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Oceňuji myšlenku díla, některé pasáže jsou výborné. Ale je důležité k tomu přistoupit tak jak to je. Byl to příběh na pokračování, který se v půlce rozpadl a pak se nějak setrvačností svého pádu dokutálel do konce.

lnj's review against another edition

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3.0

This was certainly... something. I read it because I want to read as many Čapek's works as possible, but if you only want to read a couple of them, this is definitely not the one you want, even though it's very short.
The first twelve chapters were fine. It looked really promising, then it... went downhill. But you were pretty much told that in the author's preface. The last chapter was funny tho.

773victoria's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

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onyxx's review

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3.0

Książka była... Ok?
Spodziewałam się czegoś lepszego, bo czytałam już "Inwazje jaszczurów" tego autora i tamta bardzo mi się podobała.
Co do "Fabryki absolutu" mam kilka zastrzeżeń.
Sam środek akcji niezbyt ciekawy. Bombardowanie nazwami i nazwiskami jest kołujące.
Do tego "poprawna interpretacja" czyli jak przeczytałam "komunizm bad", jest dziwna w połączeniu z koncepcją religii.
Nie sposób było też odczuć Eurocentryczkości, która bardzo mnie koliła w oczy.
Mimo tego wszystkiego przez tą książkę zaczęłam rozmyślać nad komunizmem, kapitalizmem i ogólnie pojętą religią. Pewnie te zagadnienie zostaną jeszcze trochę w mojej głowie

gloame's review against another edition

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3.0

This was a very obvious political and religious treatise, but I'm really glad I read it. It took some very serious topics and presented them in a lighter way, something more manageable than your run of the mill soap-boxing. The ideas in it were well-presented, though with humour, and there were a lot of places where I found myself highlighting quotes that stood out to me, for example:

Pg 103 (according to Kindle):
"We'll have no Japanese faith. If there's to be any faith, then it must be the Orthodox faith. And do you know why? First, because it is orthodox, and secondly, because or Czar so wills, and fourthly, because we, my friend, have the biggest army."

Which is pretty much how all wars start.

There were plenty of good quotes in here, but I'll end with one from, appropriately, the end:

Pg. 147 (according to Kindle):
"Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people."

So true. Yep. I liked this book. Give it a shot. It's short and sweet.

kerrymc's review against another edition

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4.0

this book is why I love to be in a book club...heard about it, but probably would not have read if without the book club behind me...

I would not consider this science fiction but most definitely satire where the author extrapolates the extreme into the future (10 to 30 years). Religion, corporations, governments, nationalistic behaviour, the atom bomb, world war: nothing is left un-skewered.

The fact that he was able to make all of this funny is amazing. Plus he wrote it in the early 20's (1922)with WW1 just having ended and Hitler not really a factor (yet).

It did go on and on explaining the world wars,esp., this part could have been tighter. Characters were cardboard-ish, only importance of the characters was to move the story along. Totally love the newsroom discussions of how to "spin" what was happening.

I would love to see the Cohen Bros make a movie of this book.

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