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mkat303's review against another edition
5.0
Damn. I didn't want to finish this book. Was pretty riveted. Now it's over. Damn. Don't know if it's 5 stars or 4, but I'll be generous today.
"Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order."
"Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order."
jasminenoack's review against another edition
4.0
This is a great book. It's really boring which is impressive since the topic is actually not at all boring. Think weathermen in england. Actually at one point the book makes fun of the weather underground as rich posers who blew themselves up or something like that. There is something disconnected about the way that british people write, it never feels quite like they really care. Yeah sure he blew a bunch of things up but really that was some other person some other time.
Interestingly my revolutions doesn't refer to being a revolutionary. In the book he describes my revolutions as pacing in jail and walking meditations. and metaphorically my revolutions are the lives hat he lived. But it never really seems to refer to his revolutionary activity. In fact it seems a bit like those aren't his activities, those are things that happened to him, but he doesn't seem all that invested.
now that I've been pretentious and insulting and said almost nothing about the actual book go and read it.
Interestingly my revolutions doesn't refer to being a revolutionary. In the book he describes my revolutions as pacing in jail and walking meditations. and metaphorically my revolutions are the lives hat he lived. But it never really seems to refer to his revolutionary activity. In fact it seems a bit like those aren't his activities, those are things that happened to him, but he doesn't seem all that invested.
now that I've been pretentious and insulting and said almost nothing about the actual book go and read it.
minsies's review against another edition
1.0
(Dug review out of the depths of LiveJournal.)
Fairly terrible, especially concerning the title's double entendre. The main character's love/lust/everything interest is unconvincing an awful, and the actions of the characters are unsympathetic.
Fairly terrible, especially concerning the title's double entendre. The main character's love/lust/everything interest is unconvincing an awful, and the actions of the characters are unsympathetic.
gum1311by's review
4.0
This book was a complete surprise. The author of the Book Corner column in the Wall Street Journal said this was in her stack of summer "to read" books. As someone who lived through many of the revolutions that went on in the US and abroad to protest the Vietnam War, it was interesting to read a fictional account of life within a revolution from that time. The story line is sprinkled with a touch of mystery as the main character tries to escape from discovery of his past by his wife, daughter and friends.
The setting is in Europe, not the US. A good and interesting read.
The setting is in Europe, not the US. A good and interesting read.
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