Present Appertaining To Books The Instructions
| Title | : | The Instructions |
| Author | : | Adam Levin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1030 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2010 by McSweeney's |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Novels. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. American |
Adam Levin
Hardcover | Pages: 1030 pages Rating: 4.06 | 2363 Users | 418 Reviews
Representaion Toward Books The Instructions
Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very different sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity.The Instructions is an absolutely singular work of fiction by an important new talent. Combining the crackling voice of Philip Roth with the encyclopedic mind of David Foster Wallace, Adam Levin has shaped a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy—a novel that is muscular and exuberant, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic, and unforgettable.
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| Original Title: | The Instructions |
| ISBN: | 1934781827 (ISBN13: 9781934781821) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2011) |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Instructions
Ratings: 4.06 From 2363 Users | 418 ReviewsJudge Appertaining To Books The Instructions
Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee is a ten-year-old Jewish misfit in Deerpark Illinois, but a brilliant misfit and Talmudic scholar. He aims for "perfect justice" and claims to be a person of peace, but he keeps getting into fights at school. He invented the pennygun, a handmade weapon that is laid out in his tract, "The Instructions." This coming-of-age novel, which takes place over four days and 1000+ pages, is so packed with adventure and metaphysics that I felt like I lived through an odyssey. Oh, IWow. This is the kind of book that I'll have to think about for days in order to figure out what I really think. It was truly a reading experience. Levin's writing is astonishing, the characters--though implausible--are intriguing, and the plot of this gargantuan novel is something that I don't think I'll ever forget. The descent from Tuesday to Friday, from locker room fights to the Gurionic War, at times terrified me because Levin wrote in such a way that the increasingly violent actions seem
Before anyone starts cooking up the tar and feathers, let me just begin by saying I was probably doomed from the beginning knowing I was stepping into McSweeney-land here. I'm not going to spend time in my review defending my stance on that, other than I have preconceived notions about a lot of things that have relations with McSweeney-land - most apt to this review would be the word "clever". I would say since the early aughts there has been this whole "I'm-cleverer-than-you" movement in
fortunately, all the literary lynch mobs are occupied settling that mark twain business, so i can slip in here and give this book four stars instead of five with minimal outcry. this book is excellent. at times, it is perfect. this is the highest four a four can be before becoming a five - put down that torch, straggler!and after finishing it, i feel somewhat stunned, drained, like wandering blinkingly outside after a movie marathon. i need a moment. but what i can say now, with certainty, is
Let me be succinct (a quality which totally escapes Adam Levin): this is not a great book. Those reviewers who are writing "I'm 2 chapters in and it's amazing!" should heed warning - it dazzles in the beginning and fades out like a muffled fart. I damn my own literary hubris for blindly believing that The Instructions would ultimately reveal itself as the messiah of contemporary fiction. Instead, I am embarrassed to admit that I have spent nearly two months pushing through this constipated,
So I just finished this book and it took me a while. Honestly, I did get a tad impatient near the end but that didnt mean that the book wasnt doing its job or lost its vision, it was more about me being the kind of reader who, (like most, I assume) wants to know whats going to happen and how it's all going to end, the kind of reader who is wanting things, by page 800, to start wrapping up. But that, Id argue, is more my fault than the books. So yes, the book is big, but it didnt take me that
Haha thank you but no way -- Adam Levin is a genius and I am a mere mortal who writes somewhat well.
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