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Title: Good Benito by Alan P. Lightman ISBN: 5-557-12147-1 Publisher: Books on Tape Pub. Date: January, 1994 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (15 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Rational Man Confronts the Irrationalities of life
Comment: Throughout this book, the reader is drawn into Bennet's beautiful, sometimes comedic, but ultimately fruitless quest to reconcile his scientific, absolutist philosophy with the quirks and challenges of life. His decision to leave his wife, based upon a pseudo-mathematical reasoning, is a perfect example of this. The decision makes him sick with grief, yet he follows his reasoning and leaves. How can a scientific man face the all-to-emotional experience of life? Lightman shows the reader, through Bennet's strained relationships, that it is nearly impossible to do so, and the ambiguous ending leaves the reader to wonder if Bennet will allow him to bring his mind and heart into alignment. I thought that "Einstein's Dreams" was one of the best books I had ever read, but this work leaves me breathless every time I pick it up. By the way, does anyone know of where I can get my hands on the book mentioned in Good Benito, "Tactile Mountains," by Lucien?

Rating: 4
Summary: Great Benito
Comment: Alan Lightman's Good Benito brilliantly tells the story of Bennett Lang; a story that is greatly augmented by Lightman's use of a non-linear storyline. Through the glimpses into Bennett's life, the reader is able to closely relate to the triumphs, confusions, and heartbreaks that shape Benito. The author brilliantly uses simple sentence structure in describing difficult subject matter, from high level physics to the depths of human emotion, to allow the reader an enormous sense of clarity in reading the novel. A must read for anyone who suffers a need for control bordering on the psychotic.

Rating: 1
Summary: A collection of pointless unrelated short stories
Comment: This is not a novel but a collection of pointless, unrelated short stories. Good Will Hunting it ain't. To find out about physicists read Feyman's autobiographies or Radiance.