<div>Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by,...
(04/17/06) <div>Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad’s finest, most enigmatic story.<br></div>See less
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<p>Two classic complete books -- <i>The Doors of Perception</i> (originally published in 1954) and <i>Heaven and...
(04/17/06) <p>Two classic complete books -- <i>The Doors of Perception</i> (originally published in 1954) and <i>Heaven and Hell</i> (originally published in 1956) -- in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling <i>Brave New World</i>, explores, as only he can, the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in the twentieth century. These two books became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation's perception of life.</p>See less
"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel <I>A Clockwork Orange</I> with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it...
(04/17/06) "Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel <I>A Clockwork Orange</I> with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times<BR><BR>Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. Anthony Burgess' 1963 classic stands alongside Orwell's <I>1984 </I>and Huxley's <I>Brave New World</I> as a classic of twentieth century post-industrial alienation, often shocking us into a thoughtful exploration of the meaning of free will and the conflict between good and evil. In this recording, the author's voice lends an intoxicating lyrical dimension to the language he has so masterfully crafted. <BR><BR>"I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr. Burgess has done [in A Clockwork Orange]." -William S. Burroughs<BR><BR>Recognized as one of the literary...See less
<i>On The Road</i>, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature,...
(04/17/06) <i>On The Road</i>, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, <i>On The Road</i> is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, <i>On the Road</i> is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.See less
Since his debut in 1951 as <I>The Catcher in the Rye</I>, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical...
(04/17/06) Since his debut in 1951 as <I>The Catcher in the Rye</I>, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,<br> <p> "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." <p> His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal...See less
In the 30th century, few humans remain on Earth. Most have downloaded themselves into robot bodies or...
(04/17/06) In the 30th century, few humans remain on Earth. Most have downloaded themselves into robot bodies or solar-system-spanning virtual realities, escaping death--or so they believe, until the collision of nearby neutron stars threatens life in every form.<p> <I>Diaspora</I>, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's <I>Tau Zero</I>, Bruce Sterling's <I>Schismatrix Plus</I>, Camille Flammarion's <I>Omega</I>, and Olaf Stapledon's <I>Last and First Men</I>. <I>Diaspora</I> is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. <I>Diaspora</I> is why people read SF. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I>See less
After developing a lengthy exposé on "frankenscience," SeeNet reporter Andrew Worth is burnt out. So burnt that...
(04/17/06) After developing a lengthy exposé on "frankenscience," SeeNet reporter Andrew Worth is burnt out. So burnt that he passes up a plum assignment covering the new disease "Distress." Instead, he asks for a lower-key job profiling Violet Mosala, a scientist who earned a Nobel Prize at the age of 25 and who is about to announce her version of the Theory of Everything. The TOE is an attempt to explain how all scientific theories fit together, but it may actually be the catalyst that created the universe, making Violet the "Keystone" of the universe. So much for the quiet assignment ...See less
<P>It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because...
(04/17/06) <P>It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because of the impenetrable gray shield that slid into place around the solar system on the night of November 15, 2034.</P><P>Some see the bubble as the revenge of an insane God. Some see it as justice. Some even see it as protection. But one thing is for certain -- now there is the universe, and the earth. And never the twain shall meet.</P><P>Or so it seems. Until a bio-enhanced PI named Nick Stavrianos takes on a job for an anonymous client: find a girl named Laura who disappeared from a mental institution by the most direct possible method -- walking through the walls. </P>See less
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