Forster Books

This is an Award Winning catalogue which shows the exhibits which were collected during Captain Cook's expeditions to the Pacific. They have been in storage for many years at the Georg August University of Gottingen and have now returned to storage for an indefinite period. It was a unique opportunity to view long unseen artifacts. Excellent.

This book will keep you guessing! Suzanne is an awesome writer and this one was no disappointment. I am a huge fan of all her books!

Suspense, murder, powerful smart women, strong friendship ties, and a touch of romance make this book a really great read. Once you start it, you won't be able to put it down.

Forster's The Longest Journey is painfully bad: painfully awkward, painfully closeted, painfully dated, painfully class-conscious, painfully defiant of the norms of story-telling, painfully sententious at times and preachy. It's also painfully true.

It's a "college" novel, like many others depicting the lives of its characters fatally determined by the inherently contingent friendships one forms in the nursery of one's college circle. I read it first in 1962, when I was living in painful intimacy with my "peers" in a painfully cloistered House at a painfully famous university. I suppose I had to write a painfully trivial paper about it. Now I've read it again, and I find that, seen backwards through the telescope of years, it's uproariously funny. I don't remember having that impression the first time. I imagine I found it more serious when I was living in it.

I wonder why novels of the early 20th C seem so much more dated and mawkish at times than, for instance, Trollope or Fielding or Smollett? Perhaps it's the embarrassment that teenagers feel about their parents when those parents claim to have been young once and reveal the turmoils that only the current generation can take seriously. Anyway, I suspect that many readers will underrate this novel because of that uneasiness. All I can say is, if you're not reading it for homework, nobody will make you enjoy it. But if you give it a chance, you may find that it's painfully moving and beautiful.

I found the English translation so interesting that I could not put it down. I wish the book had been available when I started my own education. The author does an excellent job of relating the research of Pasteur to his historical setting. Pasteur was the model scientist and the author reveals this on page after page. This book should be required reading for students interested in any aspect of science. A well-worn copy of this book should be on the shelf of anyone interested in pursuing a career in science.

Forster tells of the fascinating period in which she lived, from George III through the last years of Victoria's reign, and of his own boyhood. Drawn from his own recollections and from her correspondence and journals. Here are glimpses of Marianne's friends: Lord Macaulay, William Wilberforce (the abolitionist), Hannah Moore (the reformer), and Florence Nightingale (who probably went off to the Crimea because she was tired of picking up her mother's spectacles, says Marianne), but above all it is the story of Marianne herself. She was one of nine children of a prominent banker and philanthropist, who observed her times at home at Battersea Rise, near London, with the persepective of a candid, charming, and intelligent lady possessed of social conscience.

Marianne's England was an England of stern moral rectitude...the fact that Henry Thornton married his deceased wife's sister caused a scandal in society and in Parliament (it was typical of Marianne's determined brother that he should move his family to the Continent and fight for a change in English law to make his marriage fully respectable, says she.) She never married and stayed at Battersea to preserve and protect the heritage (and worried that Napoleaon would cross the channel just to cut down her tulip tree). You can tell this book was written with love by E. M. Forster.

16 illustrations.
Refers to the 1956 1st edition.

Even though this is probably the oldest book on dreams i've read, it is one of the more enjoyable and insightful. I think that the fact that this was written before there were alot of other books on the subject floating around, is part of why it is so good. This is a completley original and personal account of the authors experiences, observations, and theories. It doesn't have the impersonal scientific feel that many of these books do. For someone who has already read several books on the subject, they might appreciate the lack of beginning chapters whos purpose is to go over everything one already knows and has read several times at the beginning of so many other books. I also really appreciate that the author is not afraid to disagree with most of the dream researchers of her time, and explain why she thinks so.If you want some fresh insight, tips on gaining lucidity, or a different style of lucid dream book to read, this is for you.I also recomend "Lucid dreaming" by Steven LaBerge and "Control Your Dreams" by Jayne Gackenbach and Jane Bosveld.

Katherine Downing and Michael Nightingale are caught in a curse brought down upon the Nigtingale family 100 years ago in 1690 by Katherine's great-great-grandmother Rachel Dobbs when her lover, Jonathan Nightingale's testimony condemed her as a witch.

Michael is the Nightingale heir and is forced to wander in agony as a potent force transforms him into a frightening predator until a woman can set him free.

Suzanne Forster's novella, MOONLIGHT, is brought to life by the magnificent performances of soap opera stars Kim Zimmer and Robert Newman from The Guilding Light. Robert Newman brings forth the dark, dangerous, sensual Michael Nightingale up front and personal to seduce your senses and feel his torment at having to daily live with what he's become due to the curse as well as fight his desire for the lovely Katherine.

Kim Zimmer does a fabulous job of creating Katherine Downing's strong character as a healer with a caring, loving personality as she discovers a forbidden passion when she realizes she is falling in love with Michael. In truth, she may be his only hope of releasing him from the curse. Get ready for some spine tingling suspense.

The stunning use of excellent music, direction, and mesmerzing voices of the actors makes MOONLIGHT a first class production for producer Gregg Marx, who obviously knows what he is doing, to bring you the finest audio tapes that are a joy to listen too.

In the past few years, several books have been published about the "new" antisemitism. In general, this means attacks on human rights for Jews from Muslims and Arabs (often calling it "antizionism"). These attacks are often from the political Left. That is not exactly new. The political Left has attacked Jews before. Even if one wishes to ignore Vichy France, one can look at the record of the Soviet Union and its supporters in the last few years before 1967.

This book has plenty of anecdotes about antisemitism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But the significant part is what people with some responsibility do, as part of their jobs. That includes leaders of groups that supposedly support human rights. It includes some major elements of the media. And it includes some members of Congress.

The book shows that the nationally syndicated Evans and Novak column, the Christian Science Monitor, and Time Magazine all had some serious problems in this respect. Here is Time Magazine in March, 1970:

"The vehemence of the American Jewish community's support for Israel creates an impression in the minds of some that Washington is acting not on the basis of national interest but out of fear of Jewish wrath. When public officials such as John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller abdicate their ceremonial responsibilities toward a foreign leader, it is a sign that pressure-bloc politics is taking precedence over common sense and public duty."

Strong words! Time Magazine is free to say what it pleases, of course. But if I were to come up with something like this, I'd expect and deserve to be called an antisemite.

There's plenty more about which groups were doing what back then. I think it is worthwhile looking at books from thirty and fifty years ago, especially to see how much of this era is denied by "revisionist" historians.

In this book Kant goes wild and applies his philosophical system to everything, particular physics. This should be considered one of the great seminal works of philosophy. It was certainly written by a genius.

Was Kant right? Probably. Who knows?

It's a pleasure to hear E.M. Forster's A Passage To India brought to life under the studied British accent of Sam Dastor: it offers a fine performance which brings to life the story of Adela Quested, who arrives in India prepared to marry a British magistrate and soon finds an attraction in a doctor who offers to show her the 'real' India. Her involvement with him will change her life and end the British rule in India in this lively classic which is pure audio pleasure.