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Book Description
Publication Date: May 1, 2014
Danicka, the owner of a kindergarten, bans toys and inspires
preschool children to work. Is she a dictator or a liberator? Stanzie controls
a billion-dollar empire. Does an Ivy League style education assist her or
destroy her? Oliver, a feral lost child, is reunited with his civilized mother.
Why will he never love her?
The younger generation is clashing against the older . . . colleges and schools
are self-destructing . . . teachers and professors are fighting for survival .
. . wireless electricity threatens to change the world in the new Age of Atoms
. .
A review of HUNGER FOR ATLANTIS by Pandora
Let me explain how my review will work. I need to do it this way since this book left
me feeling very conflicted. So I will write you the pros and con's of each
facet unless a specific facet is only a positive or only a negative.
So the first thing that needs mentioning here is the authors'
inability to contract formal address. By
the time the reader gets introduced to Professor Alexander Van DerMeer you hear
the full form of address for the first 30% of this 716 page book. That includes when the professor thinks of
himself. This is not only true for the Prof;
it is true for all her characters.
Although the author slacked off with this extended form of address after
a certain percentage into the book she kept it up for some time with every new
character she introduced. As you
imagine, this can get a bit tiresome.
On the pro side of this, the reader meets a host of
characters and at no stage do you get confused about who the author is talking
about.
My second con for this book.
The author introduces a philosophy on child rearing. State controlled vs. a hand off method with
the pros and con's of each although it is clear that the hands off method are
the preferred choice of the author. That
is fine, what got on my nerves a bit is the fact that the authors repeats the
basic principles of her philosophy over and over and over again. At times I though the author is unsure if she
is able to bring her point home so she repeats it to make sure she does. Later on I felt as if she figured her readers
might not be the sharpest knives in the drawers so she needed to repeat it yet
again.
On the pro side of this, the philosophy really does make
sense and I agree with most of what the author feels and portrays in the
book.
Unfortunately using two extremes to explain a philosophy has
a marginalization effect on most people, People will defend their past, their
choices now by saying my state controlled school was not THAT bad etc. That however is purely a personal remark as
is my next. I found it disconcerting
that the reason behind a fatal drug overdose totally ignored personal
responsibility. Even taken with the two
schooling methods and I get why the author did this but again, personally it
rubbed me the wrong way. In my
experience most grownups get to know what is what and self destructive behavior
is a choice!!!
On the pro side. The author's
passion for the subject is amazing. If
you are looking for a read like none other you have read thus far, then this
book is for you. It is basically a book
on philosophy written into fiction to make it more enjoyable and to make the
real life experience of the results more accessible. Some parts are laugh out loud funny,
especially some of the dialogue which again did not always flow as normal as it
could but it was still hilarious.
So, if you have the time and are open to new ideas then I
will recommend this book for you.
WaAr
Count the pups to see my star rating although It is closer to a 2 1/2 * rating level.
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