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Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

2 reviews
Ivan Illich

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1999

Another brilliant, well-written book by Illich!
In this book, much like Deschooling Society, Illich attacks the issue from all sides. He consistenly provides an excellent argument with examples, statistics, and well-done research. Though this book is not quite as fast-paced as Deschooling Society, it is equally engaging. Illich not only presents the problems in a realistic way, he also presents alternative methods for dealing with the ...

I Lost it at the Movies

2 reviews
Pauline Kael

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1994

Pauline Kael as a prophet of our multi-media age
Pauline Kael was a prophet of the times: she knew that people would eventually be addicted to the movies. But she was perceptive enough to realize from the onset that this addiction went beyond the inescapable, because grippingly overwhelming, magic of storytelling. She understood that movies were addictive because not only do they take on a life of their own, they also created a world of their ...

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

3 reviews
Elias Canetti

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2002

fresh, original and brilliantly written account
"The voices of Marrakesh. A Record of a Visit" is one of the sharpest and most original accounts of the life in the Moroccan city written by a tourist. The1981 Nobel Prize winner, and author of the famous "Auto da Fe", Elias Canetti, has described his impressions from the stay in Marrakesh. He was indeed a tourist, although the better word in his case might be "a visitor", and many of his ...

The Flea Palace

6 reviews
Elif Shafak

Marion Boyars Publishers, 2007

Couldn't put it down
I have not enjoyed a novel this much in years. It was not the mystery of the novel but the beauty of the writing and the finely drawn, fascinating characters and atmosphere that kept me hooked. I was so sad to see it end! If I could, I would take off a half a point for some errors in usage that the editors should have picked up ("raised" for "razed"), which distracted me from time to time.

Literature and Evil

4 reviews
Georges Bataille

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2001

Literature and Evil
Georges Battaille throws down a challange to Jean-Paul Sartre, who held that "literature is inncocent". Bataille, in his examination of such figures as Emily Bronte, Sade, Baudelaire, Genet, Kafka and Michelet, and the component of "evil" in their works, argues that literature is, in fact, "guilty" and that, moreover, it must acknowledge itself as such. In his reading of these literary figures, ...

Disabling Professions (Ideas in Progress)

2 reviews
Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, ...

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1978

Disabling Professions is a must for all professionals
The trouble with this book is that it makes you rethink your whole reason for being! It is an insightful review of how professions have incapacitated the people and issues they set out to help. It focused on medicine, law and the helping professions but is relevant to all of us. It makes you think - am I creating a reason for being? should I be really working myself out of a job? Empowering ...

The Demon

39 reviews
Hubert Selby Jr.

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1994

Amazing piece of literature from a totally unique American author
This should be required reading for anyone interested in American Literature. Selby's style is so incredibly unique and the way he creates empathy for the wife of this man is an excellent example of minimalism. He says SO much utilizing an economy of words. Read this book - And also read Selby's "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream." HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Deschooling Society (Open Forum)

13 reviews
Ivan Illich

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1999

A Brilliant Founding Book of the Homeschooling Movement
This book is on my list of "The Ten Best." It does more than brilliantly advocate a turn away from education as an institutional product. It speaks for the adoption of a whole new worldview. Illich eshews the usual reformers' clichés about our need for more schools, more school funding, etc., etc. He is much more radical and deep than that. He sometimes quotes and is often categorized with ...

Song of the Silent Snow

8 reviews
Jr., Hubert Selby, Hubert Selby

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

my holy god, what a writer
I've read a couple of Selby's full length novels, and his writing always leaves me heavily affected for days afterward(for better or worse). This book, a collection of short stories, was at times funny and sad, bitter and naive, and essentially is a portrayal of the most mundane and ordinary things imaginable in an extremely beautiful and grandiose way. If I didn't know better(and I guess I ...

Room

20 reviews
Jr., Hubert Selby

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2001

This is Selby's best work
and when I read the reviewers below proudly saying nonsense like "this is selby's worst book - True" it cracks me up. This is probably his most difficult book , because there is only one character and it all takes place in his prison cell and his mind (the 'other' cell in the book) but honestly, this book is probably one of the most important works by an American writer, one of the only ...

Possessed: The Secret of Myslotch

3 reviews
Witold Gombrowicz

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1988

Gothic Gombrowicz
This is a delightful pre-war Gombrowicz concoction. Underneath the Gothic exterior, those who have read his other novels will find familiar themes, such as the attraction and conflict between youth and maturity. In my opinion, Pornographia is the most "perfect" of the novels, but this one is the most delightful, dispite its minor flaws. It was written for publication in serial form in a ...

Persona and Shame: The Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman (Persona & Shame Ppr)
Ingmar Bergman

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2002

Ingmar Bergman is still the doyen of cinema. He is known for masterpieces of controlled human emotion, exploring every facet of the personality in relentless detail. He wrote: "I had the possibility of corresponding with the world around me in a language that is literally spoken from soul to soul." These two screenplays, liberally illustrated with production stills featuring actors, including his favourite actress, ex wife, Liv Ullman, are ...

Stockhausen on Music

3 reviews
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robin Maconie

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

exposition into a great musical mind of the 20th century. .
. . . if you have no idea of the Stockhausen Haus of creativity, the genius who resides within, this is for you, although the material here is quite old,from 1981, interviews, and lectures even older from 1971 in London, this is/are materials: perceptive in teaching how his innovations,scourings,analyses,timbral combustions,and architectural musical plannings/ scores set in motion a set of ...

Waiting Period

13 reviews
Jr., Hubert Selby

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2003

a decent, entertaining book
No, it's not Selby's best book--I doubt that he intended it as his masterpiece. It's also true that the style has changed little since *Last Exit to Brooklyn*, with its stylized paragraph indentations, idiosyncratic punctuation, and phonetic spellings, and I agree that such conventions seem to work best in the world of *Last Exit*. Perhaps if it had been longer, it would have been a bit much, ...

The Devil in the Flesh

3 reviews
Raymond Radiguet

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2005

Heart breaking
"The Devil in the Flesh" is a simple, powerful love story dealing with a teenage boy's love for a woman who is a little bit older. Set in France during the first world war. One of my favorites. Radiguet wrote this at the age of 17 and died three years later of typhoid. He was a protege of Jean Cocteau and received a fantastic amount of attention from the Parisian literary scene of the ...

My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man

3 reviews
Georges Bataille

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1995

Destruction and Hedonism
Sometimes erotic, other time incestial, and more times than not this book is shocking and curious. The narratives of a boy, Pierre, and his minglings with his mothers reckless lifestyle. The book is a study of a mothers destruction after she was raped at a young age. It is also a study of the contradictions of the hedonic world how it creates problems and destroys rather than forgets. Its not ...

The Concubine of Shanghai

1 review
Hong Ying

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2008

Poor translation, but gripping story
After reading this author's K The Art of Love, I bought this book expecting another fascinating trip into the China of bygone days. On one level, I was not disappointed. The story begins in 1907 with 16 year old Cassia being sold by her aunt to a Shanghai brothel. The rest of the tale unfolds in early 20th century Shanghai, giving the reader of rare glimpse at at city changing rapidly in terms ...

Decoding Advertisements (Ideas in Progress)

3 reviews
Judith Williamson

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1994

Decoding Advertisements is a first-rate book!
Decoding Advertisements is a witty, clever, and accessible introduction to the pernicious world of advertising. Judith Williamson writes for a general audience, and has loads of interesting insights to offer into the ways in which advertisements shape our thinking and personalities. This book is a must for anyone who has ever wondered what advertisements are _really_ selling. Kent Worcester

The Gaze

1 review
Elif Shafak

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2006

captivating gaze
This is a wonderful book, probably the best one I have read of Elif Shafak. This is a very well written story with parallel stories in different time that interdigitate to make the whole message stronger. It deals with how other people sees us and the effects that seeing, being seen and not seen and not being seen have in our lives. Secrets that we all have and how they impact on our wish to be ...

Sleuth: A Play (Playscript, 46)

2 reviews
Anthony Shaffer

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1985

A Deadly Serious Game in Two Acts
The middle aged Andrew Wyke, a successful author of English country house murder mysteries, is an obsessive player of games, games of deductive logic, inductive logic, semantics, mathematics, hypnosis, and prestidigitation. Milo Tindle, the young lover of Andrew's wife Marguerite, has cautiously accepted an invitation by Andrew to his house. Anthony Shaffer's play Sleuth opened to rave reviews in ...

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