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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-29 02:50:36 for Die Verwandlung.
(Language: English)
  
One of the first phrases I learned in German was the opening of this book: "From restless dreams, Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself changed into a giant bug [or, if you like, vermin...I think bug makes a better impact in the translation]." It gets wierder from there. If Kafka lived later on, he might have been one of the main screenwriters for Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone. Alas, he had to settle for his position as one of the brightest stars in the constellation of existentialist writers of the century.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-28 09:43:46 for Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s.
(Language: English)
Hollywood sentimentally weeps over those blacklisted in moments of anti-Communist fervor (over real Communists, by the way; analogies to "witch hunts" are goofy). But what about Hollywood actors, screenwriters, and others prevented from working? This book tells the story of the first real blacklist, when you weren't likely to see a good capitalist portrayed on the screen. It also speaks of the hypocrisy of "The Hollywood Ten", some of whom had participated fervently in Anti-Nazi Leagues...until the day Stalin signed the Hitler-Stalin pact, when suddenly all American Communists seemed to parrot effortlessly what Moscow was saying about this betrayal: "Fascism is a matter of taste; we shall struggle for peace now." Their motto was "The Yanks Are Not Coming"--although it had to be changed a few weeks later when Hitler invaded "the motherland", as Lillian Hellman referred to Russia.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-28 09:09:41 for The Jungle Books.
(Language: English)
Have you ever read the actual Rudyard Kipling book, not just seen the Disney movie (which is only about a handful of the characters chronicalled in this set of stories set in British Colonial India)? They are not just nonsense nursery fare. The story of Mowgli and His Brothers, with which most of us are familiar, is a tender fable in which Kipling successfully anamorphosizes a jungle full of beasts who reach out to care for and protect an abandoned "man cub", and yet shows how, in the end, there is a line between men and beasts that always will divide them. Other stories, such as Rikki Tikki Tavi and the White Seal, are delightful.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-28 04:12:45 for Child 44.
(Language: English)
I know I "never" read novels but I couldn't resist a spy novel set in Stalin's Soviet Union! It's a page turner. I hope Tom Rob Smith keeps Leo around to sleuth some more into the "murders" that never occurred in the worker's paradise.
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