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Title: The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner, Jones Simon ISBN: 0-694-52520-0 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Cloud Sketcher
Comment: I'm a big fan of Richard Rayner's work. I loved "The Blue Suit", "LA Without A Map", and "The Murder Book". "The Cloud Sketcher" is not only his most ambitious, but also his best book to date.
This book is a passionate love story that begins in the back woods of Northern Finland in the early 1900's and continues through the Finnish Civil War. It ends in New York during the twenties.
What intrigues me most about this book is that it captures a time and a place about which I knew very little. It's got everything: a wonderful love story, history, politics, architecture and murder and it's all interwoven in a very compelling way. I could not put this book down.
To me, "The Cloud Sketcher" delivers what I expect from great literature. I highly recommend it to all who appreciate beautiful writing, a riveting story, and a unique journey into an incredibly vivid world.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Instant Classic
Comment: It's unfortunate to me that so far this book hasn't attracted the widespread audience it deserves. It begins in Finland with a boy named Esko Vaananen who becomes obsessed with the skyscraper, or pilvenpiirtaja as he knows it. Shortly after he meets a young girl who entrances him, and his destiny converges in his quest for love, and his desire to be a brilliant architect. Spanning nearly thirty years and crossing from the frozen Finland tundra to The jazz infused gang run clubs of New York City Rayner's intricately researched novel certainly brings to mind comparisons with Ayn Rands, "The Fountainhead". Yet for many this will be a much more accessible novel. The dramatic journey the character goes through makes this book an obvious choice for a feature adaptation. A satisfying and wonderfully woven book!
Rating: 3
Summary: A good airplane read but pedestrian.
Comment: 1920s. Esko fights the Bolsheviks in Finland before fleeing to the USA to be a skyscraper architect. 2 stories fused together with little to link them. Well sketched characters, except for the principal love interest. Historical color. Good pace. Easy to read.
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Title: A Short History of Finland by Fred Singleton, Anthony F. Upton ISBN: 0521647010 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Berlitz Finnish-English Dictionary/Englanti-Suomi Sanakirja by Berlitz Publishing ISBN: 2831563097 Publisher: Berlitz Guides Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 0312422156 Publisher: Picador Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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