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Title: The Speed of Light (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Elizabeth Rosner ISBN: 0-345-44225-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A "must" read!
Comment: I've just finished reading "Speed of light" and thought I share!
It just an incredible book! Once you get used to the 3 "voices" is speaking, your lost in a wonderful world of colours, tastes, sounds and feelings. It's so damn good! It's warm, intricate and very, very human! It leaves you just wanting to read another page, another chapter! But it ends just right, in the very moment it should!
The language is beautiful warm and beautiful and very poetic! But I must look up a few more words than usual. English is not my native tongue, but I read most of my books in English, so I'm fairly used to it. I usually have to look up 4-5 words in a book, but this time I had to do it at least 15 times. But it isn't really a negative thing. The overall feeling of the language is that it is incredibly beautiful and poetic.
The three characters are so intricately written. They shine through as very "real people", especially Sola. The inner turmoil and fears of these 3 very tormented person grabs you and holds you in almost awe! Don't miss out on this book, buy it, borrow it from a library or a friend, and do it now!
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautifully-crafted novel.
Comment: Rather than write a synopsis of the book, or suggest who may or may not enjoy it, I simply want to say that The Speed of Light is one of the most wonderfully poignant, emotional, thoughtful books I have ever read about love, loss and human relationships. The writing is so lovely and so poetic, that irrespective of your inclination toward prose or poetry, you cannot help but be moved by the language of the book. Also, the manner in which the writer presents the points of view of the three main characters is so perfectly executed that she makes a difficult style choice appear simple. Liz Rosner is a gifted writer. This book should be on everyone's shelf. I have bought it as a gift for many friends and cannot recommend it any more heartily. Read it read it read it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thumbs up
Comment: In found the Speed of Light to be an extremely intense and original book that takes an in-depth look at second-generation holocaust victims. This book is written from the viewpoint of three different They each refer to themselves as I. The characters are differentiated from each other in the book simply by change in fount. Each character has its own font. And I also noticed that each character has an individual way of thinking and this also sets them apart and really shows how well written this book is. This is an interesting way to write this story since each of these people has a different internal holocaust experience and this is another way to communicate these individual experiences.
The story is about three people Julian, his sister Paula and their house keeper Sola. Julian and Paula's father was a holocaust survivor. Julian is a reclusive, genius shut-in who stays in his room all day writing a physics dictionary and watching his eleven televisions, which he has stacked in a large square. Paula was born which an amazing talent to sing. She travels abroad, training in opera, and also learns the dark past of their father's. Sola is a housekeeper who has just witnessed a horrible event where she lost most of her loved ones. He story unravels as we learn at the same time about the main characters.
The story amazing timing it slowly reveals the history of its characters all about the same time. This lays down an interesting foundation for the characters. This rapid jumping of time frames really keeps the reader on the edge of his or her seat.
The Speed of Light is filled with great detail that. The book was very good but at the beginning I found it hard to understand who was talking because of the fount changes and all of the strange first person but once you get into it is a really great book.
I would strongly recommend this book.
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Title: In the Image: A Novel by Dara Horn ISBN: 0393325261 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin ISBN: 0142003484 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels ISBN: 0679776591 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Coffee Trader : A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by DAVID LISS ISBN: 0375760903 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Jane Austen in Boca: A Novel by Paula Marantz Cohen ISBN: 0312319754 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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