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The nature of mankind
Good vs. Evil
We all have both sides existing within us, to say other wise would be false.
Fantastic story, one to ponder over and reflect about ones self.
Good vs. Evil
We all have both sides existing within us, to say other wise would be false.
Fantastic story, one to ponder over and reflect about ones self.
Richard Armitage is one of my favorite audiobook narrators and this was a great performance. I wish I could erase the cultural exposure that gives an automatic spoiler to books like this. It doesn't make a big difference to have a spoiler in books like Anna Karenina or Les Miserables, but it is everything in a book like this.
That being said, I'm still rating it full marks because it is such a powerful story: how shame and secrecy are destructive and the avenues we go down to cope with or suppres ...more
That being said, I'm still rating it full marks because it is such a powerful story: how shame and secrecy are destructive and the avenues we go down to cope with or suppres ...more
Re-read this for The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter.
Now, everyone knows this story. A doctor experiments with himself and enjoys the bad inclination hiding in the good inclination from the consequences, but this won't do - he finds himself trapped in the bad inclination and forced to take the consequences.
It is rather good. ...more
Now, everyone knows this story. A doctor experiments with himself and enjoys the bad inclination hiding in the good inclination from the consequences, but this won't do - he finds himself trapped in the bad inclination and forced to take the consequences.
It is rather good. ...more
When I picked this book up off the shelf at the library, I was amazed at how short it was. I don't know why but I had assumed for years that it was some unwieldy thousand page tome. I read it in just a few hours and enjoyed it immensely.
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