Girl in Landscape: A Novel

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Science-fiction writers attempting coming-of-age stories have seldom risked showing the stew of loneliness, anger, and angst that really characterizes adolescence. Jonathan Lethem, on the other hand, avoids the plucky sidekick syndrome and instead gives us breathtakingly realistic Pella Marsh, a girl at that awful and wonderful crux in her life just before people start calling her "woman." Her broken family has just moved to a newly settled planet, with strange and passive natives and the decaying remnants of a great civilization. Something in the alien environment soon enables Pella to telepathically travel, hidden in the bodies of inconspicuous "household deer," into the homes of her fellow settlers. She inevitably discovers the seamy side of humanity--loss of innocence eloquently portrayed. Don't read this book on a dark day, as there's not very much sunshine in here. The entire planet is covered with ruins: ruined towns, ruined hopes and dreams, ruined families. For a rare dose of SF realism, this is a fantastic read, full of raw (but not explicit) sexuality and the unhappy hierarchies of childhood. Forget about cheerful settlers moving in next door to helpful indigenous life forms. This is what the planetary frontiers will be. No matter how far away from Earth we may travel, we'll still be the same dirty, disappointing, beautiful monsters.

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Anyone who wonders why Jonathan Lethem is the only novelist to be included among Newsweek's "100 People for the New Century" need only read his deliriously original new book, a science fiction/Western that combines the tragic momentum of The Searchers with the sexual tension of Lolita.

At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders. These enigmatic aborigines have names like Lonely Dumptruck and and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that baffles and frightens their human visitors.

As the spikily independent Pella becomes an uneasy envoy between two species, Girl in Landscape deftly interweaves themes of exploration and otherness, loss and sexual awakening.

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A Master of Empathetic Character Development.......2007-04-17

Since Robert Heinlein's death, I have been looking for anyone who could sustain Heinlein's ability to project the reader into an imagined future and then to build sympathy with the characters. Lethem has the critical ability to establish empathy essentially with his every character, and few do this as easily as he. I have just completed Amnesia Moon, where Lethem tries on empathy with a clock and a potted plant as (metamorphosed) primary characters - and he makes even that work. Therefore, I found Pella, her family and friends, and the alien race in particular (not to mention the planetary ecosystem), to be so sympathetic that it was somewhat wrenching to put the novel down (the same was true of Amnesia Moon, though in that case, the characters were not intended to be quite so sympathetic). The last time I felt this way about a book was reading Heinlein (and in this case, Heinlein's earlier rather than later novels). This is perhaps the only book I have ever read about which I still experience literal pain due to the fact that there was so much more of the story to tell, and it is virtually certain that the sequel (or sequels as I imagined them) will go unwritten. (By the way, I found the analogy to Lolita to stretch credibility. I have read both books, and they are entirely different projects. At the most fundamental level, Lolita was about Humbert Humbert - not really about Lolita at all. This novel is about Pella - more akin to a project such as Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars, but with Lethem's mastery of empathetic character development.) In short, the single best science fiction book I have read since Heinlein.

As He Climbed Across the Genres..........2006-03-06

Jonathan Lethem isn't afraid to take chances, and he takes lots of chances in "Girl In Landscape," mainly in taking a familiar and predictable theme making something fresh and interesting out of it. For the most part, he succeeds in "Girl." However, this novel is not of the caliber of, for example, "Motherless Brooklyn," "Gun with Occasional Music" or "Fortress of Solitude." But it's much better than "As She Climbed Across the Table."

Some critics have described "Girl" as a melding of the sci-fi and "Western" genres. That's fair, insofar as the story involves space travel from a future, ravaged Earth to another ravaged, distant planet of a once-mighty, now-departed alien race, where the drama unfolds on the edge of a wild and alien frontier. (Think, "The Million-Year Picnic" meets "Little House on the Prairie," with some of the claustrophobic intensity of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel," and the vigilante "justice" of "The Ox-bow Incident.") "Girl" is more than "just" a Sci-fi Western. It's a novel full of nuances and shadows, both in the characters and theme. It asks more questions about "what it means to be human" (a perennially favorite sci-fi theme) or to have courage in the face of the violence and cowardice of which small colonial minds are capable (shades of "High Noon"), than it offers by way of answers.

The "pioneers" who inhabit this off-world Podunk are all émigrés from Earth, seeking a new life on the planet of an ancient alien race known as "the Archbuilders" who, somehow, ruined their own mess kit and left behind a world of elegant and inscrutable ruins. Along the way, they developed "viruses" to alter their environment and themselves, to which the colonizing humans are vulnerable and must take pills to counteract. Those Archbuilders who remain are the ne'er-do-well, left-behind descendants of this once-mighty race. They are vaguely humanoid, hairy over an exoskeleton, walk upright, with two double-jointed legs and two double-jointed arms. They speak good English ("and invite you up into [their] room") and are quite friendly in an odd, almost humorous way, and hang around the humans' frontier village: one poses for paintings and gives sexual favors to a lonely "artist"; another plays backgammon with the town heavy's hired hand. In subtle ways they mock their human colonizers by taking on "human" names such as "Lonely Dumptruck," "Hiding Kneel," and "Truth Renowned." The humans generally despise and mistrust them and believe they are all potential child molesters. (Now *there's* an interesting twist on alien menace.)

Into this paradise, across the galaxy from Brooklyn, NY, comes the Marsh family: Clement, the father, a failed politician, wishy-washy to the core; his 13 year old daughter, Pella, the protagonist; and two younger brothers, Raymond and David. They are, truly, "motherless," - the result of the sudden and untimely death of their mother, Caitlin, felled by a stroke just as the family is preparing to immigrate to the new world. Pella is forced to deal with the loss of her mother, her new and ambiguous role as the mater familias to her father and younger siblings, the father's inability to be man, much less a father, in the new environment, and, among other issues, the motives of the town strongman, Efram Nugent. Nugent is a loner and the original colonizer of this part of the planet, a self-styled "expert" on the Archbuilders past and present. To Pella, he is an intimidating but irresistible hall of mirrors who has, as she learns, agendas within agendas, including an unsavory interest in Pella.

Without being a spoiler, suffice it to say there are the semi-predictable cultural clashes between the aliens, with their gentle but disturbing ways, and the humans, with their crude and judgmental worldviews and propensity to violence. Along the way there is interspecies sex, arson, murder, betrayal, redemption, etc., etc. Pella emerges with a new toughness and understanding. You can see it coming a mile away, but when it arrives, it's not a disappointment.

What makes this book a "four star" instead of a "five star" is the weak beginning when the Marsh gang is on Earth. It's too long, and not enough attention is paid to Clement to make his ineffective weakness in the new world more credible. What makes this book a "four star" instead of a "three star" though is the quality of Lethem's writing. You can't beat it. Some writers feel they have to describe everything in minute detail. Lethem's spare descriptions of characters in "Girl" (except for the aliens, virtually zero in the way of physical description except parts of the body-- e.g., Nugent's powerful hands, Pella's budding breasts, etc.) is an effective technique that deflects the reader's attention away from trying to imagine what characters "look like" and focuses the reader's attention on what characters are.

Well that was different, part 2.......2006-01-22

I'll have to give Lethem credit for not repeating himself (although I've only read two of his books so I'm probably not that qualified to make that sort of judgement . . . but who's going to stop me?) since this book is radically different from the last one I read. That's a good thing, in my opinion. The style here is science-fiction but it's more about using the weird themes and landscapes as a background, something to throw his ideas up against, which pleases the literary crowd that normally develops a twitch every time the word "sci-fi" gets tossed around, as they imagine spaceships and people saying things like, "So, Zolgar, we meet again". But I'd consider this science-fiction, just a little more esoteric. If that makes any kind of difference to you, then go crazy. So, the concept. This time out, Lethem tries to get us to believe that another planet has been discovered and the inhabitants have invited people from Earth to go live there and settle. Unfortunately, the planet is mostly abandoned and crumbling and the Archbuilders (the people who live there) that are left are curious and friendly, but not really all that useful. Into this settlement comes the Marsh family. The dad, Clement, apparently lost an election and that means that the whole family has to move (why this is, Lethem never explains, and it did bother me a little bit), so they try to settle on the new world. Clement's idea is to have them all fit in as best they can, so this involves not taking special pills that make humans immune from whatever bioengineered viruses that the Archbuilders left behind. There are other people on the planet as well, including slightly xenophobic homesteader Ephram, who Clement's daughter Pella finds herself both drawn to and repelled by. If I told you that everyone finds peace and harmony and the story ends with the happiest of feelings, would you believe me? Probably not, right? Basically this seems to be Lethem's version of a Western, there's definitely echoes of The Searchers (and I don't just say that because they mention it on the back cover) and the story seems to suggest that you can take the people off the planet but you really can't make them act any different. The story glides along nicely, but I do have to agree with the people who suggest that the setting is more interesting than the characters, but in some cases it is. A lot of the characters really don't come alive, although this may be because most of the story is told through Pella's eyes, and she comes across well enough, although you may have a hard time believing that she's thirteen. But you may not. Ephram has the strongest personality but then he's totally channeling John Wayne so that may account for it. Clement remains rather ineffectual and the Archbuilders are amusing window dressing. So Lethem probably doesn't run with the concept to the extent that he could have but I do give him points for trying and the overall concept is fascinating enough that it manages to carry the book on its own (I wish he would have given us more background, but that probably would have bogged the novel down) and it's short enough that by the time you start to really get irritated by these things, it's over and done with. Another fine effort, it's not going to change your life or make you see literature in a new way, but there are certainly worse ways to pass a few hours.

Not your classical science fiction.......2004-07-29

Lethem is nothing if not inventive; each of his novels is different from all the others, and they seem to have only superficial similarities with anyone else's work, too. Thirteen-year-old Pella Marsh, just edging over the cusp into womanhood, is the oldest of three children of Clement and Caitlin -- the former a failed politician in a post-enviro-catastrophic America, the latter now dead of cancer. They've transplanted themselves to the over-bioengineered World of the Archbuilders in order to escape Earth, but our world's most basic interpersonal problems have accompanied them. The Archbuilders -- those few who remain after the great bulk of them went off into deep space -- are quiet, gentle, curious polylinguists whom the humans don't really understand and probably never will. There are only a handful of other families in their little town-without-a-name: The Kincaids, with a son Pella's age, the drunken Grants with their two socially warped offspring, a lesbian couple with a baby, and a few bachelors. But one of those is Efram Nugent, the personification of violent inadaptability whom Pella sees as part of the rock of the new planet, almost an undeniable force of nature, and whom she alternates between fearing, loathing, and idolizing. Perhaps it's really the Planet of Efram. And he's far more adaptable than anyone could know, because he, like Pella, declines to take the drug that keeps him from inhabiting the "household deer" in his sleep and speeding and spying across the valleys, witnessing all the personal human things that no one else should see. There's a certain titillating Nabokovian flavor here (though without his humor) but don't let that distract you. The story is mostly a bleak but moving look at human inability to be anything other than human, regardless of the landscape.

Lolita on the Homestead..........2004-07-20

I like Lethem or at least the books I have read by him so far: Motherless Brooklyn and Gun, with Occasional Music. However, Girl in Landscape is not just one of Lethem's lesser works but a horrible novel in general. The book fails to solidify, while allegedly a mixture of sci-fi and western, the book is just another western with all the standard clichés in tact. The sci-fi part could be thrown out and no one would be the wiser; substitute Indians for aliens and nothing changes. Also while the back cover of my book mentions "the sexual tension of Lolita" let's not kid ourselves Lethem all but lifts entire passage from Lolita. The book does not capture "the sexual tension of Lolita" rather it paraphrases entire parts (Compare the scene with Pella and Efram on Efram's couch and Humbert Humbert and Lolita on Humbert's couch). People have commented on the originality of this book I just don't see it. After reading about 30 pages of the book one should be able to tell how the book will end and how all the characters will play out. Furthermore, I don't know if it's just me but if this novel is an accurate portrayal of a 13-year-old girl then the human race is doomed.

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Wake Up and Take Control of Your Life!

Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life. The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life and harness the forces that shape your destiny.

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Changed my life the day I started reating.......2007-10-09

This book is great. I was afraid it would be a lot of lame "You're special!" stuff. Instead Tony gives simple tools that change the way you think and react to emotions and events. I no longer dwell on unimportant small things and instead move forward toward greater things.

I have an older edition, I think from 1992, which was somewhat dated, since it has some humorous and ironic references to "Influential people like Michael Jackson" or the interesting story about a young kid who gave it is all that turned out to be "none other than OJ Simpson".

The exercises were quite helpful and enlightening, this book will make you understand yourself in a new way.

Good book from sketchy infomercial guy.......2007-09-21

First of all I do think this is a powerful book. This is due more to Tony Robbins ability to generate enthusiasm in the reader and his ability to organize already-published materials than it does with his own originality though.

I'm not the biggest Tony Robbins fan nowadays. I've heard him make too many ridiculous, unproven comments on his tapes to completely take him seriously. And his infomercial persona is hard to shake, but at the heart of it this is really powerful book for transformation just like he claims. It's mainly things he picked up from older self-help books and things like NLP but Tony does organize it in a usable fashion and really gets you pumped up to put some changes into effect.

I went through a hard time many years ago and this book helped me turn one of the worst experiences in my life into one of the most productive, so for that I will always have a soft spot for Tony and this book.

I do recommend staying away from his overpriced seminars though. Everything a smart and motivated person needs is already in this book. You do not need to pay a penny more to anyone over the cost of this book if you are serious about making life changes.

I'd also like to point out that this is a tighter, stronger book than his first one, and recommend a new person start here.

A Great Book That Never Claims to be Pure NLP.......2007-09-02

Awaken the Giant has it's place on bookshelves if for no other reason that it is a workable system to empower a person's entire life.

In doing this, Robbins has done an outstanding job to make change techniques applicable to the average person. His previous book, Unlimited Power, conveys Robbins' understanding of NLP and therefore can be claimed to be a book on the subject. The problem with Unlimited Power is that there countless books on NLP by much more reputable and learned authors than Robbins.

Awaken the Giant is a book that extends well past his first works and the way I see it, adds tremendous value to the field of positive psychology. How, I hear you mutter? Awaken the Giant, using NLP and conditioning techniques at its core, is a well thought out and cohesive system of change, rather than a collection of insights and techniques as many pure NLP books are. The book really focuses on taking control of your life and how to do it. It is not a book of fluffy half-theories and heart-warming anecdotes as most self help books are.

Awaken the Giant never claims to be a book on NLP, and, in fact, takes a main premise of NLP - you have all the resources inside you - and helps organise those resources so they work for you, not against you.

The book is a little long, and could have been a bit more concise, however, it is presented in a much user friendly way than Unlimited Power.

As an NLPer, I appreciate the outcome Robbins had in mind for this book - a whole system for the average person couldn't tell you the difference between a metaprogram and a submodality, but is probably frustrated with underachieving.

Real Results in the Real World.......2007-08-13

I bought this book 3 years ago. I was 35, selling cars, making less than $35,000 a year, fat, a smoker, and wondering where all the supposed "promise" I had ever went. I had a few good years in the past, but they were long gone. I didn't just read this book, I consumed it. Like Baptists read the Bible I read this book, and I started a success journal. Now, 3 years later. I work for myself (if you can call doing whatever I want work) and make $10,000 - $15,000 per month. I work out 6 days a week, I don't smoke, every relationship I have with everyone I love is 3x better than it ever has been.

I read "motivation", "self-help" and "how to succeed" books since I was 19 years old. And I did my best to follow them... not much happened in the end. This book, when Tony said "do this", I did it and there was an INSTANT change. Instant change after Instant change turned into the beginnings of a new life after 6 months, the taste of freedom after 18 months, and now unstoppable, unflappable, unimaginable success and happiness for a guy with a high school degree and never a penny in the bank before my next paycheck (until after Tony Robbins). Is this an unvarnished RAVE? You bet! I read this ONE book and applied it to my life. Now I have the life I always wanted.

The good, the bad, and the " LETS MOVE ON ALREADY!!!".......2007-07-26

My review falls some where in the between the reviews discussing the overwhelming amount of FLUFF contained in this book and the fact that Robbins' excercises can work!!! This 500+ page epic should really be revised by robbins to help readers concentrate on the true main points he is making. remove a three quarters of the anecdotes and and integrate the small subjects of vocabulary and metaphors into the bigger more overarching principles and remove about half of the crappy quotes sporadically placed in the book and you might have something worthy of 4 squares or at least 3 1/2. But no matter what read it get the brunt of the book and its message and prepare yourself to not agree and not follow through and its OKAY!!! Mind you the ever so bright eyed and bushy tailed Robbins' himself is absolutely no picture perfect poster child but must still be greatly acknowledged for the work and effort he has put in and the many lives he has empowered and bettered.

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Response for the Christian Person who argued agains Robbins........2005-07-02

I have just read what this person writes regarding Robbins' ways against christianity. With all due respect, I just want to say that if you're looking to improve your life, to be confindent of your actions, and firmly believe that you're in control of your own destiny, maybe christianity is not the path for you. Firstly, christianity is a mere invention towards gaining power over the masses. Secondly, christianity is not based on the real teachings of Jesus Christ, it's all about manipulation to DISEMPOWER people, to make them more docile. When Robbins uses the word "Whatever it takes......"...depends on your criteria. As an adult, I know exactly what I'm doing when I take an action. Believe me, if you want to gain power no matter what,despite hurting people , you'll know it !!!!.....And it's a personal decision anyway.

I think Robbins is a millionaire because people like us buy his stuff. But I have to admit that he is a terrific inspirator, and that his knowledge about PNL, and other subconscious techniques are impressive. He's one of the best presentators I've heard. So I give him his well deserved credit for that.

What really strucked me hard, was the beginning of the tape, the cheesy speech about the silly helicopter, and the traffic jam because of his FABULOUS seminar.........I don't know....I was about to shut the player off, but I kept going, and I really enjoyed it after that.

My advise, again, if you try to gain power over life and destiny, forget about christianity, the church, catholics, and all their variations. The real value of the human being is not written in dogmas, but written in the souls of the people who believe in the collective welfare.

Good role model and beliefs.......2004-05-19

Anthony Robbins is the first person that I modeled that really changed my life for the better. Before him, I have read other books on psychology and self-improvement, but all those just ended up with lots of theories about things, but very little practical application in real life.

Robbins is the person who walks his talk. He takes what he learned and modelled from other masters like Jim Rohn, Robert Shuller, Richard Bandler, Milton Erickson, Robert Cialdini and many others, but he does something different and achieve far greater results than his teachers. The reason is that he takes all the techniques seriously and apply them faithfully to the n-th degree. Few of his very powerful beliefs he lives by that I have used to achieve impossible achievements are "There is ALWAYS a way, If I am committed to find one", "It is in the moments of your decisions that your destiny is shaped", "Manage your emotional states and you master your behaviours".

If you read about his story, he was 17 years old, broke and living in his VW car outside 7-11, and he joined Jim Rohn's company to start selling Rohn's educational sets. And he sold to every single person he made a sales appointment with, just by applying what he learned from Jim Rohn and others. Even Jim Rohn couldn't believe it, since nobody in the company could sell more than this 17 year old kid. And when he was broke, he set such goals as owning a castle home, big cars, being successful etc, and in 1 year he achieved them all, just by rehearsing and staying committed to his goals every day. And over the years, he achieved amazing redults just by applying the skills, beliefs, and techniques he learned. He proved to me that, if you are committed to your goals, values, and committed to doing the things you MUST do each day to be at your best,- then you can do seemingly amazing things even with simple techniques and beliefs.

This cassette is an additional companion to his book Awaken The Giant Within. Although the publisher produced this tape, which is about 60 - 90 minutes, some of the information and techniques in the book are not included here. But I love this tape as his delivery is very powerful and infectious. Get this tape, I guarantee it will help you, IF you apply them in your life. Don't be like most people who reads good books, and then say it's not good, just because they don't apply what they read. Reading and merely listening won't change your life. Applying it does! The world is filled with educated derelicts- people who know a lot of knowledge, but didn't use what they know.

Not how to get rich.......2004-01-19

Funny thing about all of these motivational speakers... they're all rich. And that's one of things that makes us buy their stuff. Though they preach motivation and personal growth, the unsaid implication is that if we follow their lessons, we'll be rich, too.

Tony is no exception; he talks on this tape about how one year he was living in a tiny bachelor apartment, and a few years later he was living in a castle and flying his jet helicopter to his seminars.

But what none of these people ever talk about--including Tony--is HOW they got so wealthy. That would be a problem, since they tend to downplay the importance of money, all the while being paid millions of dollars to do so.

My hunch is that Tony makes his money by having people come to his seminars and buy his stuff. It's the same with financial guru Suze Orman--she hasn't made her money through smart investing; she's made it by writing books and doing a TV show telling us how to invest.

One of the secrets of making money is to find a niche and fill it; if you can't find one, then you invent one and convince people they need it. Arnold Schwarzenegger did this back in the 80's; he convinced people they were out of shape and came up with the whole "I'm going to pump you up" campaign. Tony, Peter Lowe, Zig Ziglar and others have done this with our minds: convinced us that we need to get control of our lives, and to let them tell us how to do it.

That's not to say Tony's stuff is a scam; if you're feeling out of sorts with the world, this tape is indeed a valuable help in focusing on how to get back with it. But for people who have a normal level of intelligence and presence of mind, it may be somewhat unsatisfying.

One thing I've learned is that sometimes the best advice someone can give you is to stop asking for advice! I think a fair number of Personal Power converts probably spend too much time and money going to seminars and studying Tony's stuff, and not enough time simply living their lives and making their own decisions. This tape is not going to tell you how to earn enough money to buy a helicopter or live in a castle. It is not going to tell you how to end up with a beautiful spouse and kids. It will tell you to follow your dream, and offers a few basic guidelines on how to do that. But you have to do the work.

N.B. The tape ends by telling us that by following Tony's advice, you'll attract the "appropriate coaches and role models." Sounds like a plug for Tony's personal coaching services. In other words, even after you've awakened your inner giant, you'll still need help! (Hint: you still need to buy more stuff!)

Great ideas on how to set goals........2001-03-30

First off, and I can't stress this enough, you must read the book. The audio is a great modivator and a good introduction, but the book is must. keep the audio for your car just for as a reminder, but read the book. Robbins can sound silly at times, but he's brillant when it comes to modivating you and ideas of how to make the most out of your life.

This Joe Robbins Guy Is Incredible.......2000-02-26

A month ago I was washing my dishes in the bathtub, reusing junk mail envelopes, and buying frozen pizzas in bulk. Now I have grown a moustache and stride around confidently, feeling like I own the world. This Joe Robbins guy helps me forget the overwhelming impermanence of life, and the tragedy of focussing on personal wealth and contentment. I used to be be a Buddhist monk, but Joe helped me realize what a load of bunk that is. I can't wait to give him more money for his next book or tape or whatever!

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