Children of Paradise, (Paperback)

from Beamis12

I remember hearing about Jim Jones, his commune and the over nine hundred people that he had drink the poisonous kool-aide. I of course was appalled and wondered how one man could convince all these people to leave their lives and follow him to a jungle location and then literally kill themselves...

from bookmuse56

I so enjoy books where lyrical evocative writing brings to life the time and place of the storyline. Children of Paradise is such a book. The time is the late 1970s, and the place is commune deep in the jungles of Guyana. The storyline is loosely based on the true events of Jim Jones's utopian co...

from msbaba

"Children of Paradise," by Fred D'Aguiar, veers quite a bit afield from the real-life story of the Jonestown massacre upon which it claims to be based; in particular, there's a pet gorilla that plays a key role in this fictional utopian compound and this cult is tightly controlled by religious ra...

from TheLostEntwife

When you are telling a story about an entire community that no longer lives, who narrates the story? Consider this for a moment. As an author, do you pick one of the dying? Do you pick the remote outsider who, in no way, could not possibly know the intricacies of daily life? From the first page, ...

from TheLostEntwife

When you are telling a story about an entire community that no longer lives, who narrates the story? Consider this for a moment. As an author, do you pick one of the dying? Do you pick the remote outsider who, in no way, could not possibly know the intricacies of daily life? From the first page, ...