Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
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Book Reviews of Cosmicomics
Book Review: AWESOME
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't write quite like some of the others, but I will say; Calvino is a genius. A book of short stories that will blow your mind. Fictitious characters who bring to your mind science on the galaxy, milky way, fusion, and so on.
When I picked up the book, at first, I couldn't understand what was going on. This isn't a book where you read chapter one and it continues to chapter two and so on... Different stories, different aspects of the galaxy, and yet, they all relate.
I have a hard time understanding some concepts of different things. Calvino, through this book, helped fill in some gaps for me. HE is truly a genius.
Book Review: Fairy-tales from beoynd reason
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a wonderful, fantastic book, which discribes the evolution of the Universe as a spinning journey throught time, in which playing marbles with hydrogen atoms or arguing in The Dot is obidient for the characters. It shows the Universe in such a way, that I think this book is one of the reasons for which I chose my future profession. Those are not ordinary fairy tales, they are tales of us, of our playful nature, as the characters take life as it is. On of the most beautiful stories is the moon one. The moon slowly drifts away from Earth while they are rowing to it every night and collecting Moon-milk... True charm and fantazy.Book Review: Beyond fairy tales...or physics
Summary: 5 Stars
Out of all the Calvino books lining my shelves, Cosmicomics is my favorite, hands down. It enchants, it engages, it bewilders (Well, I suppose that goes without saying...it is Calvino, after all), it passes from friend to friend with great reverance and smiles. He takes incredibly abstract thoughts and zeroes in on what is universal and personal to us all...wouldn't you freak out if you spotted a sign on the edge of the universe that pointed a wagging finger your way, with the admonishment "I saw what you did!"? I love this book. It ranks right up there in my top 5 ever.Book Review: Fun well-written fantasy book
Summary: 4 Stars
The short stories in this little book are just fun little humanized versions of science as Calvino imagines it from the perspective of the formulas and laws that govern the universe. Some are fun and quirky, even engaging, while others are a little boring and too goofy, but overall Calvino's writing style just plain flows. There's something about the way he constructs a sentence that just makes it roll through this reader's mind. Sometimes I got so caught up in the "flow" of a passage that I had to reread it for meaning and content. In sum, it's just good, quirky fun.Book Review: Want for more
Summary: 5 Stars
Cosmicomics is just what brought me to Amazon to look for more of Italo Calvino. I was amazed by the unusual styl of his, which gives life and reality to the most fantastic ideas. How human, poetic and touching can be story of unimaginable inhabitants of the Spacetime just before the Big Bang! I had a girlfriend, who was really on the same wavelenght with me, which scarcely happens. I was not really surprised then, when I found out, that she had read Calvino's The Baron in the Trees just like me (the only other person I know), and she loved it, just like me!