One Hundred Years of Solitude: Modes of Reading (Twayne's Masterworks Studies, No. 70)

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A valuable exploration of ways of approaching the novel.......2001-03-09

Regina Janes offers a comprehensive, engaging analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, taking into account the multiple "modes of reading" and interpreting this masterpiece and Latin American bestseller. Janes approaches this novel through its literary and historical contexts and explains the many ways that readers have understood One Hundred Years of Solitude: politically, biographically, intertextually, and from the angles of myth and magical realism. In the process, Janes provides a convincing examination of the novel itself, observing that "If García Márquez does have a single, modern myth for us, it may be the desirability of preserving, fostering, nurturing our sense of unreality. Neither the real world in which we are mired nor the books we read to remove ourselves, temporarily, to a better world should be entirely believed" (p.130).

I appreciate Janes's work for its recognition and analysis of the multiple ways of interpreting this text, and I recommend it to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the critical discourse surrounding One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Not a book for the shallow.......2000-02-07

100 Years of Solitude is a masterpiece that weaves a beautiful vision of magical reality responsible not only for telling about Latin America's prevoking use of imagination and mysticism, but giving a semi-fictional writen history of Colombia's battle for independence. Garcia Marquez can make you think you have wings.

What's All the Fuss About?.......2000-01-13

Everyone says that One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most important books ever written (it was even runner up to best novel of the century in TIME Magazine), but I beg to differ. I found the author's style unpolished and uncontrolled, I found it to be too long, and I've read better attempts at mystical realism. Catch 22 is a wonderful book and pulls the style of wonderfully, while Marquez lacks in almost every respect. I do give him some merit for imagry, but overall I really can't understand why everyone thnks this book is so great.

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Aya takes matters into her own hands when she decides to search for the hagoromo. Meanwhile, Tôya must choose between being with Aya and working for Kagami and getting his memory back. How can he break free of the organization's hold and help Aki escape as well?

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I liked this book........2007-09-28

I really did enjoy this book.
I love this series and I can't wait until I buy the next book
it was so good. I liked the ending but I hoped that Aya and Toya would've
been together by the end of the book. The ending was very interesting
and surprising. I will defently order from amazon again and continue
to buy the books in this series.

Great volume.......2005-07-16

I read the entire manga series of Ceres and all the volumes in order. This was a great volume of Ceres. In this volume, Tooya, Aya's boyfriend, reveals to Aya that he chooses her over his past, his memories and his job. That scene is so touching and filled with emotion. Aya is touched and promises to meet Tooya. Tooya telsl aki about his plans to escape, but Aki's former self is beginning to take over him and beginning to develop feelings toward Aya. Tooya escapes and meets Aya. Aya is so happy to reunite with her boyfriend, Tooya. She takes him home and cares for him. Aya kisses Tooya. They spend tiem together and Yuuhi accepts this. Tooya is very happy to be back. Later, he must leave and Aya meets him outside. Ceres is still inside Aya, but Aya is learning to control Ceres so she can be with Tooya. They embrace and Aki- rather, Shiso, sees this and grabs Aya, kissing her. Aya realizes that this is not Aki and is terrified of the transformation he's undergone. Find out what happens in thsi emotional volume of Ceres.

Best book in the whole world. .......2004-11-16

this book was the first book that I have read backwards. Its about when toya quits working for the mikages. and when he starts not being himself. he actully kisses aya, his sister! I was grosed out. this has been the most exiting book, and amazing book that I have ever read. oh, and the 12th one ( I haven't read it yet) 2 main characters die. Don't know who.

Best (so far) in an awesome series!.......2004-04-20

The Ceres: Celestial Legend manga series is a wonderful version of the traditonal "Swan Maiden" fairytales. An enraged maiden has possessed the body of her descendant, with the aim of getting her heavenly robe back and getting revenge on the man who hid it centuries ago and forced her to marry him. (It's beyond me how a tale, basically, about abduction and rape could have become the romanticized fairytale that it is, now meant for children. But I guess that's the nature of the patriarchy we live in. I'm grateful to the author for giving this a more realistic twist.) Anyway, this is a very entertaining series and this volume is the best one I've read so far. Yu Watase manages to make the same scene horrifying, funny, and sexy all at the same time. THAT is talent.

A good book to pick up!.......2004-03-05

this is one good of the series of Ceres Celestial legends, I even own it. It really keeps you in to it that you can't put it down once you start reading. but if you haven't read the first one yet..don't read this until you've read the four before!! it'll be spoiling the fun. it's really still a mystery to me, I've got the sixth book too and it really is the bomb!! This book rates to be one of my top five manga this year..i can't wait until the 7th one comes out..you should this if you haven't yet!!

Hikaku sangyoshi no kenkyu: Katchu bugu yori mita kako gijutsu to sono hensen (Mikage Shigaku Kenkyukai minzokugaku sosho)

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Jinsei girei no shomondai (Mikage Shigaku Kenkyukai minzokugaku sosho)
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Kin gin do tetsu densho to rekishi no michi (Mikage Shigaku Kenkyukai minzokugaku sosho)
Hisao Tanaka
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Kinsei sonraku saishi no kozo to henyo (Mikage Shigaku Kenkyukai minzokugaku sosho)
Yuzo Kanemoto
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Nihon kodai no oi keisho to shinzoku (Mikage Shigaku Kenkyukai rekishigaku sosho)
Hirokazu Narikiyo
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Takuji Doi
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Taiwan Takushoku Kaisha to sono jidai, 1936-1946

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Taiwan Takushoku Kaisha to sono jidai, 1936-1946
Naoyuki Mikage
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Nylon Angel introduces a startling new femme fatale and all-around bad girl.

While trying to send her sadistic boss to death row, she finds herself sheltering a suspect in the murder of newsgirl Razz Retribution. In a world run by the media, the truth isn't relevant-it's bad for ratings. Which is why Parrish finds herself tagged for the murder-and up to her tricked-out leather tank top in trouble.

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Australian SF Reader.......2007-08-01

Cyberpunk with a bit more of a post-apocalyptic flavour. Parish Pleiss is either a gun moll with a muscle function, or muscle with a gun moll function, as she is decent enough looking to attract a local crime lord's attention. She does what she has to do to get by.

Set in the 'Tert', a regional part of Australia that has suffered a lot of degradation, and the people there are kept out of Viva City, which is presumably probably Sydney of some sort, because they do not have any money.

Parrish gets caught up in a plot involving genetics, information, possible alien parasites, among other things. She ends up breaking out of her situation and involved in something with much higher stakes.

Good Read If You Can Keep Up........2007-01-10

Nylon Angel is the first in the Parrish Plessis novels. and introduces Parrish Plessis a tough as nails bounty hunter\ Muscle who is caught under the Thumb of a crime boss and when she is offered a job that can get her out she gets caught up in a complicated plot that takes Parrish to all ends of her futuristic cyberpunk world which is located in Australia. The story while an interesting read tends to go all over the place. It seems never to be sure what kind of story it wants to be: A mystery, a romance novel or a sci-fi with fantasy mixed in like ShadowRun. It is a good start to a interesting series once the story keeps in a straight line.

Hot find.......2006-09-01

I found this book at a friends house and ended up buying my own copy. Parrish Plessis is a tough name to say, but she is a tough kid. Bodyguard and born fighter. Only problem, she is owned by a local gangster who takes ownership very seriously. A mysterious group offers her way out.

A war starts around her. She becomes wanted for murder, becomes a god, is infested with a intellegent virus, falls in love, settles for lust. In the end she is free, but a captive none the less.

More Questions Than Answers.......2005-09-28

Nylon Angel is not a bad book....I'm not sure I'd say it was exactly good either. It did drag in spots. What bothered me the most, however, was that I felt like I'd walked into the middle of a foreign language film. I spent the first half of the book trying to figure out the inhabitants of the Tert: canrats, dingoboys, punters, etc. And forget trying to figure out the politics involved!

De Pierres has created an interesting and highly imaginative world, but I'd like to understand it better. Where did the feral children come from? What poisoned the Tert? When is this book set (it's sometime in the 21st century, but when)? Is this an alternate universe or was there some cataclysmic event that led Australia to become this dark and unwelcoming place?

I like Parrish. She's tough and she's smart and she's a survivor. By the end of the book, she had grown tremendously. I have Code Noir & I'm looking forward to reading it...but I hope it has more answers than questions!

Nice start.......2005-08-13

This book was neither great nor was it poor. There are parts that are really good, cleaver, and interested. On the other hand, there are parts that dragged and it didn't seem to truly finish although there was resolution. At this point, there is no reason for any other author to move over. Also, my experience may have been different from some of the other reviewers since I read the sequel directly following Nylon Angel. I recommend that other readers do so as well. The story ties together much more readily. The extra star is for reading it with the second book.

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Nylon Angel
Marianne De Pierres
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The chasm between science and religion has been a source of intellectual and spiritual tension for centuries, but in these ground breaking dialogues there is a remarkable consonance between these once opposing camps. In Natural Grace, Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox show that not only is the synthesis of science and spirituality possible, but it is unavoidable when one considers the extraordinary insights they have both come upon in their work. Sheldrake, who has changed the face of modern science with his revolutionary theory of morphic resonance, and Fox, whose work in creation spirituality has had a significant impact on people's sense of spirit, balance each other with their unique yet highly complementary points of view. In these inspired dialogues a variety of ancient topics--including ritual, prayer, and the soul--are freed from the past and given new power for the future in the liberated universe Fox and Sheldrake show us.

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Not easy but worth the effort.......2007-04-07

This book is a dialogue between a mystic and a scientist. From time to time one or the other get a bit esoteric, but the back and forth makes for surprising insights and provocations to further thinking by the reader. I would especially recommend this as a book to discuss in a group. The dialogue between readers of different backgrounds complements the dialogue within the book.

Honest attempt but shoddy in places.......2002-09-02

This book is a dialog between the defrocked Catholic Matthew Fox and scienctist(of morphic resonance fame) Rupert Sheldrake. In it they discuss both science, religion and spirituality(mostly Echart and Hildegard) and how they intersect at points as I understand it.

Do they do a good job? yes and no. Yes in that both are sincere in their efforts. Sheldrake stands out as the better of the two intellectually. No in that Fox falls down in several areas.

1. He commits a serious epistemological error by confusings metaphysical levels of the spirit and soul with material levels of existence. For Fox A = C this is a big no no. Angels are not atomic paritcles and the soul is not the body. Reification is plain wrong.

2. He bases the bulk of his newly created theology on selected portions of Eckhart, Hildegard and Rumi. This is dangerous, since these were mystics of a high order their writings were never meant to be read as one reads a newspaper or literally as Fox wants to do. Also none the people he mentioned were rebels like himself. These mystics worked within the religous framework of the time. To try to create an exoteric framework from esoteric writings which is what Fox has done is fraught with problems, especially when you are not their equal.

This is my biggest problem with Fox. Instead of trying to show the reader the differences between science and religion he's trying to peddle his new religion of creation spirituality. Which is gnosis without gnosis in disguise.

3. As for Fox's understanding of Catholic or Christian religion in general, he has blinders on. Especially when he comments on the great Cathedrals of Europe. He fails to understand or evem see their symbolism, instead he find's solace in their crypts of all places - this is neurotic. This man loves being in the dark and would like to see all new churchs built underground. His attitude is positively Manichean in nature.

Sheldrake also confuses the readers with his understanding of science in general. Science deal with the quantitative and measurable aspects of materialism. It cannot deal with qualities nor with metaphysics. To use science to justify religion is sloppy thinking and equivalent to building a house on shifting sands.

So my rating is:
** stars
-1 star for lack of a index and specific sources for the quotes Fox used.
-1 star for sloppy epistemology and for Fox trying peddle his new religion instead.
-1 star for using on the back cover "institutionalized science and mechanistic religion" it should mechanistic science and institutionalized religion. Religion may be dull at times but never a machine

The book fails in trying to bring together the strands of science, religion or spirituality. Which nobody has ever really done well. Read E.F. Schumachers "Guide for the Perplexed" which is a must and then Hossein Nasr "Man and Nature". Another good one is Huston Smith's "Postmodern Mind". For a real study on spirituality get Evelyn Underhill's "Mysticism" she's a beautiful writer and very well studied on this topic.

Understanding grace.......2001-09-01

I've read this book twice and have underlined a lot of it. I've recently shared it with friends and have discussed some of the concepts the authors describe so well. The idea of the body is in the soul, the soul as field, the connectivity through grace...these are powerful, transforming thoughts. Thank you Matthew for another fine book.

God is all..........1999-07-11

Well, ran into some deep space in this one. This cosmic equation seems to have some real balence. But as you know love is all there really is> Author write me. Enoch

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