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War with the Newts (20th Century Classics) - Karel Čapek
War with the Newts (20th Century Classics)
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141180953 (0141180951)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 348
Edition language: English
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
2.5
It's good. The satire is still timely. It does go after the rise of fascism and is anti-capitalistic. But it's too long.
Reading Slothfully
Reading Slothfully rated it
3.0 War With the Newts
Having run out of Sumo DVDs, and whilst awaiting the beginning of baseball season, we've been watching Wooster and Jeeves videos. One of Wooster's buddies is fanatical about newts. When I discovered that Harold Bloom considered this book to be part of the western literature canon (I discovered this ...
oh the guilt
oh the guilt rated it
5.0 War with the Newts
Funniest book, evah (yes, including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - for Adams couldn't resist himself and so the joke finally ran dry).Though quite possibly the saddest too.If you could read only one book of fiction in your whole life, this is it.
weltenkreuzer
weltenkreuzer rated it
5.0 Der Krieg mit den Molchen. Roman. ( Top Hits der Science Fiction).
Ein intensives Buch, das seiner Zeit (1936) weit voraus war: Galt es damals in erster Linie als Kritik am und Warnung vor dem Vormarsch der Nazis, kann man es heute aus unendlich vielen Perspektiven lesen.Aber erst ein paar Worte zur Handlung: Irgendwann in den 1920er Jahren entdeckt der niederländi...
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it
5.0
VÁLKA S MLOKY: A RECIPEIt may not be a conventional Czech or Slovakian speciality, but a válka s mloky is an excellent and tasty alternative to the unbearable lightness of being when a metamorphosis into an engineer of the human souls is too loud a solitude.Preparation time: 1936-1937Cooking time: a...
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