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巍苇魏尾喂蔚渭
螣 胃维谓伪蟿慰蟼, 蟺慰蠀 蟺维谓蟿伪 伪谓蟿喂渭蔚蟿蠋蟺喂味蔚 蠅蟼 慰蟻喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟼, 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂 伪喂蟿委伪 纬喂伪 蟿慰谓 韦慰渭 螕慰蠀苇渭蟺蟽蟿蔚蟻 谓伪 苇蟻胃蔚喂 蟽蔚 蔚蟺伪蠁萎 渭蔚 苇谓伪谓 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰, 维纬谓蠅蟽蟿慰 魏蠈蟽渭慰 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂魏位蔚委蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 蟿蔚委蠂畏 渭喂伪蟼 蔚尉委蟽慰蠀 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂伪蟼 魏伪喂 纬慰畏蟿蔚蠀蟿喂魏萎蟼 蟺蠈位畏蟼 - 蟿畏蟼 螜蔚蟻慰蠀蟽伪位萎渭. 螣 胃维谓伪蟿慰蟼 蟿畏蟼 纬蠀谓伪委魏伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂 蠈蠂喂 渭蠈谓慰 畏 伪蠁蔚蟿畏蟻委伪 蔚谓蠈蟼 蟿伪尉喂未喂慰蠉, 伪位位维 魏伪喂 蔚谓蠈蟼 伪蟿苇位蔚喂蠅蟿慰蠀 蟽魏慰蟿蔚喂谓慰蠉 蔚蠁喂维位蟿畏 纬喂伪 蟿慰谓 委未喂慰. 螠蟺蔚蟻未蔚渭苇谓慰蟼 蟽蔚 苇谓伪谓 伪尉蔚未喂维位蠀蟿慰 喂蟽蟿蠈, 蠈蟺慰蠀 渭蠉胃慰喂 魏伪喂 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蔚委谓伪喂 维蟻蟻畏魏蟿伪 未蔚渭苇谓伪, 伪谓伪魏伪位蠉蟺蟿蔚喂 蠈蟿喂 蟺委蟽蠅 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 蟽蔚喂蟻维 蟿蠅谓 谓慰蟽畏蟻蠋谓 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 渭蔚 蟿伪 慰蟺慰委伪 苇蟻蠂蔚蟿伪喂 伪谓蟿喂渭苇蟿蠅蟺慰蟼 未蔚谓 魏蟻蠉尾蔚蟿伪喂 慰 胃维谓伪蟿慰蟼 蟿畏蟼 纬蠀谓伪委魏伪蟼 蟿慰蠀, 伪位位维 苇谓伪蟼 维位位慰蟼 胃维谓伪蟿慰蟼, 蟺慰蠀 维位位伪尉蔚 蟿畏 渭慰蟻蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 魏蠈蟽渭慰蠀 蟺蟻喂谓 未蠉慰 蠂喂位喂维未蔚蟼 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪...
螠蔚 蟿慰 "巍苇魏尾喂蔚渭", 慰 Graham Joyce 渭伪蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠁苇蟻蔚喂 苇谓伪 伪魏蠈渭伪 苇尉慰蠂慰 未蔚委纬渭伪 纬蟻伪蠁萎蟼, "苇谓伪 蟺慰位蠉 未蠀谓伪蟿蠈 渭蔚委纬渭伪 渭伪纬蔚委伪蟼, 胃蟻畏蟽魏蔚委伪蟼, 蟿蟻蠈渭慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟽蔚尉. 螆谓伪 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠅蟽喂伪魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪, 纬蔚渭维蟿慰 胃伪蠉渭伪蟿伪", 蟽蠉渭蠁蠅谓伪 渭蔚 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏蟻喂蟿喂魏慰蠉蟼, 魏伪喂 蟿喂渭畏渭苇谓慰 渭蔚 蟿慰 螔蟻蔚蟿伪谓喂魏蠈 螔蟻伪尾蔚委慰 螞慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 桅伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏慰蠉.
螠蔚 蟿慰 "巍苇魏尾喂蔚渭", 慰 Graham Joyce 渭伪蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠁苇蟻蔚喂 苇谓伪 伪魏蠈渭伪 苇尉慰蠂慰 未蔚委纬渭伪 纬蟻伪蠁萎蟼, "苇谓伪 蟺慰位蠉 未蠀谓伪蟿蠈 渭蔚委纬渭伪 渭伪纬蔚委伪蟼, 胃蟻畏蟽魏蔚委伪蟼, 蟿蟻蠈渭慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟽蔚尉. 螆谓伪 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠅蟽喂伪魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪, 纬蔚渭维蟿慰 胃伪蠉渭伪蟿伪", 蟽蠉渭蠁蠅谓伪 渭蔚 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏蟻喂蟿喂魏慰蠉蟼, 魏伪喂 蟿喂渭畏渭苇谓慰 渭蔚 蟿慰 螔蟻蔚蟿伪谓喂魏蠈 螔蟻伪尾蔚委慰 螞慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 桅伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏慰蠉.
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First published January 1, 1995
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Graham Joyce
73听books565听followersGraham Joyce (22 October 1954 鈥� 9 September 2014) was an English writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for both his novels and short stories.
After receiving a B.Ed. from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 and a M.A. from the University of Leicester in 1980. Joyce worked as a youth officer for the National Association of Youth Clubs until 1988. He subsequently quit his position and moved to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Crete to write his first novel, Dreamside. After selling Dreamside to Pan Books in 1991, Joyce moved back to England to pursue a career as a full-time writer.
Graham Joyce resided in Leicester with his wife, Suzanne Johnsen, and their two children, Joseph and Ella. He taught Creative Writing to graduate students at Nottingham Trent University from 1996 until his death, and was made a Reader in Creative Writing.
Joyce died on 9 September 2014. He had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 2013.
After receiving a B.Ed. from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 and a M.A. from the University of Leicester in 1980. Joyce worked as a youth officer for the National Association of Youth Clubs until 1988. He subsequently quit his position and moved to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Crete to write his first novel, Dreamside. After selling Dreamside to Pan Books in 1991, Joyce moved back to England to pursue a career as a full-time writer.
Graham Joyce resided in Leicester with his wife, Suzanne Johnsen, and their two children, Joseph and Ella. He taught Creative Writing to graduate students at Nottingham Trent University from 1996 until his death, and was made a Reader in Creative Writing.
Joyce died on 9 September 2014. He had been diagnosed with lymphoma in 2013.
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韦慰 芦巍苇魏尾喂蔚渭禄 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪 喂蟽蠂蠀蟻蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 渭蔚 蟿蔚蟿伪渭苇谓蔚蟼 伪谓伪纬谓蠅蟽蟿喂魏苇蟼 伪谓伪蠁慰蟻苇蟼 魏伪喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蔚位委尉蔚喂蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻喂魏慰蠉 魏伪喂 胃蔚慰位慰纬喂魏慰蠉 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻伪.
螒谓伪蟿蟻慰蟺苇蟼 蟽蔚 蠁伪喂谓慰渭蔚谓喂魏维 喂蟽蠂蠉慰蠀蟽蔚蟼 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚喂蟼 蠂喂位喂维未蠅谓 蔚蟿蠋谓 蟺蟻喂谓, 魏伪喂 蠀蟺蔚蟻蠁蠀蟽喂魏维 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿蔚委谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 纬委谓慰蠀谓 蟺喂蟽蟿蔚蠀蟿维 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰 蟿喂蟼 蟺喂慰 慰蟻胃慰位慰纬喂蟽蟿喂魏维 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭慰谓喂魏苇蟼 魏慰喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿蔚蟼.
螚 蟺位慰魏萎 魏伪喂 慰喂 蔚谓苇蟻纬蔚喂蔚蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟽蔚 蟺位萎蟻畏 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏. 违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 渭喂伪 未喂伪未喂魏伪蟽委伪 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂慰蠉蟼 魏委谓畏蟽畏蟼 渭伪 蔚喂谓伪喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 蟽蔚 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 蟺位伪委蟽喂慰.
螉蟽蠅蟼 谓伪 蟺蟻蠈魏蔚喂蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 蔚谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰 蟺慰蠀 未喂蔚蟻蔚蠀谓维 蟿慰 蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏蠈 蟿慰蟺委慰 蟿慰蠀 谓慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼.
螣 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏蟼 渭蟺伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蠀蠂谓维 蟽蔚 胃苇蟽畏 未喂蔚蟻蔚蠉谓畏蟽畏蟼. 螒谓伪蟻蠅蟿蠋渭蔚谓慰蟼 蟿委 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟿委 未蔚谓 蔚喂谓伪喂, 蠈蟺蠅蟼 蔚蟺委蟽畏蟼 伪谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 未喂伪蠁慰蟻维 伪谓维渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿慰 伪位畏胃喂谓蠈 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈.
螖喂蔚尉维纬蔚蟿伪喂 渭喂伪 蔚尉蔚蟻蔚蠉谓畏蟽畏 魏伪蟿维 蟿畏 未喂维蟻魏蔚喂伪 蟿畏蟼 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽喂维味慰谓蟿伪喂 蔚蠉蟽蟿慰蠂伪 蟿伪 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位苇蟽渭伪蟿伪 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽委伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏 味蠅萎 蟽蔚 维位位伪 蔚谓蔚蟻纬蔚喂伪魏维 蔚蟺委蟺蔚未伪 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蔚尉蔚蟿伪蟽蟿蔚委.
韦委 胃伪 蟽蠀谓苇尾伪喂谓蔚 维蟻伪纬蔚 伪谓 蠈位伪 蟿伪 伪谓蔚蟺委位蠀蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏蟼 渭伪蟼 苇蟺伪喂蟻谓伪谓 渭慰蟻蠁萎 魏伪喂 渭伪蟼 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚喂蠅胃蔚蟿慰蠉蟽伪谓.
螚 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 伪蠀蟿蠈 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位蔚委 渭委伪 未苇蟽渭蔚蠀蟽畏.
螣喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 蟺位萎蟻蠅蟼 伪谓伪蟺蟿蠀纬渭苇谓蠅谓 未喂伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚蠅谓 魏伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蔚 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏维 蟺慰蟻蟿蟻伪委蟿伪 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位慰蠀谓 蟿畏 尾维蟽畏 蟺慰蠀 喂蟽蠂蠀蟻慰蟺慰喂蔚委 伪魏蠈渭畏 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 蟿慰 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪.
螖蔚未慰渭苇谓蠅谓 蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委蠅谓 蟺慰蠀 蠁伪谓蔚蟻蠋谓蔚喂 慰 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 蟿慰蠀 未蔚谓 胃伪 萎蟿伪谓 未蠉蟽魏慰位慰 谓伪 蟺喂蟽蟿苇蠄慰蠀渭蔚 蟺蠅蟼 蟿伪 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻伪 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 未喂伪未蟻伪渭伪蟿委味慰谓蟿伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 伪位畏胃喂谓维, 蟽蠀谓慰位喂魏维 萎 蔚蟺喂位蔚魏蟿喂魏维.
螉蟽蠅蟼 慰喂 伪蟺慰魏伪位蠉蠄蔚喂蟼 蟺慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 纬蔚谓谓萎渭伪蟿伪 蟿蠅谓
蟺蔚蟻纬伪渭畏谓蠋谓 蟽蟿畏谓 谓蔚魏蟻维 胃维位伪蟽蟽伪 谓伪 喂蟽蠂蠉慰蠀谓.
螤慰喂慰蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蟺蔚喂 渭蔚 蟽喂纬慰蠀蟻喂维 蟺蠅蟼 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿慰蠀 螜畏蟽慰蠉 蠈蟺蠅蟼 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 伪蟺慰 蟿畏 螠伪蟻委伪 蟿畏谓 螠伪纬未伪位畏谓萎 魏伪喂 伪魏蠀蟻蠋谓蔚喂 蟿伪 喂蔚蟻维 蠄蔚蠉未畏 蟿畏蟼 螔委尾位慰蠀 未蔚谓 蔚喂谓伪喂 伪位畏胃喂谓萎;
螘未蠋 慰 蟺蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪蟼 渭伪蟼 尾喂蠋谓蔚喂 伪谓蔚蟺委位蠀蟿伪 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃萎渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬喂魏萎 渭伪谓委伪 魏伪胃蠋蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃蔚委 谓伪 蟽蠀谓蔚喂未畏蟿慰蟺慰喂萎蟽蔚喂 蟿慰谓 胃维谓伪蟿慰 蟿畏蟼 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓畏蟼 蟿慰蠀.
螤畏纬伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蟿畏谓 螜蔚蟻慰蠀蟽伪位萎渭 纬喂伪 谓伪 伪喂蟽胃伪谓胃蔚委 蟿慰谓 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰 蟿蟻蠈渭慰 蟿蠅谓 伪谓蟿喂胃苇蟽蔚蠅谓 蟺慰蠀 渭伪蟽蟿委味慰蠀谓 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏谓 蟺蠈位畏 伪蠀蟿伪蟺维蟿畏.
螠伪蟽蟿委味蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 慰蟻维渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 伪渭蠁喂蟽尾畏蟿蔚委 蟿畏谓 蟽蠀谓慰蠂萎 蟿蠅谓 蟽魏苇蠄蔚蠅谓 蟿慰蠀 伪蠁慰蠉 慰 胃蠀渭蠈蟼 魏伪喂 畏 蔚谓慰蠂萎 蠀蟺蔚蟻蠂蔚喂位委味慰蠀谓 蟿畏谓 伪蟻蟻蠅蟽蟿畏渭苇谓畏 蟿慰蠀 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬委伪.
螠萎蟺蠅蟼 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 蠈位慰喂 蟿慰谓 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏蠈 渭伪蟼 未伪委渭慰谓伪, 渭萎蟺蠅蟼 慰喂 维纬纬蔚位慰喂 蟺慰蠀 蠁伪谓蔚蟻蠋谓慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蟿伪 蠈谓蔚喂蟻伪 渭伪蟼 苇蠂慰蠀谓 未蠈谓蟿喂伪 魏伪喂 慰 蟺伪谓喂魏蠈蟼 渭伪蟼 蠂苇蟻喂伪 纬喂伪 谓伪 蠂伪蠆未蔚蠉蔚喂 蟿喂蟼 蔚谓慰蠂苇蟼 魏伪喂 谓伪 蟿伪螑味蔚喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚蠁喂维位蟿蔚蟼. 螠萎蟺蠅蟼...;
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏.
螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼.
螒谓伪蟿蟻慰蟺苇蟼 蟽蔚 蠁伪喂谓慰渭蔚谓喂魏维 喂蟽蠂蠉慰蠀蟽蔚蟼 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚喂蟼 蠂喂位喂维未蠅谓 蔚蟿蠋谓 蟺蟻喂谓, 魏伪喂 蠀蟺蔚蟻蠁蠀蟽喂魏维 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿蔚委谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 纬委谓慰蠀谓 蟺喂蟽蟿蔚蠀蟿维 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰 蟿喂蟼 蟺喂慰 慰蟻胃慰位慰纬喂蟽蟿喂魏维 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭慰谓喂魏苇蟼 魏慰喂谓蠈蟿畏蟿蔚蟼.
螚 蟺位慰魏萎 魏伪喂 慰喂 蔚谓苇蟻纬蔚喂蔚蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟽蔚 蟺位萎蟻畏 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏. 违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 渭喂伪 未喂伪未喂魏伪蟽委伪 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂慰蠉蟼 魏委谓畏蟽畏蟼 渭伪 蔚喂谓伪喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 蟽蔚 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 蟺位伪委蟽喂慰.
螉蟽蠅蟼 谓伪 蟺蟻蠈魏蔚喂蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 蔚谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰 蟺慰蠀 未喂蔚蟻蔚蠀谓维 蟿慰 蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏蠈 蟿慰蟺委慰 蟿慰蠀 谓慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟻未喂维蟼.
螣 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏蟼 渭蟺伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蠀蠂谓维 蟽蔚 胃苇蟽畏 未喂蔚蟻蔚蠉谓畏蟽畏蟼. 螒谓伪蟻蠅蟿蠋渭蔚谓慰蟼 蟿委 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟿委 未蔚谓 蔚喂谓伪喂, 蠈蟺蠅蟼 蔚蟺委蟽畏蟼 伪谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 未喂伪蠁慰蟻维 伪谓维渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿慰 伪位畏胃喂谓蠈 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈.
螖喂蔚尉维纬蔚蟿伪喂 渭喂伪 蔚尉蔚蟻蔚蠉谓畏蟽畏 魏伪蟿维 蟿畏 未喂维蟻魏蔚喂伪 蟿畏蟼 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽喂维味慰谓蟿伪喂 蔚蠉蟽蟿慰蠂伪 蟿伪 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位苇蟽渭伪蟿伪 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻慰蠀蟽委伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏 味蠅萎 蟽蔚 维位位伪 蔚谓蔚蟻纬蔚喂伪魏维 蔚蟺委蟺蔚未伪 蟺慰蠀 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蔚尉蔚蟿伪蟽蟿蔚委.
韦委 胃伪 蟽蠀谓苇尾伪喂谓蔚 维蟻伪纬蔚 伪谓 蠈位伪 蟿伪 伪谓蔚蟺委位蠀蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 蠉蟺伪蟻尉畏蟼 渭伪蟼 苇蟺伪喂蟻谓伪谓 渭慰蟻蠁萎 魏伪喂 渭伪蟼 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚喂蠅胃蔚蟿慰蠉蟽伪谓.
螚 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 伪蠀蟿蠈 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位蔚委 渭委伪 未苇蟽渭蔚蠀蟽畏.
螣喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 蟺位萎蟻蠅蟼 伪谓伪蟺蟿蠀纬渭苇谓蠅谓 未喂伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚蠅谓 魏伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蔚 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏维 蟺慰蟻蟿蟻伪委蟿伪 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位慰蠀谓 蟿畏 尾维蟽畏 蟺慰蠀 喂蟽蠂蠀蟻慰蟺慰喂蔚委 伪魏蠈渭畏 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 蟿慰 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪.
螖蔚未慰渭苇谓蠅谓 蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委蠅谓 蟺慰蠀 蠁伪谓蔚蟻蠋谓蔚喂 慰 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰 蟿慰蠀 未蔚谓 胃伪 萎蟿伪谓 未蠉蟽魏慰位慰 谓伪 蟺喂蟽蟿苇蠄慰蠀渭蔚 蟺蠅蟼 蟿伪 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻伪 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 未喂伪未蟻伪渭伪蟿委味慰谓蟿伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 伪位畏胃喂谓维, 蟽蠀谓慰位喂魏维 萎 蔚蟺喂位蔚魏蟿喂魏维.
螉蟽蠅蟼 慰喂 伪蟺慰魏伪位蠉蠄蔚喂蟼 蟺慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 纬蔚谓谓萎渭伪蟿伪 蟿蠅谓
蟺蔚蟻纬伪渭畏谓蠋谓 蟽蟿畏谓 谓蔚魏蟻维 胃维位伪蟽蟽伪 谓伪 喂蟽蠂蠉慰蠀谓.
螤慰喂慰蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蟺蔚喂 渭蔚 蟽喂纬慰蠀蟻喂维 蟺蠅蟼 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟿慰蠀 螜畏蟽慰蠉 蠈蟺蠅蟼 纬蟻维蠁蟿畏魏蔚 伪蟺慰 蟿畏 螠伪蟻委伪 蟿畏谓 螠伪纬未伪位畏谓萎 魏伪喂 伪魏蠀蟻蠋谓蔚喂 蟿伪 喂蔚蟻维 蠄蔚蠉未畏 蟿畏蟼 螔委尾位慰蠀 未蔚谓 蔚喂谓伪喂 伪位畏胃喂谓萎;
螘未蠋 慰 蟺蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪蟼 渭伪蟼 尾喂蠋谓蔚喂 伪谓蔚蟺委位蠀蟿伪 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃萎渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬喂魏萎 渭伪谓委伪 魏伪胃蠋蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃蔚委 谓伪 蟽蠀谓蔚喂未畏蟿慰蟺慰喂萎蟽蔚喂 蟿慰谓 胃维谓伪蟿慰 蟿畏蟼 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓畏蟼 蟿慰蠀.
螤畏纬伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蟿畏谓 螜蔚蟻慰蠀蟽伪位萎渭 纬喂伪 谓伪 伪喂蟽胃伪谓胃蔚委 蟿慰谓 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂慰 蟿蟻蠈渭慰 蟿蠅谓 伪谓蟿喂胃苇蟽蔚蠅谓 蟺慰蠀 渭伪蟽蟿委味慰蠀谓 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏谓 蟺蠈位畏 伪蠀蟿伪蟺维蟿畏.
螠伪蟽蟿委味蔚蟿伪喂 伪蟺慰 慰蟻维渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 伪渭蠁喂蟽尾畏蟿蔚委 蟿畏谓 蟽蠀谓慰蠂萎 蟿蠅谓 蟽魏苇蠄蔚蠅谓 蟿慰蠀 伪蠁慰蠉 慰 胃蠀渭蠈蟼 魏伪喂 畏 蔚谓慰蠂萎 蠀蟺蔚蟻蠂蔚喂位委味慰蠀谓 蟿畏谓 伪蟻蟻蠅蟽蟿畏渭苇谓畏 蟿慰蠀 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬委伪.
螠萎蟺蠅蟼 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 蠈位慰喂 蟿慰谓 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏蠈 渭伪蟼 未伪委渭慰谓伪, 渭萎蟺蠅蟼 慰喂 维纬纬蔚位慰喂 蟺慰蠀 蠁伪谓蔚蟻蠋谓慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蟿伪 蠈谓蔚喂蟻伪 渭伪蟼 苇蠂慰蠀谓 未蠈谓蟿喂伪 魏伪喂 慰 蟺伪谓喂魏蠈蟼 渭伪蟼 蠂苇蟻喂伪 纬喂伪 谓伪 蠂伪蠆未蔚蠉蔚喂 蟿喂蟼 蔚谓慰蠂苇蟼 魏伪喂 谓伪 蟿伪螑味蔚喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蔚蠁喂维位蟿蔚蟼. 螠萎蟺蠅蟼...;
螝伪位萎 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏.
螤慰位位慰蠉蟼 伪蟽蟺伪蟽渭慰蠉蟼.
February 10, 2022
8,5/10. 螣 韦慰渭 螕慰蠀苇渭蟺蟽蟿蔚蟻 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺蠈 渭喂伪 渭蔚纬维位畏 伪蟺蠋位蔚喂伪 蔚纬魏伪蟿伪位蔚委蟺蔚喂 蟿畏谓 未慰蠀位蔚喂维 蟿慰蠀 蠅蟼 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎蟼 魏伪喂 蠁蔚蠉纬蔚喂 蟿伪尉委未喂 蟽蟿畏谓 螜蔚蟻慰蠀蟽伪位萎渭. 螘魏蔚委 尾蟻委蟽魏蔚蟿伪喂 渭蟺位蔚纬渭苇谓慰蟼 蟽蔚 蟺慰位蠉 渭蠀蟽蟿萎蟻喂蔚蟼 魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚喂蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟽蟿畏谓 伪蟻蠂萎 渭慰喂维味慰蠀谓 谓伪 伪蠁慰蟻维谓 蟿畏谓 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏萎 魏伪喂 蠄蠀蠂慰位慰纬喂魏萎 蠀纬蔚委伪 蟿慰蠀. 螌蟽慰 蟺蔚蟻谓维谓 慰喂 蟽蔚位委未蔚蟼 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 伪蟺慰魏蟿维 苇谓伪 蟽魏慰蟿蔚喂谓蠈-伪蟺慰魏蟻蠀蠁喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻伪 (未伪喂渭慰谓喂魏维 蟿味委谓喂, 蠂蔚喂蟻蠈纬蟻伪蠁伪 蟿畏蟼 螡蔚魏蟻萎蟼 螛维位伪蟽蟽伪蟼 魏.伪.) 螤苇蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 蔚蠀蠁维谓蟿伪蟽蟿慰 魏伪喂 魏伪蟿伪蟺位畏魏蟿喂魏蠈 渭蔚蟿伪蠁蠀蟽喂魏蠈 蠀蟺蠈尾伪胃蟻慰, 慰 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏蟼 胃伪 蟽蠀谓伪谓蟿萎蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 维位位蔚蟼 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰蠀蟽蔚蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏苇蟼 喂未苇蔚蟼 - 喂蟽蟿慰蟻喂魏慰蠉(蟽蟿伪蠉蟻蠅蟽畏 螜畏蟽慰蠉), 胃蔚慰位慰纬喂魏慰蠉 魏伪喂 蟽蔚尉慰蠀伪位喂魏慰蠉 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻伪. 螛伪 蟿慰蠉 苇尾伪味伪 渭蔚纬伪位萎蟿蔚蟻慰 尾伪胃渭蠈 伪位位伪 蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼 未蔚谓 渭慰蠀 维蟻蔚蟽蔚 蟿蠈蟽慰 蠈蟽慰 蟺蔚蟻委渭蔚谓伪. 螕蔚谓喂魏维 渭慰蠀 胃蠉渭喂蟽蔚 伪蟻魏蔚蟿维 苇谓伪 维位位慰 伪纬伪蟺畏渭苇谓慰 渭慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰: 芦蟿慰 蟿蟻伪纬慰蠉未喂 蟿畏蟼 胃蔚维蟼 螝维位喂禄 蟿慰蠀 Dan Simmons.
October 25, 2021
Oct 23, 1150pm ~~ Review asap.
Oct 24. 215pm ~~ Graham Joyce was my Literary Birthday selection for October. I usually read just one title per author for this challenge but I have outdone myself this month by reading three! The first two simply were not enough, I wanted more.
But Joyce has a leaning towards spookiness and I could not find another title that sounded like I would be comfortable reading with my active and visual imagination. Until I read the review of this book by my GR friend Jennifer. Her review convinced me this would be a worthy book and she was certainly correct. Thanks, Jennifer!
What intrigued me about this story was the depths we as humans are capable of diving into in order to avoid the truth about.....well, everything. Our fears, our lusts, our spirituality. We tend to lie about those things and so many others. We lie to ourselves, to our family, to Joe Blow down the street. Anything to keep from facing facts which scare us.
Tom thought he was approaching life correctly, but a flashpoint for him was the bizarre accident which caused the death of his wife at a time when they could both tell that something was changing in their relationship. What this something was is eventually revealed but Joyce never tells you everything all at once. He builds and builds, reveals a bit here and a bit there, until you think you know.....but do you really? I never quite guessed it all.
Tom wants very much to find his friend Sharon, a woman he has known for years. They had maintained their friendship even after his marriage, and now with his world in pieces he needs the comfort of her steadiness. So he flies to Jerusalem to find her.
But in this amazing city he finds much more than the friend he desperately needs. He finds the Truth of his life, and it is not always pretty. If this was a movie, there would be many places I would close my eyes and plug up my ears. There were quite a few places where my Creepiness Meter went off and I skipped ahead a few lines, but mostly I was okay with the supernatural events going on.
And of course there was always the question: are they truly supernatural events or do they occur only in the minds of our various characters? I get the feeling that in Jerusalem, just like in Mexico, a person has to eventually come to believe that anything could happen.
There is one tiny comment to make about certain theories that are brought up during the story. If a reader has been spoon-fed on organized religion (of any variety) to the point of living inside the confines of a rigid belief system, that reader might be offended by parts of this book. An open mind and the ability to think for yourself will definitely help here. Not to mention a simple look back at world history and how organized religion has worked in reality as compared with how it should have worked. There is a lot here to start a person thinking deep thoughts!
I really enjoyed this book, even with the moments of 'oh, I can't look'. I marked it four stars at first but I am going to change it to five. It is definitely worth it!
Oct 24. 215pm ~~ Graham Joyce was my Literary Birthday selection for October. I usually read just one title per author for this challenge but I have outdone myself this month by reading three! The first two simply were not enough, I wanted more.
But Joyce has a leaning towards spookiness and I could not find another title that sounded like I would be comfortable reading with my active and visual imagination. Until I read the review of this book by my GR friend Jennifer. Her review convinced me this would be a worthy book and she was certainly correct. Thanks, Jennifer!
What intrigued me about this story was the depths we as humans are capable of diving into in order to avoid the truth about.....well, everything. Our fears, our lusts, our spirituality. We tend to lie about those things and so many others. We lie to ourselves, to our family, to Joe Blow down the street. Anything to keep from facing facts which scare us.
Tom thought he was approaching life correctly, but a flashpoint for him was the bizarre accident which caused the death of his wife at a time when they could both tell that something was changing in their relationship. What this something was is eventually revealed but Joyce never tells you everything all at once. He builds and builds, reveals a bit here and a bit there, until you think you know.....but do you really? I never quite guessed it all.
Tom wants very much to find his friend Sharon, a woman he has known for years. They had maintained their friendship even after his marriage, and now with his world in pieces he needs the comfort of her steadiness. So he flies to Jerusalem to find her.
But in this amazing city he finds much more than the friend he desperately needs. He finds the Truth of his life, and it is not always pretty. If this was a movie, there would be many places I would close my eyes and plug up my ears. There were quite a few places where my Creepiness Meter went off and I skipped ahead a few lines, but mostly I was okay with the supernatural events going on.
And of course there was always the question: are they truly supernatural events or do they occur only in the minds of our various characters? I get the feeling that in Jerusalem, just like in Mexico, a person has to eventually come to believe that anything could happen.
There is one tiny comment to make about certain theories that are brought up during the story. If a reader has been spoon-fed on organized religion (of any variety) to the point of living inside the confines of a rigid belief system, that reader might be offended by parts of this book. An open mind and the ability to think for yourself will definitely help here. Not to mention a simple look back at world history and how organized religion has worked in reality as compared with how it should have worked. There is a lot here to start a person thinking deep thoughts!
I really enjoyed this book, even with the moments of 'oh, I can't look'. I marked it four stars at first but I am going to change it to five. It is definitely worth it!
March 26, 2016
2.5 stars - It was alright, an average book.
This had a fascinating underlying story that swirled around biblical lore, conpiracies and mythical creatures (jinns). Sadly, this underlying story kept getting interrupted and overshadowed by the boring plot of the main character.
The MC was weak, unlikeable, and dreadfully dull. I had absolutely zero interest in hearing his pathetic drivel as he stumbled through his pitiful life which was governed by base desires rather than intellect, (oh the irony of him being a "teacher"), particularly when there were other far more interesting characters in the periphery.
With a different MC this could have been great but the inadequate one that was present instead brought the enjoyability factor way down. This story from Ahmed's POV could have been amazing and Tobie would have been a more captivating MC as well.
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Favorite Quote: All human beings have a tremendous capacity for lying and deceiving and their first victim is invariably themselves.
First Sentence: They were helping a party get out of hand, an end-of-term hooley thrown by a teaching colleague during Tom's probationary year.
This had a fascinating underlying story that swirled around biblical lore, conpiracies and mythical creatures (jinns). Sadly, this underlying story kept getting interrupted and overshadowed by the boring plot of the main character.
The MC was weak, unlikeable, and dreadfully dull. I had absolutely zero interest in hearing his pathetic drivel as he stumbled through his pitiful life which was governed by base desires rather than intellect, (oh the irony of him being a "teacher"), particularly when there were other far more interesting characters in the periphery.
With a different MC this could have been great but the inadequate one that was present instead brought the enjoyability factor way down. This story from Ahmed's POV could have been amazing and Tobie would have been a more captivating MC as well.
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Favorite Quote: All human beings have a tremendous capacity for lying and deceiving and their first victim is invariably themselves.
First Sentence: They were helping a party get out of hand, an end-of-term hooley thrown by a teaching colleague during Tom's probationary year.
March 15, 2015
You can roll your eyes if you like and mutter, "she just gave this guy another 5 star review, she must be a looney". I stand proudly on my pedestal and say "Yes I did". I woke up in the middle of the night and thought about this book.
Sex.Religion.Relationships. Is that what life is all about? Monty Python thought about it. Graham Joyce thought about it. He made me think about it.
Once again, we have an amazing cast of characters. Tom, Sharon, Ahmed, Tobie, and Mary Magdalene. What you say? Mary Magdalene? I say , "Yes it is true". Now your confused. I shall leave you confused and dare you to read the book.
Djinns. There are plenty of those too. I didn't realize Jerusalem might have them. They are all over India...But it makes sense.
I mustn't forget Jerusalem is a character as well. After reading this, I kinda want to meet it. I have never felt drawn to visit..but I feel an urge to wander the various quarters. I feel like I might have been there before.
I would love to hang out with Ahmed and smoke hash, drink beer and decipher scrolls...
I would love to have a therapy session with Tobie. She says and I quote darlink "Your daddy fucked your mummy, and your mummy fucked your daddy. As did mine and everybody else's. That's how we all got here. That's one of two things you can be sure of. The second thing is that you gonna die one day. Everything else is up for grabs. " I just loved that.
This book is about much more than the silly blurb on the back tells us. Frankly if I had just picked this up and read the blurb I would have put it back. But it's the author for me that makes all the difference.
Sex.Religion.Relationships. Is that what life is all about? Monty Python thought about it. Graham Joyce thought about it. He made me think about it.
Once again, we have an amazing cast of characters. Tom, Sharon, Ahmed, Tobie, and Mary Magdalene. What you say? Mary Magdalene? I say , "Yes it is true". Now your confused. I shall leave you confused and dare you to read the book.
Djinns. There are plenty of those too. I didn't realize Jerusalem might have them. They are all over India...But it makes sense.
I mustn't forget Jerusalem is a character as well. After reading this, I kinda want to meet it. I have never felt drawn to visit..but I feel an urge to wander the various quarters. I feel like I might have been there before.
I would love to hang out with Ahmed and smoke hash, drink beer and decipher scrolls...
I would love to have a therapy session with Tobie. She says and I quote darlink "Your daddy fucked your mummy, and your mummy fucked your daddy. As did mine and everybody else's. That's how we all got here. That's one of two things you can be sure of. The second thing is that you gonna die one day. Everything else is up for grabs. " I just loved that.
This book is about much more than the silly blurb on the back tells us. Frankly if I had just picked this up and read the blurb I would have put it back. But it's the author for me that makes all the difference.
August 17, 2008
I really liked this book. The plot was well constructed and it had a nice development, but then it kind of kept developing and the pages remaining started decreasing rapidly while the story kept building up. Eventually the story had to come to an end but the ending seemed more of an afterthought than any destination the author probably had in mind. I'd give this book four stars up until about the last forty or so pages.
March 31, 2020
螠慰蠀 蟿伪 苇魏伪谓蔚 位委纬慰 渭蟺维蠂伪位慰 伪蟺蠈 魏维蟺慰喂伪 蠁伪蟽畏 魏伪喂 渭蔚蟿维. 韦慰 蟽魏慰蟿蔚喂谓蠈 畏渭蔚蟻慰位蠈纬喂慰 萎蟿伪谓 魏位维蟽畏蟼 伪谓蠋蟿蔚蟻慰 魏伪喂尾伪蟼 萎蟿伪谓 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 蟺蟻蠋蟿伪 蟿慰蠀.
August 17, 2018
This is a difficult one to review, I am not sure if the mixture of so many different ideas was just too much. Tom鈥檚 wife Katie has died and he heads for Jerusalem to visit is old friend Sharon. There is a lot of unrest in Jerusalem at the time Rabin and Arafat are talking and there is a lot of tension. Sharon is a Jew, her friend Ahmed is an Arab, Tom is a Christian. They all team together to try and solve a mystery.
I think if it had been a straightforward historical, biblical type mystery it would have been and easier read but it involved so many different strange elements that it all gets a bit tangled.
Firstly Tom is obviously grieving, he is feeling guilty, so is this the reason that he starts hearing voices and seeing strange apparitions? Is he being haunted? Ahmed believes that the whole problem is being caused by Djinns and sees them everywhere but he does smoke a lot of weed so I am not sure that he is a reliable influence!
Tom is descending into his own particular hell and he needs the help of his friends to save his sanity. Sharon is there for him and has always loved him. There are some sex scenes in the book which should have been loving but were turned in to something dirty (in my opinion) by the crude language of the author, there was no need to make it into something base.
I carried on to the end but I felt there were just too many ideas vying for importance and no really solid plot. Another attempt to involve Mary Magdalene at any cost, I enjoy some to these stories about Mary but again she is very badly portrayed in this book.
I think if it had been a straightforward historical, biblical type mystery it would have been and easier read but it involved so many different strange elements that it all gets a bit tangled.
Firstly Tom is obviously grieving, he is feeling guilty, so is this the reason that he starts hearing voices and seeing strange apparitions? Is he being haunted? Ahmed believes that the whole problem is being caused by Djinns and sees them everywhere but he does smoke a lot of weed so I am not sure that he is a reliable influence!
Tom is descending into his own particular hell and he needs the help of his friends to save his sanity. Sharon is there for him and has always loved him. There are some sex scenes in the book which should have been loving but were turned in to something dirty (in my opinion) by the crude language of the author, there was no need to make it into something base.
I carried on to the end but I felt there were just too many ideas vying for importance and no really solid plot. Another attempt to involve Mary Magdalene at any cost, I enjoy some to these stories about Mary but again she is very badly portrayed in this book.
July 14, 2018
Graham Joyce came highly recommended by , and that鈥檚 enough recommendation for me to read a phone book. Requiem, Joyce鈥檚 fourth novel and the first to be published in the U.S., is a quirky book, written in a weirdly flowing style that I associate with several of today鈥檚 British authors ( is the author that comes to mind immediately, although shades of and are also present). This style is achieved partly through the use of dialogue as a method for moving plot, wherein elements to the story are told by the characters, but almost as a short story told by the narrator to the other characters. The other major element to this style is the use of blind switchbacks (or red herrings) in the plot, and a willingness to 鈥渓eave out鈥� information, that the reader must fill in by putting together narrator comments, dialogue, and a good guess. In Gentle鈥檚 case, I can鈥檛 take this style鈥搒he does it to such an extent or I am such a fast reader that I miss the subtle implications and quickly get lost as to what is actually happening. Joyce only does it somewhat, reserving it for the secrets that surround his narrator.
Requiem听is about guilt. The trick is to determine exactly what guilt. Tom鈥檚 wife Katie dies in a freak traffic accident鈥揾er car is smashed by a fallen tree鈥搒o Tom quits his job as a teacher and travels to Jerusalem. Although it鈥檚 been six months, he still has strange feelings about his wife鈥檚 death, much more than just the natural ones of mourning and loss. There鈥檚 also something not quite right at the school, helping him make the decision to leave for awhile. In Jerusalem, he connects with an old college friend, Sharon, who is working for a women鈥檚 counseling center. Along the way he befriends an old man who runs a hostel. While exploring the old city, something he had always wanted to do, and feels guilty about doing it without Katie, especially after her death, he finds himself adrift, confronted by Arab vagabonds, and this strange old woman who scratches out a message in the sandstone walls with her fingernail.
The similarities with Carroll are many. Not only do scenes have that slightly unreal feeling, while remaining so detailed and close to home, the characters are vivid and intriguing, the narrator is questionable in his sanity, and then there鈥檚 the ancient manuscript that might be a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls find that could change our concept of the gospel as it is now known. In both large and small items, the concept of truth and honesty is ambiguous.
I liked听Requiem, and almost wanted to read it again as soon as I finished it, to see if there were things that I missed as I sped through the book, caught up in the world and the fine writing. I鈥檓 searching for Joyce鈥檚 other novels, delighted to find another writer who appeals to that same sense of mystery and wonder that has caught me up in the works of , Carroll, and .
Requiem听is about guilt. The trick is to determine exactly what guilt. Tom鈥檚 wife Katie dies in a freak traffic accident鈥揾er car is smashed by a fallen tree鈥搒o Tom quits his job as a teacher and travels to Jerusalem. Although it鈥檚 been six months, he still has strange feelings about his wife鈥檚 death, much more than just the natural ones of mourning and loss. There鈥檚 also something not quite right at the school, helping him make the decision to leave for awhile. In Jerusalem, he connects with an old college friend, Sharon, who is working for a women鈥檚 counseling center. Along the way he befriends an old man who runs a hostel. While exploring the old city, something he had always wanted to do, and feels guilty about doing it without Katie, especially after her death, he finds himself adrift, confronted by Arab vagabonds, and this strange old woman who scratches out a message in the sandstone walls with her fingernail.
The similarities with Carroll are many. Not only do scenes have that slightly unreal feeling, while remaining so detailed and close to home, the characters are vivid and intriguing, the narrator is questionable in his sanity, and then there鈥檚 the ancient manuscript that might be a part of the Dead Sea Scrolls find that could change our concept of the gospel as it is now known. In both large and small items, the concept of truth and honesty is ambiguous.
I liked听Requiem, and almost wanted to read it again as soon as I finished it, to see if there were things that I missed as I sped through the book, caught up in the world and the fine writing. I鈥檓 searching for Joyce鈥檚 other novels, delighted to find another writer who appeals to that same sense of mystery and wonder that has caught me up in the works of , Carroll, and .
January 12, 2009
I was all set to give this one 5 stars, since I was intrigued by the weaving of one man's personal grief with the City of Grief, Jerusalem. I had a chance to be in Jerusalem, and the book does a wonderful, eerie job of capturing the place, especially its power to haunt.
And indeed, this IS a ghost story, with the protagonist, Tom Webster, being haunted by his wife's ghost, his sexual fantasies, and his religious doubts. One of the most interesting characters is Ahmed, the Palestinian scholar who translates the ancient scroll Tom has received from a dying Jewish man. Ahmed calls these ghosts DJINN, and is terrified of them.
The scroll itself, as Ahmed translates, is the story of Christ as told by Mary Magdalene, and carries the same message attempted in THE DAVINCI CODE, but with more intensity. Some Christians would be offended at the idea not only that the Magdalene was Jesus's wife but that she, Peter, and Judas had PLOTTED to save Jesus from the cross with certain herbs in order to fulfill the prophecies about the Messiah. They even practiced on Lazurus, giving him snake venom and then restoring him with a herbal compound!!!
However, to make the plan work, Jesus's legs could NOT be broken, as was the custom in crucifixion. And the "Liar" who tells the guard to do it, thus assuring the death of Jesus, turns out to be Saul, later Paul. The anger Joyce feels toward the church's misogyny is aimed directly at Paul, while the Magdalene is seen not only as Jesus's wife but his most loyal disciple.
The ending becomes so overboard that I could only give the book 4 stars--as if Joyce didn't know quite how to wrap it up. Tom shaves his head, plans to blow up St. Paul's with bottles of gasoline--the whole last few chapters wreck the "suspension of disbelief" necessary in magical realism.
However, the book DOES contain one of my top five favorite quotations. After Katie dies, Tom says:
"When people die they leave behind tiny deposits, like dust or ash, littering the lives of those who have to carry on. Impossible to wipe a house clean. Memories dwelled in cobweb places behind wardrobes and between cupboards; they hid behind radiators; they lurked on shelves; like slivers of shattered glass, they waited for their moment to lodge deep in any vulnerable expanse of passing skin."
Anyone who has suffered loss knows EXACTLY what those words mean.
And indeed, this IS a ghost story, with the protagonist, Tom Webster, being haunted by his wife's ghost, his sexual fantasies, and his religious doubts. One of the most interesting characters is Ahmed, the Palestinian scholar who translates the ancient scroll Tom has received from a dying Jewish man. Ahmed calls these ghosts DJINN, and is terrified of them.
The scroll itself, as Ahmed translates, is the story of Christ as told by Mary Magdalene, and carries the same message attempted in THE DAVINCI CODE, but with more intensity. Some Christians would be offended at the idea not only that the Magdalene was Jesus's wife but that she, Peter, and Judas had PLOTTED to save Jesus from the cross with certain herbs in order to fulfill the prophecies about the Messiah. They even practiced on Lazurus, giving him snake venom and then restoring him with a herbal compound!!!
However, to make the plan work, Jesus's legs could NOT be broken, as was the custom in crucifixion. And the "Liar" who tells the guard to do it, thus assuring the death of Jesus, turns out to be Saul, later Paul. The anger Joyce feels toward the church's misogyny is aimed directly at Paul, while the Magdalene is seen not only as Jesus's wife but his most loyal disciple.
The ending becomes so overboard that I could only give the book 4 stars--as if Joyce didn't know quite how to wrap it up. Tom shaves his head, plans to blow up St. Paul's with bottles of gasoline--the whole last few chapters wreck the "suspension of disbelief" necessary in magical realism.
However, the book DOES contain one of my top five favorite quotations. After Katie dies, Tom says:
"When people die they leave behind tiny deposits, like dust or ash, littering the lives of those who have to carry on. Impossible to wipe a house clean. Memories dwelled in cobweb places behind wardrobes and between cupboards; they hid behind radiators; they lurked on shelves; like slivers of shattered glass, they waited for their moment to lodge deep in any vulnerable expanse of passing skin."
Anyone who has suffered loss knows EXACTLY what those words mean.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 16, 2014
Man-pained widower fucks his way into a nervous breakdown, then fucks his way out. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Mary Magdalene, and djinn are also involved.
August 26, 2023
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February 9, 2013
螠喂伪 蔚谓蟿蠀蟺蠅蟽喂伪魏萎 魏伪喂 蟽蠁喂蠂蟿慰未蔚渭苇谓畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟺慰蠀 蔚魏蟿蠀位委蟽蟽蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蟿畏 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏 螜蔚蟻慰蠀蟽伪位萎渭, "蟺蠈位畏 蟿蠅谓 蟿味喂谓谓, 蠈谓蔚喂蟻慰 蟺慰蠀 '尾位蔚蟺蔚蟼 尉蠉蟺谓喂慰蟼, 蔚蠁喂维位蟿畏蟼, 伪位萎胃蔚喂伪 渭蔚蟼 蟽蟿慰 蠄苇渭伪, 蟺蠋渭伪 蟽蟿伪 蠉未伪蟿伪 蟿蠅谓 尾伪胃蠋谓, 伪位蠋谓喂, 蠂蠅谓蔚蠀蟿萎蟻喂, 维尉慰谓伪蟼 蟿畏蟼 纬畏蟼, 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽委伪 魏喂 慰位蠈纬蟻伪渭渭伪, 蟿蠈蟺慰蟼 蟽蠁伪纬萎蟼 魏伪喂 位蠉蟿蟻蠅蟽畏蟼, 蠀蟺蠈蟽蠂蔚蟽畏 蔚喂蟻萎谓畏蟼."
螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 渭蔚 围蔚喂蟻蠈纬蟻伪蠁伪 蟿畏蟼 螡蔚魏蟻维蟼 螛维位伪蟽蟽伪蟼, 未伪喂渭慰谓喂魏苇蟼 螘蟻喂谓蠉蔚蟼, 螜蟽蟻伪畏位喂谓慰蠉蟼 渭蔚 慰蠉味喂, 伪蟺慰蟽蟺维蟽渭伪蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 螤伪位伪喂维蟼 螖喂伪胃萎魏畏蟼, 渭蠀蟻蠅未喂苇蟼 伪蟺蠈 蠁伪位维蠁蔚位 魏伪喂 尾维位蟽伪渭慰, 喂魏伪谓蠈 谓伪 蟽蔚 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽蔚喂 未苇蟽渭喂慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 渭苇蠂蟻喂 蟿畏谓 蟿蔚位蔚蠀蟿伪委伪 蟿慰蠀 蟽蔚位委未伪.
围蠅蟻委蟼 伪渭蠁喂尾慰位委伪 苇谓伪 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪, 蠈蠂喂 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠅蟿慰蟿蠀蟺委伪 蟿蠅谓 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委蠅谓 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位慰蠉谓, 伪位位维 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 伪蠁萎纬畏蟽畏蟼 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蟻慰尾伪蟿蔚委 蔚蟺喂未苇尉喂伪 渭蔚蟿伪尉蠉 蟿慰蠀 蠁蠀蟽喂魏慰蠉 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 蠀蟺蔚蟻蠁蠀蟽喂魏慰蠉 蠀蟺蔚谓胃蠀渭委味慰谓蟿维蟼 渭伪蟼 蟺蠈蟽慰 伪谓蠋蠁蔚位慰 魏伪喂 -魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼- 蟺蠈蟽慰 尾伪蟻蔚蟿蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 谓伪 蔚蟺喂渭苇谓慰蠀渭蔚 谓伪 味慰蠉渭蔚 渭蠈谓慰 蟽蔚 苇谓伪谓 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰蠀蟼 未蠉慰 魏蠈蟽渭慰蠀蟼.
"螒蠂 伪蠀蟿萎 畏 蔚蠁萎渭蔚蟻畏 味蠅萎! 螤维蟻蔚 蠄蠅渭委 魏伪喂 纬维位伪 魏伪喂 胃伪 蟽' 伪纬伪蟺蠋.xxx"
螆谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 渭蔚 围蔚喂蟻蠈纬蟻伪蠁伪 蟿畏蟼 螡蔚魏蟻维蟼 螛维位伪蟽蟽伪蟼, 未伪喂渭慰谓喂魏苇蟼 螘蟻喂谓蠉蔚蟼, 螜蟽蟻伪畏位喂谓慰蠉蟼 渭蔚 慰蠉味喂, 伪蟺慰蟽蟺维蟽渭伪蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 螤伪位伪喂维蟼 螖喂伪胃萎魏畏蟼, 渭蠀蟻蠅未喂苇蟼 伪蟺蠈 蠁伪位维蠁蔚位 魏伪喂 尾维位蟽伪渭慰, 喂魏伪谓蠈 谓伪 蟽蔚 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽蔚喂 未苇蟽渭喂慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 渭苇蠂蟻喂 蟿畏谓 蟿蔚位蔚蠀蟿伪委伪 蟿慰蠀 蟽蔚位委未伪.
围蠅蟻委蟼 伪渭蠁喂尾慰位委伪 苇谓伪 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪, 蠈蠂喂 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠅蟿慰蟿蠀蟺委伪 蟿蠅谓 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委蠅谓 蟺慰蠀 蟿慰 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位慰蠉谓, 伪位位维 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 伪蠁萎纬畏蟽畏蟼 蟺慰蠀 伪魏蟻慰尾伪蟿蔚委 蔚蟺喂未苇尉喂伪 渭蔚蟿伪尉蠉 蟿慰蠀 蠁蠀蟽喂魏慰蠉 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 蠀蟺蔚蟻蠁蠀蟽喂魏慰蠉 蠀蟺蔚谓胃蠀渭委味慰谓蟿维蟼 渭伪蟼 蟺蠈蟽慰 伪谓蠋蠁蔚位慰 魏伪喂 -魏蠀蟻委蠅蟼- 蟺蠈蟽慰 尾伪蟻蔚蟿蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 谓伪 蔚蟺喂渭苇谓慰蠀渭蔚 谓伪 味慰蠉渭蔚 渭蠈谓慰 蟽蔚 苇谓伪谓 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰蠀蟼 未蠉慰 魏蠈蟽渭慰蠀蟼.
"螒蠂 伪蠀蟿萎 畏 蔚蠁萎渭蔚蟻畏 味蠅萎! 螤维蟻蔚 蠄蠅渭委 魏伪喂 纬维位伪 魏伪喂 胃伪 蟽' 伪纬伪蟺蠋.xxx"
November 20, 2015
Just as rich and powerful as I'd remembered, Joyce's Requiem is a meditation on grief and secrets, those we keep from others and those we keep from ourselves. It's an intensely sexual novel as well--not erotic, but rather concerned with the effects and powers of physical intimacy, especially how we process it under pressure from religion and society. Joyce's evocation of Jerusalem feels thoroughly authentic; the city breathes on the page, and it lives as a character equal to the people who move through its twisted streets.
August 4, 2019
蟿慰 蟿蟻委蟿慰 蟺慰蠀 未喂维尾伪蟽伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿味蠈喂蟼
蔚委谓伪喂 魏维蟺蠅蟼 蟽伪谓 伪未蔚位蠁维魏喂 尾喂尾位委慰 蟿慰蠀 蟿蟻伪纬慰蠀未喂慰蠉 蟿畏蟼 魏维位喂 蟽蟿伪 渭维蟿喂伪 渭慰蠀
尾伪蟻喂维 伪蟿渭蠈蟽蠁伪喂蟻伪 魏伪喂 魏维蟺蠅蟼 魏位蔚喂蟽蟿慰蠁慰尾喂魏萎 位蠈纬蠅 蟿畏蟼 蟿慰蟺慰胃蔚蟽委伪蟼
畏 谓蔚蟻维喂未伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰 畏渭蔚蟻慰位蠈纬喂慰 渭蔚 蔚委蠂伪谓 蔚蟺畏蟻蔚维蟽蔚喂 蟺慰位蠉 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰, 渭伪 -未蠀蟽蟿蠀蠂蠋蟼- 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 委谓蟿喂纬魏慰
蔚委谓伪喂 魏维蟺蠅蟼 蟽伪谓 伪未蔚位蠁维魏喂 尾喂尾位委慰 蟿慰蠀 蟿蟻伪纬慰蠀未喂慰蠉 蟿畏蟼 魏维位喂 蟽蟿伪 渭维蟿喂伪 渭慰蠀
尾伪蟻喂维 伪蟿渭蠈蟽蠁伪喂蟻伪 魏伪喂 魏维蟺蠅蟼 魏位蔚喂蟽蟿慰蠁慰尾喂魏萎 位蠈纬蠅 蟿畏蟼 蟿慰蟺慰胃蔚蟽委伪蟼
畏 谓蔚蟻维喂未伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰 畏渭蔚蟻慰位蠈纬喂慰 渭蔚 蔚委蠂伪谓 蔚蟺畏蟻蔚维蟽蔚喂 蟺慰位蠉 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰, 渭伪 -未蠀蟽蟿蠀蠂蠋蟼- 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 委谓蟿喂纬魏慰
October 14, 2008
Searching for occult in all the wrong places.
September 23, 2024
Rec. by: Previous (or subsequent) work; Godfather's Books in Astoria OR
Rec. for: Iconoclasts, and peacemakers, perhaps, for a place that knows no peace
may not be "listed as a recognised condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the International Classification of Diseases," but it's frequently observed in visitors to that ancient holy city anyway. Tom Webster has made his way from soggy England to sunny Jerusalem, after the untimely death of his wife Katie and an initially-unspecified workplace issue, and it seems obvious well before the term itself pops up (on page 107) that he has succumbed to something鈥攊f not Jerusalem Syndrome, then to something very much like it.
I think Tom's college friend Sharon, who lives in Jerusalem, has the right of it, though:
Through an unlikely chain of events, Tom receives a copy of a lost 鈥攁n artifact which leads him to Sharon's friend Ahmed, a multilingual Arab beset by djinn who, despite misgivings, agrees to translate the scroll. The text turns out to be from an apocryphal Gospel, written by and about ... something which leads Tom and Sharon into ever more intense engagement with Jerusalem's history and the very foundations of Christianity.
This isn't easy on anyone, though鈥攏ot Tom, or Ahmed, or Sharon. Tom in particular may not be as well put-together as he'd like to believe. He's not the most likeable of protagonists, anyway鈥擳om's guilt over his wife Katie's death, and about his inappropriate relationship with one of his students, seems entirely justified鈥攂ut the reality is even worse (or even weirder) than that.
Reading this novel did feel strangely topical, though鈥攁s the events of are unfolding, the real-life peace negotiations between Palestinian leader and Israeli prime minister were also ongoing, although even then it seemed unlikely that those talks would succeed...
*
Following hard on the heels of the magnificient , I was overjoyed to find this trade paperback (an autographed copy, no less鈥攁nd we will see no more of those, you know, since passed away in 2014) in a well-stocked and welcoming bookstore in the seaside town of Astoria, Oregon, called .
is a substantially earlier effort, though鈥攆irst published in 1995, though my copy was printed in 1998鈥攁nd that shows, I think. I did not enjoy nearly as much as the other, more recent books I've encountered. The novel's conclusion felt rushed and undeserved as well, at least to me. You may consider one of the stars I've conferred here an asterisk, if you like. But this story still had its moments, and Joyce kept me guessing all along鈥攕o job done, Mr. Joyce. Perhaps one day I'll get to thank you for your work in person.
Eh, probably not.
Rec. for: Iconoclasts, and peacemakers, perhaps, for a place that knows no peace
The capacity for self-deception was, despite all myths to the contrary, more tenaciously protected in men than in women.
鈥攑.266
may not be "listed as a recognised condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the International Classification of Diseases," but it's frequently observed in visitors to that ancient holy city anyway. Tom Webster has made his way from soggy England to sunny Jerusalem, after the untimely death of his wife Katie and an initially-unspecified workplace issue, and it seems obvious well before the term itself pops up (on page 107) that he has succumbed to something鈥攊f not Jerusalem Syndrome, then to something very much like it.
I think Tom's college friend Sharon, who lives in Jerusalem, has the right of it, though:
"Sometimes I despise this city."
鈥攑.69
Through an unlikely chain of events, Tom receives a copy of a lost 鈥攁n artifact which leads him to Sharon's friend Ahmed, a multilingual Arab beset by djinn who, despite misgivings, agrees to translate the scroll. The text turns out to be from an apocryphal Gospel, written by and about ... something which leads Tom and Sharon into ever more intense engagement with Jerusalem's history and the very foundations of Christianity.
This isn't easy on anyone, though鈥攏ot Tom, or Ahmed, or Sharon. Tom in particular may not be as well put-together as he'd like to believe. He's not the most likeable of protagonists, anyway鈥擳om's guilt over his wife Katie's death, and about his inappropriate relationship with one of his students, seems entirely justified鈥攂ut the reality is even worse (or even weirder) than that.
Reading this novel did feel strangely topical, though鈥攁s the events of are unfolding, the real-life peace negotiations between Palestinian leader and Israeli prime minister were also ongoing, although even then it seemed unlikely that those talks would succeed...
"Not everyone is in favor of Arafat. You know Hamas will try to break the talks."Not that the Israelis in come off as any better... it was depressing to see the squabbling factions in this book and to realize that essentially nothing has changed in thirty years.
鈥攑.271
*
Following hard on the heels of the magnificient , I was overjoyed to find this trade paperback (an autographed copy, no less鈥攁nd we will see no more of those, you know, since passed away in 2014) in a well-stocked and welcoming bookstore in the seaside town of Astoria, Oregon, called .
is a substantially earlier effort, though鈥攆irst published in 1995, though my copy was printed in 1998鈥攁nd that shows, I think. I did not enjoy nearly as much as the other, more recent books I've encountered. The novel's conclusion felt rushed and undeserved as well, at least to me. You may consider one of the stars I've conferred here an asterisk, if you like. But this story still had its moments, and Joyce kept me guessing all along鈥攕o job done, Mr. Joyce. Perhaps one day I'll get to thank you for your work in person.
Eh, probably not.
June 30, 2022
I could start by saying that the plot has everything it needs, theoretically, to be gripping and eerie.It is not. It's flat and lacks a certain quality.The dialogues are contrived and the characters shallow and boring.Taking about Jerusalem, Christ, jinns ,lost scripts ,the paranormal and manage to land flat, is an accomplishment.
I could continue ,with a narrative brimming with stereotypical clich茅s about women. Comical to some extend.At some point he describes a woman who plays no role at all, as pretty enough to be a model! Why?what does this useless information about a nonexistent character ,had to be included!?"she could be a model"lol!This is the epitome of man gaze,not surprising because it was the 90s after all. I don't know a lot of women who almost got rapped by their friend to not only feel bad about HIM but to reach out ,comfort and have sweet sweet sex with said "friend" shortly after!!
To be honest,i couldn't care less about those things because the book stinks of pedophilic references!!
Having a teacher refer to his female under-age students(kids) as sluts and seductresses,made my skin crawl. fantasizing about them during sex? Actually blaming a child of seducing his adult ass?Having(imaginary) sex with an almost 15 year old as a teacher and justifying it by saying that "all teachers have the fantasy of having sex with a student but not all of them had the chance to do so"?? In the end,it is revealed that he didn't actually have sex with his student. Does it make a difference?Does it matter,when he is burning with desire for his 14 year-old student!?Not really,no.
Bruce joyce himself being a teacher ,makes this even worse and alarming!
What strikes me the most is that this book ,this author won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for this(?)book. There were ppl who read about all these pedophilic references and said"amazing!Give the man a prize"!!
It cost me about 2鈧� to get that book. Way too expensive.
I could continue ,with a narrative brimming with stereotypical clich茅s about women. Comical to some extend.At some point he describes a woman who plays no role at all, as pretty enough to be a model! Why?what does this useless information about a nonexistent character ,had to be included!?"she could be a model"lol!This is the epitome of man gaze,not surprising because it was the 90s after all. I don't know a lot of women who almost got rapped by their friend to not only feel bad about HIM but to reach out ,comfort and have sweet sweet sex with said "friend" shortly after!!
To be honest,i couldn't care less about those things because the book stinks of pedophilic references!!
Having a teacher refer to his female under-age students(kids) as sluts and seductresses,made my skin crawl. fantasizing about them during sex? Actually blaming a child of seducing his adult ass?Having(imaginary) sex with an almost 15 year old as a teacher and justifying it by saying that "all teachers have the fantasy of having sex with a student but not all of them had the chance to do so"?? In the end,it is revealed that he didn't actually have sex with his student. Does it make a difference?Does it matter,when he is burning with desire for his 14 year-old student!?Not really,no.
Bruce joyce himself being a teacher ,makes this even worse and alarming!
What strikes me the most is that this book ,this author won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel for this(?)book. There were ppl who read about all these pedophilic references and said"amazing!Give the man a prize"!!
It cost me about 2鈧� to get that book. Way too expensive.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 24, 2022
Tom Webster on opettaja, jonka vaimo on kuollut onnettomuudessa. Tom lopettaa ty枚ns盲 ja matkustaa spontaanisti Jerusalemiin tapaamaan opiskeluaikaista yst盲v盲盲. Jerusalemissakaan ei kuitenkaan p盲盲se pakoon syyllisyytt盲 ja surua.
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Melkoinen keitos. Graham Joycen kunniaksi on sanottava, ett盲 kirja toimii: tarina on mielenkiintoinen monella tasolla. Se k盲sittelee vanhoja kysymyksi盲 kristinuskon naisvastaisuudesta ja Magdalan Maria, kuvaa Jerusalemia mielenkiintoisella tavalla, saa lukijan vuoroin pit盲m盲盲n Tomista ja inhoamaan t盲t盲.
Harvinaislaatuisen ruma kansikuva varmasti osaltaan viiv盲stytti kirjaan tarttumista, mutta hyv盲, ett盲 tulin lukeneeksi. Requiem voitti August Derleth -palkinnon vuonna 1996 ja oli World Fantasy -finalistina, eik盲 suotta. (3.3.2012)
Jerusalemin kaduilla vaellellessaan Tom kohtaa vanhan naisen, jolla on selv盲sti joku viesti Tomille, mutta viestin merkitys j盲盲 h盲m盲r盲ksi. Tarjoaisiko selityst盲 palanen Kuolleenmeren k盲盲r枚ist盲, jollaista Tomin majatalossa kohtaama erikoinen vanha mies h盲nelle tyrkytt盲盲?
Jerusalem on levoton kaupunki, jossa muslimit, juutalaiset ja kristityt ovat miltei sodassa kesken盲盲n. Tom on vaimonsa kuoleman 鈥� ja muiden tapahtumien 鈥� johdosta henkisesti raunioina. Sharonilla, Tomin yst盲v盲ll盲, on omat kriisins盲, eik盲 Tomin ilmestyminen paikalle varsinaisesti helpota tilannetta. Samaan aikaan vanha nainen ja Kuolleen meren k盲盲r枚t haluavat kertoa Tomille ja Sharonille jotain olennaista aivan kristinuskon alkuajoilta鈥�
Melkoinen keitos. Graham Joycen kunniaksi on sanottava, ett盲 kirja toimii: tarina on mielenkiintoinen monella tasolla. Se k盲sittelee vanhoja kysymyksi盲 kristinuskon naisvastaisuudesta ja Magdalan Maria, kuvaa Jerusalemia mielenkiintoisella tavalla, saa lukijan vuoroin pit盲m盲盲n Tomista ja inhoamaan t盲t盲.
Harvinaislaatuisen ruma kansikuva varmasti osaltaan viiv盲stytti kirjaan tarttumista, mutta hyv盲, ett盲 tulin lukeneeksi. Requiem voitti August Derleth -palkinnon vuonna 1996 ja oli World Fantasy -finalistina, eik盲 suotta. (3.3.2012)
July 2, 2023
This book was a story derived from what we humans have to go through to fight with our own demons. This book not only brings those demons to life but leaves the 鈥淒jinns鈥漞xistence to our own interpretation.
鈥淲e laugh, don鈥檛 we, at those medieval ideas of ghosts and spirits and demons. Modern psychology has words for these: 鈥榟allucination,鈥樷€檖rojection,鈥� 鈥榯ransference.鈥� This is the modern orthodoxy, and that鈥檚 the litany. It all comes out of the disturbed self, doesn鈥檛 it? But in two hundred years, maybe they discover some new orthodoxy..鈥�
This book has a lot of meaning depending on how you choose to absorb each chapter. Graham Joyce never fails to astonish me as a reader. Highly recommend!
鈥淲e laugh, don鈥檛 we, at those medieval ideas of ghosts and spirits and demons. Modern psychology has words for these: 鈥榟allucination,鈥樷€檖rojection,鈥� 鈥榯ransference.鈥� This is the modern orthodoxy, and that鈥檚 the litany. It all comes out of the disturbed self, doesn鈥檛 it? But in two hundred years, maybe they discover some new orthodoxy..鈥�
This book has a lot of meaning depending on how you choose to absorb each chapter. Graham Joyce never fails to astonish me as a reader. Highly recommend!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 18, 2019
"All human beings have a tremendous capacity for lying and deceiving and their first victim is invariably themselves."
"When people die they leave behind tiny deposits, like dust or ash, littering the lives of those who have to carry on. Impossible to wipe a house clean. Memories dwelled in cobweb places behind wardrobes and between cupboards; they hid behind radiators; they lurked on shelves; like slivers of shattered glass, they waited for their moment to lodge deep in any vulnerable expanse of passing skin."
"When people die they leave behind tiny deposits, like dust or ash, littering the lives of those who have to carry on. Impossible to wipe a house clean. Memories dwelled in cobweb places behind wardrobes and between cupboards; they hid behind radiators; they lurked on shelves; like slivers of shattered glass, they waited for their moment to lodge deep in any vulnerable expanse of passing skin."
March 1, 2022
well, i had high hopes for this after the travesty that was my experience with "The Silent Land", but to no avail. a hopelessly misogynist slog through some Biblical fever dream, which i know was partially intended, but still. another unlikable protagonist and a narrative that somehow manages to make Jerusalem boring. Ahmed's story mid-book was by far the most interesting bit but overall, another big swing and a miss from Joyce. little tip - even though it's something of a colloquialism in his native land, the use of a certain four-letter word for female anatomy should be sparing at best.
June 24, 2024
I will remember that as a Author I will avoid
January 14, 2015
This novel is a tasty, well-written read that may be shocking to some because it presents the theory (like in The Da Vinci Code) that Jesus and Mary Magdelene were married, and that Mary was "written out" of the story by women-hating apostles, particularly Paul, after Jesus' death. This is revealed in a scroll written by Mary herself, which through a series of freak accidents falls into the hands of a troubled Brit named Tom who quit teaching and came to Jerusalem following his wife's death, seeking a spiritual reckoning of some kind as well as solace in the arms of Sharon, an old college flame, now a therapist who sleeps with her clients to "fuck the pain away" (as the singer Peaches has put it) and of course does the same for Tom. So we have scenes of him putting his finger in her vagina to taste her menstrual blood (which smells "saline" or "mineral") and this is contrasted to the backstory of Mary Magdelene's scroll, since the men of Mary time considered women unclean and killed Jesus, their would-be messiah, because he dared to consort with women as equals. Tom, being socialized in a very different era, is the kind of guy who doesn't know who he is unless he's being led around by some woman, so with his wife Kate dead in a freak accident he is at wits' end, overwhelmed with guilt because he was lusting after an underage student at the time - and now in Jerusalem, it seems the solution to his problems is to add even more sexual confusion in the form of Sharon, who is presented as the classic Earth Mother, raw female sexuality itself (as opposed to his wife Kate who was more WASPy and composed). Indeed, all the women in the story blur together in Tom's mind, and he starts hallucinating that he is fucking Kate when in fact he is in bed with Sharon, and sometimes his lover even takes the form of Mary Magdelene, when she's not wailing about how they killed Jesus by breaking his legs on the Cross. Add to this another subplot about an Arab scholar who helps Tom to translate the scroll, and who is possessed by jinns (malicious spirits) and can see them everywhere in the streets of Old Jerusalem - the jinns even disguise themselves as Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youth to stir up hate between the two groups and interfere with the peace process! In the midst of this, which is entertainingly told and a delight to read if you don't take it too seriously, there is unfortunately Tom, who has almost no qualities of his own and is basically a Generic White Guy, well-intentioned but always the last to grasp what's going on - a standin for the presumed reader, I assume. Indeed Tom's cluelessness leads directly to the death that ends the novel, since in the midst of a riot when two Arab youth climb a wall to escape the soldiers on their tail and one of them drops a rifle, Tom's first instinct is to pick it up and stand dumbly with it ("What's THIS doing here?") obliging someone who cares about him more than I do to tackle him and take the bullets that were meant for Tom, and should have left this blithering Englishman bleeding out in the alleys of Jerusalem, a more satisfying ending in my view. The problem is that Tom just isn't up to the level of the historic backstory of a failed messiah and a plot by Jesus' followers to hijack his movement after his death and turn it into a religion that hates women. What do the problems of some idiot high school teacher tormented by sexual guilt and a crisis of faith have to do with such world-shaking material? Or conversely, why would the spirits of the past, desperate to make the truth about Mary Magdelene known in our time, choose such a clueless dope as their messenger? In the end the two stories, Tom's and Mary's, don't really gel, so that either the Mary story is reduced to an exotic backdrop for Tom's personal crisis, or Tom's Generic White Guy problems are a needless distraction from the real drama taking place 2000 years ago. But none of this takes away from the fact that this book is a brilliantly written, fast and fun read. Pick it up if you have a taste for jinns and the supernatural, are bored and want to read something you don't have to take too seriously.
November 14, 2009
Graham Joyce, has become a favorite author of mine. Along with Jeffrey Ford, the more I read of his work, the more I respect his talent. This was the third novel by Joyce I have read. From Publishers Weekly via Amazon.Com, here is a rundown on the plot:
What I liked best about Joyce's work is that the fantastical in his novels is subtle. Not that the reader needs to dig or watch for clues, but that the characters sometimes don't realize what is happening, or they are just thrown headlong into some vat of magic fantasy. With "Requiem" this is especially poignant. It goes to even deeper degrees. It almost explores the inner workings of one's mind to create the fantastical around them.
This book though explores more of the inner workings of the mind. Three of the characters, including the two main characters, you get to see what makes them tick. And they all have issues of guilt they are dealing with from their past. Guilt comes in all kinds of different ways. It even comes from lies that one character tells to them self, and then also tells others. Like one reviewer at Amazon said, the story can be quite tense, yet there is very little action.
One very interesting aspect of the story is a conspiracy within the Christian church. The Dead Sea Scroll fragments that he receives helps Tom's inner demons along. He ends up haunted by Mary Magdalene, and it brings forth a shake-up between Mary Magdalene and Saul/Paul regarding the role of women in the church, and lies supposedly perpetrated by Paul. I don't know much about this, but know some of Paul's views.
As I mentioned, this was quite a tense story. This was the book that introduced me to Graham Joyce. I saw it as a recommendation, read the synopsis and a couple of reviews, and was drawn in. I ended up obtaining a copy, yet it took me over three years and two other of Joyce's novels before finally getting to it. I think it was best to start with those other novels as it turns out.
Fleeing his (only semi-explained) guilt after the senseless, accidental death of his wife, Tom Webster quits teaching and visits his longtime friend and ex-lover, Sharon, in Jerusalem. Soon, he is haunted by hallucinations, or perhaps they're apparitions, or djinnis, and is entrusted with some Dead Sea scroll fragments. Joyce's Jerusalem is suffused with squalor and splendor, religious meaning and political struggle, as Tom tries to figure out what a host of emissaries from both the natural and the supernatural realms are trying to tell him about the world and about himself.
What I liked best about Joyce's work is that the fantastical in his novels is subtle. Not that the reader needs to dig or watch for clues, but that the characters sometimes don't realize what is happening, or they are just thrown headlong into some vat of magic fantasy. With "Requiem" this is especially poignant. It goes to even deeper degrees. It almost explores the inner workings of one's mind to create the fantastical around them.
This book though explores more of the inner workings of the mind. Three of the characters, including the two main characters, you get to see what makes them tick. And they all have issues of guilt they are dealing with from their past. Guilt comes in all kinds of different ways. It even comes from lies that one character tells to them self, and then also tells others. Like one reviewer at Amazon said, the story can be quite tense, yet there is very little action.
One very interesting aspect of the story is a conspiracy within the Christian church. The Dead Sea Scroll fragments that he receives helps Tom's inner demons along. He ends up haunted by Mary Magdalene, and it brings forth a shake-up between Mary Magdalene and Saul/Paul regarding the role of women in the church, and lies supposedly perpetrated by Paul. I don't know much about this, but know some of Paul's views.
As I mentioned, this was quite a tense story. This was the book that introduced me to Graham Joyce. I saw it as a recommendation, read the synopsis and a couple of reviews, and was drawn in. I ended up obtaining a copy, yet it took me over three years and two other of Joyce's novels before finally getting to it. I think it was best to start with those other novels as it turns out.
September 17, 2011
Tom Webster's wife, Katie, died suddenly about a year ago, and he just can't seem to get back on his feet. He resigns from his teaching job, amid some unsavory rumors about him and one of his students, and heads to Jerusalem, where his best friend, Sharon, from college days, now resides. But Tom doesn't have her current address, and while searching for her, he befriends an elderly man at his hotel. David confides to Tom that he is in possession of a valuable Dead Sea Scroll, and, knowing that he's dying, he insists that Tom take it, which he does with great reluctance. Tom's thrilled to be walking the streets of the city, but is accosted repeatedly by a creepy old woman, who changes her appearance before his eyes, and leaves him enigmatic messages. He tracks Sharon down, and she takes him in, introducing to a translator, Ahmed. Ahmed discovers that the scroll was written by Mary Magdalen, and reveals stunning evidence about the founding of the Christian religion. Ahmed, a heavy hash user, also tells Tom about the djinni, spirits who are making his life miserable, convincing Tom that they're bedeviling him as well.
Sounds simple enough. But Requiem is told in a series of non-linear flashbacks, and it becomes increasingly difficult to fathom what is going on with Tom. Is he losing his mind? Is the old woman a ghost, a djinn, or is she real? Sharon, a drug rehab therapist doesn't know what to think, especially after a grueling djinn experience of her own. Among these spirits is that of Katie, who seems to want something from them both. As it turns out, Sharon, Ahmed, and Tom are all struggling with their own guilt issues, and none of them is doing it well.
Enigmas can be interesting, as they are in this book. While the setting is crucial to the novel, there is very little overt action, most of which takes place in the minds of the protagonists. The ending is quite dramatic, as well as unexpected. This was my intro to the work of Graham Joyce, who can certainly write with power. Looking forward to checking out his other titles, most of which have not been published in the American market.
Sounds simple enough. But Requiem is told in a series of non-linear flashbacks, and it becomes increasingly difficult to fathom what is going on with Tom. Is he losing his mind? Is the old woman a ghost, a djinn, or is she real? Sharon, a drug rehab therapist doesn't know what to think, especially after a grueling djinn experience of her own. Among these spirits is that of Katie, who seems to want something from them both. As it turns out, Sharon, Ahmed, and Tom are all struggling with their own guilt issues, and none of them is doing it well.
Enigmas can be interesting, as they are in this book. While the setting is crucial to the novel, there is very little overt action, most of which takes place in the minds of the protagonists. The ending is quite dramatic, as well as unexpected. This was my intro to the work of Graham Joyce, who can certainly write with power. Looking forward to checking out his other titles, most of which have not been published in the American market.
January 30, 2009
I'd probably give this one 3.5. It's beautifully written, a conjuration of impressive scope, and the first half had me completely absorbed. Mr. Joyce does an amazing job at making Jerusalem a character in this book: an exotic, decrepit, aging beauty; crazy, djinn-haunted, schizophrenic, part whore, part aesthete, part fundamentalist fanatic. It's a city at war with itself, and anyone who wanders into its insane tangle of streets may soon find themselves at war within their own soul, and pulled into one or another human conflict: Christians with Christians, ultra orthodox Jews with secular Jews, Palestinians with Jews, Palestinians with Palestinians, human with djinn, angels, gods, goddesses--and most especially, history with the present.
The writing was no less beautiful in the second half, but I thought the characterization fell apart somewhat. Characters did and awful lot of explaining and telling, and in a few cases (it seemed to me) acting out of character as established in the first part of the book. There is madness involved, and I understand that even the "sane" characters were pulled into it somewhat, but there were times the characters seemed more like enacting puppets rather than the "real" people Mr. Joyce established early on.
The plot was complex and tricksy, which is always a good thing in my book, and although Mr. Joyce tied things up at the end, I didn't have a complete sense of emotional satisfaction. I didn't think the facts of the ending needed to be changed at all, just that he didn't bring me along on the emotional journey as I might have liked to have been. I think that's mostly because of the character issues. Then again, those may be completely personal reactions, my readers fifty-percent gone slightly off the rails.
Still, well worth the read and a lovely piece of work. That conjuration of place is especially fine.
The writing was no less beautiful in the second half, but I thought the characterization fell apart somewhat. Characters did and awful lot of explaining and telling, and in a few cases (it seemed to me) acting out of character as established in the first part of the book. There is madness involved, and I understand that even the "sane" characters were pulled into it somewhat, but there were times the characters seemed more like enacting puppets rather than the "real" people Mr. Joyce established early on.
The plot was complex and tricksy, which is always a good thing in my book, and although Mr. Joyce tied things up at the end, I didn't have a complete sense of emotional satisfaction. I didn't think the facts of the ending needed to be changed at all, just that he didn't bring me along on the emotional journey as I might have liked to have been. I think that's mostly because of the character issues. Then again, those may be completely personal reactions, my readers fifty-percent gone slightly off the rails.
Still, well worth the read and a lovely piece of work. That conjuration of place is especially fine.
June 27, 2015
Joyce's characterization of Jerusalem really pulled me in. It was incredibly charismatic. Some of his suggestions about Christianity were provocative and fascinating. I enjoyed the mixture of magic, history, and christianity. I found it difficult to follow all of their implications as they unfold from the scroll translations. It felt at times like the historical characters got mixed up in the translation and the author's message was too muddy. I agree with other reviewers that not addressing the reality or fantasy of the MC's journey with the supernatural by the end of the book really weakens it overall. I did not feel the characters resolved authentically and had a growing sense of dread as the end of the book got closer. Though I have to say that my largest problem with the story was the injustices leveled at the human heart. As far as I could discern from the information given, neither Tom, nor Sharon, nor Ahmed is working with the heart center. Everything they are experiencing--that is not supernatural-- comes from their heads. The author calls love a djinn, I started to feel nauseous then at the lumping of illusions generated from the head into the heart. I think about the heart in terms of mindfulness practice and believe that when the mind is quiet and one acts from the heart center there can be no malice or disease in their actions. I resented the thoughtless characterization of love as sick and unavoidable. I resented to the lack of precision and can relate to Tobie when she tells Tom, "don't be sorry. be precise." Yes, Mr. Joyce, be precise, where exactly are you trying to take your reader and for what purpose. At the end of this, my soul felt sickly and I find myself going to my meditation mat to breathe out the impurities of the story.
July 30, 2013
袣薪懈谐邪 斜褘谢邪 蟹邪谐谢芯褔械薪邪 蟹邪 锌芯谢褌芯褉邪 写薪褟. 袠屑械薪薪芯 蟹邪谐谢芯褔械薪邪, 褌.泻. 芯褋褌邪薪芯胁懈褌褜褋褟 斜褘谢芯 锌褉芯褋褌芯 薪械 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪芯. 袧芯 锌褉械卸写械 胁褋械谐芯 褟 谢褞斜谢褞, 褟 袨褔械薪褜 袥褞斜谢褞 袚褉褝屑邪 袛卸芯泄褋邪. 袧褍 懈 胁芯 胁褌芯褉褘褏, 褋褞卸械褌 蟹邪泻褉褍褔械薪 写芯胁芯谢褜薪芯 谢懈褏芯... 效褌芯 泻邪褋邪械屑芯 邪薪薪芯褌邪褑懈懈, 薪械 褋褌芯懈褌 胁芯蟹谢邪谐邪褌褜 斜芯谢褜褕懈械 薪邪写械卸写褘 薪邪 写械褌械泻褌懈胁薪芯-懈褋褌芯褉懈泻芯谐褉邪褎懈褔械褋泻褍褞 褋芯褋褌邪胁谢褟褞褖褍褞 泻薪懈谐懈. 袘械蟹褍褋谢芯胁薪芯, 褋褏芯写褋褌胁芯 褋 褌胁芯褉械薪懈械屑 袛褝薪邪 袘褉邪褍薪邪 械褋褌褜, 薪芯 褌芯谢褜泻芯 锌芯 褎芯褉屑械, 薪芯 薪械 锌芯 褋褍褌懈. 袛邪, 邪胁褌芯褉 薪邪屑 锌褉械写谢邪谐邪械褌 芯写懈薪 懈蟹 胁邪褉懈邪薪褌芯胁 邪谢褜褌械褉薪邪褌懈胁薪芯泄 胁械褉褋懈懈 褏褉懈褋褌懈邪薪褋褌胁邪. 袩芯褋泻芯谢褜泻褍 褟 薪械 蟹薪邪褌芯泻, 写谢褟 屑械薪褟 锌褉芯褕谢芯... 袧芯 薪械 褍胁械褉械薪邪 褔褌芯 写邪薪薪邪褟 胁械褉褋懈褟 斜褍写械褌 褋 褉邪褋锌褉芯褋褌械褉褌褘屑懈 芯斜褗褟褌褜褟屑懈 锌褉懈薪褟褌邪 谢褞写褜屑懈 胁芯褑械褉泻芯胁谢械薪薪褘屑懈 胁 锌褉邪胁芯褋谢邪胁懈懈. 袙 芯斜褖械屑, 袚褉褝屑 袛卸芯泄褋 胁 褝褌芯泄 泻薪懈谐械 胁蟹褟谢邪褋褟 蟹邪 写胁械 "薪械褏懈谢褘械" 胁械褋褜屑邪 芯谐薪械芯锌邪褋薪褘械 褌械屑褘 - 锌芯写邪胁谢械薪薪邪褟 屑褍卸褋泻邪褟 褋械泻褋褍邪谢褜薪芯褋褌褜, 懈 锌芯写邪胁谢械薪懈械 褋械泻褋褍邪谢褜薪芯褋褌懈 胁 褏褉懈褋褌懈邪薪褋褌胁械. 袠薪褌褉懈谐褍械褌, 锌褉邪胁写邪? :rolleyes: 袛芯胁芯谢褜薪芯 锌褉邪胁写懈胁芯 芯锌懈褋邪薪邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟 褉邪蟹胁懈褌懈褟 薪械胁褉芯蟹邪, 薪褍 懈 胁 泻邪泻芯屑-褌芯 褋屑褘褋谢械 邪锌芯褎械芯蟹, 锌芯褔褌懈 锌褋懈褏芯褌懈褔械褋泻懈泄... 孝.械. 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟 芯写薪芯谐芯 屑褍卸褔懈薪褘, 褍 泻芯褌芯褉芯谐芯 胁 卸懈蟹薪懈 褋谢褍褔懈谢邪褋褜 褌褉邪谐械写懈褟, 薪褍 邪 泻邪泻 锌邪褉邪谢谢械谢褜 - 袠械褉褍褋邪谢懈屑 - 谐芯褉芯写 锌芯褋褌褉芯械薪薪褘泄 胁 "褋械褉写褑械 屑懈褉邪", 芯斜谢邪写邪褞褖械泄 褋胁芯械泄 写褍褕芯泄 胁 泻芯褌芯褉芯泄 锌械褉械锌谢械谢懈褋褜 懈 胁蟹邪懈屑芯锌械褉械锌褍褌邪谢懈褋褜 锌芯褔褌懈 胁褋械 屑懈褉芯胁褘械 褉械谢懈谐懈懈, 谐写械 褋褌邪谢泻懈胁邪褞褌褋褟 褉邪蟹薪褘械 薪邪褉芯写褘 胁 锌褉懈褌褟蟹邪薪懈褟褏 薪邪 锌褉械胁芯褋褏芯写褋褌胁芯 写褉褍谐 薪邪写 写褉褍谐芯屑.
孝邪泻 卸械 懈 胁 卸懈蟹薪懈 锌褋懈褏懈褔械褋泻芯泄 褍 袚袚, 褋褌褉褍泻褌褍褉邪 薪械胁褉芯蟹邪 - 褝褌芯 褋褌芯谢泻薪芯胁械薪懈械 褉邪蟹薪褘褏 褝薪械褉谐懈泄, 褋懈褋褌械屑 褑械薪薪芯褋褌械泄, 褝屑芯褑懈泄 懈 锌芯褌褉械斜薪芯褋褌械泄... 芯褋褌褉芯 褋写芯斜褉械薪薪芯械 胁薪械蟹邪锌薪芯泄 褌褉邪胁屑芯泄. "袩懈褌邪褌械谢褜薪邪褟 褋褉械写邪" 袠械褉褍褋邪谢懈屑邪 锌褉芯胁芯褑懈褉褍械褌, 薪邪谐薪械褌邪械褌... 薪芯 邪 胁 懈褌芯谐械 懈褋褑械谢褟械褌.
袣薪懈谐邪 芯褔械薪褜 褝褉芯褌懈蟹懈褉芯胁邪薪薪邪, 泻邪泻 薪懈 泻邪泻邪褟 写褉褍谐邪褟 褍 袛卸芯泄褋邪, 褌邪泻 褔褌芯 褉械泻芯屑械薪写褍褞 褌械屑, 泻褌芯 谐芯褌芯胁 锌芯谐褉褍蟹懈褌褜褋褟 胁 屑懈褉 锌芯谢褍屑懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻懈褏-褝褉芯褌懈褔械褋泻懈褏 锌械褉械卸懈胁邪薪懈泄 懈 锌芯褏芯卸写械薪懈泄 谐谢邪胁薪芯谐芯 谐械褉芯褟.
孝邪泻 卸械 懈 胁 卸懈蟹薪懈 锌褋懈褏懈褔械褋泻芯泄 褍 袚袚, 褋褌褉褍泻褌褍褉邪 薪械胁褉芯蟹邪 - 褝褌芯 褋褌芯谢泻薪芯胁械薪懈械 褉邪蟹薪褘褏 褝薪械褉谐懈泄, 褋懈褋褌械屑 褑械薪薪芯褋褌械泄, 褝屑芯褑懈泄 懈 锌芯褌褉械斜薪芯褋褌械泄... 芯褋褌褉芯 褋写芯斜褉械薪薪芯械 胁薪械蟹邪锌薪芯泄 褌褉邪胁屑芯泄. "袩懈褌邪褌械谢褜薪邪褟 褋褉械写邪" 袠械褉褍褋邪谢懈屑邪 锌褉芯胁芯褑懈褉褍械褌, 薪邪谐薪械褌邪械褌... 薪芯 邪 胁 懈褌芯谐械 懈褋褑械谢褟械褌.
袣薪懈谐邪 芯褔械薪褜 褝褉芯褌懈蟹懈褉芯胁邪薪薪邪, 泻邪泻 薪懈 泻邪泻邪褟 写褉褍谐邪褟 褍 袛卸芯泄褋邪, 褌邪泻 褔褌芯 褉械泻芯屑械薪写褍褞 褌械屑, 泻褌芯 谐芯褌芯胁 锌芯谐褉褍蟹懈褌褜褋褟 胁 屑懈褉 锌芯谢褍屑懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻懈褏-褝褉芯褌懈褔械褋泻懈褏 锌械褉械卸懈胁邪薪懈泄 懈 锌芯褏芯卸写械薪懈泄 谐谢邪胁薪芯谐芯 谐械褉芯褟.
January 22, 2008
I'm having a really tough time composing a review for this one because since finishing it I've been left with mixed feelings. I guess I'll start off with a brief story outline...
Tom Webster has just lost his wife in a freak accident. He up and quits his schoolteaching job and heads to Jerusalem in search of an old friend. The rest of the story surrounds revelations discovered from the lost Dead Sea scrolls and Tom's struggles with his past. Joyce depicts
Jerusalem vividly and you're constantly aware of the Palestinian/Jewish tensions. As the story carries us along, we travel along Jesus' crucifixion route, visit the Garden of Gethsemane and the Old City. Since I've always wanted to see Jerusalem, here the novel gets highest marks.
Also, the revelations of the Crucifixion and resurrection brought forth from the Dead Sea Scrolls are very unsettling and thought provoking. That is, if you were raised a good Catholic boy,
as I was. For this too, the novel gets high recommendations. The only reason for only 2 stars is after finishing the novel, I wasn't quite satisfied with the ending, yet I'm not sure there really was any other way to end it. I think maybe I was looking forward to something more profound than what I was left with. This novel did leave me with some
troubled thoughts regarding the birth of Christianity, the Church, and the New Testament.
And I'm left wondering what's really contained in those Scrolls.
Tom Webster has just lost his wife in a freak accident. He up and quits his schoolteaching job and heads to Jerusalem in search of an old friend. The rest of the story surrounds revelations discovered from the lost Dead Sea scrolls and Tom's struggles with his past. Joyce depicts
Jerusalem vividly and you're constantly aware of the Palestinian/Jewish tensions. As the story carries us along, we travel along Jesus' crucifixion route, visit the Garden of Gethsemane and the Old City. Since I've always wanted to see Jerusalem, here the novel gets highest marks.
Also, the revelations of the Crucifixion and resurrection brought forth from the Dead Sea Scrolls are very unsettling and thought provoking. That is, if you were raised a good Catholic boy,
as I was. For this too, the novel gets high recommendations. The only reason for only 2 stars is after finishing the novel, I wasn't quite satisfied with the ending, yet I'm not sure there really was any other way to end it. I think maybe I was looking forward to something more profound than what I was left with. This novel did leave me with some
troubled thoughts regarding the birth of Christianity, the Church, and the New Testament.
And I'm left wondering what's really contained in those Scrolls.
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