Glass Arcade

By Adrian Brooks

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671829165
• ISBN13: 9780671829162
• Release Date: June 1980
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Degradation from the Third Reich

Brooks, Adrian. "The Glass Arcade", A Star Book. 1980. Degradation from the Third Reich Amos Lassen I have a good deal of trouble reading about Nazis. So many people that I know were affected by their reign of terror and what they did was so inhumane that I felt for the longest time that reading about it validates it to some degree. I now realize that a good deal is written out of horror and disbelief and as a way of cleaning and purging the emotions. Adrian Brooks deals with the beginning of evil and the end of innocence in "The Glass Arcade". The Kurtz family was slaughtered by the Nazis and only Michael survived or so he thought. He had no idea of the future that awaited him. He was used and abused by the Nazis and this would stay with him his entire life. He was first directed to get in the car of a major in the SS and it was from that point that his life ceased to be his own. He was taken to be the toy in the brothel of Frederich Lorken where he was forced to take part in the perverted pleasures of the Nazi commanders. These perversions were so sadistic that they were burned into his soul and left a mark on him that he could never forget. If he did not participate, he would be shipped to the death camp at Dachau so he had really no choice. He was confined to a "velvet jungle" where he was alone save the time that appointments were made for him to be the object of someone's pleasure. At any moment he could be called upon and Fridays were the days when the offices came and the living quarters were transformed into the true decadence that was Nazi Germany. Michael had a hard time but realized that he had to stay alive. In 1964, some thirty years later, Michael was in New York and his dreams make him relive the horrors he was forced to endure. He is taken back to that awful period of his life and the decadent period returns to him. He was once more taken away This book is so real that it made me shudder as I read. Brooks has a gift for both words and characterization. His writing his skillful and polished and the book becomes a page-turner. Descriptions are vivid as Brooks' style is vibrant. It is hard to believe that the book is almost thirty years old because the author's voice is so fresh.