{"id":140270,"date":"2022-12-10T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carconfort.ro\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/directory-of-rare-antiquarian-booksellers-new\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:30:06","slug":"directory-of-rare-antiquarian-booksellers-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carconfort.ro\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/directory-of-rare-antiquarian-booksellers-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Directory of Rare & Antiquarian Booksellers – New! REALLY Rare Comic Books You’ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Surfer returns home to Zenn-La to find that the planet has vanished, and learns it was actually destroyed in the s Earth time by the entity known as the Other.<\/p>\n

Zenn-La and its people which the Surfer repeatedly encountered since leaving Galactus’s service were actually reproductions, created by Galactus so that the Surfer would have a home to return to. He later regains his personality during a time-travel adventure and sharing a romance with Alicia Masters. Silver Surfer temporarily bonds with and is controlled by the Carnage symbiote , which is seeking revenge for the destruction of its homeworld.<\/p>\n

Later, the Surfer works with the alien Annunaki race to gather and protect some of Earth’s most extraordinarily gifted children. During his travels, the Surfer is captured by a portal of the Sakaar Empire. Left weakened and vulnerable by his trip through the portal, the Surfer is subdued and implanted with an obedience disk to ensure he remains loyal to them.<\/p>\n

Fighting as a gladiator and believed to be the fabled ‘Sakaarson’ due to his appearance , the Surfer is finally forced to face the Hulk along with his Warbound. Through teamwork and distraction, the Hulk is eventually able to destroy the Surfer’s obedience disk. The Hulk and several other slaves and gladiators are freed when the Surfer uses the Power Cosmic to remove their own obedience disks and give them a way out of the arena, although the Hulk declines the Surfer’s offer to take him back to Earth.<\/p>\n

During the Annihilation war, the Silver Surfer again becomes Galactus’s herald to help save the universe from the despot Annihilus. Drax the Destroyer frees the Surfer, who in turn frees Galactus.<\/p>\n

An enraged Galactus destroys more than half the Annihilation Wave, and Annihilus is defeated. The Silver Surfer leads the world devourer to the populated planet Orbucen, which brings him into conflict with Richard Rider. He delays the planetary destruction to give the inhabitants more time to evacuate. The Silver Surfer returns to Sakaar in a plan to feed Galactus with the unique “Old Power” which he claims would sate his master’s hunger for thousands of years, sparing many other inhabited worlds.<\/p>\n

He is opposed by the Hulk’s son, Skaar , and is enslaved by an obedience disc. The conflict is ended when Skaar’s mother Caiera sacrifices her soul and Old Power as sustenance for Galactus.<\/p>\n

The battle ended when the Silver Surfer chose to leave his post as herald and guard an Asgardian artifact. Galactus “tethers” him to Asgard’s location in Oklahoma , resulting in his powers waning the further he travels from Asgard, and grants him the ability to return to human form.<\/p>\n

Silver Surfer and Dawn meet Glorian the Maker of Miracles, who plans to rebuild our universe for the heroes to return to after they finish in Battleworld. Glorian has also enlisted the help of the Shaper of Worlds. Dawn agreed to use her memories to restore Earth while Silver Surfer left to restore the rest of the universe, but Silver Surfer unmade Galactus while Dawn unknowingly created another version of Norrin.<\/p>\n

The Shaper of Worlds is not happy with the changes. When Silver Surfer was displaced in time, he had an encounter with Knull. Gathering the energy from the cosmos, Silver Surfer managed to defeat Knull.<\/p>\n

During the ” King in Black ” storyline, Silver Surfer passes by the planets that were ravaged by Knull. Knull reels in pain and Eddie Brock is chosen to be the new Captain Universe. Through the God of Light, Silver Surfer assumes a chrome form and turns his surfboard into a sword while Knull transforms his armor into one that would enable him to combat Silver Surfer.<\/p>\n

Just then, Venom appears having been transformed into Captain Universe stating that he will handle Knull for them. With their weapons separated from the battle axe form following Knull’s death, Thor and Silver Surfer noted that things will not be back to normal soon. The Silver Surfer wields the Power Cosmic , granting him superhuman strength, endurance, and senses and the ability to absorb and manipulate the universe’s ambient energy.<\/p>\n

The Surfer can navigate through interstellar space [78] and hyperspace, which he can enter after exceeding the speed of light allowing traversing interstellar and intergalactic distances to other galaxies millions and even billions of light years away.<\/p>\n

The Surfer sustains himself by converting matter into energy; he does not require food, water, air, or sleep, but occasionally enters a sleep-like meditation to dream. He can survive in nearly any known natural environment, including deep space, hyperspace, black holes [81] and stars. His senses enable him to detect objects and concentrations of energy light years away and to perceive matter and energy in subatomic detail, including life energies of living beings.<\/p>\n

The Surfer’s board is composed of a nearly impervious, cosmically powered silvery material similar to his own skin. The board is mentally linked to the Surfer and moves in response to his mental commands even when he is not in physical contact with it.<\/p>\n

When Galactus exiled the Surfer to Earth, his means of imprisonment was linked to the board. When the Surfer and the Fantastic Four realized this, the Surfer put it to the test by leaving the board planet-side and entering space in the Four’s spacecraft. Once he was free of Earth, the Surfer remotely converted the board to energy, recalled it to him, and reformed it in space.<\/p>\n

The Surfer has displayed the ability to shed his silver skin and revert to his original appearance as Norrin Radd, masking the Power Cosmic and allowing him to be more inconspicuous when needed. In this state, he can properly eat, drink and sleep.<\/p>\n

Warren Ellis ‘s Ultimate Galactus Trilogy originally suggested that the Ultimates ‘ ally the Vision was the herald of Galactus, a robotic probe that travels through space warning civilizations of the impending arrival of Gah Lak Tus.<\/p>\n

In the final miniseries of the trilogy, Ultimate Extinction , silvery humanoids began to appear, sent to trigger mass suicides in order to reduce the population’s resistance. Suicide cults founded by the creatures began to appear all across the globe as Gah Lak Tus drew near. These silvery beings had the ability to grow wings; morph into an ovoid ; form spikes; or take an intermediary form, gliding on an oval surface.<\/p>\n

They also demonstrated the ability to manipulate large quantities of energy. He is teleported to Earth after Reed mistakes him for a star that he is trying to harness. His appearance triggers planet-wide chaos and natural calamities. In 43, Reed comments that Gah Lak Tus seems to have modeled its drones on this surfer, and he gives his name as Norin Radd. The Searcher states that he will summon his “master”, who will make the population of the Earth happier than they have ever been. It is revealed that the Surfer has been exiled from Zenn-La for destroying the control that Psycho-Man had over Zenn-La, but because of finding Earth for his master to “save” he may return.<\/p>\n

After Psycho-Man gains domain over Earth, the Silver Surfer, temporarily imprisoned in his own ‘memorial’ statue, rescues Mr. Fantastic, tells him his story, and asks him to save Earth. With the Surfers beaten and the insane Psycho-Man reprogrammed to experience the unthinking happiness he had imposed on others, Silver Surfer wanders the space ways.<\/p>\n

He informs Phoenix that the Watchers disapprove of the problems her flight across the universe is causing and briefly battles her before asking what she is looking for. On Earth , Norrin Radd had been a great military scientist who accidentally destroyed his own world with his greatest invention. Determined to bring it back to existence, he approached Galactus , Restorer of Worlds, and became his herald in the hope that Galactus would resurrect his world in exchange for his service.<\/p>\n

However, Galactus had taken an oath to only revive those worlds destroyed by the Blight. An enraged Silver Surfer then turned against his master, destroying those who worshiped him and attempting to kill Galactus himself in order to steal the knowledge of world restoration. This led to the destruction of Earth, the coming of the Exiles , the deaths of the Shi’ar Imperial Elite Guard, and inevitably the Surfer’s own destruction at the claws of a cosmically empowered Sabretooth.<\/p>\n

Instead of coming to Earth and meeting the Fantastic Four, he is attacked by a horde of zombies. Asked to give a lecture to a group of Baltimore women in , Stein gave a controversial speech titled “The Value of College Education for Women”, undoubtedly designed to provoke the largely middle-class audience. In the lecture Stein maintained:. Sometime in or , she became infatuated with Mary Bookstaver who was involved in a relationship with a medical student, Mabel Haynes. Witnessing the relationship between the two women served for Stein as her “erotic awakening”.<\/p>\n

The unhappy love triangle demoralized Stein, arguably contributing to her decision to abandon her medical studies. The following year the two relocated to Paris, where Leo hoped to pursue an art career.<\/p>\n

From until , when they dissolved their common household, Gertrude and her brother Leo shared living quarters near the Luxembourg Gardens on the Left Bank of Paris in a two-story apartment with the adjacent studio located on the interior courtyard at 27 rue de Fleurus , 6th arrondissement.<\/p>\n

Here they accumulated the works of art that formed a collection that became renowned for its prescience and historical importance. The gallery space was furnished with imposing Renaissance -era furniture from Florence , Italy. The paintings lined the walls in tiers trailing many feet to the ceiling. Initially illuminated by gaslight, the artwork was later lit by electric light shortly prior to World War I. Leo Stein cultivated important art world connections, enabling the Stein holdings to grow over time.<\/p>\n

The joint collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein began in late when Michael Stein announced that their trust account had accumulated a balance of 8, francs. The art collection increased and the walls at Rue de Fleurus were rearranged continually to make way for new acquisitions. Henry McBride art critic for the New York Sun did much for Stein’s reputation in the United States, publicizing her art acquisitions and her importance as a cultural figure.<\/p>\n

Of the art collection at 27 Rue de Fleurus, McBride commented: “[I]n proportion to its size and quality She recognized them a long way off. While numerous artists visited the Stein salon, many of these artists were not represented among the paintings on the walls at 27 Rue de Fleurus.<\/p>\n

The division of the Steins’ art collection was described in a letter by Leo:. The Picasso landscape is not important in any such sense. We are, as it seems to me on the whole, both so well off now that we needn’t repine.<\/p>\n

I am willing to leave you the Picasso oeuvre, as you left me the Renoir, and you can have everything except that. I want to keep the few drawings that I have. I have been anxious above all things that each should have in reason all that he wanted, and just as I was glad that Renoir was sufficiently indifferent to you so that you were ready to give them up, so I am glad that Pablo is sufficiently indifferent to me that I am willing to let you have all you want of it.<\/p>\n

Leo departed with sixteen Renoirs and, relinquishing the Picassos and most of Matisse to his sister, took only a portrait sketch Picasso had done of him. Stein did not see Leo Stein again until after World War I , and then through only a brief greeting on the street in Paris. After this accidental encounter, they never saw or spoke to each other again. After Stein’s and Leo’s households separated in , she continued to collect examples of Picasso’s art, which had turned to Cubism , a style Leo did not appreciate.<\/p>\n

At her death, Gertrude’s remaining collection emphasized the artwork of Picasso and Juan Gris , most of her other pictures having been sold. Gertrude Stein’s personality has dominated the provenance of the Stein art legacy. It was, however, her brother Leo who was the astute art appraiser. Alfred Barr Jr. In , Stein asserted: “Painting now after its great period has come back to be a minor art. In , in a preface for the first exhibition of Spanish painter Francisco Riba Rovira who painted a portrait of her , Stein wrote:.<\/p>\n

When he could not make a thing, he hijacked it and left it. He insisted on showing his incapacity: he spread his lack of success: showing what he could not do, became an obsession for him.<\/p>\n

People influenced by him were also obsessed with the things which they could not reach and they began the system of camouflage. The only one who wanted to insist on this problem was Juan Gris. The gatherings in the Stein home “brought together confluences of talent and thinking that would help define modernism in literature and art”. It was Stein’s partner Alice who became the de facto hostess for the wives and girlfriends of the artists in attendance, who met in a separate room.<\/p>\n

When guests showed up, Alice was called upon to entertain their wives. Hemingway frequented Stein’s salon, but the two had an uneven relationship. They began as close friends, with Hemingway admiring Stein as a mentor, but they later grew apart, especially after Stein called Hemingway “yellow” in The Autobiography of Alice B. During the summer of , Stein advised the young composer and writer Paul Bowles to go to Tangier , where she and Alice had vacationed.<\/p>\n

Stein’s writing can be placed in three categories: “hermetic” works best illustrated by The Making of Americans : The Hersland Family ; popularized writing such as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ; and speech writing and more accessible autobiographical writing of later years, of which Brewsie and Willie is a good example. Her works include novels, plays, stories, libretti , and poems written in a highly idiosyncratic, playful, repetitive, and humorous style. Typical quotes are: ” Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose “; “Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle”; [56] about her childhood home in Oakland , “There is no there there”; and “The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is prepared.<\/p>\n

Sugar is not a vegetable. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or “portraits”, were designed to evoke “the excitingness of pure being” and can be seen as literature’s answer to visual art styles and forms such as Cubism , plasticity, and collage. Many of the experimental works such as Tender Buttons have since been interpreted by critics as a feminist reworking of patriarchal language.<\/p>\n

These works were well received by avant-garde critics but did not initially achieve mainstream success. Despite Stein’s work on ” automatic writing ” with William James , she did not see her work as automatic, but as an ‘excess of consciousness’.<\/p>\n

Particularly, he influenced her idea of equality, distinguished from universality: “the whole field of the canvas is important”. Stein explained: “[T]he important thing Her use of repetition is ascribed to her search for descriptions of the “bottom nature” of her characters, such as in The Making of Americans where the narrator is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as “As I was saying” and “There will be now a history of her.<\/p>\n

Social judgment is absent in her writing, so the reader is given the power to decide how to think and feel about the writing. Anxiety, fear, and anger are also absent, and her work is harmonic and integrative. Stein predominantly used the present progressive tense, creating a continuous presence in her work, which Grahn argues is a consequence of the previous principles, especially commonality and centeredness.<\/p>\n

Grahn describes “play” as the granting of autonomy and agency to the readers or audience: “rather than the emotional manipulation that is a characteristic of linear writing, Stein uses play. Lastly, Grahn argues that one must ” inster stand Toklas ; the book would become her first best-seller.<\/p>\n

Despite the title, it was actually Stein’s autobiography. The style was quite similar to that of The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook , which was written by Toklas. Toklas , despite Toklas repeatedly denying authorship. Several of Stein’s writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson ‘s operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All , and James Tenney ‘s setting of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner , beginning with “a” on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e.<\/p>\n

While living in Paris, Stein began submitting her writing for publication. Her earliest writings were mainly retellings of her college experiences. Her first critically acclaimed publication was Three Lives.<\/p>\n

In , Mildred Aldrich introduced Stein to Mabel Dodge Luhan and they began a short-lived but fruitful friendship during which the wealthy Mabel Dodge promoted Gertrude’s legend in the United States. Mabel was enthusiastic about Stein’s sprawling publication The Makings of Americans and, at a time when Stein had much difficulty selling her writing to publishers, privately published copies of Portrait of Mabel Dodge at Villa Curonia.<\/p>\n

In addition, she wrote the first critical analysis of Stein’s writing to appear in America, in “Speculations, or Post-Impressionists in Prose”, published in a special March publication of Arts and Decoration. In Gertrude Stein’s writing every word lives and, apart from concept, it is so exquisitely rhythmical and cadenced that if we read it aloud and receive it as pure sound, it is like a kind of sensuous music.<\/p>\n

Just as one may stop, for once, in a way, before a canvas of Picasso, and, letting one’s reason sleep for an instant, may exclaim: “It is a fine pattern! Stein and Carl Van Vechten , the noted critic and photographer, became acquainted in Paris in Van Vechten served as an enthusiastic champion of Stein’s literary work in the United States, in effect becoming her American agent. In October , Stein arrived in America after a year absence.<\/p>\n

Disembarking from the ocean liner in New York, she encountered a throng of reporters. Front-page articles on Stein appeared in almost every New York City newspaper.<\/p>\n

As she rode through Manhattan to her hotel, she was able to get a sense of the publicity that would hallmark her US tour.<\/p>\n

Stein prepared her lectures for each stop-over in a formally structured way, and the audience was limited to five hundred attendees for each venue.<\/p>\n

She spoke, reading from notes, and provided for an audience question and answer period at the end of her presentation. Stein’s effectiveness as a lecture speaker received varying evaluations. At the time, some maintained that “Stein’s audiences by and large did not understand her lectures.<\/p>\n

The predominant feeling, however, was that Stein was a compelling presence, a fascinating personality who could hold listeners with the “musicality of her language”. In Washington, D. Stein was invited to have tea with the President’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. In Beverly Hills , California, she visited actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin , who reportedly discussed the future of cinema with her. Stein completed Q. In , Stein began Fernhurst , a fictional account of a scandalous three-person romantic affair involving a dean M.<\/p>\n

All the forces that have been engaged through the years of childhood, adolescence and youth in confused and ferocious combat range themselves in ordered ranks and during which the straight and narrow gateway of maturity, and life which was all uproar and confusion narrows down to form and purpose, and we exchange a great dim possibility for a small hard reality. Also in our American life where there is no coercion in custom and it is our right to change our vocation so often as we have desire and opportunity, it is a common experience that our youth extends through the whole first twenty-nine years of our life and it is not till we reach thirty that we find at last that vocation for which we feel ourselves fit and to which we willingly devote continued labor.<\/p>\n

Mellow observes that, in , year-old Gertrude “had evidently determined that the ‘small hard reality’ of her life would be writing”. She credited this as a revelatory moment in the evolution of her writing style.<\/p>\n

Stein described:. So it was with Gertrude’s repetitive sentences, each one building up, phrase by phrase, the substance of her characters. She began Three Lives during the spring of and finished it the following year. Gertrude Stein stated the date for her writing of The Making of Americans was \u2014 Her biographer has uncovered evidence that it actually began in and did not end until Her critics were less enthusiastic about it.<\/p>\n

A much-abridged edition was published by Harcourt Brace in , but the full version remained out of print until Something Else Press republished it in In , a new, definitive edition was published by Dalkey Archive Press with a foreword by William Gass. Gertrude’s Matisse and Picasso descriptive essays appeared in Alfred Stieglitz ‘s August edition of Camera Work , a special edition devoted to Picasso and Matisse, and represented her first publication.<\/p>\n

And you can imagine what that meant to me or to any one. Stein’s descriptive essays apparently began with her essay of Alice B. You are organizing an event and you want to listen to the real gospel? Afro-American gospel: authentic gospel? You are at the right place! Your Gospel Team is a gospel choir, the first one in Switzerland, specialized in the animation of the weddings, concerts, The machine is in good working order.<\/p>\n

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This semi-precious wooden coffee table “Courbaril” was brought back from French Guiana in It is in very good condition and very rare, not to say not to be found in metropolitan France and even Sorry to see that! Jan 11, Dem rated it liked it Recommends it for: book club read. Shelves: ww2. I enjoyed this novel by Anthony Doerr and yet when I was nearing the end I couldn’t help feel a a sense of relief to have finished the book.<\/p>\n

I enjoy historical fiction and really looked forward to this novel by Anthony Doerr as it was set in a time frame that that really interests me. Because I read quite a lot of novels set around World War Two I love the fact that the author took a a slightly different path with his storytelling and that is what drew me to this novel. I loved the characters of M I enjoyed this novel by Anthony Doerr and yet when I was nearing the end I couldn’t help feel a a sense of relief to have finished the book.<\/p>\n

There is a slight magical element to the stroy which I am not a major fan of at the best of times but it works well in this book. I did however struggle with the structure and pace of the novel and this is the reason for me liking this novel and not loving it. I found the toing and froing between time frames a bit tedious and the chapters too short. Normally this isn’t a problem for me but however in this book it took from my overall enjoyment of the story.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that I couldn’t follow the plot but more that it became a chore for me and just when I was gelling with one time frame and character I was dragged kicking and screaming to another time frame and character and wished at times the author would just allow the story to flow and not chop and change.<\/p>\n

To sum up an interesting and worthwhile read and a book that will be enjoyed by historical fiction lovers and book clubs over the summer.<\/p>\n

View all 54 comments. May 01, Lisa of Troy rated it it was amazing. This historical fiction novel is set in World War II and alternates between two main characters, a teenage boy named Werner Pfennig and a blind teenage girl named Marie-Laure. Hugh Laurie is set to play the role of Marie-Laure’s great uncle!<\/p>\n

The other novel that I read was Cloud Cuckoo Land. All the Light We Cannot See is much more straightforward in my opinion and is much easier to follow. Although All the Light We Cannot see is a rather lengthy novel, the short paragraphs and chapters keep the action flowing. When reading this book, I practiced immersion reading with a free copy of the text through Libby, a free service provided by my local library and a copy of the audiobook procured through Scribd.<\/p>\n

I love immersion reading!!!!! We meet Werner Pfennig. He is an orphan, living in Germany, who awaits the passage of time where he dreads the day he will start to work in the very same mine that killed his father. However, Werner makes a name for himself working on radios. What will Werner do with these skills? And how will his path intersect with Marie-Laure? Although Marie-Laure is originally born with sight, she eventually loses her ability to see.<\/p>\n

Her father helps her to regain her independence by crafting a replica of the city. However, Paris is at risk for attack, and Marie-Laure and her father flee to Saint-Malo where her great-uncle lives. Her great-uncle is 63, suffering from PTSD, and never leaves the house. This book has some really great character development. The characters are not all good nor all bad. Some of the characters struggle with decisions that they have made, questioning what they should have done differently.<\/p>\n

Additionally, there are two disabled people in this book. They are important characters not side characters , and they are doing important work. Not all heroes carry swords or have ninja moves. Need more bookish thoughts? Check out Lisa of Troy’s homepage! Blog Twitter BookTube Facebook View all 40 comments. Anna Ortega One of my favorite books of all time! Sue I loved the book and just hope Netflix don’t deviate too much from the story. I loved the book and just hope Netflix don’t deviate too much from the story.<\/p>\n

Did I just The audiobook was definitely the way to go with this one! Very popular historical fiction. Out of my comfort zone. I get the hype, the writing was beautiful but not a favorite! Dec 11, Angela M rated it it was amazing.<\/p>\n

What I loved most about this book was all the light that I did see. There is so much here that captivated me – from the beautiful writing to the strong, caring characters to the loving relationships and the way people touched each other’s lives during the trying times of WW II. Parallel stories are told in alternating chapters of Marie Laure, a teenage French girl who has been blind since the age of six and Werner, an intelligent, perceptive and sensitive German orphan who learns to fix radios an What I loved most about this book was all the light that I did see.<\/p>\n

Parallel stories are told in alternating chapters of Marie Laure, a teenage French girl who has been blind since the age of six and Werner, an intelligent, perceptive and sensitive German orphan who learns to fix radios and becomes noticed by the German army. Each of their stories will move you in their own right, but especially when their paths cross. Through the lovely descriptive language we know that Marie Laure sees what she cannot see because he father lovingly carves a model of the neighborhood so she can tell where buildings and streets are and she knows by the number of steps and which way to turn.<\/p>\n

This loving, nurturing and often times touching relationship between Marie Laure and her fathers will melt your heart. He teaches her Braille, buys her books in Braille and gives her lovely little surprise boxes opened by solving a puzzle or trick opening to discover the hidden gift. Werner and his orphan sister Jutta have a special relationship , as well, and the letters they exchange are at once heartbreaking an heartwarming, even though it appears that Jutta has a hard time forgiving Werner for what he does to the radio.<\/p>\n

Doerr has created and developed characters that you care about as soon as you meet them. The role that these people, including Marie Laure, play in the resistance is so courageous. Some bad things and some very sad things happened but after all this was war. But I loved the connections of people in the end and the ultimately uplifting feeling of hope – another light in this book. I highly recommend it. View all 60 comments. So, I know I should be oohing and ahhing over this book, but it just wasn’t for me.<\/p>\n

This is definitely one of those “it’s not you, it’s me” moments. I can see why many people have given such glowing reviews, but I found it to be unbearably dull and slow-moving. I never felt a strong connection with either of the main characters or the story itself.<\/p>\n

I’m just glad that it ended. View all 52 comments. Jul 20, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: historical , 21th-century , fiction , war , united-states. Her father constructs a scale model of their neighborhood to help her visualize her surroundings.<\/p>\n

In Germany, 8-year-old Werner Pfennig is an orphan in the coal-mining town of Zollverein. Werner is exceptionally bright and has a natural skill for repairing radios. After he finds a broken one with his younger sister Jutta, he fixes it and he uses it to hear science and music programs transmitted across Europe.<\/p>\n

View 2 comments. Jun 06, Adina rated it liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , france , pulitzer-winners , book-club , us. How do I review a novel that most of my friends loved but left me mainly indifferent. Again, I have a case when I feel guilty for not liking a book more and trying to figure out what is wrong with me. Firstly, the writing. It is beautiful, intricate, full of elegant, well thought sentences. However, they let me untouched.<\/p>\n

Maybe, How do I review a novel that most of my friends loved but left me mainly indifferent. Maybe, as others also mentioned, the author struggled too hard to impress and it had the opposite effect on me. Secondly, the characters. They felt too flat, too likeable without risking any emotion or treat that could make them more interesting and complex.<\/p>\n

I still enjoyed reading about them, but I fell like their personalities were too subtle. All the bad things were toned down, in my opinion. Maybe because this novel is in essence a YA story.<\/p>\n

The search for the mythical diamond felt a bit weird and introduced in the plot by forced but It did not bother me that much. I liked reading the novel at times but when I closed the book, I was in no hurry to restart. The short chapters did not help as I had no problem to close the book after 2 pages, especially at night. The short chapters also kept me on the outside of the plot and the characters. However, it was a light, fast read and I do not regret the time spent with it.<\/p>\n

View all 62 comments. There are parallel lives here in the guise of Marie-Laure, a French blind girl, and Werner, a German boy living in an orphanage with his sister Jutta. It’s not just a war story though, it’s a coming of age, a childhood interrupted. Marie-Laure flees Paris with her father after the advancement of the German army.<\/p>\n

They take refuge with Uncle Etienne in St Malo. Werner meanwhile, becomes a radio expert with that same army from which Marie-Laure has fled. This is a captivating storyline, the writing exquisite, it’s hard to put down, and even harder to forget. I expected a lot from this book and it didn’t let me down. Quite simply, beautiful! View all 99 comments. For me, this was a very special read. I feel like I have been on a long gut-wrenching journey, and in a way I have, traveling with two young children, one in Berlin and one in Paris and follow them as they grow-up.<\/p>\n

There are poignant moments, downright sad moments, moments that made me smile and moments that made me so very angry. Werner in Berlin is a curious child, a child with the talent for putting things together, like radios, he and his sister Jutta live in an orphanage. Marie-Laure, a bli For me, this was a very special read. Marie-Laure, a blind girl and her father live in Paris, her father is the keeper of the keys for a prestigious museum.<\/p>\n

It is the radio that will connect these two lives long before they actually meet. The descriptions are wonderful, very detailed as they are made for a blind girl, to enable her to envision the many things described.<\/p>\n

The novel travels, back and forth, times when they were young, times when they are a bit older and Marie-Laure finds herself and her father in St, Malo at the home her eccentric uncle, who is another amazing character Werner finds himself chosen for a school, and we travel along with him as we learn the many young men in the Nazi party were trained to be cold blooded killers. How far would you go along with the prevailing threats and times, how would you react when confronted with an injustice?<\/p>\n

One young man pays heavily for his supposed weakness of character. How long can one pretend everything is fine, trying to keep eyes closed so one cannot see? So it is radios, little built towns and houses, built by Marie-Laure’s father so she can get around wherever she lives. Malo, of imprisonments and yes love. Moral questions and a great character study. It even follows a few characters after the war in Berlin, which is where this quote comes in, “Does any goodness linger in this last derelict stronghold?<\/p>\n

A little. I read this as slow as I could, I really did not want it to end. ARC from publisher View all 82 comments. May 26, jessica rated it really liked it. View all 11 comments. Jun 01, Marialyce absltmom, yaya rated it it was ok. This is a case of where I am going to hate myself for again feeling a book that has received a multitude of five star ratings feel short for me. It was not that I disliked it, but I found it to be jumpy and often disjointed.<\/p>\n

I am not a fan of the current trend of devoting one chapter to one character and the next to another and flipping back and forth. To my way of reading and thinking, it doesn’t allow the reader me to gather depth of a character. It makes me overly anxious to sally forth try This is a case of where I am going to hate myself for again feeling a book that has received a multitude of five star ratings feel short for me.<\/p>\n

It makes me overly anxious to sally forth trying to connect and find the thread. My interest wans and the moment I seem to be getting there with a character I am pulled away to the next chapter. While the characters were different, I felt by the time I reached the final page I really did not know them well at all. They were like phantoms and perhaps that is exactly the way the author wished them to be.<\/p>\n

Midway throughout this overly long novel, I felt that I had turned a corner and had finally grasped onto the people of the novel, but seemed again to lose their continuity and their relevance as the book continued to what I felt was a murky conclusion.<\/p>\n

Sorry to say, I feel like I did when I finished The Book Thief , a bit of a traitor to a book that so many loved, but from which I received not much satisfaction. View all 35 comments. Feb 22, Charlotte May rated it it was amazing Shelves: war , historical-fiction , page-plus , favourites , tear-jerker , magical-realism. Haunting, harrowing, heartbreaking. This book was an incredible depiction of the Second World War, told from the point of view of two characters in very different circumstances.<\/p>\n

Switching between narratives following Marie-Laure, a young blind girl living in France with her father, a museum caretaker. Forced to flee Paris, Marie Laure’s father carries the real one of 4 copies made of the legendary ‘sea of flames’ a jewel said to bring bad luck and destruction on whoever holds it. The second narr Haunting, harrowing, heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

The second narrative is Werner, a young German boy recruited into the Hitler youth and used for his exceptional intelligence with wireless and technology. Their stories run parallel, the prose is wonderful and enchanting giving real insight into the terror of war and the effects it had on the lives of such different people. Without using characters who were soldiers which gave this novel a different edge. The two characters eventually meet briefly and beautifully near the end, and to follow their stories and the stories of those around them was both heart warming and heart wrenching.<\/p>\n

Absolutely incredible. View all 16 comments. Dec 23, Matt rated it really liked it Shelves: literary-fiction , historical-fiction , contemporary-fiction. First, I buy it, right away. Like the instant I finish reading the review in the New York Times. Second, I put the book on my shelf, as soon as I receive it.<\/p>\n

Finally, I read it, two or three or four years later, when I finally get around to it. This routi “So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? This routine is a function of several things, chiefly a love of books, a deliberate reading speed, and also financial impulsivity.<\/p>\n

At one point my wife found this charming. As a history lover, and a lover of historical fiction, the setting and the characters were irresistible. World War II. A young German radioman hunting partisans.<\/p>\n

The walled city of Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast. And all this with a literary pedigree to boot. When it got to my house, it came out of the box and straight to the top of my reading list. Full disclosure: It was also chosen by my Book Club. I might have had something to do with the choice.<\/p>\n

This is an excellent book. It is intricately structured. It is beautifully written. It has some memorable characters. There are even some equations, just like in a Harvard bar. Yes, there is some self-conscious and rather heavy-handed literary pretensions \u2014 this is a book with leitmotifs , I tell you, honest to god leitmotifs \u2014 but in the end Doerr is so self assured in the story he is telling, and the book itself is so damned readable, that I am willing to forgive the parts that felt churned from a creative writing workshop.<\/p>\n

To begin, the novel is told in tiny chapters. Sometimes a couple pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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