Splendor, by David Zindell
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Splendor, by David Zindell
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Having grown up under the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and annihilation through nuclear war, the author set out on a lifelong journey to discover why a nearly godly race known as human beings seems doomed to destroy the world. To solve this great dilemma, he tried to find a new way of living that he calls splendor. He pursued this elusive quality, like many of his time, through knowledge, adventure, spirituality, success and love. (And, of course, through sex, drugs and Rock ‘n Roll). His quest would take him from the terror of death in the Grand Tetons to the wonder of life in the birth of his daughters to writing visionary fiction in celebration of both. Along the way, meetings with Robin Williams, Timothy Leary, Ken Wilber, and others famous, infamous and unknown, helped to shape him in different ways. This is the story of how a writer seeks experience and how that is translated into literature – and how writing itself can be an expression of splendor. It also tells how his work has been a dialogue with all the hopes, conceits, frustrations, failures and glories of the true Greatest Generation that some call the Baby Boomers. Whatever one thinks of the millions born beneath the shadow of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the author argues, the fate of the earth now lies in their hands – and in those who come after them. For their uncompleted task of overcoming the destructive forces of power, pride, wealth and war holds a lesson for all of us: that only through returning to the great dream of our youth and reclaiming our essential splendor will we fulfil our destiny to lead the way into an almost unimaginably brilliant future. “SPLENDOR is a simply remarkable, passionate, transcendent book which shines a light on our times, and on all of us. I absolutely loved it.” – Jane Johnson, author of The Sultan’s Wife “David Zindell's Splendor features many of the characteristics of courageous confessional autobiography, with much of the intelligent spiritual uplift of Thomas Merton's classic autobiography, The Seven-Storey Mountain. It also reads like compelling speculative anthropology, sociology, and history. All the while, its structuring theme – the life-affirming concept of splendor – gives it a philosophical touchstone that centers and unites all of Zindell's major concerns, from love to the recurrent inhumanity of our species, from the death of spirit in raw material pursuits to the star-driven quest for ultimate meaning. I can't say enough about the honesty, the thoughtfulness, or the power of this rare book. – Michael Bishop, author of No Enemy But Time
Splendor, by David Zindell- Amazon Sales Rank: #2037380 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.08" w x 6.00" l, 1.39 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. An Incredible Book, David Zindell is Amazing As Always!!!! By MIke I am a huge fan of David Zindells previous work. Neverness is my favorite book of all time. The review of this book is very difficult to describe as I have never read anything quite like it. At first it seems like an autobiography, but it is so much more. The title of the book sums it up best in just one word. I can not think of any other way to describe it by putting it into words and get the point across. I would go as far as to say that it is the only book I have ever read that actually changed the way I perceive the world around me. My goal was to read this over a 2 week period, instead I ended up reading the entire thing in 2 days as I couldn't put it down. A must read and possibly Zindell's greatest work.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. SPLENDOR=RADIANCE=Another David Zindell Masterwork! By Jacob Shefa David Zindell, in such books as the amazing NEVERNESS--his first mystical masterpiece--and the REQUIEM FOR HOMO-SAPIENS trilogy (THE BROKEN GOD, THE WILD, and WAR IN HEAVEN) has written some of the most numinous novels I've ever read. (I'm slowly collecting the four volumes of his EA fantasy quartet--THE LIGHTSTONE, LORD OF LIES, BLACK PEARL, and DIAMOND WARRIORS--which are somewhat difficult to find in the states. SPLENDOR is a different sort of work; rather difficult to describe. I would call it a mystical or spiritual autobiography, blending together a sort of "bildungsroman," depicting the formation of Zindell's character, the struggles of his soul, and the quest to intersect with the spiritual currents at the core of existence. In fact, as with his fiction, Zindell's genius seems uniquely suited to give rapturous expression to the mystery of Spirit, while also evoking the vastness of the Universe and the Great Mystery from which All arises. But in SPLENDOR, Zindell gives us something more; a searingly honest portrait of his own triumphs and travails in seeking the Great Mystery; in Love; and with his Art--including the madness of the publishing industry; which has, tragically, I believe, failed to provide a suitable showcase for this amazing author's splendorous gifts. Every author should read Zindell's harrowing tale here of his epochal, frustrating experiences trying to get the EA quartet published in America. In SPLENDOR, Zindell also shows himself to be an incisive commentator on the sixties, seventies, and beyond, including his encounters with Ken Wilber, Timothy Leary, and Robin Williams. Zindell is a writer who dares as large as the universe, and when his work hits the mark, which is often in SPLENDOR, this reader felt like he was 'surfing' cosmic currents of bardic consciousness. For me though, the climax of the work was when Zindell, in near despair over struggles to bring his work into the world, discovers the secret of the phoenix, how the greatest light can often only be harvested by touching the deepest darkness and despair (but I don't want to spoil this for the reader; it is a masterful, agonizing/uplifting 'scene')--much like characters in Zindell's earlier novels! In this age of the bestselling memoir, I hope that SPLENDOR, Zindell's mystical autobiography, finds a large audience, and even catalyzes a renaissance of his earlier work, the publication of his mystical romance, THE EROS PROJECT, and many more future works. Science-Fiction, Fantasy, and hell, Literature itself needs authors who can write from the splendid core of creation. Hats off to this Kosmic Bard!JJ ShefaCo-Author of THE CRY OF MERLINThe Cry of Merlin: 2nd Edition
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. David Zindell's SPLENDOR Is, In Fact, Splendid By Michael Bishop David Zindell's SPLENDOR defies easy categorization. It features many of the characteristics of courageous confessional autobiography, but also reads like compelling speculative anthropology, sociology, and history. All the while, its structuring theme -- the life-affirming concept of splendor -- gives it a philosophical touchstone that centers and unites all of Zindell's major concerns, from love to the recurrent inhumanity of our species, from the death of spirit in raw material pursuits to the star-driven quest for ultimate meaning.These abstractions, however, fail to convey the astuteness or the poignancy of the author's takes on family members, friends, coworkers, and specific supportive or adversarial human beings, from writers to gurus to scientists. Herein you will read cagey portraits of such cultural figures as Robin Williams, Ken Wilbur, and Timothy Leary, and surprising exchanges between Zindell and his precocious but humane daughters, Hawk and Canary. You will follow Zindell from boyhood to adolescence to manhood, not always in linear fashion, through astonishing success as a writer of idea-rich science fiction and back down that ladder to penury and almost total despair. But you will also watch him, focused on the release of the splendor in his own being, climb out of depression by heroic dint of will and tireless personal struggle.I can't say enough about the honesty, the thoughtfulness, or the power of this rare book. Zindell may have blind spots in his vision or soft spots in his romantic heart, but he always tries as hard as he can to reposition himself to see clearly or to leaven his emotionality with a charitable logic. He thereby steers a straight course between the Scylla of Pollyanna-ism and the Charybdis of cynicism. I find SPLENDOR (even if its tender snapshot of me leaves me unrecognizable to family and most long-term friends) exhilarating, with much of the intelligent spiritual uplift of Thomas Merton's classic autobiography, THE SEVEN-STOREY MOUNTAIN. In short, an accomplishment altogether splendid.
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