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| I have now read most of Graham Greene*s works now. I am 70 and an historian. Greene*s work parallels !e my memory and my study. although these are novels the reader gets a ground level experience with Greene. | ||||
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| I found this book both compelling and distressing. It centers around an unloved (perhaps) and loveless young man, and his strange upbringing. With a few hints the reader can read between the lines, and eventually the truth all comes out. The big question of the book: We know who the "Captain" is, but who is the "Enemy"? There are a number of candidates for this title, and you'll have to decide for yourself. As always, Greene is a masterful storyteller, and as always, he interjects the human struggle to make sense of God. A question arises subtly, viz. Can we know love without knowing God? And as always, the characters enjoy drinking quite a bit. I understand this was Greene's last book. Not his best, but for Greene fans, one well worth reading. I understand it will be made into a movie...no surprise, nearly every one of Greene's books have! | ||||
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| As always,this does not disappoint. Moved like a run away train but moves with the smoothness of clear water. Jjd | ||||
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| This strange little book captured my interest immediately and kept me rapt the whole way through. Then, quite suddenly, it stopped. Like life? Are we, like this schoolboy, born to an awful father, destined to wander through life wondering (mostly) what is true, and then we die? The questions raised by this story captivate and encourage me to chase every little hint that flutters by and examine those I catch as closely as I can. | ||||
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| Right on a good night baby love you then we can invoice and I don't hear back from Tiffin we have satellite imagery | ||||
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| It's a mystery story, not much of a plot and he draws you into a world of unanswered questions. It's just his use of language that hooks me over and over again. I can't recommend it highly enough. | ||||
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| The Captain and the Enemy is fabled author Graham Greene's last novel. It features the doomed love affair between "The Captain," an enigmatic world traveler and Liza, the caretaker of his adopted son, Jim. It is Jim who carries the story along, following the Captain from England to Central America, trying to determine what, in fact, his mysterious parent is up to. But make no mistake about it: this is not a love story about the Captain and his mistress, or the Captain and his son. No, it is about the author and his failed mistress, Socialism. Greene was a most talented novelist, arguably the greatest of the twentieth century. His ability to supply humor to the most serious of life's moments is priceless. Yet his true motivation is often heavily guarded. His disdain for governmental espionage is classic. From "The Third Man" to "Our Man in Havana" to "The Quiet American" his attraction to socialism and even communism is apparent. But it is more his dislike of capitalism that drives his novels. He lived for many years in the most desperate parts of the world. That is, where the residents live in gravest of despair. He sides with them with the utmost charity; and when he sees the way Western civilization seems to ravage their countries, steal their natural resources and leave the people homeless and helpless, he sides with the ruthless leaders who do them even more harm. His later works created monsters of the Americans, in particular. This book, written just after President Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty, when Reagan was the current president, is especially vicious towards the United States. Reagan, who supplied the Contras with arms in Nicaragua in their fight against the communist Sandanistas and their Cuban and Russian sponsors, gets the lion's share of his wrath; though Reagan himself is not named. There is no doubt that Reagan was directly involved in the Iran-Contra scandal; it was heavy-handed and wrong. But the Sandanistas turned out to be far worse for the poor Nicaraguan people. And it was in the 1980's when the astute Greene saw that socialism was the wrong path for these countries. He saw that the Soviet Union was crumbling from within. He realized that with education comes freedom; not with socialism. Yet he hung on to it even as it decayed from its own excesses. For example, in this book he goes so far as to cast blame on the State of Israel, even as it is being attacked from all sides by the forces of radical Islam, probably the most atrocious masters of human bondage in the world today. But Greene is still the prince of sarcasm; perhaps most notably here in his use of "King Kong." The poor movie-made ape is, to the end, imagined by the hapless Panamanians as the key to America's spy network. It is a fitting end to a story of failed love and the helpless human condition. | ||||
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| highly recommend you read anything by Graham Greene. my favorite author | ||||
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| Slow start but gripping end | ||||
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| I wonder if this would merit more than one star if it was not written by Greene? If this was the first book I had read by him I am not sure I would return to this author. Readers seem to search for extra meaning if the author is notable. Both the surface and the depth of this "novel" are shallow. No need to over-think thin characters and thin plots. Try another shade of Greene. | ||||
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| This is the last novel that Graham Greene wrote. While I enjoyed reading it, and it provoked thoughts on some interesting questions, it's not one of his strongest stories. From the beginning the story has a dismal feel. The characters seem doomed, not to disaster so much as to smallness. There's a kind of claustrophobia in the lives led by its narrator, Jim, his adoptive "father" the Captain, and the woman whom the Captain places Jim with as his "mother", Liza. For Liza and Jim, the smallness is physical -- Liza's life is almost completely confined to her basement apartment, infrequently visited by the Captain, and Jim lives in a vacant room in the same apartment building. Both are wary of the outside world, worried that the police, or Jim's Aunt, will discover them, their living situation, or a a clue to the Captain's whereabouts. The Captain, meanwhile, travels, and engages in mostly unknown criminal activities or con games, but even his life seems narrow-tracked in behavior if not in geography. I gave scare quotes to "mother" and "father" as a hedge on the roles played by Liza and the Captain in Jim's life -- Jim's biological mother is no longer living when the story begins, and his father has lost Jim to the Captain in either a chess game or a backgammon game, depending on who you believe. The Captain takes Jim to live with Liza, to take the place of a baby lost to Liza in pregnancy, and her resulting inability to bear a child of her own. Jim serves as a witness to Liza's life and relationship to the Captain -- a relationship he can't quite pin down. He notices that neither uses the word "love" to describe their relationship, and, to a boy with no one really playing the role of mother or father, their relationship fails to provide a model of anything at all. Liza longs for visits from the Captain, but the visits are infrequent and full of airy promises of a future, better life together. Are the Captain and Liza in love? Jim doesn't know. Looking back as he has grown older, he still doesn't know how to characterize their relationship. It's not love as he comes to know it himself. We are left to wonder if what Jim experiences in his own life, though, is any more love than what exists between the Captain and Liza. Jim himself becomes a writer, fitting his place throughout the book. His life presents him with no models to follow or roles to grow into, just a lot to observe and try to understand. Greene is always a good writer, and the book rolls along. This story fits the pattern in which he takes the personal stories of his characters and plays them out in the context of big historical events -- here it is the turmoil of Panama and the rest of Central America during the 1970s, although those events only enter the story in its later parts. There is also the "big" recurring presence of King Kong throughout the book. What place King Kong has in the book is for us to figure out. Here's my idea -- Kong is love made impossible. When the Captain sees Kong's "love" for Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) thwarted by the sheer nature of things, Jim can't understand why it brings tears to the Captain's eyes. It's just the way things are. | ||||
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| Greene can turn ordinary life into a horror show. At times an absurd show but still painful and emptying for the personae. Who knew things could get so complicated and turn out so badly for ordinary sinners who meant no big harm? Who knew one man could wreck such havoc among the little people of life? Dont get too depressed after you finish this book. Amazon Purchase. | ||||
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| Great way to buy the book when the library could not come up with it. It arrived in good order and great price. | ||||
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