این کتاب مناسب شماست اگه:
1-مجموعه آنشرلی رو خوندید و دوسش داشتید.
2-از ادبیات کلاسیک خوشتون میاد.
3- دنبال یک داستان ساده و حال خوب‌کن هستید.

This book is hilarious! Even though I've already read it twice, I still keep laughing at the same places . In my opinion, this book is one of Montgomery's best works. It doesn't focus on one character, it looks at the same scene from all directions.

Never dreamed I could rate a Montgomery book one star, but I couldn't stand the Aunt and the whole clan. Skipped to the last chapter, just to find out what does happen to the old brown jug and the nicer of the cousins.

برای من که اصلا طرفدار جمع‌های بزرگ و شلوغ و خانوادگی نیستم، خوندن این کتاب یه تجربه جالب بود. می پرسین چرا؟ خیلی واضحه، چون انگار به یه مهمونی بزرگ دعوت شدین اما حواس هیچکس متوجه شما نیست. هرجایی که بخواین، هر گوشه و کناری می‌تونین سرک بکشین و همچنان توی اون مهمونی باشین. (کاش همه مهمونی ها همچین قابلیتی داشتن که هر وقت ازش خسته می‌شدی میتونستی مثل کتابت فقط ببندیش و بری سراغ کارهای دیگه

Le tumultuose vicende della vecchia brocca dei Dark: probabilmente solo L.M. Montgomery poteva tirar fuori del brio da tali premesse.

Un clan vecchio di generazioni si riunisce attorno a zia Becky, in procinto di morte, per la lettura del testamento. Quali saranno i destini e le ultime volontà? E quali quelle del cimelio più ambito della famiglia?

Gli eccentrici membri dell’utopica realtà montgomeriana vivranno le giornate tra colpi di scena, azioni audaci, ammonimenti e capricci: "l’intricata matassa" alla quale dovranno far capo.

Deliziosa come ogni nuova pubblicazione Jo March editore.

What did I think? Well, for one, I don't know how many stars to give this book. I neither loved nor hated it. I did like some of the characters and their relationships, except in some instances of a young boy who felt unloved and an animal he loved, and he knew the animal loved him. I will never reread this, and I feel certain it is for an adult/more mature audience. I am still very interested in reading some more of L.M. Montgomery's works, but it may be better for me to stick to her young adult novels, such as The Blue Castle, which I love!

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یه جورایی ناامیدم کرد

"Tee-hee--how very romantic" tittered Mrs Toynbee Dark, who had been standing for ten minutes at the corner of the old house watching them with sinister little black eyes.

"Ho, ho, my pet weasel, so you're there," said Peter.

Probably not my favorite of Maude's books, but nevertheless good. I'd go for rating it a 4, yet there are some aspects of it that make me bring it down to a 3 (which we'll get to later).

This is also one of Maude's few books intended for adult audiences. First of all, it is an overall delightful and amusing look into a messy clan living on P.E.I, probably about 10 years after WWI. The Penhallow-Dark clan seems to make up a large portion of P.E.I (not the part near Avonlea-- the towns mentioned are Bay Silver, Rose River, and a few others. None of these towns, FYI, are real though I imagine they are based on real ones? Or possible communities that no longer exist). The Darks almost always marry Penhallows and Penhallows almost always make marry Darks, which is incredibly inbred. One character even compares it to the Royal family.

Also, a small piece of trivia for anyone interested -- if you watched the Sullivan TV show, Road to Avonlea, the character of Romney Penhallow was taken from a short story (in Chronicles of Avonlea) about the Penhallows. He's not mentioned in this book, but there you go.

remember when these two broke 11 yr old me's heart? I do

The crux of the book is that Aunt Becky dies and makes everyone wait a year to find out who will inherit a family heirloom from her, which is a jug. Everyone wants it, yet Becky has guidelines for what kind of person she will and won't allow to have it. Shennagins ensure and Aunt Becky, judging from our brief glimpse of her while she's alive at the beginning of the book, is probably cackling happily from above.

My favorite storyline is probably that of Margaret, a spinster who doesn't really want marriage but does want a nice little house and a child. My second favorite was probably Peter and Donna's romance, partly because Peter amused me and Donna is one of the characters I liked the best.

What lowered my rating (these are slight spoilers, but not huge)

- there is, at the very end, like literally the last page, an instance of racism that just startled me. basically, the n slur is used (about painting a statue). and like I get, it's "the times" and the men that are having this conversation are two middle-aged fishermen that don't have the best manners/morals. but still. yikes, yikes. YIKES.

- *screaming about Gay and Roger, but not in a happy way* Gay, no! like, please, Noel is absolutely a prat but go off and visit a friend off the island or go to Queens, please don't marry Roger. I get he is like, nice and all but he is 32, you're 18 and I am kind of worried he has known you for quite a while, which makes it all weirder. Anyway, thanks to Peter for expressing my feelings on the matter. ""Oh, you like them buxom, I suppose," sneered Peter, "like Sally William Y.--or just out of the cradle-like Gay Penhallow." "At least the book is somewhat self-aware? At least Roger isn't Dean Priest-- although Dean doesn't marry Emily and everyone things/concludes he's a creepy possessive jerk. But I digress, since that's entirely different book. The basic thing is that a romance between an 18 yr old and a 32-year-old relative of hers skeeved me out.

Overall, I did enjoy this book, but it's not without its faults. Maude has her usual gift of offering you glimpses into many character's lives that seem realistic and she captures their voices well. Despite there being a boatload of characters, I usually wasn't lost on who they were. The details of small-town life and family in-fighting are superb -- fights over pigs, over pews, never letting each other forget stealing jam, things like that. It's like seating on the shoulder of the town gossip that knows everything.

I was daunted by the extensive character list that took up the first dozen or so chapters, but once that was sorted out and the actual story picked up I finally was able to enjoy this book. The title is appropriate because it definitely was a tangled web. I ended up really loving this book and how it all turned out, but it was just really confusing in the beginning and hard to get into.

A Tangled Web is one of L.M. Montgomery's lesser-known works, but one well worth discovering for yourself! It starts out strong with the soon-to-be-late Aunt Becky, who loves nothing more than to insult her relatives and watch them squirm at her infamous family gatherings(she is much funnier than she sounds here). Even though I think she was the best character here, her departure still leaves us with some likable personalities. Margaret is a sweetheart and the Sams are a funny duo. I liked Donna's sense of independence but thought she was too often unkind to Virginia. I thought Gay was a big sap the first time I read this, and while I still don't find her interesting I admit she does have a little more backbone than I remembered. She is the only one who plans to break with tradition and marry outside the Dark and Penhallow clans(these people badly need a bigger gene pool anyhow). But this first fiance turns out to be a shallow cheater and she marries within the clans after all, reestablishing the very weird status quo.

Hugh and Joscelyn's story was a good example of the thick-headedness and stubbornness seen in some of these characters. Luckily this works because the book comes across as mostly a tale of human folly. I think this message was a bit lost in the scene where Joscelyn meets the man she barely knew but convinced herself she was in love with for a decade. That scene unfortunately seems to equate his present homeliness with unworthiness and failure. He could have been shown as a really good and competent person but seeing him portly and balding could have just made her realize she only loved his looks and not the actual person. That is probably what LMM intended, but it comes across like Joscelyn blames him more than herself for the way she falls out of "love" just as quickly as she fell into it.

Even though I didn't love all the characters and it's driving me a bit mad to not find out who inherited the jug after all, most everything came together very well by the end and I really enjoyed this book. Remember LMM's better-known heroine Emily Starr? Even though Emily was a writer yet we never got to read her stories ourselves, A Tangled Web feels just like the kind of story I imagine she would have written about her Applegath characters. It has a bit of drama, plenty of comedy, and is a sweet story about ordinary people with extraordinary foibles. If you've always wished Emily's stories really existed, you may find a lot to love in A Tangled Web!

عاشقش شدم. قلم مونتگمری جادوییه. از زندگی می‌نویسه واقعا. داستان یک کوزه‌ی نه چندان مهم که تغییرات خیلی مهمی رو توی زندگی مردم روستا به وجود میاره.
هر فصل درباره‌ یه خونه و خونواده‌ست. تکامل شخصیت‌ها رو دوست دارم. هر چند که پایانش کمی کلیشه‌ای و قابل حدسه اما باز هم دوست‌داشتنی و جالبه. با شوخی و بامزگی هم تمومش می‌کنه مونتگمری. کامن سنس و شوخ طبعی بالایی داره. دوسش داشتم و اگر قصر آبی رو خوندید و دوست داشتید، این رو هم بخونید خوشتون میاد.

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.