by Bookaholic
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Scribner (October 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416540261
ISBN-13: 978-1416540267
Synopsis
Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.
During Stalin’s purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a revolutionary dictatorship that believes it is an instrument of liberation. [click to continue...]
by Bookaholic
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date: July 1950
ISBN-13: 9780451524935
Sales Rank: 1,055
336pp
I chose the book because it was recommended to me by a few friends. I enjoyed reading 1984 very much even though if one was reading it on a hot summer day, one would feel as if it were cold outside. 1984 is a book I might pick up 2 or 3 more times before I could understand every meaning and every point there is to be made and at the same time it might be a few years before I do that. I do have to say 1984 requires more background knowledge than other, of course, but the more background knowledge one has the more easier it will be to understand. Whoever will read this book, will walk away from it thinking about what happened, thinking about how it could have been different, and just simply being affected by George Owell’s fascinating story [click to continue...]
by Bookaholic
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (October 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060850523
ISBN-13: 978-0060850524
‘Brave New World’, written by Aldous Huxley, was an interesting book that gave me a very strong impression even from the first few chapters. The book starts of in a place where humans are born through machine. Experts explain the process being very efficient since it creates mass numbers of humans and can also distinguish them through different class by teaching them from very young age. Of course, they talk about babies being ‘cloned’ and therefore having multiple people with same faces and appearance as if it was nothing abnormal. [click to continue...]
by Bookaholic
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (March 25, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142437344
ISBN-13: 978-0142437346
This book is an excellent read if you really have time and patience to read it. t is not a book written for simple perusing, and attempts to just read it as a story tend to be discouraging. I highly recommend it. Another interesting perspective is the mazes that the main character gradually emerges from (religion, family, patriotism, etc). Although autobiographical, the book is much more than a tale of one man’s life. It took me a short time to get into the book, so don’t be turned off right away. [click to continue...]
by Bookworm
It’s not an easy task for someone pushing broom behind her husband to be elected to the Senate to represent people from New York - it’s a lot of guts, or a lot of stupidity. So don’t get me wrong - I like Hillary . Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. [click to continue...]
