![]() ![]() His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. ![]() Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man’s land where memory, history, and myth collide. You can read this before Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) written by Robertson Davies which was published in 1970–. Brief Summary of Book: Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1) by Robertson Davies ![]()
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![]() ![]() But the book was more than a book about cosmology. Alternatively, I may just be too stupid for this book. I don't know if the book was intended for laymen or cosmologists, but I think if the target audience was to have been laymen, then much of the story will have been in vain. His writing style kept me engaged even during the many times that I was incapable of becoming informed. ![]() In fact, I found that his writing/story-telling style is what held my interest even as I struggled (and often failed) to understand the difficult details of so many of the hypotheses that he either put forward whether they were his and Hawking's or someone else's. Apart from his considerable expertise in cosmology, quantum physics, and science in general, Hertog has considerable talent as a writer. Thomas Hertog is a cosmologist who was a student of Stephen Hawking, was mentored by Hawking, and spent many years as an assistant to and as a colleague of Hawking. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he enters Declan, he assumes he’s got a quiet little ride where he can do some exploring. Sometimes he knows his “victims,” but not always. The premise of the book is brilliant: Lucifer wants to know what it’s like for real people, as well as to cause a little fun and crazy on Earth, so he inhabits a body just before death. Lucifer brings in the drama, especially when he’s reincarnated as a normal man named Declan Gunn, who has just died - but I guess he really didn’t since Lucifer took over his body on a little wild venture into human reality. I know how that makes me sound, but it’s true. I really enjoy books where Satan makes an appearance. While I didn’t dislike it, the book felt a bit like a satire of a satire - and frankly, I’m just not that clever enough to always get it. With this one, it flew in the wind, also known as a former book club, and slapped me in the face. Sometimes I don’t know how books fall into my lap, sometimes I do. My rating: 3 of 5 stars to I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan, a fiction novel with some elements of fantasy buried about. ![]() |