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Chargement... The ZOO WHERE YOU'RE FED TO GOD: A NOVELpar Michael Ventura
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This took me nearly a year to finish, partly because I'm distractable but also because it has a heaviness that saddened and slowed. I think I technically read this 3 or 4 times, since I moved back and forth with my re-reading, to remember and to re-think. Not much activity happens in the story and if you outlined the events it would only be a few points long. But wow. How to describe this? I once knew a misguided young man who talked incessantly about "connection" and sought to "connect" with the right woman. In the less than two years that I knew him, I saw at least 3 different women pass through his, uh, life. I don't think he really knew what he wanted, with the "connection," or maybe he didn't realize he meant just the one point. Ahem. But ostensibly he sought a heart/mind/soul thing. Also, remember that one Star Trek movie with the TNG cast, where Picard and some woman had that thing where when they were together, they slowed time, "stay in this moment with me," something like that? This sort of "connection" or "moment" seems to be important in this book. Not really with one other person, but with the world and all living things, finding contentment and balance in your own life though everything may be blind and disintegrating about you. Sigh. I wish I read more so I could reference more intelligent, eggheadier things. The only other book I could bring up that I've read is super embarassing and terrible, but at the time I read it I thought it was just about the best thing I'd ever read like that. Aw heck, see my shame, it was this: [b:Shantaram|228378|Shantaram|Gregory David Roberts|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172886592s/228378.jpg|3174890]. It was okay. Overdone language, obviously based on himself (the author) and maybe more wish-fulfillment with all the adventures and such than reality (oh geez, and he seemed to have tried to promote his own philosophy or enlightenment...I cringe). I loved it when I read it (funny, how book feelings can shift over time). BUT. This seems to be a common theme in books? Like King Solomon, or Siddhartha? The man who blunders through life, unsatisfied, seeking, until he realizes something? And that something is difficult to put into words, but Ventura managed to do it a quarter of the pages that the other (my shame book) used, much more beautifully, relatably, and harder-to-obtainably since I guess he's now out of print. And the book is so much better than this! I feel like this is more likely to turn people away from it. Maybe it would be better to delete everything and just say "read it!"? aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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From the acclaimed screenwriter of Echo Park comes a riveting novel of one man's descent into madness as he comes down from a painful divorce and finds himself in the enchanted world of a zoo. In this haunting tale of love and reconciliation, successful surgeon James Abbey is so tightly wound that he could have a nervous breakdown in the middle of a crowd, but no one would notice. One day when James begins to hear voices in his head while at the zoo, he begins to fall into madness as his world unravels, stranding him in a realm of eerie luminosity. Though he recognizes he's gone mad, James finds something irresistible about the new state of mind he's found at the zoo, keeping him coming back. Before long, a tiger signals him, a giraffe walks into a new dimension, chimpanzees demonstrate love, and a rare antelope shows how delicacy and dignity can survive in a harsh world. The Zoo Where You're Fed to God provides an unforgettable look at the human truth that lies behind the mask of madness. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Simply put, this book snuck up on me. The title drew me in, and the author's language brought me forward, and suddenly I couldn't stop. I'll be thinking about this one for quite a while, and I think I may be re-reading it sooner than later, despite not even quite being able to tell you why.
So, yes...I recommend it. To you. ( )