THE BOY WITH CUCKOO CLOCK HEART

THE BOY WITH THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEAT

 BY MATHIAS MALZIEU

SUMMARY
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Brooding, cruel-faced, handsome, Mathias Malzieu glares out from the endpapers of his book, originally published in France as La mécanique du coeur. The biography claims he's a rock star, but my research with French teenagers, garagistes and a CD shopkeeper brought blanks. Either way, this, Malzieu's third book, proves he has a way with metaphor.







MAIN MESSAGE

If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.”


 

THE MADMAN´S TALE

By Jhon Katzenbach

Summary

 

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 It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out.

  MAIN MESSAGE

•Sometimes the crazy people see the world in a better way than the normal people

•We are afraid of changes. We are scared to stay the same. We are terrified of anything out of the ordinary, or a change in routine