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The Inner Circle
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
T.C. Boyle has crafted a captivating tale with memorable characters and a rollicking plot that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. The Inner Circle is a love story narrated by John Milk, a virginal young man, who in 1940 accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a charming professor of zoology at Indiana University who has just discovered his life's true calling: sex.
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Boyle interrogates the interrogator
- De Bill Jr. en 11-02-05
- The Inner Circle
- A Novel
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
Boyle interrogates the interrogator
Revisado: 11-02-05
The detractors on this site miss the point entirely - both those who claim that 'nothing happens' as well as those for whom FAR TOO MUCH is going on. This book is not flat, or boring, but understated in a way that Boyle has not been before - all the better to take on these 'objective' scientists, using their own methods (the narrator is john Milk, an unrepentent acolyte of 'Prok' Kinsey's, and one has to be patient and attentive to allow the ironies emrge from Milk's all-too-human 'testimony') to eviscerate their pretensions.
As for those who complain of there being too much sex? Well, given the historical/biographical evidence, I'd say Boyle has actually restrained himself here - he could have gone into far more explicit detail. Instead, he included just enough of the lurid factual material to allow the Kinsey project to self-deconstruct. Context, people, context!!
Boyle successfully has the specimen-collector wriggling under his own pin. He demonstrates how pathology is inherent to taxonomy. He interrogates the arch-interrogator...QED
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