Not What It Seems

✍ Pascal, Francine 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🌐 English ⚖ 89 KB

Discworld and philosophy: reality is not what it seems

✍ Nicolas Michaud 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Open Court 🌐 English ⚖ 250 KB

In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants standing on the back of a swimming turtle who knows where he's going, the sun goes round the world every day, so it doesn't have to be very hot, and things always happen because someone int

Discworld and philosophy: reality is not what it seems

✍ Nicolas Michaud 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Open Court 🌐 English ⚖ 248 KB

In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants standing on the back of a swimming turtle who knows where he's going, the sun goes round the world every day, so it doesn't have to be very hot, and things always happen because someone int

Oh What a Paradise It Seems

✍ John Cheever 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2013 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books 🌐 English ⚖ 85 KB 👁 1 views

John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by un

Oh What a Paradise It Seems

✍ John Cheever 📂 Fiction 📅 1982;2013 🏛 Vintage 🌐 English ⚖ 87 KB

John Cheever's last novel is a fable set in a village so idyllic it has no fast-food outlet and having as its protagonist an old man, Lemuel Sears, who still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is threatened; the pond he loves is being fouled by un

Now You See It

✍ Richard Matheson 📂 Fiction 📅 2003;2004 🏛 Macmillan;Melia, Tor 🌐 UND ⚖ 98 KB 👁 1 views

SUMMARY: "New York Times" bestselling author of" I Am Legend" "One of his strongest efforts. . . . We're all a lot richer to have Richard Matheson among us."--Dean Koontz "A fascinating variation on the locked-room mystery. . . with more hairpin turns than a mountain road. "Now You See It" . . . i

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