Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante is on the 650th spot on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which is the reason why I have tried to enjoy it: alas, it does not work for me and that should be about all I have to say about it, only there is more in the lines below – you find thousands of notes on books from The GOAT and other relevant sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante is on the 650th spot on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which is the reason why I have tried to enjoy it: alas, it does not work for me and that should be about all I have to say about it, only there is more in the lines below – you find thousands of notes on books from The GOAT and other relevant sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

6 out of 10

 

Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html said : ‘First you want to get hold of something to say, then you fudge up a plot of a story of some kind, and then you put in bits of things you have seen and heard round the place, and then you try and make it all sound sort of interesting or witty or funny or unusual or striking in some way. If you find some bit that isn't that, you work at it until it is, or at least as near it as you can get.’ And I look at The Three Trapped Tigers

 

Another outstanding book that I think of when determining if a novel is likely to provoke enthusiasm is the psychology classic by Malcolm Gladwell that explains The Thin Slicing Theory, also The Harding Effect which applies here, in a short time, not even minutes, I was able to say that Three Trapped Tigers is not for me

Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html offers many examples of decisions taken fast, some of them not just wrongfully, but leading to catastrophe (the case of the Iranian civil aircraft is mentioned), and the mechanism works for reading too

 

Then there is The Happiness Formula of PERMA, where the acronym stands for Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, and three of them might be on the table when ‘engaged’ with a book, that is if it is possible, if the conditions are met, and they are not for this reader here

The Conditions for Flow, or Engagement, are: you are in control, nothing else matters (formidable concentration is the key), it is an autotelic experience, there are clear and meaningful goals, feedback is constant and instant, time expands or is compressed, the experience is between boredom and burnout to be in The Zone

 

Flow  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html is the other classic of psychology, written by the co-founder of Positive Psychology Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, that details the above principles, how they work in practice, and there are examples of real people who were in The Zone

Nonetheless, Three Trapped Tigers did not seem to offer an area between boredom and burnout – more into the former – would not be an autotelic episode, and as for nothing else matters, well, there is the attention deficit, and it has to be a mea culpa: multiple readers will find this novel elating, it just does not apply to me

“All the thought- stream business strikes me as a sodding bore; once in 1000 times something stands out as a good touch, but hardly more often’ again, this was Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/memoirs-by-kingsley-amis-author-of-take.html again and I rest my case

 

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