Book Recommendation of
The Month

That's right ... this is prestigiously Bum filled Book Recommendation of the Month . This is where Yoni Sapir will announce his monthly recommendation from the great world of literature . After all ... the Professional Bum needs to stimulate his mind while he sits on his ass doing nothing . Yoni will start the ball rolling but others will be doing recommendations as well. Submissions are accepted by all of the coalition and freelancers as well. Submit away!
 

Have a look at our past months reviews :

February 1998  Marat/Sade by : Peter Weiss
March 1998  A Fate Man In History by: Peter Carey
 
 
 

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 March 1998
The Shrapnel Academy
by
Faye Weldon
This is a delightful novel that tickles the fancy of the historian, the political scientist , the psychologist and the literature fan, in you. Faye Weldon is an expert in all the aforementioned above . Ms. Weldon has an intriguing writing style that allows her to weave historical accounts with her subject and in the process make a mockery of them and satirize them as well.
Ms. Weldon achieves the rare objective of a novel that makes one laugh, and cry because of it, at the same time. To call the novel brilliant would be an understatement. Simply superb and utterly riveting.
The novel takes place at a country-side military academy where a prominent Military man is supposed to deliver an annual speech to the academy and a few of the select guests. The novel takes place the night before the proposed lecture as a group of the guests are invited for a formal dinner. To make a long story short , upstairs are the guests and the "celebs", downstairs lurks the under classed servants that are numbered in the hundreds and led by an insane butler bent on revenge on "The Man".
The fun ensues as a snowstorm traps everyone in the powder keg of an academy, murder is an issue and many beautiful twists ensue.
The thing that makes this novel such a treasure is how Weldon savagely interrupts the story line with an informative historical presentation of certain famous military men of the last two thousand years. Whether it be Napoleon , Attila the Hun or even Alexander the Great, Weldon delivers a barrage of history to school the reader in the fine art of military history.
Grouping that with her fine understanding of certain human idiosyncrasies and how people react when placed in uneasy situations makes for an incredible reading experience. The fact that the novel is unbelievably fast paced and devilishly allegorical makes ones head spin with enjoyment.
A bit of the fun in the novel is the few continuance mistakes that Weldon makes that both myself and the great York University Professor Dr. Dick Ewin have found. See if you can find them . If you do , e-mail me and we shall compare notes.
 Basically, If you love history and human psychology mixed with political allegories, shaped in the form of a lab. rats maze, then The Shrapnel Academy is definitely for you .
And by the way .... never eat the dog sandwiches.
 
This months Recommendation done by
Yoni Sapir
 
 
 
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