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Sandcastle (2010)

by Pierre Oscar Lévy(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1906838380 (ISBN13: 9781906838386)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

SelfMadeHero

review 1: May contain spoilers, though I've tried to keep it cryptic.I'm going to start by saying I absolutely *hated* the ending which has brought my rating down to a four. Otherwise, up until that point, I was absolutely mesmerized with this book! Such a unique, gripping story and completely spellbinding. It's up to the reader to make sense of the story and figure out the meaning for themselves. The genre is either science fiction (which is actually mentioned in the story) or magical realism (an old myth/fairy tale is related to give this impression). The story comes full circle expressing to me the theme of people building walls around themselves, to protect them from the possible evils of life, but then only succumbing to a unfulfilled life that ends in death. I was greatly fasc... moreinated by the story, attentive to the end to find out what would happen. But was disappointed with the conclusion as I had really felt that the youngest boy's question about what happens after death was going to lead to a profound examination of death not being the end, or only the beginning or eternal life, etc. (I'm Catholic) I find these themes often come out similar to the Catholic view of death in many stories even when the author hasn't set out to do so. But instead, we got a silly abrupt, death is death, myth and an ending that shows life continuing but rather without any hope. The book is for mature readers as it does show full frontal nudity of both sexes, however it is in natural circumstances and not gratuitous at all. Certainly worth reading! Very well done.
review 2: I really liked this. Peeters, the author of the memoir, Blue Pills, which is about making a baby when one partner is HIV-Positive, a really a fine book, here works with a fictional fable written by Pierre Oscar Levy, about a group of people who find themselves on a beach together, trapped in a kind of bubble, and age a lifetime in a day. What do you do with a life time? What do you try to accomplish in a short time? It's strange and at times disturbing, but really good and strangely moving! less

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