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Title: Ecstasia
ISBN: 0142400378
Author:
Francesca Lia Block
Publicate Date: 2004-01-19
Publish: 2004-01-19
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Ecstasia
this is the second book in the two book series.
I think everyone should read this and any book by Francesca lia Block.
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2: Poetic intoxication, mythological elucidation
Ecstasia by Francesca Lia Block, is poetic intoxication. It is about a dark and polluted world where the only crime is growing old. It is a book you will lose yourself in. A must-have for any F.L.B. fan! Then get its sequel, Primavera. You must read with an open mind to realize the imagery is quite close to reality. I was thirteen years old when I read this wonderful book and before it went out of print for a while. It provokes you to find the purity in our world.
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3: Fluffy and Fun but Not Much Else
While Ecstasia was a fun read with an interesting, intriguing fantasy world, I found that the ending was rushed, tacked-on and ineffective. It could have been so, so much better with a little more work and a little more effort on Block's part.
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4: You Need to Look Deeper...
Ecstasia was another Block masterpiece. Most of readers I have talked to simply tell me that theres too much going on, all fluff and no substance, I'm afriad I must whole-heartedly disagree with all of you. Certainly its hard to understand at first because the text is stuffed with metaphors and other literary devices that sometimes trick the mind. I have read this book more than three times, and it only gets better. One must read between the lines with this novel. Yes, some of the meter in the songs are off, but really, does everything have to be so exact? Has it ever been with Block? The message is not instantly clear, but this is common with Block. The reader must go through a mental journey with the characters. They need to expierence the love, the want, the fear, the pain, the challenge that the members of Ecstasia do. The characters themselves are wonderful, with their faults and strenghts, and sheer will to live outside a world of age restriction. The words are beautiful, like always. The descriptions, the poetry/songs, the emotions, the everything. Once again Block makes me wish I could weild such skill with a pen.
An amazing read, wonderful in so many ways. I highly reccomend it to those willing to take on a literary challenge. If you thought it was garbage well, let me quip this "One mans trash is another mans treasure", and this novel, once given a good twice over, glistens like gold.
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5: Terrible. Just Terrible.
I am probably the biggest Francesca Lia Block fan you can find. I am always gushing about her books to all my friends and recomending her to everyone. So, you can imagine my dissapointment when I discovered the utter tripe that is Ecstasia and it's companion book Primavera. These books went out of print for a reason. Because they were horrible. What I have always loved about Block's books is her ability to blend fantasy with reality, and her awe-inspiring descriptive language. These two books have removed reality altogether, and what we are left with is overdone fluff with too much metaphor and no substance. Comparing these books to masterpieces like Violet and Claire, Echo or the Dangerous Angles series is like comparing a chocolate chip cookie to eating handfuls of sugar out of the bag.
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