
Mr. Sammler's Planet
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Narrated by:
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George Guidall
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By:
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Saul Bellow
Mr. Artur Sammler is, above all, a man who has lasted, from the civilized pleasures of English life in the 1920s and 30s through the war and death camps in Poland. Moving now through the chaotic and dangerous streets of New York's Upper West Side, Mr. Sammler is attentive to everything, and appalled by nothing. He brings the same dispassionate curiosity to the activities of a black pickpocket on an uptown bus, the details of his niece Angela's sex life, and his daughter's lunacy as he does to the extraordinary theories of one Dr. V. Govinda Lal on the use we are to make of the moon now that we have reached it.
Beneath this novel's comedy, sadness, shocking action, and superb character-drawing there runs a strain of speculation, both daring and serene, on the future of life on this planet - Mr. Sammler's Planet - and any other planets for which we may be destined.
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Great experience, well worth the read.
ASTONISHING
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Tiresome
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NOT HIS USUAL STUFF, BUT A DEEPLY SATISFYING READ
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The best part of the novel is near the end, in which Sammler speaks to God and concludes that if we could truly base our lives on our intuitive understanding of good and evil our lives could be positively transformed.
I found the narration clear, and the characterization quite interesting.
Like Herzog, not a favorite
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Too philosophical to be a good audiobook
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Worst narration ever.
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