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...American readers, German author Bernhard Schlink has a huge task at hand with his new collection, Flights of Love: to successfully follow up on his immensely popular novel The Reader. Besides Schlink’s liquid prose and fluid character development, the two works are practically opposites, but Flights of Love should certainly hold its own against the huge expectations of Schlink’s fans. At its simplest, Flights of Love is a beautiful and delightfully uncompromising collection, showing a surprising quirkiness that still retains Schlink’s formalistic style...
Thomas descends into the relationship with Veronika with practically no thought of its consequences, which Schlink writes with a playful awareness. He almost winks at the reader through the page with his treatment of Thomas as a naive prisoner of lust. Eventually though, Thomas seeks escape from both of his lives. He begins a sexual relationship with a much younger woman named Helga, furthering complicating his odd situation...
This three-pronged story confidently weaves between Thomas’ separate lives, and ultimately the reader has a sense of all three; his fatherly life with Jutta, his identity as an artist and eventually a father with Veronika, and his role as an authority figure with Helga, who treats him with a child-like dependency. Thomas’ life becomes highly complex, and he keeps up the charade for no explicit reason, except that he is simply too weak to knock off a couple corners of his triangle. This is most certainly the crux of the story?...
Through his re-creation of ground-breaking experiments by famous scientists, Sacks experienced first-hand the joy of scientific discovery. Through the author’s lucid prose, the reader also experiences the individual sparkles of a young excited mind...
...title of the magazine resonated differently in each of our heads. To some it was a Leninist cry mocking bourgeois Harvardian desires for capitalist amusements. To me it was a quote from Joseph Smith, seeking respite from the confusion of worldly philosophies, offering to guide the reader to worthwhile pursuits. I recognized mine was a minority opinion. To most it was about arts and entertainment beyond the party going on across the hall...