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Title: Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream : A Novel by John Derbyshire ISBN: 0-312-15649-9 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific, charming, poignant, uplifting
Comment: I understand this is the author's first published novel, and it is a masterpiece. The Englishman manages to capture the cadences of both Chinese immigrant and Yankee Puritan with aplomb. The use of language is breathtaking, the analogies awesome and the story itself charming, funny and totally uplifting. In the process he manages to paint a wonderful portrait of the most neglected President of the twentieth century, the magnificent Calvin Coolidge.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Comment: A delightful little novel about an Chinese immigrant who comes to idolize Calvin Coolidge. The author manages to portray a character who is quirky but eminently human, eccentric but likable. It is no surprise that one of the narrator's favorite authors is Samuel Johnson, himself a combination of the above-mentioned traits. It is also nice to see Calvin Coolidge getting some much-deserved credit in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: If only China had Calvin Coolidge in their history.
Comment: This one really has to be read on trust. Such an absurd concept - former Red Guard escapes mainland China to Hong Kong, eventually reaches New York in the banking industry and becomes obsessed with Calvin Coolidge - can only be translated into wonderful reading by a genuine talent - which Mr. Derbyshire obviously is. It's worth reading for the commentary on Chinese history. It's worth reading for the commentary on Mr. Coolidge. It's worth reading strictly for the penultimate scene - when the title scene is played out. It's worth reading purely for the craft of the author's art. It's just worth reading - proof that there are still precious gems out there amid the torrent of flotsam and jetsam that the main publishing houses turn out on a prolific and shameless basis.
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Title: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire ISBN: 0309085497 Publisher: Joseph Henry Press Pub. Date: 23 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Gamma : Exploring Euler's Constant by Julian Havil ISBN: 0691099839 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Music of the Primes : Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus du Sautoy ISBN: 0066210704 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ripples of Battle : How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by VICTOR HANSON ISBN: 0385504004 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray ISBN: 006019247X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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