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A review by leasttorque
The War With The Newts by Karel Čapek
5.0
Written in 1936, skewering pretty much everything about supposedly intelligent and civilized humanity, this book is hilarious and sad and scary and shockingly prescient of both its time and ours here in 2019.
I kept having to set this book aside because of its applicability to the present moment and the despair that comes from being forced to see that nothing of import has really changed in over 80 years.
The near-final pages of the book can be read with climate change in mind to horrifying effect.
Čapek’s book about gardening was every bit as astute. Such a loss to lose him so young.
I kept having to set this book aside because of its applicability to the present moment and the despair that comes from being forced to see that nothing of import has really changed in over 80 years.
The near-final pages of the book can be read with climate change in mind to horrifying effect.
Čapek’s book about gardening was every bit as astute. Such a loss to lose him so young.