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Somehow I missed this when it came out and was going around and the "hot" read. I was in an acting class, when someone was doing a scene from Prelude to a Kiss. The White Hotel was mentioned and it peaked my curiosity, especially when the instructor spoke about it in class, at the completion of the scene. My husband died five years ago, and I couldn't focus on anything, not even a magazine article, much less an entire book. This was my first book to not only read, but devour! It seemed as though I knew it, read it before, experienced it before. That deja vu quality was so there for me. I intend to read it again and again and again. The characters came alive for me, and I hung on their every conversation and adventure. Can't say enough about this piece of work. Truly pulled me into it's vortex. Excellent!


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The White Hotel D M Thomas 9780753809259 Books Reviews

Haven't read this book since college a number of years ago. It came in a timely fashion and was as presented in the ad for it. Thank you for having it.
Read to the end.
Initially dismayed, I hung in there after reading another reviewer's advice to do so. He was right; the first 35 pages may leave you flummoxed, but it all comes together. Very cleverly written.
The sexual acts are very graphically described and so are the scenes of torture/violence. I definitely would like to revisit the book just to savour some of the nuance of the writing or subliminal clues that I missed and/or could not appreciate the first time round.
A strange book from what I am used to but a very good book. I recommend it.
A profound and profoundly disturbing story about Lisa a woman of high European culture, an opera soprano who suffers with neurotic symptoms evaluated and treated by Sigmund Freud. There is a dreamlike and fantastical quality to the opening chapters, dealing with her youth, her inner emotional life, and real and possibly imagined love affairs. But there is also a foreshadowing of catastrophe. Indeed, Lisa is eventually caught up in the horror of Babi Yar, an act of genocide in the Ukraine occurring in 1941. The final chapter takes place in Palestine, the Holy Land, the promised land—heaven. Along with the female protagonist of the story, Dr. Freud is among the immigrants, making his way home. I read this book in the 1980's; have always remembered its graceful ending.
D. M. Thomas writes lyrically about horrific events. White Hotel pulls no punches in describing the viciousness of the holocaust. Many will complain that they don't need to read depressing stories but as long as the horrors of genocide remain abstract, we are at risk of repeating those horrors. White Hotel exposes the banality of evil that Hannah Arendt described, the casual ordinariness of unbelievable cruelty. For me, the hotel itself is merely life where we go on in the face of unspeakable events and in the knowledge that we all die. I denied the book the final star because I felt the final chapter was an effort to "balance" the picture and subtract some of the heaviness. I found that chapter tedious and not nesely as beautifully written as the rest of the book. Others will, no doubt, disagree.
Somehow I missed this when it came out and was going around and the "hot" read. I was in an acting class, when someone was doing a scene from Prelude to a Kiss. The White Hotel was mentioned and it peaked my curiosity, especially when the instructor spoke about it in class, at the completion of the scene. My husband died five years ago, and I couldn't focus on anything, not even a magazine article, much less an entire book. This was my first book to not only read, but devour! It seemed as though I knew it, read it before, experienced it before. That deja vu quality was so there for me. I intend to read it again and again and again. The characters came alive for me, and I hung on their every conversation and adventure. Can't say enough about this piece of work. Truly pulled me into it's vortex. Excellent!