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Cockpit (Kosinski, Jerzy)
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
Author: Jerzy Kosinski
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Manufacturer: Grove Press
Author: Jerzy Kosinski
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Cockpit (Kosinski, Jerzy) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802135681
ISBN: 0802135684
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 272
Publication Date: 1998-04-07
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802135681
ISBN: 0802135684
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 272
Publication Date: 1998-04-07
Publisher: Grove Press
Studio: Grove Press
Editorial Review of Cockpit (Kosinski, Jerzy)
An agent known only as Tarden is a former operative of the mysterious security agency "the Service." He has erased himself from all dossiers and transcripts. Now a fugitive, he moves across the landscape free of identity, in search of adventure and intrigue. But Tarden is a man of many disguises, and he is alternately avenger and savior, judge and trickster, as he enters the lives of others, forcing them into the arena of his judgement. In Cockpit, Kosinski is at his most startling and powerful, stripping away pretension and illusions of security to reveal the source of real strength within.
Customer Reviews of Cockpit (Kosinski, Jerzy)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Derangement in the Cockpit
Review: Few books have made me as irritated as "Cockpit," as Kosinki episodically unravels one nightmare after another. There is just a minimal spine to hold the narrative togther (American spy becomes filthy rich through his manipulation of others), minimal dialogue, and no resolution of character or story line. And to think Kosinki also authored "Being There" and was (is) a university professor! Good thing I invested just a dollar at a used-book counter.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: interesting little stories, in the long going nowhere
Review: Each little scene is often interesting but if you're waiting and hoping that the whole thing comes together and makes some kind of sense, you'll be waiting a long time. For Kosinski, there are better choices...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Masterful Use of First Person Unsympathetic Narrator
Review: I've used the opening of this darkly prophetic novel--told from the POV of a social terrorist interested only in exploring the depths of human evil like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment--in countless workshops and seminars to illustrate that your protagonist's "sympathetic" nature doesn't mean we LIKE him. 'Sympathetic' in its Greek root suggests that we can "relate to," or "suffer with," a character and from the haunting opening lines that's exactly what causes us to turn the pages--a mixture of horror and our own voyeuristic tendencies.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: What was the point?
Review: As I read the book I kept hoping that at some point there would be a moment of enlightenment. That there would be a place where things fell together and started to make sense. Where I'd feel like all these snippets of a guy continuously bragging about his life would have greater purpose that would make me forgive the author's pure drive to shock the reader. Unfortunately this never occurred and at the end I found myself convinced that my time would have been better spent doing or reading just about anything.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: OK
Review:
Place a razor blade in your mouth and hold it there for a few hours. Shift it around carefully, mindful of its cool threat to your tender flesh. This is the experience of reading "Cockpit," which tempts and seduces, but ultimately mangles your sense of peace. Much like his earlier "Steps," the book turns on what the desperate (or the simply sick) resort to when there is little to lose. Although I became sick to my stomach at some of the violence portrayed here, the book is worthwhile - even quite interesting - at times. Not for the faint of heart.
Review Summary: Derangement in the Cockpit
Review: Few books have made me as irritated as "Cockpit," as Kosinki episodically unravels one nightmare after another. There is just a minimal spine to hold the narrative togther (American spy becomes filthy rich through his manipulation of others), minimal dialogue, and no resolution of character or story line. And to think Kosinki also authored "Being There" and was (is) a university professor! Good thing I invested just a dollar at a used-book counter.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: interesting little stories, in the long going nowhere
Review: Each little scene is often interesting but if you're waiting and hoping that the whole thing comes together and makes some kind of sense, you'll be waiting a long time. For Kosinski, there are better choices...
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Masterful Use of First Person Unsympathetic Narrator
Review: I've used the opening of this darkly prophetic novel--told from the POV of a social terrorist interested only in exploring the depths of human evil like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment--in countless workshops and seminars to illustrate that your protagonist's "sympathetic" nature doesn't mean we LIKE him. 'Sympathetic' in its Greek root suggests that we can "relate to," or "suffer with," a character and from the haunting opening lines that's exactly what causes us to turn the pages--a mixture of horror and our own voyeuristic tendencies.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: What was the point?
Review: As I read the book I kept hoping that at some point there would be a moment of enlightenment. That there would be a place where things fell together and started to make sense. Where I'd feel like all these snippets of a guy continuously bragging about his life would have greater purpose that would make me forgive the author's pure drive to shock the reader. Unfortunately this never occurred and at the end I found myself convinced that my time would have been better spent doing or reading just about anything.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: OK
Review:
Place a razor blade in your mouth and hold it there for a few hours. Shift it around carefully, mindful of its cool threat to your tender flesh. This is the experience of reading "Cockpit," which tempts and seduces, but ultimately mangles your sense of peace. Much like his earlier "Steps," the book turns on what the desperate (or the simply sick) resort to when there is little to lose. Although I became sick to my stomach at some of the violence portrayed here, the book is worthwhile - even quite interesting - at times. Not for the faint of heart.