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UPC:720238101309
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Sega Genesis
Region:NTSC (N. America)
SKU:GEN_EL_VIENTO
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
| Weight | 8 lbs |
|---|---|
| Condition | Used |
| Product Type | |
| Platform | Sega Genesis |
| ESRB Rating | Not Rated |
| Players | 1 |
| Genre | Action & Adventure |
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It’s difficult to categorize this novel; is it a ghost story, a mystery, a love story, an historical novel, fantasy, or a riveting combination of all? Undoubtedly it is beautifully written and captures some of the flavor of Barcelona in the 1950’s. I found myself rereading certain passages and jotting down quotes because of their sheer beauty or appropriateness. It is definitely not a quick read but a novel to savor. The characters are fascinating, from the young Daniel and his loving and patient father, the irrepressible Fermin, the malevolent inspector, the mysterious Carax. It is novel about the ultimate power of books and of reading. Some comments criticize the use of a letter as part of the solution to the mystery but I think that adds to the impact. There are also negative comments about the treatment of women but this is set in Fascist and Catholic Spain during the first half of the 1900’s. Frankly I found this novel as moving and involving as the great novels of the 19th century and cannot wait to read the other three in the set. I only wish there really did exist such a library of forgotten boks.
A very interesting plot with lots of twists and turns. Half way through the book now and I find myself making all sorts of possibilities for it to end. Lots of new vocabulary for me to look up.
A friend was reading a later book by Zafon, but I read some reviews, and most said that book wasn’t as good as "The Shadow of the Wind" so I thought I would read this first. It’s good, the plot moves along, the characters are well-defined, consistent within themselves, and interesting. The conflicts are compelling and there is an air of mystery that draws me in. Zafon is an interesting writer, and occasionally comes up with an original image. (At one point, he refers to "the perpetual grin" of a piano.)Still, I wouldn’t call this a great novel. I wouldn’t even say "I can’t put it down." At this writing, I’m only about half-way through the book, so it could always move me by the ending.
The Shadow of the Wind’s plot revolves around the mystery of an obscure writer named Julian Carax. His novels are the obsession of a horribly disfigured madman, named after a character from Carax’s books. This man who calls himself, Lain Coubert, the name of the devil in one of Carax’s novels, has made it his mission to find and burn each and every book written by the mysterious writer.Daniel Sempere, a boy who develops a fascination for the author after reading one of his novels, starts digging into Carax’s past.. Daniel is determined to uncover each and every secret. Why is someone bent on destroying the work of an author found murdered in an alley? Each and every answer to his questions simply lead to more questions and answers that lead to nowhere. Daniel’s curiousity turns the hunter into the hunted.Zafon’s novel is about obsessions that torture and haunt various people. Some may even describe the novel as macabre, but it also about an intense and desperate love that somehow created a hatred so deep, it surpasses time and even death itself. My best advise is to pay close attention, even to the smallest of details throughout the book. Each and every character plays a pivotal role in the mystery of the infamous novelist, Julian Carax, and the reason why someone would want to rid the world of every novel written by this man.This is a book I have every intention of re-reading. It has all the right ingredients that I look for in a book. The Shadow of the Wind is a compelling.
Daniel found a book that became his life quest. Why did someone burn all of the books and copies that this author had written? Why did every book dealer want to buy Daniel’s book? This story has so many twists and turns with an evil policeman trying to find this author and kill him. Why? Once started this story builds to a crescendo that will surprise the reader! Highly recommend!
This author creates a story that has many twists and turns with the ending not evident until the end. I highly recommend this exciting book.
This was my second reading of The Shadow of the Wind. I’ve long considered it one of my favorite books. I don’t often re-read a novel, but this one was worth it. My second time around, I saw a whole new depth in the characters. The humor and the love with which this book is written will stay with me for a long time. I’m soon taking a trip to Barcelona, so this set the mood for seeing that beautiful city through the eyes of the colorful characters in this book.
Allow me pause to vent, fellow reviewers: Exactly what did you expect from a book with a Stephen king blurb across the cover? A new Cervantes, Joyce, Proust, Faulkner? Please. I bought and read this book knowing full well that I was entering a realm that did not aspire to “high art” but was meant to pull me into a breathtaking, mesmerising story. This feat Zafon accomplishes superlatively well, so much so that, having finished it, I feel haunted by wartime Barcelona and the characters who populate it in this book.Anybody reading this review will know the plot by now. There’s no point in my rehashing it. But I would like emphasize the facets that make this a great story rather than a merely good story:1. The Erotic, to which nobody seems to have given much heed. Daniel’s (and Julian’s) growth through adolescence and the mysterious, beatific visions of women with whom both of them first fall in love are handled most elegantly here. – No, I’m not elevating Zafon to the rarified airs of Dante and his Beatrice or Petrarch and his Lara. – But without this element of poetic eroticism permeating it, the story would fall flat.2. The bibliophilic theme, which others have (inevitably) noticed. If you have not felt at times as Daniel has, “…like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger” at least a few times in your life, then you will miss out on much of the story’s allure.
This novel is one of those queer modern European gothics where the supernatural is explained away at the denouement, but never quite to the reader’s satisfaction. Meanwhile through the bulk of the novel, supernatural devices are applied with a lavish hand: a haunted house; a man with no face; a cemetery of forgotten books; and characters who might or might not be dead.If you like novels that explore horror without giving themselves completely up to ghosts, vampires, and werewolves, “The Shadow of the Wind” is a walloping good read. It is of the same old-fashioned genre as Ann Radcliffe’s “The Mysteries of Udolpho,” a type of novel that I thought had been parodied out of existence by Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey.” However, with “The Shadow of the Wind,” Carlos Ruiz Zafón has succeeded in bringing the gothic back to life in the twenty-first century. It creaks ominously along, subplots resurrecting within plots like the multiplying corpses in “Night of the Living Dead.”The first-person narrator is a ten-year-old boy whose father changes his life by taking him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The boy, Daniel has already had a difficult life, as his mother died of cholera during the Spanish Civil War, and his home town of Barcelona has still not healed from that bloody conflict when this book begins in the summer of 1945.Along with the usual problems puberty brings, Daniel’s choice of book from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, titled “The Shadow of the Wind” brings him unwel.
This book had everything. Love interests, murder, history, war, intrigue and well written. It wasn’t a book that kept me on the edge of my seat but it did have a unique outcome. I thought I had it all figured out and was getting disappointed. I was happy to be wrong. The descriptions were so good you felt like not only were you there but you also experienced their emotions as well. You can’t speed through this one, you have to take your time and savor the words.
deesboots –
A character in the book says "that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day." How very appropriate that I read this book, after my rant over the weekend.This book is the first in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I will admit, it had been sitting on one of my many TBR piles for well over a year. I never got further than the first page or two, and some other book always issued a Siren’s call I could not resist, and The Shadow of the Wind fell aside, forgotten, until the next time I tried to read it. This time, I was determined to finish the book, or at least get past the first or second page.I am so glad I did. It is labeled as something of a modern-day gothic story, but through some of the shady characters, I was actually reminded more of classic Film Noir from Hollywood’s heyday. The book is almost timeless, because there are so few mentions throughout of "modern" conveniences such as cars, televisions, and telephones, that when these objects are mentioned, it seems as if you have had a pail of ice water thrown on you, so great is the shock. I kept picturing dresses with bustles and a time period more akin to the mid-1800’s as opposed to the mid-1900’s. Granted, there were numerous mentions of the Spanish Civil War,.
WriteStuff31 –
The Shadow of the Wind is by far one of the best books I’ve ever read. I’m curently reading it for the second time, and I’m falling in love all over again. Written so eloquently by Mr. Zafon, and masterfully translated from Spanish to English by Lucia Graves, this book has everything you could ever want – intriguing plots and subplots, gothic ambiance, powerfully dramatic (and often humorous) prose and my personal favorite – AMAZING characters!!! Fermin Romero de Torres is one of my all-time favorite novel characters ever written, and that is saying something because I read a lot of books. :) Trust me, you will not be disappointed. There are two other books that coincide… The Angel’s Game (prequel to Shadow of the Wind) and followed by Prisoner of Heaven. Both of these other books are great too but The Shadow of the Wind is the true star. "Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.â€
Scott Landes –
I recommend reading this novel without any preconceived notions about its content. The more it can surprise and delight you, the better. It’s an amazing story with a few unforgettable characters and a must read for anyone traveling to Barcelona for the first time.
DS Brooks –
I adored this novel. It was simultaneously charming and terrifying. It is so well crafted with perfectly flawed , lovable characters and of course the one that nightmares are made of. I craved being in their midst and was bummed when book came to an end. The gothic tale is descriptively cerebral and atmospheric. I won’t give any of it away, it’s just too good.
Len the Librarian –
A river of descriptive and adulant sentences has already filled the critical reviews here and elsewhere. This is an exceptional book. But it is compared in early reviews–are most newspaper/on-line book reviews now “for pay”?–to a variety of great authors and works with which it cannot actually share authentic, sanguine company. While Zafon’s book deserves much praise for many reasons, it is not in the class of Borges, Umberto Eco, much less Marquez. Besides Marquez, the single comparison that best demonstrates this sort of egregious overreaching is to A. S. Byatt’s amazing “Possession,” a masterpiece of knowledge of Victorian high culture, of academic (self-serving) critical obsessions, of extraordinarily brilliant writing, of a part of the history of feminism, and of the vast realms of the hidden human heart.I personally most enjoyed this fine book for the story that it provides of the daunting, often horrifying, life in Barcelona under Franco’s murderous dictatorship after 1945, before the city eventually became famous for the Olympics and as a contemporary tourist destination. Zafon’s story showed me all that I only vaguely knew about this city before Spain was liberated from the systematic tortures imposed by the fascists.
Jim Lester –
This is an absolutely wonderful novel. Its the first of several “Barcelona” novels by Spanish writer, Carlos Ruiz Zafon and its the exciting and unpredictable story of a boy who finds a long lost book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and tries to find out about Julian Carax, the mysterious author of the volume. Incidentally, in a world of e-readers and the internet, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books stands as one of the great fictional creations of recent years.Anyway, what the the boy finds in his search for Carax includes an intricate, real-life Romeo and Juliet story and a faceless man who is burning all of the copies of Carax’s books. The boy also encounters an interesting homeless man who eventually goes to work for the boy’s father in his bookstore. There’s also a murder, a lot of coming of age stuff, an excellent portrait of a Paris writer in a cold water flat and an evil villain to boot.The tone of the book is fun and Zafon obviously has great respect for the impact of literature on people’s lives. All in all, this is a thoughtful, well written, intelligent novel by a major international literary talent.
Angel White –
Daniel is a young man, brought to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books by his father. While there he finds a book called The Shadow of the Wind written by Julian Carax. He devours the book and is intent on finding more books by this author.During his search he finds there are mysterious circumstances surrounding this author and his books. So begins Daniel’s journey into the life and mystery of Julian Carax. One wonders did he find the book? Or was the book waiting there for him?I absolutely loved this book. The writing is amazing and the imagery it created had me drawn in and lost. The gothic & historical aspect was something I was pleasantly surprised with. Even though the book started off slow, the second half of the book more than makes up for it. The life, story, and mystery of Julian Carax is one that will stick with me for a while.
Anthony T. Riggio –
“The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz ZafónReview by Anthony T. RiggioI am sometimes accused of reading too much and perhaps I do, but I came across this book upon a recommendation from a friend, who also reads abundantly. I ordered it from retrolio and when it arrived I put it down to finish two books ahead of it on my reading list.When I started to read it, I was immediately captured by the exquisite writing style of Zafón in his Gothic tale of The Shadow of the Wind. Even though the book was originally written in Spanish, the translation by Lucia Graves was outstanding and was easily read by an American who only speaks English.Mr. Zafón writes in a style that has been absent for so long in many of the books published today. The book captures you and draws you in to its complex tale which transcends two generation in Civil War Spain and its aftermath.It is a story of love and identity projections with a memorable cast of character which support this terrific story. Interestingly, it is about books and their devotees. It is a mature story of love, both romantic and familial, with some violence within relationships and a sinister anti-hero who is extremely violent. Stephen King described it as “one gorgeous read” and I could not use a better adjective. Read this book! You will not have regrets.
S. McCarthy –
I had to work a bit harder on this book, but it was well worth it. All the characters’ names are Spanish, and it took some effort to keep them straight at first. (Names of towns and venues in Spanish with the same initial struggle). Eventually I got familiar with it and it was a joy.A great mystery, memorable characters and an intriguing plot and subplots. CRZ can be a bit repetitive on describing a scene as it relates to weather or lighting, but don’t let that stop you. I think CRZ is an amazingly talented story teller and I’ve read just about all his other translated works. Can’t wait for the new one to come out in June.
Victor Nolasco –
I was not expecting a story that would grab me and not let go. Daniel in the story takes you on a journey through love, intrigue, mystery, and how a book can capture your heart. This boys quest to find answers about the book’s author is as adventure not to be missed. Highly recommend this book The Shadow of The Wind. I will definitely read his other books.