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This alien society gets easier to understand. How truths and lies become instruments for disaster.

This novel starts slow, but becomes interesting at about page 50. Time shifts and religious nature of some major characters may be annoying to some readers.

From Richard III to Macbeth, Greenblatt illustrates the personality of the tyrant.

Really quite good as it sustains interest so far: a philosophical and physical battle between the haves (the sleepless) and the have-nots (the sleepers). The sleepless are those humans whose genes have been reengineered in utero to not require sleep.

Cyclical theory of history: 1800 years later, humans are about to destroy the human race again, but with a religious slant. Satan never sleeps.

Great novel about our continuing stupidity concerning scientific progress and the wooden-headiness of political leaders. The story gets better and better.

Great beginning. The story captured immediately.

Great beginning. The story captured immediately.

I wish it were not true, but this story is pretty boring. and the style is trite.

Strange little book about otherness and isolation.

You will need your history of Europe for this one: so far, Fuentes has whisked me through three different centuries (the twentieth, the sixteenth, the twelth (I think)), but one figure with the red cross on his back permeates all sections, but I couldn't say why. I'm uncertain what is dream, memory, or actual event. Or what is miracle or mystery.