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| | Lights Out in the Reptile House |  | Author: Jim Shepard
Publisher: Avon Books (P)
Category: Book
List Price: $10.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 2299477
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0380714132
EAN: 9780380714131
ASIN: 0380714132
Publication Date: December 1991
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A definite Favorite October 17, 2006
Not for the faint of the heart. The last ten pages are especially hard to read. Brings together many different totalitarian societies into one, making it recognizable but not dated. Makes a really good book for class discussions.
A Believable Nightmare... June 15, 2006
Jim Shepard creates a believable state recently taken over by a violent totalitarian regime. The state could be just about anywhere, and sounds Mediterranean or perhaps Middle Eastern. It contains elements of all of the worst paranoid dictatorships of recent history, Communist purges, Fascist tortures, Nazi destructiveness, fundamentalist repeals of freedom. Add to this mix 15-year old Karel Roeder who lives with his unemployed and distant father.
Karel could be a lot of 15-year olds in any culture, still a child, seeking comfort and stability he's not frequently known, trying to be a man, trying to figure out his place in the world and his society. His interests are mainly the reptiles in the zoo where he is apprenticed to herpatologist Albert, and his childhood family friend and budding anti-regime activist Leda, on whom he is developing a serious crush.
This tale follows Karel through the losses and destruction of the few things important to him. Very descriptive, a well told story, frightening in its starkness. Hints of the film "Brazil".
Well written and entertaining January 24, 2000
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This novel is set in a fictional police state- a sort of Austro-Hungary in the tropics. It follows a lead character's brush with the authorities, and a deepening entanglement with the opposition. There isn't a "Hollywood" ending, which is also refreshing.
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