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![]() ![]() The world is intriguing, and any book that looks into the dark and shadowy world of assassins is immediately interesting to me. ![]() The first in a trilogy of books, Weeks introduces us to a master assassin and his new apprentice. amateurish.įirst let me praise the book though, so that any of my grievances will not necessarily dissuade you from reading The Way of Shadows. ![]() And while the intent of the author was laudable, the actual telling of the story was. My girlfriend leant me the book and I was tasked with reading it as soon as possible. That leads me to The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks. Books should be a combination of entertainment and good writing. And while some may think that that is obvious, I think it’s just plain sad. This might seem like a realization I should have made earlier, but there it is. I Twittered the other day (follow me at /JoshSHill/) that I had just realized people don’t actually want good writing, they just want to be entertained. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Very little was changed in the transition from the magazine articles to the book. An English version followed almost immediately in each case. The book version of the original articles, written in Gandhi’s native Gujarati, was published in two volumes, the first in 1927 and the second in 1929. One of Gandhi’s close colleagues, Mahadev Desai, translated most of Gandhi’s autobiographical reflections shortly after they were written into English with ongoing input from Gandhi. ![]() The story Gandhi told took the reader to 1921, the time when the work of applying the Gandhian program of nonviolent social change to the effort to gain Indian independence was gathering steam. ![]() At the age of fifty-eight, he undertook a long process of writing reflections on his life that he published weekly in the Indian Gandhian magazine, Navajivan, with English translations soon following and published in the companion English-language magazine, Young India.He completed that work in February 1929.Īlmost immediately, the 166 installments were gathered and published as a book-though they were not initially written nor experienced by readers as a single book but rather as a long series of vignettes on Gandhi’s life. By 1925, Mohandas Gandhi was well known around the world as the leader of the movement within India to end the colonial occupation of that nation by the British. ![]() ![]() ![]() And no doubt the streets of eastern cities like New York were populated with youthful beggars, thieves, and prostitutes whose prospects for a decent life were limited while they were on the squalid city streets. Auguste Kiss's Amazon statue likewise exists, although not in New York City. Southworth and Charles Loring Brace, and they were actual personalities in the orphan train saga. And as is my wont, I looked up some of the named characters, E.D.E.N. I'd forgotten that the orphan trains started pre-Civil War the inclusion of the runaway Ned brought that back to me. Nevertheless, I was entertained and informed. I'm somewhat familiar with the general premise of the 1854- 1920s orphan trains, so I was looking for something more meaty. As historical fiction goes, this book was somewhat too breathless for my taste. ![]() |