Comments on: Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg http://peterhoeg.com/smillas-sense-of-snow-by-peter-hoeg/ A Fansite Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Impressed http://peterhoeg.com/smillas-sense-of-snow-by-peter-hoeg/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Impressed Mon, 09 May 2011 13:55:36 +0000 http://peterhoeg.com/?p=47#comment-286 "Sense of Snow" was engaging and soul participating. The story most certainly traced the inside lining of Hoeg's psyche and wide ranging life experience. I am always intrigued by the author behind the story working the puppets. I have no doubt he understands poverty and riches combined. I liked how he illustrated his beliefs and courage. The coldness though. It cuts me like a knife. May gentleness come next. I liked the way Hoeg writes. The way he combined knowledge, feelings, and beliefs about geology, shipping, the Inuit, power, corruption in medical, academic and scientific circles, etc. I'm also drawn to imagine Hoeg's own psychological cleansing process and the spirit that powerfully moves the story forward and in going into the fearful unknown and brutal struggles finds connecting layers of a higher consciousness. It is refreshing in a natural and uncontrived fashion. I now ponder ... Is the character's coldness rooted in the temperature and climate? Or is she Hoeg's mother now strong and transformed? It was a triumphant ending and the ultimate revenge as evil is chased into the freezing water in parallel to what "the Baron" endured. Now the rooftop snow has transformed to ice and liquid depths. Put to rest. Why named "the Baron" when so foetal and unformed? I pictured infant-like ... amorphous as the worm. Is this novel a magnification or a true reflection? “Sense of Snow” was engaging and soul participating. The story most certainly traced the inside lining of Hoeg’s psyche and wide ranging life experience. I am always intrigued by the author behind the story working the puppets. I have no doubt he understands poverty and riches combined. I liked how he illustrated his beliefs and courage. The coldness though. It cuts me like a knife. May gentleness come next.

I liked the way Hoeg writes. The way he combined knowledge, feelings, and beliefs about geology, shipping, the Inuit, power, corruption in medical, academic and scientific circles, etc. I’m also drawn to imagine Hoeg’s own psychological cleansing process and the spirit that powerfully moves the story forward and in going into the fearful unknown and brutal struggles finds connecting layers of a higher consciousness. It is refreshing in a natural and uncontrived fashion.

I now ponder … Is the character’s coldness rooted in the temperature and climate? Or is she Hoeg’s mother now strong and transformed? It was a triumphant ending and the ultimate revenge as evil is chased into the freezing water in parallel to what “the Baron” endured. Now the rooftop snow has transformed to ice and liquid depths. Put to rest.

Why named “the Baron” when so foetal and unformed? I pictured infant-like … amorphous as the worm.

Is this novel a magnification or a true reflection?

]]> By: Murphious http://peterhoeg.com/smillas-sense-of-snow-by-peter-hoeg/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Murphious Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:44:42 +0000 http://peterhoeg.com/?p=47#comment-48 I loved the book, but for a mistake a lot of writers make. It is always a shame when a great story is ruined by the ignorance of weaponry. When having a character pick up or describe a gun, the author should do a better job with terminology or have someone who knows guns write that portion for them. Perhaps it was the translators fault that the Ballester Molina handgun is describesd as a 6 shot revolver---WRONG. It is an Argentinian-made version of a .45 semi-auto pistol. I loved the book, but for a mistake a lot of writers make. It is always a shame when a great story is ruined by the ignorance of weaponry. When having a character pick up or describe a gun, the author should do a better job with terminology or have someone who knows guns write that portion for them. Perhaps it was the translators fault that the Ballester Molina handgun is describesd as a 6 shot revolver—WRONG.
It is an Argentinian-made version of a .45 semi-auto pistol.

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