false <![CDATA[Empire of the Sun]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170459475m/56674.jpg 56674 37 The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint. 55232 book 1984 Empire of the Sun total:1187|5:335|4:524|3:270|2:48|1:10| 1187 4687 1935 122 3 12 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 08:30:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 07:43:22 -0700 2009 Rent-a-Cop, Return of the Living Dead Part II , Braddock, Missing in Action Part III. Yeah, so, we opted for...more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Feb 16 10:40:30 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:51:03 -0800 2008 slow burn of a book, one that I picked up fairly randomly, and have been reeling from ever since. The prose is scrupulously plain, but the psychological detail as strange and transporting as anything more self-consciously lyric...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 23:12:24 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 23:37:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Dec 24 05:16:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 05:19:40 -0800 2007 Unlike the film, this book managed to properly portray...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 11:20:56 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 30 02:43:31 -0800 2009 "I learned a new word today - 'atom bomb'"

If there had been no hostilities, the entirely disturbing boy, Jim, would have been dubbed with many mental diagnoses of the kind that are only spoken of under heavy initial letters; as events unfolded his a-social traits made him for t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 20:41:41 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 15:37:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 18:57:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 18:57:05 -0700 2009
This book isn't about any of them. Well, not directly. This book is personal and intimate ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 23 10:32:18 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 00:47:19 -0700 2009
The book is graphic and spares no details about how people die, but it wasn’t graphic to the point where I had to put it down. Halfway through reading this, I ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Apr 27 07:29:45 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 07:40:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 09:47:05 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:26:31 -0700 2009 Empire of the Sun based on the name recognition given t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 11:27:48 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 11:35:24 -0700 2009 More than the triumph of the human spirit over adversity and all...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 16:21:52 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 16:21:52 -0700 2009
Jim is suddenly separated from his parents during WWII in China. Young Jim is then forced to survive the horrors of war on his own. Without any adults willing to help him and because of his European desc...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 18 22:17:20 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 22:17:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 19 18:22:15 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 15:05:03 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 18:22:15 -0700 2009
I've seen the movie ages ago (I think it was shown to us at school), but the book is sooo much darker. The protagonist is the 12 year old British kid who was born and raised in Shanghai, to whom the war (between Japan and China) was an everyday reality that ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Dec 24 20:14:32 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 09:42:30 -0800 2009
Suprise, s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 24 07:56:06 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 08:00:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jun 08 23:42:43 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 23:47:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 17:11:55 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 16:29:44 -0700 2008 the other kind of hallucinatory writing. No infinitely-spiralling meanings within meanings, no apocalypse of the psyche, but--- a real life Inferno, the world spinning backwards as witnessed by the author in his childhood in Thirties Shanghai during the Japanese invasion.
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