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...private school Hailsham. But something is definitely off. The teachers are afraid of the students. The students are afraid of the forest. And nobody wants to put into words just what exactly is going on here. Set in a creepy alterna-England, Never Let Me Go is a horror novel, but it's less about fear than it is about a deep, existential sadness that the world is such a horrifying place. By the time you learn the secret it's much too late: you've been drawn into this strange amalgam of science fiction and high literature...
...Early on in Shalimar the Clown a diplomat is stabbed to death by his chauffeur. It takes Rushdie the rest of this absorbing novel to explain why. Prowling restlessly backwards and forwards through the 20th century, he follows the principal players from country to country, through World War II and the struggle between Pakistan and India for control of the Edenic villages of Kashmir. Everywhere he takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, our private lives...
...well being weren't edged with the anxieties that trouble us all after 9/11. On the single day in which this book takes place, with the streets of London jammed by a massive demonstration against the impending Iraq war, he crosses paths with a belligerent stranger. Before this haunting novel makes its intricate peace with the world, they will meet again. It won't be pretty...
...versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’…We wanted to infuse it with a slightly more contemporary feel in terms of the music.” Lipez, who upon accepting the project realized that she had never actually read Dickens’s novel, admitted that “A Christmas Carol” is an easy story to water down for younger audiences. However, she and Corriel wanted to stay true to Dickens’s work, even though the book is actually quite eerie. When asked how he and Lipez came...
These anecdotes are taken from Erich Segal’s novel “The Class,” which follows five Harvard undergraduates in the years 1954-1958. I find little need to explain the parallel of these stories to our lives as Harvard undergrads today...