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The tale of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and their companions as they search for a save haven. I love this book, I’ve read it several times and each time I find myself experiancing the same range of emotions. Adams weaves a beautiful tale of life with themes and morals as important to humans as to the rabbits in the book. With simple language Watership Down is a quick read that you can’t put down, and it will touch you in a way few books can.
I can’t rave about this book enough. One of the best novels I have ever read, it made me want to drop everything, learn French and move to Paris. The only thing comparable is Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The Age of Reason is the first book in Sartre’s Roads to Freedom series. The story of Mathieu and his existential struggle to be free is set amid the back drop of the events of 1938 Europe. With the shadow of war hanging over Paris all Mathieu can think about is Freedom.
A stream of consciousness tale of the eight days leading up to the signing of the Munich Pact, postponing the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, covering the thoughts of characters all over France. Sartre’s style is amazing, he switches narrator in mid paragraph yet the reader does not loose his barring, and the effect conveys the urgency and uncertainty of the times.
The last book in Sartre’s stunning Roads to Freedom series Troubled Sleep chronicles the fall of France to the Nazi forces and the blank, mute reaction of the French people. Sartre’s examination of people who have no long term plans takes the reader down different paths and is executed with amazing dialogs and narrations. The book doesn’t end on a happy note, more of a cross between releaf that the battles are over and fear of what is to come.
Identity takes the reader into the minds of the lovers Chantal and Jean-Marc. Through their thoughts we see how little Chantal and Jean-Marc really know each other, how they fail to understand each other and communicate their feelings. Each incident of the story is told from twice, one from Chantal’s point of view and once from Jean-Marc’s point of view. The wide gulf between the two’s perception of the situation is an insight into the problems lack of communication causes in our relationships.