StartGroepenDiscussieMeerTijdgeest
Doorzoek de site
Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.

Resultaten uit Google Boeken

Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.

Bezig met laden...

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

door Silvia Moreno-Garcia

LedenBesprekingenPopulariteitGemiddelde beoordelingAanhalingen
8644024,804 (3.55)51
Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, the only daughter of a genius - or a madman.Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas with plentiful coffers. The hybrids: The fruits of the Doctor's labour, destined to blindly obey their creator while they remain in the shadows, are a motley group of part-human, part-animal monstrosities. All of them are living in a perfectly balanced and static world which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Doctor Moreau's patron - who will, unwittingly, begin a dangerous chain-reaction.For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and in the sweltering heat of the jungle passions may ignite.… (meer)
  1. 00
    The Madman's Daughter door Megan Shepherd (Litrvixen)
    Litrvixen: Both feature as protagonists Dr. Moreaus daughter
  2. 00
    Het eiland van dr. Moreau door H. G. Wells (Cecrow)
Bezig met laden...

Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden.

Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.

» Zie ook 51 vermeldingen

Engels (39)  Duits (1)  Alle talen (40)
1-5 van 40 worden getoond (volgende | toon alle)
I found this a very slow start, but a compelling overall read. I appreciate the story and the characters. I generally like Moreno-Garcia's work very much. This just took a long time for me to get into.
  g33kgrrl | Mar 3, 2024 |
3.5 stars rounded up. This book took me about a third of the way to hook me in. The characters (once given the chance) balance a lot of layers and grow on you quickly once the book gets its footing. ( )
  Nlwilson607 | Jan 24, 2024 |
Weird but good. Predictable ending. ( )
  kakadoo202 | Dec 18, 2023 |
Silvia Moreno-Garica’s The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a rift on H.G. Well’s famous science fiction novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau. In the original, Doctor Moreau works on a remote island, where he uses the practice of vivisection to surgically transform animals into humans. In Moreno-Garica’s version, the story is set in the Yucatan, against a backdrop of a Mayan uprising against the colonial landowners.

The main characters are Carlota, the doctor’s daughter, and Doctor Moreau himself, who happens to be a scientific religious fanatic. Carlota is devoted to her father, who everyday injects her with medicine to help her thrive. They’re not the only ones on the ranch, however—it’s populated by Dr. Moreau’s “hybrids,” part human and part animal, the results of the doctor’s bizarre experiments. Looming over everything is Hernando Lizalde, Dr. Moreau’s patron, who bankrolls the doctor’s laboratory in hopes that he’ll eventually create hybrids that are fit to work on his haciendas, but he seldom visits the ranch. On one of those visits, he brings along Montgomery, a self-loathing, hard-drinking English hunter whom Dr. Moreau hopes to hire as a mayordomo, an overseer of the property and its hybrids. Montgomery takes the job, and six years later things begin to fall apart: Hernando loses patience with the doctor’s slow pace, and his son, Eduardo, visits the ranch and falls for Carlota; the results of their relationship threaten to destroy everything Dr. Moreau has worked for. Meanwhile, Carlota begins to question her adored father’s experiments; the doctor acknowledges the creatures suffer greatly but insists that “pain must be endured, for without it there’d be no sweetness. In the end, secrets are revealed, and Carlota and Montgomery are forced into a battle for survival. And while the revelations aren’t particularly shocking, the book ends in a bloody fashion.

I did not find myself particularly absorbed or invested in this story the way I was with some of her other novels and I think that has to do with the pacing. I felt like the pacing rather slowed down once the Izaldes arrived. But, I do believe this is a very well-written and thought provoking book. It’s just not my favorite book I’ve read from Silvia Moreno-Garcia (that would be either Mexican Gothic or Certain Dark Things). However, I really respect Moreno-Garcia for writing this novel as I believe it is an important work of fiction that takes a questionable tale and makes it a contemporary one. This book addresses issues of colonialism, ableism, and misogyny - issues that the original story exacerbated. It also deals with how religion can be used to control others. I also respect Moreno-Garica for her ability to dabble in different genres - horror, fantasy, science fiction, noir. I like her work when it leans more into horror personally, and this novel does have horror elements. Yet, I would say this is mainly a work of gothic romance (a remote estate! A love triangle!) mixed with science fiction and some horror.

This book will find readers who adore it. And it does deserve praise. It sadly pales in comparison to some of her other novels but that doesn’t make it bad. It is well worth a read even if it is a little uneven.

I look forward to reading what Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes next.
( )
  ryantlaferney87 | Dec 8, 2023 |
Wells’ Island of Doctor Moreau is masterfully reimagined as a multiple genre work of science, gothic, romance, and historical fiction and as a coming-of-age story of Carlotta, the doctor’s daughter. They live in a secluded estate in the Yucatan peninsula. She knows little of the outside work and of her father’s work, his hybrid creations, and about her true nature, and his plans to use her to secure funding for his scientific research and work. ( )
  StaffPicks | Nov 28, 2023 |
1-5 van 40 worden getoond (volgende | toon alle)
geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe

Werd geïnspireerd door

Je moet ingelogd zijn om Algemene Kennis te mogen bewerken.
Voor meer hulp zie de helppagina Algemene Kennis .
Gangbare titel
Oorspronkelijke titel
Alternatieve titels
Oorspronkelijk jaar van uitgave
Mensen/Personages
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Belangrijke plaatsen
Belangrijke gebeurtenissen
Verwante films
Motto
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The Maya vocabulary . . . employs the word "peten" promiscuously for both island and peninsula. The cartographer nearest to the epoch of the conquest are therefore fairly excused for having represented Yucatán as an island torn off from the Mexican main.
-- The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, 1879
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
They'd be arriving that day, the two gentlemen, their boat gliding through the forest of mangroves.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
(Klik om weer te geven. Waarschuwing: kan de inhoud verklappen.)
Ontwarringsbericht
Uitgevers redacteuren
Auteur van flaptekst/aanprijzing
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Oorspronkelijke taal
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis. Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Gangbare DDC/MDS
Canonieke LCC

Verwijzingen naar dit werk in externe bronnen.

Wikipedia in het Engels

Geen

Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, the only daughter of a genius - or a madman.Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas with plentiful coffers. The hybrids: The fruits of the Doctor's labour, destined to blindly obey their creator while they remain in the shadows, are a motley group of part-human, part-animal monstrosities. All of them are living in a perfectly balanced and static world which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Doctor Moreau's patron - who will, unwittingly, begin a dangerous chain-reaction.For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and in the sweltering heat of the jungle passions may ignite.

Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.

Boekbeschrijving
Haiku samenvatting

Actuele discussies

Geen

Populaire omslagen

Snelkoppelingen

Waardering

Gemiddelde: (3.55)
0.5
1 2
1.5
2 11
2.5 5
3 49
3.5 19
4 57
4.5 6
5 17

Ben jij dit?

Word een LibraryThing Auteur.

 

Over | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Voorwaarden | Help/Veelgestelde vragen | Blog | Winkel | APIs | TinyCat | Nagelaten Bibliotheken | Vroege Recensenten | Algemene kennis | 203,242,385 boeken! | Bovenbalk: Altijd zichtbaar