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A sequel to the highly acclaimed cult novel, }K-Pax{, which is currently being made into a film starring Kevin Spacey. A humorous and touching story, which has been favourably compared with }One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest{.
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ON A BEAM OF LIGHT is Gene Brewer's brilliant sequel to K-PAX, the novel in which a man called 'prot' (rhyming with goat) claims he is a perfect being from the planet K-PAX an idyllic world without wars, government or religion. At the Manhattan Institute his psychiatrist is determined to prove that prot's identity is nothing more than a tragic case of multiple-personality disorder. But when people begin to notice prot's peculiar characteristics, many of them start to doubt the diagnosis. ON A BEAM OF LIGHT is the tale of prot's return to earth and his plan to take some beings back with him, the next time he goes home. For Dr. Brewer, as well as for the patients who are desperate to win his favour in the hope that they might be chosen, it is a race against time, for this visit prot claims, will be his last. Reminiscent of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, it is a hilarious, touching and wonderful story.
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Again prot - like in the first book - shows our society and its defects in a merciless mirror. This civilization is doomed because man is an egoistic - therefore destructive - being: he destroys his environment, kills animals and his own kind alike (in wars, in personal conflicts), and as a social being he rather wants to hurt others than live in peace with them, or he is simply indifferent; as a consequence he will destroy if not EARTH, but at least his own kind. This is why the "normal" people should be locked up in psychiatrist institutes, not the people that are now locked up in there, because they were broken by this world and society and reduced to vegetables and autists. I rate this novel a five star novel, not because I agree with its general message in its absolute, or better, radical meaning. But as in the first book the author - or is it prot? - does not try to teach us. He manages to describe the confrontation of ideas and concepts of life (or survival?) in a very humorous way. This makes it easy for us to think about our social and individual defects, and we do not adopt a radical anti-position.
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You can read this book very quickly due to the fact that its style is rather simple and understandable - but then: the story is very interesting as well. It is questionable if this novel is an SF novel at all as advertised. But, nevertheless, it uses a key feature of many SF stories: contrast. Everything, code of values, customs, lifestyle etc that seems so normal to us here on Earth is the exact opposite on K-PAX. The generally accepted on Earth is impossible on the - imaginary? - planet K-PAX and vice versa. So we see ourselves in a mirror. But the well-meaning know-all of a psychiatrist who tells the story does not. This is why his belief in human values very often turns into a lame and weak defensive argumentation, and he himself is the mirror that shows us the defects of our bourgeois society, with his family and their troubles as a most effective and a demonstrative background. But the author never leaves the path of humor, he never moralizes, never points at us in an insulting way. And this is what makes this book interesting, revealing and amusing at the same time.
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keeping it suspenseful
19. März 2006
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the story progresses like the first book. You wonder if prot is just part of of robin's repressed mind, or a real alien who has taken possession of him.
prot reminds me of Mork from Ork. he is a bit arrogant and lacks tact yet says things that really ring true, especially when he's giving his opinion on the human race.
i was late getting back from breaks at work because of this book -so beware. i can't wait for the last book in the trilogy to arrive in the mail.
prot reminds me of Mork from Ork. he is a bit arrogant and lacks tact yet says things that really ring true, especially when he's giving his opinion on the human race.
i was late getting back from breaks at work because of this book -so beware. i can't wait for the last book in the trilogy to arrive in the mail.
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