Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the...
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Snowy White World to Save
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It s a headline we all have seen: Global warming is melting the Arctic. Once the Arctic sea ice has...
Children's Illustrated Non-fiction Nature Animals
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The Boys Volume 2: Get Some
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Fiction Non-Fiction Limited Editions Series A–Z Authors A–Z Social Back to product...
The Confusions of Young Torless
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Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century,...
Art and Belief
Paul Noordhof and Helen Bradley
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Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy...
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
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The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a...
ClareR (6256 KP) rated The End of Men in Books
Jun 8, 2021
This is told from multiple perspectives. There are mostly recurring characters, such as Dr Maclean, some scientists, the anthropologist, intelligence and government types, interspersed with ‘ordinary’ people who were also affected and lost friends and family. We see perspectives from all over the world. The voices of these people all seem so real: their pain, confusion and determination coming through in their own voices, as their stories are all told in journal form.
The End of Men had pretty much the same effect on me as World War Z: I was checking the news and the windows (just in case), completely preoccupied with the book whilst I was reading it, and I predictably experienced a stonking book-hangover when it ended.
This is science fiction for people who wouldn’t normally pick up science fiction (a bit like a gateway drug!). It reads like contemporary fiction - the here and now.
This novel had me on the edge of my seat and in tears - and a bit angry at times, truth be told. This doesn’t feel like you’re reading science-fiction, it has a tinge of the non-fiction about it. Perhaps that’s because of the times we’re living in...
Would I recommend it? You’d better believe I would!
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Noise of Time in Books
Oct 9, 2017 (Updated Oct 9, 2017)
From his complex relationships with women, to the government, the artist was forced to live a life of paranoia, after many of his fellow composers and musicologists mysteriously disappeared following talks with the "Power" at the Big House. There were many moments where it resembled Room 101 from George Orwell's 1984, and the oppressive atmosphere that Shostakovich had to live through.
In the end, Julian Barnes explains that agreeing to Stalin's and Khrushchev's demands had been the ultimate downfall to his health. and in many ways it was a fate worse than death. It is grim and tragic to think about such an important composer in history being treated in such way.