Arcadia
A Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel book. although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly...
Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on...
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- Pages: 596 pages
- ISBN: 9780571301553 / 0
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although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In Iain Pears, Arcadia // Generally speaking, our minds impose an entirely artificial order on the world. It is the only way that such an inadequate instrument as our brain can function. It cannot deal with the complexity of reality, so simplifies everything until it can, putting events into an artificial order so they can be dealt with one at a time, rather than all at once as they should be. Such a way of interpreting existence is learnt, rather in the way that our brain has to turn the images which hit our retinas upside down in order to make sense of them. Children Iain Pears,... It is easy to imagine a world where not only can few people read, few need to or want to. Serious reading can become the preserve of a s mall group of specialists, just as shoe-making or farming is for us. Think how much time would be saved. We send children to school and they spend most of their time learning to read and then, when they leave, they never pick up another book for the rest of their lives. Reading is only important if there is something worthwhile to read. Most of it is ephemeral. That means an oral culture of tales told and remembered....
Reading this novel was pure fun for me.An Oxford professor in 1962, who was a spy in WWII, turns his hand to writing a fantasy novel that contains no magic. His teenage neighbor Rosie, who feeds his cat, stumbles through a portal into another world that turns out to be the world the professor imagined for his novel. A rebellious psychomathematician... This was an outstanding story, but it took a while to get fully invested in the story.There are 3 worlds, 3 time periods, and 3 separate plots going on in this book.The first world is mid-20th century England.The second world is an undetermined place & time frame, but equate with a medieval culture.The third world is the distant future,... finished the novel and got the Ipad App and while the main points noted below stand, I will add a few conclusion:- book - loved the ending which was in a way the only one that made sense and kept the suspense of disbelief; less sophisticated than the main works of the author (Instance of Fingerpost, Dream of Scipio and Stone's Fall)...
