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| 1. |  | Darkness at Noon: A Novel from Scribner Price: $11.90 Customer Review:  I had recently read Gulag Archipelago which I thought was magnificent. As so many reviews recommended this book by Koestler, I decided to read it. It held my attention, but I did not find it eye-opening. And the rather long and convoluted "justifications of bad behavior" put into the mouth of... |
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| 2. |  | The Thirteenth Tribe from Random House Price: $10.20 Customer Review:  It continued my journey into learning about the Khazarian royalty that I could be descended from. |
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| 3. |  | The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Arkana) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $13.60 Customer Review: ...epecially if its not a special interest of yours? Well, just for the browser who may be thinking this is a book purely for astromony nuts and astrophysicists, this book kept me spellbound from cover to cover, and I'm someone whose interest in astronomy is no higher than in any other branch of... |
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| 4. |  | The God That Failed from Columbia University Press Price: $22.50 Customer Review: This is one of the great political books of all time. The authors of THE GOD THAT FAILED consist of three former Communist Party members, and three "fellow travellers." All were attracted to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and '30s. All eventually realized it was a horror, and left it. In this... |
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| 5. |  | The Ghost in the Machine (Arkana) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Customer Review: This, Koestler's crowning scientific analysis of the predicament of man (at least as that predicament is seen through the flawed eyes of the behaviorist model), is an impressive achievement. Other than the works of Ernest Becker ("Denial of Death," "Escape From Evil," and "The Birth and Death of... |
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| 6. |  | The Act of Creation (Arkana) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Customer Review: This is a remarkable book. Some years ago, I used it as the basis of a course I wrote on Thinking & Creativity. When I first read it, I was astonished to realise that the agonising process I had been going through daily in my (then) profession of advertising copywriter was something that all... |
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| 7. | [no image] | The Roots of Coincidence from Vintage Customer Review: I had read quotes from this book for years but I hadn't actually read the entire thing. Somehow, I thought that it was "dated" in terms of newer work. That was stupidity on my part. This book was far ahead of its time. Nor is it dated. True, theoretical physics has continued to advance, but what is... |
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| 8. | [no image] | The Call-Girls from Hutchinson Customer Review:  The Call-Girls is a novel evidently intended as a "popularization" -- since people like to read novels! -- of ideas that Koestler covered more exhaustively in his book-length essays, in particular The Ghost in the Machine and Janus: A Summing Up. The fictional structure is really little more than a... |
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| 9. | [no image] | Darkness at Noon from Random House Inc (T) Customer Review: Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who was instrumental in the establishment of the Communist party in Russia, is imprisoned when Stalin, referred to in this book as Number One, purges the party of his political opponents. Two interrogators, Ivanov, a former acquaintance of Rubashov's who retains some... |
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| 10. |  | Thirteenth Tribe from Noontide Pr Customer Review:  If some Chinese leaders decide to be Religious and invite representatives of major religions to describe their belief systems so as to make a learned choice... and as a result the Chinese leaders decide to become Roman Catholics... And as a further result, many Chinese... |
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| 11. | [no image] | Reunion from Penguin Books Customer Review: Arthur Koestler has called this novella "a minor masterpiece." He writes, "[The use of the word 'minor'] was meant to refer to the small size of the book, and to the impression that although its theme was the ugliest tragedy in man's history, it was written in a nostalgic minor key" (Introduction,... |
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| 12. |  | Scum of the Earth from Eland Books Price: $26.48 Customer Review: ONE of the greatest books to come out of the second world war now carries a tragic irony. The reverberations of its author's suicide in 1983 spill over into one's reading of it. In 1939, Koestler was living in the South of France working on Darkness At Noon. Moving to Paris to enlist with the... |
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| 13. | [no image] | The Case of the Midwife Toad from Vintage Customer Review: The other reviewers commented on the main subject of this book - the question of inheritance. However, the Appendix has a fascinating account of Kammerer's work on serial coincidence, of "like and like" happening together. Kammerer spent long walks observing people and things, and determined that... |
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| 14. | [no image] | Dialogue With Death from MacMillan & Co. | |
| 15. |  | Darkness at Noon from The Modern Library | |
| 16. |  | Darkness at Noon from Penguin | |
| 17. | [no image] | Act of Creation from MacMillan | |
| 18. | [no image] | The Act of Creation, a Study of the Conscious and Unconscious in Science and Art from Dell Book | |
| 19. |  | Arrival and Departure (20th Century Classics) from Penguin Classics Customer Review: Koestler was always facinated by the psychology of imprisonment and torture;what makes a person crack or hold out. Peter Slavek has escaped to Neutralia. He is a left wing agitator in a right wing state where he was tortured but managed to resist.The novel asks why. His childhood... |
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| 20. | [no image] | The Lotus and The Robot from Harper & Row | |
| 21. | [no image] | The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler (Science Study Series) from Univ Pr of Amer Customer Review: "The Watershed" by Arthur Koestler is a magnificent piece of literature that is unique, yet well organized and informative of the life and works of Johannes Kepler. Koestler does a great job in showing how the modern world-view was slowly replaced by the medieval world-view and how science has... |
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| 22. | [no image] | The Yogi and the Commissar from The Macmillan company Customer Review: As these essays were written during WW2, many have lost their relevance today and are merely historically interesting, or interesting for readers who just happen to like Koestler's writing style (incredibly sophisticated considering he'd just started writing in English a few years before, his... |
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| 23. | [no image] | The Gladiators from The MacMillan Company | |
| 24. | [no image] | The Ghost in the Machine from Macmillan | |
| 25. | [no image] | Janus: A Summing Up (Picador Books) from Picador Customer Review: Kevin Kelly (Wired) recommended this book - indeed a very good starting point. He's right about how Koestler compels you to his ideas, no matter if you agree with them. But believe me, if you like me is always thirsty for a text that awes you, here is one of them. Koestler writes very, very well and... |
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| 26. |  | Dialogue With Death from Koestler Press Price: $40.45 | |
| 27. |  | The Invisible Writing from Vintage Books Customer Review: First of all, it's only worth reading this book if you've read Part 1, Arrow in the Blue. If you've already done that, you're probably thirsting for Part 2, but I must frankly admit that you may find Arrow in the Blue runs at a deeper level than The Invisible Writing, which is the account of his... |
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| 28. |  | Darkness at Noon from Vintage Customer Review: Written by a Hungarian victim and a survivor of Stalinist terror, the book is a classic historical/literary expose of the Soviet secret police and its brutal camps and prisons. Highly recommended. |
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| 29. | [no image] | Thieves in the Night from The Macmillan Company | |
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