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Good Benito (1994)

par Alan Lightman

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The story of a physicist as a young man. Benito adores the rationality of physics and pursues it with a religious fervour. He finds very little rationality in his affairs with women however, they make no sense to him. Other work by the author includes Einstein's Dreams.
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It seemed like the story of anyone,or maybe anyone. I'm having a hard time judging this book because I don't really know why I liked it so much. Sometimes though I think that this is the greater compliment. ( )
  ISCCSandy | Apr 9, 2019 |
It seemed like the story of anyone,or maybe anyone. I'm having a hard time judging this book because I don't really know why I liked it so much. Sometimes though I think that this is the greater compliment. ( )
  ISCCSandy | Apr 9, 2019 |
Alan Lightman is a revelation – a physics professor at MIT, he also produces lean, beautiful books with depths that are hard to fathom. [Good Benito] is the second of his books. His debut, [Einstein’s Dreams], is a terribly hard act to follow. That book imagined the nighttime wonderings of the master of time, each dream eliciting a different aspect of his notions about the concept, with each a comment not just on the nature of time, but also on the nature of life and choice. Time, as described by Lightman through [Einstein’s Dreams], cannot be completely contained in the mathematical, must be viewed through a lens of humanity to be fully understood.
Elegiac and spare, Alan Lightman’s [Good Benito] follows that same examination, focusing on the life of one man, Bennett Lang. A physics student, and later professor, like Lightman himself, Bennett’s story is introduced as he takes a commission from a dean to engage the department’s brilliant hermit, Scalapino. Bennett is eventually accepted by the genius as an understudy. As he tries to comprehend the professor’s racing mind, he reminisces on his own life. The book, like time, folds back on itself several times, connecting the past to the present in otherwise incomprehensible ways, opening Bennett up to himself, and to us. And, like time, the book doesn’t end, as much as grows dark at a crossroads, a sort of black hole where Bennett contemplates the way into the future.

Lightman is one of the more intuitive writers of our time, able to provide a window into life with a subtlety that demands attention. His writing is spare, like a well-crafted formula. But the result is never clinical or scientific. He is the rare person who has bridged the gap between the right and left hemisphere of the brain, between the cold logic of science and the mystery of the human spirit.

Bottom Line: Elegiac and lean, intuitive – a brilliant mind lets us peek into the intersection of the scientific workings of the world and how they are a metaphor for our human existence.

4 ½ bones!!!!! ( )
  blackdogbooks | Mar 21, 2015 |
Almost like a memoir. Has some interesting details of a passion for physics. But now as I write this, I might have confused that with something else. ( )
  yarkan | Apr 22, 2012 |
This book gets three stars, but one the stars is a nostalgia star. From age 16 or so, when I first read it, this was my favorite book. Namely because I didn't read very many books at that point in my life. It resonated with my angst- and love-ridden soul because the main character, Bennett Lang, sometimes got to go to bed with women.

Upon reading it now, 10 years after the fact, the book is wanting in a several departments. None of the characters are fleshed out. Dramatic events whose effects could be drastically heightened by proper setting-up fall flat instead. The plot is a sort of brief meander through this character's life, and if there are any overarching themes I missed them.

That's not to say there isn't some good stuff. It's a pleasant and quick read, and there are some nice turns along the way. I wanted to love this book again, but unfortunately it's just sketchy, in the literal sense.

Re-reading this makes me afraid to re-read 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower,' another teen-aged favorite. ( )
  clogbottom | Aug 9, 2008 |
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