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If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Steven Millhauser's Little Kingdoms, or Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, you will love Alan Lightman's ethereal yet down-to-earth book Einstein's Dreams. Lightman teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called The Two Cultures.
Einstein's Dreams became a bestseller by delighting both scientists and humanists. It is technically a novel. Lightman uses simple, lyrical, and literal details to locate Einstein precisely in a place and time--Berne, Switzerland, spring 1905, when he was a patent clerk privately working on his bizarre, unheard-of theory of relativity. The town he perceives is vividly described, but the waking Einstein is a bit player in this drama.
The book takes flight when Einstein takes to his bed and we share his dreams, 30 little fables about places where time behaves quite differently. In one world, time is circular; in another a man is occasionally plucked from the present and deposited in the past: "He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest alteration in anything, he may destroy the future ... he is forced to witness events without being part of them ... an inert gas, a ghost ... an exile of time." The dreams in which time flows backward are far more sophisticated than the time-tripping scenes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, though science-fiction fans may yearn for a sustained yarn, which Lightman declines to provide. His purpose is simply to study the different kinds of time in Einstein's mind, each with its own lucid consequences. In their tone and quiet logic, Lightman's fables come off like Bach variations played on an exquisite harpsichord. People live for one day or eternity, and they respond intelligibly to each unique set of circumstances. Raindrops hang in the air in a place of frozen time; in another place everyone knows one year in advance exactly when the world will end, and acts accordingly.
"Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic," writes Lightman. "Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting.... In this world, artists are joyous." In another dream, time slows with altitude, causing rich folks to build stilt homes on mountaintops, seeking eternal youth and scorning the swiftly aging poor folk below. Forgetting eventually how they got there and why they subsist on "all but the most gossamer food," the higher-ups at length "become thin like the air, bony, old before their time."
There is no plot in this small volume--it's more like a poetry collection than a novel. Like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's a mind-stretching meditation by a scientist who's been to the far edge of physics and is back with wilder tales than Marco Polo's. And unlike many admirers of Hawking, readers of Einstein's Dreams have a high probability of actually finishing it.
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A modern classic,
Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
Now translated into thirty languages,
Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
Customer Reviews:
An unexpected gem.......2007-08-27
One of my very favorite books, read in a single night at Christmas. It's that sort of book - small enough to read all at once, but broken into little vignettes one could treasure night after night. Each vignette, loosely bound together with a wraparound plot featuring Albert Einstein, depicts a different reality from our own, where time functions differently. In one, time runs backward; in another, time is a literal location you can walk toward or away from. Another reality holds people without long-term memory, and everyone's past is written down in books. How similar or alien these worlds are to our own lie mostly in the mind of the reader...and that's half the beauty of it. The prose is simple and tight, but the ideas are absolutely breathtaking. If you want a nice quiet read on a summer's day, or a near-Christmas night, I couldn't recommend this enough.
A unique philosophical examination of the human condition!.......2007-06-29
At first blush, for the briefest of moments, one might be excused for thinking that "Einstein's Dreams" was science fiction or perhaps even physics! But, in fact, Alan Lightman has treated us to an enchanting metaphysical flight of fancy loosely based on that most counterintuitive of ideas that Einstein shared with the world in his General Theory of Relativity - the idea that time is an integral part of the structure of the universe but that it is flexible, ever-changing and dependent on the frame of reference of the observer.
"Einstein's Dreams" is a collage of short, lucid essays that Lightman puts forward as the nocturnal dreamscapes in which a sensitive Einstein might have wandered as his intense genius created his famous theories. Worlds in which time stands still, runs backward, runs at varying speeds dependent on your location, passes in a circular ever-repeating pattern, or runs in a discontinuous pattern of starts and stops, for example, are the setting for a metaphorical examination of humanity's responses to these changing notions of time.
Lightman's elegant narrative prose, near poetry in its simple style and elegance, explores the human condition and demonstrates that such notions as love and hate, motivation or despair, joy or despondency and creativity are implicity dependent on our unstated understanding of the passage of time.
"Einstein's Dreams" is a short read that will occupy littler more than an hour or two to complete but it is thought-provoking, fascinating and quite compelling despite its appealing brevity and simplicity.
Paul Weiss
Simple, yet entertaining........2007-05-20
First if all, these stories are NOT written by Einstein himself. They are a series of (very) short stories written as if by the great scientist himself, based on his actual writings and memoirs. They are actually written by the author, Alan Lightman.
Some of the stories are very though-provoking and fun, while others are extremely boring. Although, luckily, the slow ones are over with quickly, because none of the stories is longer than a few pages (roughly).
I got through this entire book in about 30 minutes. I would suggest it for a coffee table or bathroom... or, if you're a writer and want to be led in new directions, his book, while simple, is definitely unique!
Very interesting but.........2007-05-11
This brief novel should have a true 5 stars rating if you look only at its content.
The series of dreams Lightman imagine could have haunted Einstein's night during the last rush toward the formulation of Special Relativity are very interesting and suggestive: a true, extensive review of worlds ruled out by different conceptions of time.
I must say that here and there I have been quite bored by Lightman's style. A most recurrent stylistic module throughout the book is to line up many very synthetic icons (e.g.: "A boy is playing with his ball. A woman stands by the balcony looking at the sky. An old man is walking down the street", and so on). I know it is a peculiar feature of the American narrative style, which has been mimicked by some (so-called "neorealists") Italian writers, nevertheless I found it a bit annoying.
Well, I am Italian, so my mother tongue is one of Latin's children and inherited Latin's complex morphology and syntax: so we are used to long, complex phrases which allows a good writer to achieve a fluent style.
On the other hand, an eloquent writer like Henry Rider Haggard sometimes produces long, complex phrases, which are quite difficult to understand: phrases at the edge of English language's expressive possibilities. So I like best a "medium" style, when I read in English, an "aurea mediocritas" without any extremisms.
But Lightman is really a good, refined writer. I must say that Lightman's style has often a great lightness (nomina sunt consequentia rerum), the terseness of a crystal. And sometimes, unexpectedly, with one sudden wing beat, Lightman's writing reaches the highest poetry. These are the magical moments of the novel, often at the end of the chapters - or I should say at the end of the dreams.
I would like to add a last note, a historical flaw I found (see page 77). Lightman says that Einstein has something like "a vision of galaxies". In 1905 almost no scientists (much less astronomers) knew of galaxies: they talked of "nebulae" and the most renowned theory for those objects was that of the protostars. In 1755 Kant expressed his own belief and reasoning on this subject, talking of "island universes" similar to the Milky Way, but his opinion was not so influential.
The Great Debate between Harlow Shapley (protostar theory) and Heber Curtis (island universes) dates to 1920; only in 1923 Hubble proved that the strange nebulae were true galaxies.
Lightman's dreams not necessarily Einstein's.......2007-03-17
Imaginative but also silly and annoying at times.
The title is designed to cash in on the famous Einstein name.
The best parts were when Einstein was ''directly'' alluded to.
Book Description
Children will delight in hearing and imagining all the wonderful sleepy-time images Mimi's mama recites while tucking Mimi in for a night filled with the sweetest of dreams. Delightful verse, real-life photos, and charming illustrations help to make Sweet Dreams, Mimi a bedtime favorite that children will request night after night.
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Worst book in our collection.......2007-08-13
Other reviewers seem to like this book, but I can't imagine why. It is too wordy and boring for little ones, and too short for older kids. The illustrations look like they just tried to maximize clutter in Photoshop: "This poem is about snowflakes... we'll paste a snowy tree scene and as many snowflakes as possible on to this page." Mimi and her mom look like possessed construction paper cutouts of monkeys.
In short, there's nothing really imaginative about this book. It's a bedtime book about a mother putting her child to bed. You get unimaginative poems about snowflakes, a carousel, a meadow, puppies, mice, and the night sky.
Read it before you buy it - I'm sure it appeals to someone... after all, it IS Disney. But we are more of a Dr. Seuss and Sandra Boynton crew - kids books should be fun and creative.
A Nice Bedtime Book for Toddlers to Kindergartners - a review of "Sweet Dreams, Mimi".......2007-04-07
We've looked at many of the Baby Einstein books over the years and I think this is my favorite. It's a bedtime book and it's actually nicely done and Ms. Julie is getting very good at selecting the imagery and words used in her poems.
What you find in "Sweet Dreams" is a combination of drawings and pictures. The pictures are of the images conjured by the poetic words; and the drawings are of Mimi and her Mama as they get ready for sleep. It begins:
Each night, after kisses, Mimi asks for sweet dreams...
And Mama whispers
Softly colored pictures
To fill Mimi's head
As she slips into bed
Between sheets cool and smooth...
And then the next two pages show a beautiful photo of snow covered spruces and the words are:
Mama says, "Think of..."
Snowflakes big as cotton balls,
Slipping from winter-white clouds,
Melting like sugar on your tongue,
Snowflakes like little stars
Blanketing the ground."
Each pair of succeeding pages show other sweet pictures, while in the lower right hand corner we see Mimi becoming increasing relaxed until she falls fast asleep.
Four Stars. [B+] Great Read-aloud. Art is either very nice or extremely cute depending on subject. (There is a darling mouse in a little girls shoe in one photo.) My son (newly 5) picked this up at the library and we've been reading it every night.
Cute.......2006-08-18
Cute book and good illustrations. My 9 month old baby likes the bright colors and illustrations.
Not the best!.......2006-06-14
I love Baby Einstein books but this one was not that good, I think there are better "bed time" books out there. Go to a nearest book store, read it first before you buy this.
Absolutely the greatest bedtime book EVER!!.......2005-12-25
I was floored the moment I began reading (to my 18-month old) this wonderful, beautiful book! It was all I could do not to cry as I read it: the book is page after page of wonderful photograpy and poetic, soothing, Heaven-like imagery. This is what children's books should be; this is what marks the Baby Einstein collection a league above all the rest. Take a minute: if you're reading this review, then you also have a minute or two to use the Amazon look-inside-this-book feature--you'll see what I mean immediately; you'll want to steal this book and read it to yourself before you go to sleep!
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Highly recommended.......2000-03-25
As an engineer I feel obligated to keep up to speed with things scientific, and I also have an interest in Physics. This book definitely updates modern Physics to an average reader, and has many interesting stories to supplement the material. It has just the right mix of science, history and math to keep the reader interested. I seriously recommend it to all interested in Physics.
Book Description
Make bedtime stories even more special with this glow-in-the-dark Baby Einstein nightlight book. When a song button is pressed the star-shape nightlight turns on and music plays. The star glows in the dark long after the song ends.
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Not baby friendly!.......2006-10-24
We are Baby Einstein fans and while our baby does enjoy this book; it is not baby friendly! Within days, the pages were all bent and some ripped off because of the way the book was designed. It looks very nice but isn't practical for a baby board book. Also, as far as a lullaby book, don't count on it to lull your little one to sleep. The music is very mechanical sounding and SO LOUD. Every time we push a star, I have to cover the "speaker" so the music is at least tolerable. Very disappointed in this product. Don't waste your money . . . we wish we didn't!
Awful.......2006-02-12
There are so many fantastic children's books out there - don't waste your money on this one. First of all, the music is awful. Tinny, fiddly, loud, and just unpleasant, plus there's no way to stop a song once you've started it - you just have to let it play through to the end. Second, as others have noted, the book is poorly designed. All the pages had bent, one had ripped, and the edge of the cover had come off after only two weeks. Third, the writing is terrible! The poetry doesn't scan, and barely makes sense.
All that said, my son, age 1, loves it. Go figure.
3 stars because of poor design of this board book.......2005-12-17
This is a nice book..... should have been designed better. Because of the placement of the musical stars section of this big board book will bend and then will either have to be cut off or will eventually will break off from the weak areas caused by poor design.
My daughter is not hard on book and we had problems with the pages. Once I cut off or trimmed off the weak areas we had a lovely book that my daughter loved and we both liked the music.
Not much of a lullaby.......2005-01-29
The pictures are fine, but the music is just terrible. It is very digital and harsh sounding and it is SO loud.
Love Baby Einstein but.............2004-08-17
Although my daughter does love this book - it was made poorly. The pages tend to get bent and rip off in the area next to the buttons. The music is very nice though but it doesn't hold up well if your child is at all tough on books.
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Baby Einstein Lullabies and Sweet Dreams Book & Cd Set: Poems, music, and discoveries to share with your little one. Cd features 8 narrated poems that introduce places to visit in sweet dreams and encourage mom and baby to discover new surprises within each illustration. 18-page board book is filled with colorful illusdtrations and easy to see type!
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18 page board book is filled with colorful illustrations and easy-to-see type. Audio CD features eight narrated poems that introduce places to visit in sweet dreams and encourage mom and baby to discover new surprises within each illustration. Each page is accompanied by playful sound effects and delightful music. The CD ends with four classic instrumental lullabies for bab to listen and dream to for their own sweet dreams.
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Great pictures!.......2007-09-26
This is a great book to just read to your little one. My son really likes listening to the rhyming poems and the wonderful colorful pictures. The scenes are colorful and we always find something different each time.
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First time in a trade edition-- Lawrence Sanders's masterpiece, The 1st Deadly Sin, set a standard for today's novels of psychological suspense. Now, retired Captain Ed Delaney returns to a distinctly urban milieu of paranoia and impulsive violence to solve a brutal murder that shocks New York's unshockable art world.
The victim is Victor Maitland. Long-considered one of the world's greatest artists, he excelled in capturing the beauty of life on canvas. In private, he destroyed whomever he pleased: his wife, his son, his mistress, his dearest friends and family. Fittingly, Maitland has paid for his sins. But in a world where self-delusion is rewarded, where greed triumphs, and where murder is just another art, who else will pay the price?
Customer Reviews:
This Book Had Me..........2005-03-30
Chewing my nails from cover-to-cover. I enjoy books of this genre and would like to say if you are a reader like me...that being one who reads almost anything I can get my hands on...well, then, this is one book you won't want to miss out on!
Pretty dern good.......2004-03-11
Book 2 in the "Heather reads crime novels" series! And this was a much better experience than my first Patricia Cornwell book. While Patricia Cornwell does forensic mysteries, this one is an old-school whodunit. The characters were well written, and the plot believable. Best of all, unlike Cornwell, I didn't figure out the culprit before the Edward X. Delaney did. And that, my friends, is the mark of a good crime novel.
So a famous New York artist is murdered, and everybody has a motive, opportunity, and will. There is not too much action, it is basically just a story of a detective on the hunt. But it was hard for me to put down, all the same.
One amusing sidenote. This book was obviously written pre-women's lib. The only women are dutiful wives who relish their role. When Delaney makes a comment about how his alcoholic partner goes home to leftovers, his wife immediately sets up a blinddate with her friend...every man needs a warm meal from a sacrificing woman, even alcoholics! Anyway, this was not annoying, just funny. I doubt Sanders would attract too much of a female audience with characters like that these days.
Good read.
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- A good read for an author who is fast going out of print.
- A good read for an author who is fast going out of print.
- Thoughts of The Second Deadly Sin
- Another Great Sanders
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The Second Deadly Sin
Lawrence Sanders
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Book Description
Edward X. Delaney returns in this spellbinding tale of greed, deception, and the brutal killing that shocked New York's art underworld.
Customer Reviews:
"A GOOD READ".......2003-05-04
Lawrence Sanders may not be having many loyal fans but somehow i dont mind his books. They are well written and interesting. I read this book and found it quite well.
I mean the suspense and all was very good(though one can guess it!)but the description of the characters was what i liked a lot. A lot of time taken on characterisation, which is the soul of any book.
Also even though this book was a murder mystery.... it made a very good copy because of its characterisations.
Anyways good read but only if you are a Lawrence fan.
A good read for an author who is fast going out of print........2003-03-26
In another five or ten years about the only books of Sanders left in print will be the McNally series. Lardo will probably be more remmebered for that than Sanders. Cult followers are probably the only ones who read the Delaney books these days. The Deadly Sins series is rather heavy reading and not for the light hearted. Read this one if you are in no hurry to go anywhere. This one is probably the best of the four novels staring Delaney. Read and enjoy, then go on to something else.
A good read for an author who is fast going out of print........2003-03-26
In another five or ten years about the only books of Sanders left in print will be the McNally series. Lardo will probably be more remembered for that than Sanders. Cult followers are probably the only ones who read the Delaney books these days. The Deadly Sins series is rather heavy reading and not for the light hearted. Read this one if you are in no hurry to go anywhere. This one is probably the best of the four novels staring Delaney. Read and enjoy, then go on to something else.
Thoughts of The Second Deadly Sin.......2002-11-04
In the book, The Second Deadly Sin, Lawrence Sanders writes a great book using the literary device of imagery. Sanders uses imagery really well when he describes people, events, and the surroundings of the situation. One of the reasons he uses such precise descriptions is because the book is a mystery and is dealing with a murder where you need all the descriptions you can have in order to help keep the reader involved in trying to solve the murder mystery. Another reason to have imagery in a book where there is a crime is to allow the reader to create a visual picture of the circumstances in the book.
The first way Sanders shows that he uses a lot of imagery is in his descriptions of the people. He shows this when describing what Edward X. Delaney and Abner Boone first see when they walk in the room where Belle Sarazen is. Sanders says: "She wore a skin-tight white leotard, cut high to hipbones, tight over crotch. A soft mound there. The garment was sleeveless, strapped-a tanktop. The body was that of a dancer, long-legged, hard, with flat rump, muscled thighs, sinewy arms, small breasts (nipples poking), and definite break between ribcage and waste."(Sanders 91). This quote is good in letting the reader draw a visual picture of what the lady looks like. He also shows his use of describing people when he describes what Delaney remembered when he looked at Abner boone. He says: "Chief Delaney's memory had been accurate: Detective sergeant Abner Boone was a tall, thin, shambling man, with floppy gestures, and a way of tilting his head to one side when he spoke. His hair was more gingery than sandy. His skin was pale and freckled. He was Delaney guessed, somewhere between thirty and thirty-five; it was difficult to judge."(Sanders 35). This quote gives the reader another opportunity to make a visual picture of what the character looks like.
The next topic Sanders describes are the events in the book. One of and probably the main example of Sanders using his descriptions in events is when Victor Maitland is murdered. Sanders says: "The first knife thrust went into his back. High up. Alongside the spine. The blow was strong enough to drive him forward, face breaking, hands thrown up in a comical gesture of dismay. But he did not go down. The blade was withdrawn and stuck again. And again. And again. Even after Victor Maitland was face down on the wide floor boards, life leaking, the blade was plunged. Fingers scrabbled weakly. Then were still."(Sanders 4). This quote is well written in giving the reader a sense of being in the room and watching Maitland die.
The final topic that Sanders describes with precise words is the surroundings of the situation. The first example that shows that he uses description is in Maitland's apartment. He says: "Sunshine was flooding through the overhead skylight. One of the panes of glass was broken and had been stuffed with a blue rag. There was a wire mesh over the skylight. But no ventilator. The room smelled musty, spoiled...Chief Delaney inspected the still life a top the rough crate: sketch pad, propped on a can of turpentine, half a charcoal stick, bottle of whiskey."(Sanders 45-48). This quote gives such description that the reader can feel like he/she is in the room with the investigators. The second example that shows his use of description is in Saul Geltman's office when Delaney and Boone went into his office. Sanders says: "The furnishings were all white and black leather and vinyl on chrome and stainless-steel frames. The desk appeared to be pewter (over wood?) supported on a cast-iron base. The desk fittings-rocker blotter, pen set, letter opener, etc.-were antique mother-of-pearl. In one corner of the room was an ancient safe, at least a hundred years old, on big casters. It was painted black, delicately striped, the front decorated with an ornate American eagle, wings outspread. There were two tumblers and polished brass handles."(Sanders 71). This quote is well described because it tells the reader where everything is and allows him/her to draw a visual picture of what the room looks like.
In conclusion, the way Sanders uses the literary term of imagery makes the book better and more fun to read. It gives the reader a sense of being there as if they were one of the characters in the story. It also gives the reader a visual picture so they can see what the character sees.
Another Great Sanders.......2001-04-15
I've read all of the McNally series books and have started the Deadly Sin series and really have grown to appreciate Sanders. In this book, Delaney is faced with another murder mystery and I'm finding it a very difficult book to put down. I like Delaney's way of sticking to his routine as he tries to thread his way through all of the possibilities. I highly recommend this book!
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Complete et of the five (5) books in the Edward X. Delaney Series. The author's most famous character.
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THE SECOND DEADLY SIN
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The Second Deadly Sin
Lawrence SANDERS
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