Jak říká sám Wouk, Zákonodárce je lehkovážný román o tom, jak je nemožné napsat román o Mojžíšovi, a myslím, že nikdo by to nevystihl lépe. Nejsem zrovna fanouškem epistolárních příběhů, většinou mě zklamaly (pokud nepočítám Werthera, samozřejmě :)), ale tady to tak nějak funguje. Stránky jsou pl...
I remember one summer day when I was a young teen, a movie by this name came on afternoon TV. My mother, passing through the family room, hurriedly turned it off and forbade me to watch it. In her eyes, it was too advanced in concept (translation: sex) for a girl my age. She didn't know, of cours...
“ Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.” --Herman WoukThe ...
Lots and lots of thanks to El for mentioning City Boy in her review of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. How did I go through all of my life without ever hearing of this book? This is my favorite kind of book! I mean, I've read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn several times. I can see why one book re...
The Hope is an historical drama, painted in fairly broad brush-strokes, charting the days immediately following Ben Gurion's proclamation of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948 after the British withdrawal and continuing up to the astonishing military successes of the Six Day War. Gurion is himsel...
"Boys fight the wars. We'd have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight." Herman Wouk (925)Herman Wouk continues the saga of American Admiral Victor “Pug” Henry and his naval family during World War II in “War and Remembrance,” a sequel to The Winds of War. Th...
I often daydream about running away from home. Packing it in and slipping away to some Red-and-Andy-Dufresne tropical island and starting anew. I could do it! I could just GO. I could get one of those ‘island’ jobs (hotel manager, coconut picker, hippie bead necklace maker). I don’t need to be le...