Sylvia Stolarikov Stolarikov itibaren Voskresensky District, Saratov Oblast, Rusya
Tamamen eğlenceli bir kitap. Evet, Amerikan siyasetiyle ilgili biraz hoşgörülü ve biraz önemsiz ama birçok politikacı kendine düşkün ve önemsiz ...
H. G. Wells' account of a nameless inventor's adventures in the distant future was first published around 1900, and captured the spirit and imagination of the new American science. You have to read this novel to understand how much the god-awful Guy Pierce film (2002) totally ruined this amazing story.
This is one of the funniest books I've ever read, and it's the CLASSIC send-up of academia, the one from which the genre sprang. The narrator, Jim Dixon, is an internal riot -- he's so choked up with contempt for his superiors and colleagues he has to vent by making faces (and what faces! The BEST descriptions of the BEST faces in literature) at himself in the mirror. He gets himself into situations we've all *thought* about getting ourselves into (example: having burned a hole in a hostess's bedsheets by smoking in bed, he attempts to obscure the nature of the crime by more or less shredding the bedsheets with scissors. Then, when she attempts to question him about this on the phone, he pretends to be someone else). How often, these days, do you read books in which you can guiltlessly root for the protagonist? I'm tellin' ya, there really is something to be said for caricature.