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Title: Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0-86547-629-2 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 27 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Book Not for Everyone
Comment: Charles Bowden certainly writes a compelling book, full of unforgettable imagery and his strong voice. His take on America's unsettling history is a huge step away from idealized grammerschool fables that many of us have been raised with, yet necessary if one is to understand world politics and America's place in them. Although frank and disturbing in some sections, Bowdens book is a very powerful read for someone looking for another persective on America. I would only recommend this book for those with strong nerves and a stong stomache. For those people it is a great book, for others, happy with a "sunshine" image of America, it would be better to pass on this title.
Rating: 3
Summary: perplexing and tiring
Comment: I have loved the essays I have read by Charles Bowden individually. Whether disturbing or provocative, he grabs you somewhere deep and won't let go. In a full length book, it is feeling too intense for me. The themes of our destruction of the earth and our intransigencies in our history keep returning and returning like the tide. As does the metaphor/image of the orchid. I didn't get very far into the book, I confess. I think I will have to let this one mellow on the bookshelf for a few years or a decade. Maybe then I will be angry enough to feel with along with it, or otherwise patient enough to let it come to me.
Rating: 3
Summary: Blood Orchid gets hammered.
Comment: Blood Orchid is filled and covered with blood. But blood brings healing. It is hard to write a good review when I have some mixed feelings about this book. I have read a few books with similar topics this past summer and they leave me numb, but I am captivated by Bowden's metaphor, whether I like it or not. He definitely has a way with words and word pictures.
In the midst of his openness and honesty he sounds as if he is regurgitating a bitter pill someone has given him to swallow. This makes the book even more compelling and hard to put down, always returning to the lesson in botany and zoology provided by the wasp and the hammer orchid. After all, are we not biological beings also? Is not everything connected by a thin cord? It is like the picture of Coyote Man being the trickster and the tricked, with irony everywhere.
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Title: Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0865476241 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 06 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Down by the River : Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0684853434 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Killing the Hidden Waters by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0292743068 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Blue Desert by Charles Bowden ISBN: 0816510814 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: July, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Juarez : The Laboratory of Our Future by Charles Bowden, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0893817767 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 15 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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