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The Absolute at LargeKAREL CAPEKKAREL CAPEKFirst published in 1927CONTENTSCHAPTER PAOBI The Advertisement 7 The Karbitrator n Pantheism 17IV. God in the Cellar, 23V Bishop Linda 29VI The BoardMeeting 36VII Developments 41VIII The Dredge 46IX The Ceremony 53X Saint Ellen 59XI. The First Blow Struck 64XII Doctor Blahous 70XIII The Chroniclers Apology 75XIV The Land of Plenty 80XV Disaster 86XVI In the Mountains 92XVII The Hammer and Star 98XVIII, In the Night Editors Room 102XIX. The Process of Canonization 108XX St Kilda 113XXI The Telegram 119XXII The Old Patriot 124XXIII. The Augsburg Imbroglio 130CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEXXIV. The Napoleon of the MountainBrigade 136XXV. The socalled Greatest War 141XXVI. The Battle of Hradec Kralove 145XXVII. A Coral Island in the Pacific 150XXVIII. At Seven Cottages 155XXIX. The Last Battle 159XXX. The End of Everything 163CHAPTER ITHE ADVERTISEMENTONE New Years Day, 1943, G H Bondy, head of the greatMetalloElectncal Company, was sitting as usual reading hispaper He skipped the news from the theatre of war ratherdisrespectfully, avoided the Cabinet crisis, then crowded onsail for the Peoples Journal, which had grown long ago tofive times its ancient size, now afforded enough canvas for anocean voyage for the Finance and Commerce section Herehe cruised about for quite a while, then furled his sails, andabandoned himself to his thoughtsThe Coal Crisis he said to himself Mines gettingworked out the Ostrava basin suspending work for years.Heavens above, its a sheer disaster Well have to importUpper Silesian coal. Just work out what that will add to thecost of our manufactures, and then talk about competition.Were in a pretty fix And if Germany raises her tariff, wemay as well shut up shop And the Industrial Banks goingdown, too What a wretched state of affairs What a hopeless, stupid, stifling state of affairs Oh, damn the crisisHere G H Bondy, Chairman of the Board of Directors,came to a pause Something was fidgeting him and would nollet him rest He traced it back to the last page of his discardednewspaper It was the syllable TioNj only part of a word, fothe fold of the paper came just in front of the T. It was thivery incompleteness which had so curiously impressed itselupon him. Well, hang it, its probably IRON PRODUCTION Bondpondered vaguely, or PREVENTION,, or, maybe, RESTITUTION. . . And the Azote shares have gone down, too. The stagnations simply shocking. The positions so bad that it8 THE ABSOLUTE AT LARGEridiculous . But thats nonsense who would advertisethe RESTITUTION of anything? More likely RESIGNATION Itssure to be RESIGNATION.With a touch of annoyance, G H Bondy spread out thenewspaper to dispose of this irritating word It had nowvanished amid the chequering of the small advertisements Hehunted for it from one column to another, but it had concealeditself with provoking ingenuity. Mr. Bondy then worked fromthe bottom up, and finally started again from, the righthandside of the page.
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All books by Capek are required reading for civilised person.......1999-09-18
Perhaps as a companion piece to War with the Newts this one should have been titled War with God, since this book attacks religious intolerance with the same gentle, sad, hilarious ridiculousness that he employed with devastating effect against racial intolerance in Newts. As a novel it violates most every rule of how a "good" novel should be written, in terms of structure, plot, cohesiveness, restraint, character development, etc and as such it is a fine book. And, of course, it is very very Czech.
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Absolute Friends
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Slow build up with a Great finish.......2007-09-03
I found this book to have a bit of a slow buildup, which was probably necessary in order to provide us the necessary background on the two main characters, Mundy and Sasha. Once the main storyline kicked into gear, the results were outstanding. I wouldn't call this book Anti-American. In fact, you could argue that this book is pro-American, in that it reflects the great American ideals of rebellion and challenging tyranny.
This book does oppose the opinions of the current presidential administration. It speaks to the neo-McCarthyism that existed at the start of the Iraqi War. I have to think though that today, in 2007, the vast majority of Americans realize what a bill of goods they were sold.
It was a very interesting read that also makes you think.
A joy to read, but untimately tried to answer its own questions.......2007-08-27
A story of two co-operatives, Edward Mundy and Sasha. They are cold war people who have also been also urban terror people back of the West German variety. They have complicated lives, but on the face of it no more complicated than most. Eventually they outlive their usefulness as operatives and so are set up as examples. After many years of service to both sides to spite the middle (or perhaps the other way round), they are set up by a CIA-inspired plot to create a political justification for the war on terror, and a political lever to force the position of central European states. The problem with the end of the book is that it was probably written before any of the preceding material was constructed. The problem with the final "setting up" project of the plot is that two hardened intelligence people would have smelled rats, coypus and copious other rodents in any escapade which apparently involved extensive charity of the monetary kind paid straight in to the pocket. In fact Ted takes the trouble to get his Turkish girlfriend and child back to Turkey before the denouement, but in the end it was all too convenient that things turned out that way. Beautifully written and superbly paced, the book was a joy until the polemic emerged.
Great buddy novel fights the hyper-power.......2007-04-24
A richly observed story of Mundy, a man coming into political awareness in radical late 60s Berlin but never coming to terms with who he really is. Except that he is best friends with Sasha. Yeah, it's a buddy novel and what guy isn't a sucker for one of those?
The Mundy character is a suberb fictional creation, absolutely right on. Well, except till the last chapters. Alas, that final section didn't ring true. The Mundy that Le Carre had created for me should've smelled the rat quicker and bailed. That Mundy would've rescued fragile Sasha from the brutal state, the way he had on the streets of Berlin in '68.
As for the politics, what struck me is how poorly put together is the alternative to the U.S. hyper-power. There's no counter-ideology, for example, just a collection of musty old "60s classics" like Frantz Fanon. So the opposition to Le Carre's accurately described near-naked U.S. imperialism (neoconservative evangelism is at best a jock strap) is an embarrassing parody, French snobbery it's only solid pillar. The world needs something much better.
Absolutely brilliant British thriller.......2006-11-08
This is not another spy-story. Far from it. It is a lot more. It is inspired political fiction. John le Carré goes back to 1947, or even slightly before, and he is haunted by Hitler and nazism (though he did not know at the time of his writing this book that Gunther Grass - page 381 - had been an enlisted member of the SS). He depicts a long film of events going from the British Empire to the War on Iraq, in successive tableaus that follow the Cold War - and its successive phases - and then the Fall of the Wall, and then the desovietization of the world, and then the monocentric world dominated by the US who consider, being in the hands of born-again fundamentalist evangelists, that they are right by essence, that they have God on their side by birth, and that they have to prevent terrorism by preventively waging a preventive war on aforesaid terrorism that should not have to be prevented since it is already there. But Le Carré is brutally clear on this preventive dimension : it enables the US to stage any kind of killing or military operation against existing or non-existing terrorists anywhere in the world in the name of prevention, which means in the name of US interests, such as oil and some other commodities, and furthermore call all those opposed to such ventures chickens, turkeys or other yellow-belly cowards. Le Carré goes even further in that trespassing of homogenized and standardized prudence. There could be a perfect de facto alliance - like in some kind of superbowl game - between that new shadowy anti-terrorist US invisible and privatised army and, on the other hand the peddlers of the anti-US leftist trotskyist anarchist antiglobalist alter-mondialist alternative European-and-Arab-(not-to-say-Moslem)-centered evasively invisible forces. This leads to an absolutely psychotic vision of the world since a bunch or a cluster of less than a dozen people are ruling the world without having to give any account to anyone or any institution. Democracy is a lure. Freedom is a trap. These christian fundamentalists' conception is total submission and the immediate freezing of any thinking, even purely existential or survivalistic non-conceptual brain work that could hardly qualify for abstract mental creative thought. Here Le Carré is brilliant because he is British in mind, or if you prefer is British in mind because he is brilliant. He sounds at times anti-US, though he is not : he is not against Americans in general but against this small group of industrial military evangelistic bigots that have taken over the US, Washington DC, and plan to rule the world unopposed, unchallenged, un-anything-you-may-think-of. Le Carré goes as far as identifying this attitude to the old British - and probably French - imperialistic mood that died hard but with no possible return after WW2. The final irony of the book is that only the French would be able to resist this enterprise because they do not give a damn whether some crazy Americans pour Bordeaux or Chateauneuf-du-Pape wine in some drain or decide to call French fries Freedom fries : after all in that lexical-cleansing enterprise freedom is put on the grill to fry. The book is packed with action and even adventure at times, though the vision of East Germany, the GDR of old, is slightly untrue and aggravated. But that's a detail. History will correct such caricatural visions in due time. A last remark to say that the book was written in June 2003 and of course could not envisage the stalemate in Iraq, the impasse in Iran, the blind alley in North Korea and the invicible and unpreventable growth of this new geo-political power : Russia, India and China with half a dozen if not more smaller but natural resource rich countries around them. All that had not come out of the bush yet and was still in the undergrowth of the jungle into which some hundred thousand GIs started to jump and tread in march 2003. Brilliant British Bravado to be proud of even and especially if you are not British.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Absolutely Boring Friends.......2006-05-31
This is LeCarre's most pedestrian work. It starts well, getting one involved with the two major characters. But then it seems to tread water for much of the remainder of the book, at times making very little sense. One character becomes a caricature and unlike some of LeCarre's main characters in other books, I found I didn't really care what happened to him. He behaved in unexplicable, erratic ways that simply were not convincing. The denouement at the end was equally unconvincing. Sorry I cannot be more positive, but this book was a real disappointment.
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The fifth in the Rafferty and Llewellyn detective series Even if Barstaple was a particularly tyrannical office manager, did he really deserve to be poisoned? And isn't a decent police inquiry the least he deserves? But DI Rafferty has got other things on his mind . . . Bizarre, quirky and ingenious, Absolute Poison injects a dose of skull and crossbones into the office world of nine to five.
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After Martha "Marty" Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, won a murder case, the suspect is put behind bars. But soon another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man?
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"Rose Connors brings a fresh voice, a dynamic storytelling power, and a passion for the law to her compelling crime fiction debut. Martha ""Marty"" Nickerson is a lawyer who truly loves her job. As an assistant D.A. for Massachusetts's Barnstable County, which includes all the small towns on Cape Cod, she speaks for the victims of crime and their families, and sees the system as a means for doing right. The case of Manuel Rodriguez is a prime example. Rodriguez is accused of brutally murdering a college student, a kind young man who had a bright future. Marty has worked hard on this case; as the mother of a teenage son, she identifies with the murdered boy's grieving parents. Her case against Rodriguez is so solid that even public defender Harry Madigan -- the champion of the Cape's underdogs -- expects a conviction. And, on Memorial Day, exactly a year after the crime, the verdict comes in: guilty as charged. Justice prevails. Then, with Rodriguez behind bars, another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man? Her supervisor -- Geraldine Schilling, who aspires to be the county's first female D.A. -- refuses to reopen such a high-profile case. Why should she? The prosecutors played by the rules and won big. But Marty fears that the real killer will strike again. With her career on the line and lives at stake, Marty must rely on her own moral compass, legal savvy, and gut instinct as she matches wits with a twisted killer. The system itself is on trial as Marty tries to serve Justice, not merely the Law. Only an author with years of courtroom experience could add such riveting authenticity to a novel that asks important questions and provides surprising answers. Rose Connors's Absolute Certainty introduces a new crime-writing star. "
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Excellent insider legal procedural.......2006-01-11
A fresh take on the criminal justice system from a true insider with a strong voice. This is an auspicious first novel by a savvy, experienced, trial attorney. Rose Connors has got it all really right: from her tough but vulnerable protagonist, Cape Cod ADA Marty Nickerson, and her completely believable relationship with an ex-husband and a teen-aged son, to a small select cast of interesting supporting characters.
We're in Barnstable County on Cape Cod when the novel opens and Nickerson is deep in the final stages of a rock-solid case against a vicious killer. The case is clean, the evidence huge, even the Public Defender agrees. All seems eminently satisfactory and the jury finds the man, Manuel Rodrigez, guilty. But then another body, is found under disturbingly similar circumstances to that of the first. Evidence points to the same killer. Copycat? Faced with a politically astute boss working hard to become the first female DA in the county, Nickerson can't get Rodrigez' case reexamined. She goes way out on a limb in fairness to her own sense of justice and right. What happens next is surprising.
We have a fine sense of place in this novel and the characters seem to be completely comfortable. They belong in these settings. One's sense of credibility is never strained beyond the breaking point. The dialog is crisp and centered. The pace is measured and the structure of the novel is taut. There is a relentless feeling, particularly in the last half of the book, which seems to take hold of the reader in a way that many novels are unable to exert. Add a handsome cover, good production and careful editing to a thoughtful, well-written provocative novel, and you have an outstanding debut.
Don't Waste Your Time.......2004-06-20
There are lots of great legal mysteries and thrillers, but this isn't one of them. The characters (especially Marty and Geraldine) are one-dimensional stereotypes, and their situations are trite and boring (for example, Marty's trouble with her ex-husband over their kid is not exactly an original subplot). The prose is dull and unimaginative, and I had to force myself to finish this book. At the end, I felt cheated because certain things had not been sufficiently emphasized to give the reader a fair chance to guess the ending. There are a few insights into the legal system, but others (notably Grisham) do it way better. The setting will be a draw for some readers, but there are many other more interesting and creative novels with the Cape Cod locale. Final verdict: don't waste your time with this book.
Am I expecting too much?.......2004-05-13
I purchased this book based on the positive reviews published here, but after having read it, I have to strongly disagree with them. This book is largely filled with completely irrelevant information. Most of the writing is incidental to the plot and does not develop the story in any meaningful way. I found myself speed reading page after page of verbiage that seemed primarily intended to fill enough space to create a book of adequtate length. The entire meat of the story could have been significantly condensed, but then it would have been a short story rather than a novel. This type of writing is common - the author will go into (seemingly) endless detail about place descriptions or character relationships that are in no way central (or even peripheral) to the story. In the hands of a more talented writer, this information would be artfully woven into the fabric of the story to make it essential. Unfortunately, in the case of this book (as in many others), it just sits there like a dead weight taking up space.
Additionally, the denouement comes completely out of nowhere. The culprit is utterly undeveloped throughout the novel, and barely even merits a mention until the end. I really didn't care enough about any of the characters to try to determine who the killer might be; nevertheless, I have to say I was shocked by the killer's eventual revelation simply because he was almost a nonentity in the novel. I guess this is the deus ex machina of suspense writing - make the killer unguessable by never mentioning him until the end!
WOW!!!!!!Well - done!.......2003-08-17
Interestingly, I met Rose Connors at a mystery author booksigning at a little bookstore in Brewster, MA. She was there with Philip Craig whose work I have read and enjoyed. He strongly suggested Ms. Connors work so I picked it up and looked it over. On the cover is a brief review by Perri O'Shuaghnessy whose latest book was my beach read at the time! I happen to love mystery stories. Well, let me tell you, this book is GREAT! It is so well written, the characters come to life. the story is fast paced - a real page turner!! I was actually reading the book while the RED SOX game was on and I am a huge Red Sox fan!! I just could not put this book down! I cannot wait to read Ms. Connors latest work.
A Summer Mystery with Panache.......2003-07-22
Being a summer resident of the Cape, I am used to light and questionably plotted Cape mysteries. Rose Connors uses her legal background, and knowledge of local lore to ensnare the reader into an exciting murder mystery. The characters are well developed, and the reader grows to care about them. The plot has rewarding twists and turns and keeps the reader very interested. The funeral scene is particularly well written and touching. Knowing that another novel with the same main characters is now available, makes one anxious to see what becomes of them.
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Absolute Elizabeth (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)
Joanna Dessau
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- Implausable, repetitive, not as good as Shiver
- Just didn't work for me
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Absolute Fear (Center Point Platinum Mystery (Large Print))
Lisa Jackson
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KEPT ME UP TOO LATE.......2007-08-12
I enjoyed this novel by Jackson. It is the sequel to Shiver and links many of her characters from previous books that you would not have had to read to enjoy this book. Mystery, thriller, and a bit of romance with nary a slow down. Great read.
Implausable, repetitive, not as good as Shiver.......2007-08-11
This book suffers from some implausible connections and story lines. There are developments and scenes that are both repetitive to Shiver and to earlier in Absolute Fear itself. The introduction of new character Kristi is interesting. Shiver was more dense, more spell binding, not just because it started the story line, but because of better writing. Absolute Fear is worth reading in paperback, but probably from the library. I enjoyed it, but it's a long ways from Shiver in quality and even further from Elizabeth George or James Lee Burke.
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Just didn't work for me.......2007-08-03
"Cold-Blooded" and "Shiver", the previous two books in this series, were very good. This one, not so much.
Not enough info on:
*Eve's relationship with Cole before the shooting.
*What happened to Eve and Cole in the three months after the shooting.
*What really happened with Cole on the night of the shooting, because the few lines it was covered in were unclear.
Not enough development of the male and female leads. Ex: Did Eve work? If not how did she get her money?
As someone else pointed out why did Cole lose his house, car, job, money and possessions when he hadn't even been indicted yet? His attorney was a friend so he would have gotten a break on that fee and Cole was an attorney also so he would have been able to do a lot of the work on his own.
Now we have two women in the TSTL (too stupid to live), dumber than a box of rocks, don't have two brain cells to rub together category. Eve had found her friend brutally murdered with a tattoo carved into him, she'd been shot and almost died. Then her father was murdered in the same manner as her friend (also with a tattoo) and Eve has been targeted by the killer. Yet she went running around on her own, meeting a friend at a restaurant and then into a deserted insane asylum. TSTL
Kristi's dad is a cop and she's mad at him because he won't give her privileged details on a current investigation so she can write a true crime book. Kristi had been kidnapped, chained to a wall, and almost died because of the serial killer that had been after her. Yet there she is, a year or so later, wandering alone around the same insane asylum as Eve, not at the same time, taking pictures of the area where a nun had just been found also carved up and dead. TSTL
Other reviewers have brought up the fact that the insane asylum plot is getting really old and I agree; its way past time for it to go away.
Then there's the now dead priest who was taking advantage of women and fathering kids all over the place. This is just plain insulting! There have been cases of abuse by priests lately, but the vast majority of priests are good, spiritual people who believe in their calling. This part of the plot was particularly distasteful!
I realize New Orleans is not a huge city but it's not Mayberry so having all these people related to each other goes way past the bounds of being even slightly credible.
Fortunately I bought this book used!
Adult Nancy Drew Thriller?.......2007-07-09
Far-fetched -- where in the world can you have detectives, girlfriends, daughters, killer, mental hospital inmates, be related to each other, with the ending surprising even the characters as to their relationship? Except for the hot and heavy spicing of sex episodes, this could be classified as another Nancy Drew novel.
Absolute Fear Review.......2007-06-13
Absolute Fear was the second book in the New Orleans series. The characters were familiar and I enjoyed them in this book. The new characters were very intriquing. The end really stunned me. I couldn't believe that Kristi saw her father's death in the near future.
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It is often assumed that early Christian asceticism drew its followers completely away from worldly concerns into the realm of pure spirituality. But the life and thought of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (AD 328-73), shows just how worldly -- and deeply political -- ascetic theology could be. David Brakke examines this important church leader's efforts to reconcile asceticism's compelling intensity with the more conventional needs of the families and everyday believers on whom the Church relied for support and stability. Brakke describes how Athanasius joined with other fourth century bishops to create a strongly unified Christian church in Egypt, bringing both the solitary monks of the desert and the female ascetics in the cities under church authority by organizing them into auxiliaries of the emerging local parishes. By carefully integrating ascetic values and practices into a comprehensive vision of the church as a heavenly commonwealth, Brakke argues, Athanasius unified a community of Christians practicing diverse versions of their faith and helped to establish the lines of administrative and pastoral authority that would be essential to the church's future success. This illuminating study of the turmoil of fourth century Christianity also includes the first English translations of many of Athanasius's ascetic and pastoral writings.
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Early Christian asceticism was far from being wholly other-worldly. This new and illuminating study of the life and thought of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (328-73), one of the central figures of the church at the time, shows just how deeply political ascetic theology could also be in the
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