Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Steven,
ReplyDelete_The Hunger Games_ is the Feb book selection for the SF Group I belong to. I just finished it yesterday. It's a page-turner and very action-oriented. However, I didn't find the philosophy in the book that one of the blurbs promised me. Perhaps it was too subtle for me to pick up on.
The Theroux book sounds interesting. I hadn't heard of it or of the author. Thanks for the link.
Dear Fred,
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Philosophy in a YA? I wonder what they were thinking. I see a worldview and a certain way in which there is a kind of thinking that would be comfortable for the YA world (you and me against the mean bad world that grown-ups have made). And there's more and more of this evolving.
shalom,
Steven
Steven,
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call it a worldview--more likely just typical adolescent thinking that many never grow out of.