunt Becky is dying, and everyone gathers at her request for a final meeting. Aunt Becky is sharp and gives them all a very hard time; they take it because they all want to inherit her antique jug. (In our family, it was a particular lamp that was the source of rivalry and plotting). Aunt Becky leaves the name of the lucky person in a sealed envelope to be opened some months after her death. In that time of waiting, the family goes through many changes, until they all arrive at the day of the announcement with significantly different perspectives.
There were a few romances - Gay and Noel, (young, foolish love), Donna and Peter, (older, foolish love), Joscelyn and Hugh (a broken affair that needed to be settled), Margaret and Pennycuik (a comic romance between a spinster and a bachelor, who are balancing their 'last chance' at matrimony against their innermost feeling that they don't want to get married), and most satisfyingly, the deep mature love between a smarter Gay and Roger. I love Gay's story of a naive first love followed by the inevitable pain of the 'wise up' to real life, and the finding of a true soulmate. I loved Margaret's story as well - she who balanced the social pressure to be a Mrs. against her secret joy in her freedom. Montgomery makes you care about the characters, and I was engrossed in Gay's and Margaret's life as they unfolded.
The sour note was the relationship between the two 'Sams' - played for comedy, it was more than a little wearisome, sexist and racist. The final paragraph of the book could be deleted with no loss, and considerable gain. It was that final paragraph that lowered my rating by one star. Yes it was a different era, got it, but now is not the same as it was - edit that paragraph out, and you have a wonderful book of recognizable people, falling in and out of love.

A Tangled Web is the perfect title for this book! It was stories of many different people in an extended family woven together with Montgomery’s typical charm and snark. I will say the very last page of the entire book had a blatantly racist comment that definitely should have been left out.

Eh, more like 3.5 stars. I'm going with 4 for the laughs but between TW: cat death & child abuse and the use of the n-word at the very end I'm just disappointed.

A lovely little book full of tales of PEI that revolved around a family heirloom jug over the span of a year. Definitely not what I was expecting, but the tales were a pleasant mixture of sweet, humorous and rather strange, making it an enjoyable read.
Not 5 stars because I’m concerned about the inbreeding situation.

Rewelacja! Kanadyjskie Downton Abbey. Nie wiem czemu nie został jeszcze nakręcony serial na podstawie tej książki.