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Jesus, M.D.: A Doctor Examines the Great Physician
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Jesus--the ultimate doctor. His touch extended grace to the sick and sinful of ancient Palestine and left a miracle in its wake. And his ministry hasnt ceased. Today, he looks for willing hearts and hands through which he can heal a needy world. Dr. David Stevens knows. His eleven years at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya have shown him more than the drama and sacrifice of missionary medicine. In Jesus, M.D. Dr. Stevens shares the insights he has gained into the character, power, and purposes of the Great Physician and what it means for you to follow in his footsteps. This is more than a book of dramatic, true-life stories. It is an inspiring and challenging invitation to partner with Jesus in his "practice," accompanying him on his rounds to people whose lives he wants to make whole. Discover how to participate with him in bringing his healing touch to your corner of the world. You dont need a medical education--just determination to trust God as your "attending physician," your mentor, your source of guidance, discipline, and encouragement. Dr. Stevens takes you inside stories from the Bible to obtain challenging perspectives and life-changing truths. Youll also get an inside look at life-or-death surgeries; the tense, powerful relationship between resident and attending physicians; the overcrowded patient quarters of a missionary hospital; what its like to improvise an emergency facial reconstruction; and much more. Best of all, youll gain surprising insights from the life and methods of Jesus, the ultimate doctor, in his ministry to desperately needy people two thousand years ago . . . and today. Electrifying, moving, and thought-provoking, Jesus, M.D. will help you see your relationship with God and your world in a brand-new light. Your life is filled with incredible possibilities waiting to unfold one by one as you walk in the presence and provision of Dr. Jesus.
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Director Jean-Pierre Limosin's Young Yakuza, a documentary on the immersion of a troubled Japanese youth into the shadowy, sorta-legal-but-still-illicit world of the yakuza (Japanese mafia), never delivers either the thrill of its underworld setting or much insight into its complicated workings. Limosin's cameras follow as the exasperated mother of 20-year-old Naoki turns him over to the Kumagi clan in the hope that he'll learn discipline and gain focus in his life. Sounding like any businessman lamenting the poor crop of candidates before him, the clan leader offers the wry observation that due to Japan's generally lax and deteriorating expectations of its youth, it's increasingly difficult to find young men with the qualities needed to become yakuza. Limosin's efforts to spice up Naoki's tale with scenes of Japanese rappers don't add the edge he's seeking, but the film really loses steam when—more than halfway through—Naoki vanishes, and a new protagonist is jammed into place. For legal reasons, the replacement can't be seen on camera, and the film's already low-watt energy fizzes, never to pick back up. By the time Naoki finally reappears, the viewer is hard-pressed to care.
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Dependency injection
In software engineering, dependency injection is a software design pattern that implements inversion of control for resolving dependencies. An injection is the passing of a dependency (a service or software module) to a dependent object (a client). The service is made part of the client's state. Passing the service to the client, rather than allowing a client to build or find the service, is the fundamental requirement of the pattern.
Dependency injection allows a program design to follow the dependency inversion principle. The client delegates to an external codebase the control flow of discovering and importing a dependency. The external codebase then specifies or "injects" the service in the client. Therefore, the responsibility for locating or constructing dependencies (performed by the external codebase) is expressly separated from code that would take responsibility for using those dependencies (performed by the client).
There are three common forms of dependency injection: setter-, interface- and constructor-based injection, where the responsibility of injecting the dependency lies upon the client, the service or the constructor method respectively.
- 1 Overview
- 2 Examples
- 2.1 Without dependency injection
- 2.2 Three types of dependency injection
- 2.3 Assembling examples
- 2.4 Assembly comparison
- 2.5 AngularJS example
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Dependency injection is a software design pattern in which one or more dependencies (or services) are injected, or passed by reference, into a dependent object (or client) and are made part of the client's state. The pattern separates the creation of a client's dependencies from its own behavior, which allows program designs to be loosely coupled and to follow the dependency inversion and single responsibility principles.[1][2] It directly contrasts with the service locator pattern, which allows clients to know about the system they use to find dependencies.
Dependency injection involves four elements: a service object; the client object depending on the service; the interface the client uses to communicate with the service; and the injector object, which is responsible for injecting the service into the client. The injector object may also be referred to as an assembler, provider, container, factory, or spring.
Dependency injection can be applied as a discipline. One that asks that all objects to separate construction and behavior. Relying on a DI framework to perform construction can lead to forbiding the use of the new keyword, or, less strictly, only allow direct construction of value objects.[3][4][5]
Implementation of dependency injection is often identical to that of the strategy pattern, but while the strategy pattern is intended for dependencies to be interchangeable throughout an object's lifetime, in dependency injection it may be that only a single instance of a dependency is used.[6]
Application frameworks such as Spring, Guice, Play framework, Salta, Glassfish HK2, and Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) support dependency injection but are not required to do dependency injection. [7][8]
- Because dependency injection doesn't require any change in code behavior it can be applied to legacy code as a refactoring. The result is clients that are more independent and that are easier to unit test in isolation using stubs or mock objects that simulate other objects not under test. This ease of testing is often the first benefit noticed when using dependency injection.
- Dependency injection allows a client to remove all knowledge of a concrete implementation that it needs to use. This helps isolate the client from the impact of design changes and defects. It promotes reusability, testability and maintainability.[9]
- Dependency injection can be used to externalize a system's configuration details into configuration files allowing the system to be reconfigured without recompilation. Separate configurations can be written for different situations that require different implementations of components. This includes, but is not limited to, testing.
- Reduction of boilerplate code in the application objects since all work to initialize or set up dependencies is handled by a provider component.[9]
- Dependency injection allows concurrent or independent development. Two developers can independently develop classes that use each other, while only needing to know the interface the classes will communicate through. Plugins are often developed by third party shops that never even talk to the developers who created the product that uses the plugins.
- Dependency injection can make code difficult to trace (read) because it separates behavior from construction. This means developers must refer to more files to follow how a system performs.
- Dependency injection typically requires more upfront development effort since one can not summon into being something right when and where it is needed but must ask that it be injected.
- Dependency injection can cause an explosion of types, especially in languages that have explicit interface types, like Java and C# [12]
- Dependency injection forces complexity to move out of classes and into the linkages between classes which might not always be desirable or easily managed. [13]
- Modern mocking tools enable unit testing without the need for dependency injection.[14]
- Dependency injection is not effective if you will never need a different implementation or a different configuration. It can be easily overused if not looked at critically. [15]
- Ironically, dependency injection can encourage dependence on a dependency injection framework. [16][17][18]
Without dependency injection[edit]
In the following Java example, the
Client class contains a
Service member variable that is initialized by the
Client constructor. The client controls which implementation of service is used and controls its construction. In this situation, the client is said to have a hard-coded dependency on
// An example without dependency injection
public class Client {
// Internal reference to the service used by this client
private Service service;
// Constructor
Client() {
// Specify a specific implementation in the constructor instead of using dependency injection
this.service = new ServiceExample();
// Method within this client that uses the services
public String greet() {
return "Hello " + service.getName();
Dependency injection is an alternative technique to initialize the member variable than explicitly creating a service object as shown above.
Three types of dependency injection[edit]
There are at least three ways an object can receive a reference to an external module:[19]
- constructor injection: the dependencies are provided through a class constructor.
- setter injection: the client exposes a setter method that the injector uses to inject the dependency.
- interface injection: the dependency provides an injector method that will inject the dependency into any client passed to it. Clients must implement an interface that exposes a setter method that accepts the dependency.
Other types[edit]
It is possible for frameworks to have other types of injection beyond those presented above.[20]
Some attempts at inversion of control do not provide full removal of dependency but instead simply substitute one form of dependency for another. As a rule of thumb, if a programmer can look at nothing but the client code and tell what framework is being used, then the client has a hard-coded dependency on the framework.
Constructor injection[edit]
This method requires the client to provide a parameter in a constructor for the dependency.
// Constructor
Client(Service service) {
// Save the reference to the passed-in service inside this client
this.service = service;
Setter injection[edit]
This method requires the client to provide a setter method for each dependency.
// Setter method
public void setService(Service service) {
// Save the reference to the passed-in service inside this client
this.service = service;
Interface injection[edit]
This is simply the client publishing a role interface to the setter methods of the client's dependencies. It can be used to establish how the injector should talk to the client when injecting dependencies.
// Service setter interface.
public interface ServiceSetter {
public void setService(Service service);
// Client class
public class Client implements ServiceSetter {
// Internal reference to the service used by this client.
private Service service;
// Set the service that this client is to use.
public void setService(Service service) {
this.service = service;
Constructor injection comparison[edit]
Preferred when all dependencies can be constructed first because it can be used to ensure the client object is always in a valid state, as opposed to having some of its dependency references be null (not be set). However, on its own, it lacks the flexibility to have its dependencies changed later.
// Constructor
Client(Service service, Service otherService) {
if (service == null) {
throw new InvalidParameterException("service must not be null");
if (otherService == null) {
throw new InvalidParameterException("otherService must not be null");
// Save the service references inside this client
this.service = service;
this.otherService = otherService;
Setter injection comparison[edit]
Requires the client to provide a setter method for each dependency. This gives the freedom to manipulate the state of the dependency references at any time. This offers flexibility, but if there is more than one dependency to be injected, it is difficult for the client to ensure that all dependencies are injected before the client could be provided for use.
// Set the service to be used by this client
public void setService(Service service) {
if (service == null) {
throw new InvalidParameterException("service must not be null");
this.service = service;
// Set the other service to be used by this client
public void setOtherService(Service otherService) {
if (otherService == null) {
throw new InvalidParameterException("otherService must not be null");
this.otherService = otherService;
Since these injections happen independently there is no way to tell when the injector is finished wiring the client. A dependency can be left null simply by the injector failing to call its setter. This forces the check that injection was completed from when the client is assembled to whenever it is used.
// Set the service to be used by this client
public void setService(Service service) {
this.service = service;
// Set the other service to be used by this client
public void setOtherService(Service otherService) {
this.otherService = otherService;
// Check the service references of this client
private void validateState() {
if (service == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException("service must not be null");
if (otherService == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException("otherService must not be null");
// Method that uses the service references
public void doSomething() {
Interface injection comparison[edit]
The advantage of interface injection is that dependencies can be completely ignorant of their clients yet can still receive a reference to a new client and, using it, send a reference-to-self back to the client. In this way, the dependencies become injectors. The key is that the injecting method (which could just be a classic setter method) is provided through an interface.
An assembler is still needed to introduce the client and its dependencies. The assembler would take a reference to the client, cast it to the setter interface that sets that dependency, and pass it to that dependency object which would turn around and pass a reference-to-self back to the client.
For interface injection to have value, the dependency must do something in addition to simply passing back a reference to itself. This could be acting as a factory or sub-assembler to resolve other dependencies, thus abstracting some details from the main assembler. It could be reference-counting so that the dependency knows how many clients are using it. If the dependency maintains a collection of clients, it could later inject them all with a different instance of itself.
Assembling examples[edit]
Assembling in main by hand is only one way of implementing dependency injection.
public class Injector {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Build the dependencies first
Service service = new ServiceExample();
// Inject the service, constructor style
Client client = new Client(service);
// Use the objects
Frameworks like Spring allow assembly details to be externalized in configuration classes and annotations.
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;
public class Injector {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Assemble the objects
BeanFactory beanfactory = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(MyConfiguration.class);
Client client = beanfactory.getBean(Client.class);
// Use the objects
Spring will construct these objects and wire them together before returning a reference to the client.
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
static class MyConfiguration {
public Client client(ServiceExample service) {
return new Client(service);
public class ServiceExample {
Assembly comparison[edit]
The different injector implementations (factories, service locators, and dependency injection containers) are not that different as far as dependency injection is concerned. What makes all the difference is where they are allowed to be used. Move calls to a factory or a service locator out of the client and into main and suddenly main makes a fairly good dependency injection container.
By moving all knowledge of the injector out, a clean client, free of knowledge of the outside world, is left behind. However, any object that uses other objects can be considered a client. The object that contains main is no exception. This main object is not using dependency injection. It's actually using the service locator pattern. This can't be avoided because the choice of service implementations must be made somewhere.
Externalizing the dependencies into configuration files doesn't change this fact. What makes this reality part of a good design is that the service locator is not spread throughout the code base. It's confined to one place per application. This leaves the rest of the code base free to use dependency injection to make clean clients.
AngularJS example[edit]
In the AngularJS framework, there are only three ways a component (object or function) can directly access its dependencies:
- The component can create the dependency, typically using the
- The component can look up the dependency, by referring to a global variable.
- The component can have the dependency passed to it where it is needed.
The first two options of creating or looking up dependencies are not optimal because they hard code the dependency to the component. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to modify the dependencies. This is especially problematic in tests, where it is often desirable to provide mock dependencies for test isolation.
The third option is the most viable, since it removes the responsibility of locating the dependency from the component. The dependency is simply handed to the component.
function SomeClass(greeter) {
this.greeter = greeter;
SomeClass.prototype.doSomething = function(name) {
In the above example
SomeClass is not concerned with creating or locating the greeter dependency, it is simply handed the greeter when it is instantiated.
This is desirable, but it puts the responsibility of getting hold of the dependency on the code that constructs
To manage the responsibility of dependency creation, each AngularJS application has an injector. The injector is a service locator that is responsible for construction and look-up of dependencies.
Here is an example of using the injector service:
// Provide the wiring information in a module
var myModule = angular.module('myModule', []);
// Teach the injector how to build a greeter service.
// Notice that greeter is dependent on the $window service.
// The greeter service is an object that
// contains a greet method.
myModule.factory('greeter', function($window) {
return {
greet: function(text) {
Create a new injector that can provide components defined in the
myModule module and request our greeter service from the injector. (This is usually done automatically by the AngularJS bootstrap).
var injector = angular.injector(['myModule', 'ng']);
var greeter = injector.get('greeter');
Asking for dependencies solves the issue of hard coding, but it also means that the injector needs to be passed throughout the application. Passing the injector breaks the Law of Demeter. To remedy this, we use a declarative notation in our HTML templates, to hand the responsibility of creating components over to the injector, as in this example:
<div ng-controller="MyController">
<button ng-click="sayHello()">Hello</button>
function MyController($scope, greeter) {
$scope.sayHello = function() {
greeter.greet('Hello World');
When AngularJS compiles the HTML, it processes the
ng-controller directive, which in turn asks the injector to create an instance of the controller and its dependencies.
This is all done behind the scenes. Notice that by having the
ng-controller ask the injector to instantiate the class, it can satisfy all of the dependencies of
MyController without the controller ever knowing about the injector. This is the best outcome. The application code simply declares the dependencies it needs, without having to deal with the injector. This setup does not break the Law of Demeter.
See also[edit]
- Architecture description language
- Factory pattern
- Inversion of control
- Plug-in (computing)
- Strategy pattern
- AngularJS
- ^ Niko Schwarz, Mircea Lungu, Oscar Nierstrasz, "Seuss: Decoupling responsibilities from static methods for fine-grained configurability", Journal of Object Technology, Volume 11, no. 1 (April 2012), pp. 3:1-23
- ^ Mark Seemann. Dependency Injection .NET. Manning Publications Company, 2011, p. 4.
- ^ http://misko.hevery.com/2008/09/30/to-new-or-not-to-new/
- ^ http://www.loosecouplings.com/2011/01/how-to-write-testable-code-overview.html
- ^ http://www.ethanresnick.com/blog/testableCode.html
- ^ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4176520/what-is-the-difference-between-strategy-pattern-and-dependency-injection
- ^ http://www.loosecouplings.com/2011/01/dependency-injection-using-di-container.html
- ^ http://blacksheep.parry.org/archives/diy-di/print/
- ^ a b "The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - detail JSR# 330". Jcp.org. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
- ^ http://www.bryancook.net/2011/08/on-dependency-injection-and-violating.html
- ^ "The Dependency Injection Design Pattern".
- ^ http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-when-we-are-implementing-the-dependency-injection
- ^ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407540/what-are-the-downsides-to-using-dependency-injection
- ^ Proffitt, Jacob. "Dependency Injection".
- ^ Marston, Tony. "Dependency Injection is Evil".
- ^ https://sites.google.com/site/unclebobconsultingllc/blogs-by-robert-martin/dependency-injection-inversion
- ^ http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/01/dependency-injection-inversion
- ^ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407540/what-are-the-downsides-to-using-dependency-injection
- ^ Martin Fowler (2004-01-23). "Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern - Forms of Dependency Injection". Martinfowler.com. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
- ^ "Yan - Dependency Injection Types". Yan.codehaus.org. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dependency injection.
- A beginners guide to Dependency Injection
- Dependency Injection & Testable Objects: Designing loosely coupled and testable objects - Jeremy Weiskotten; Dr. Dobb's Journal, May 2006.
- Design Patterns: Dependency Injection -- MSDN Magazine, September 2005
- Martin Fowler's original article that introduced the term Dependency Injection
- P of EAA: Plugin
- The Rich Engineering Heritage Behind Dependency Injection - Andrew McVeigh - A detailed history of dependency injection.
- What is Dependency Injection? - An alternative explanation - Jakob Jenkov
- Writing More Testable Code with Dependency Injection -- Developer.com, October 2006
- Managed Extensibility Framework Overview -- MSDN
- Old fashioned description of the Dependency Mechanism by Hunt 1998
- Refactor Your Way to a Dependency Injection Container


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Bear Creek Golf Course, located in Monroe, didn't always look the way it does today.
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Piedmont Academy's Senior and Junior Y-Clubs hosted a breakfast at the school on Veterans' Day for area veterans. Ms. Julie's K-5 class led the Pledge of Allegiance. Each veteran stood and shared in which branch of the military he/she served, number of years served and in which war, if any, they served.
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PANAJI/PONDA/MAPUSA: Bakers sweating over costly inputs may justify selling bread dearer, but housewives, office goers and others who relish pao with their tea, bhaji or vada are floored by the sniff of another crisis to pull their purse strings tighter.
In most Goan homes, pao is conveniently dipped in the morning tea, or stuffed with fried egg or lined with jam or butter.
"We mostly rely on bread for breakfast as we are busy at home, and we find the proposed hike quite steep," Isabel D'Souza, a resident of Canca, Tivim, said.
Housewives are hoping the hike will be minimal or they may have to rethink the menu for breakfast.
"It is okay for those who can afford it, but what about those who can't," D'Souza asked.
Agreed Amberta Fernandes, another housewife, "We were relying on bread only on Sunday, but if the price is so steep, it will be difficult for the low and middle class," she said. Pao is an inevitable accompaniment with the much-sought after bhaji in Goan restaurants. The small spicy meal is also relished by Goans on either side of lunch, with chapatti.
The bhaji pao is often an afternoon meal for some, who may find a plate of rice with fish-and-curry in restaurants costly. "If Vada pao is a poor man's burger, bhaji pao serves as lunch for him, but costlier bread will pinch him all the way to his stomach," Dhiraj Gawde, a bhaji eater said.
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Many carts sell vada pao in key city areas. "Vada pao, which was already selling at 10, may not be affordable for the common man," Surendra Dhulapker, a restaurateur said.
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Re: alcohol in Baku
98% of the population is Moslem but the bar scene there caters for expats, and you can buy alcohol here but the price is rather high so bring it in duty fee
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Re: alcohol in Baku
Alcohol is available in every city, town and village from bars to corner stores. Vodka is ubiquitous with more brands than you even knew existed. While there are expats bars, with countless bars on seemingly every corner in the centre (not to mention alcohol at restaurants) there simply aren't enough expats to to fill them. It is not uncommon to see locals drinking alcohol in outdoor cafes during the day during Ramadan.
Alcohol is slightly more expensive than neighbouring Georgia, Russia or Armenia, but you can still get a beer at a bar for a couple Manat ($2-$3)
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Azeri people are mostly muslim but like the turks many of them are happy alcohol drinkers and are not uptight about alcohol at all. You should never have a problem finding alcohol in any major town in Azerbaijan.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A big novel of sibling rivalry that delivers
Meek came to my attention with his strange but wonderful Booker longlisted novel, The People's Act Of Love which was set in 1919 Siberia and featured a strange religious cult and a sociopathic escaped prisoner - I loved it. The Heart Broke In is totally different in setting, but does have more of Meek's enigmatic writing...
The Heart Broke In tackles the...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Still not sure what to make of it
I finished this a few days ago and still can't quite make up my mind. On the postive side - it's a good read and you do want to keep turning the pages. But what is it? It's full of caricatures, rather than real characters. It's funny but it's not a black comedy. I think it's problem is that it wants to be taken seriously as a 'moral thriller', as Philip Pullman says on...
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A big novel of sibling rivalry that delivers,
Annabel Gaskell "gaskella2" (Nr Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
Meek came to my attention with his strange but wonderful Booker longlisted novel, The People's Act Of Love which was set in 1919 Siberia and featured a strange religious cult and a sociopathic escaped prisoner - I loved it. The Heart Broke In is totally different in setting, but does have more of Meek's enigmatic writing...
The Heart Broke In tackles the subject of sibling rivalry, primarily seen through the eyes of Ritchie Shepherd, a rock star turned TV producer, and his sister Bec a malaria researcher. Sibling rivalry might sound a small theme, but this is a big novel, and Meek takes an expansive as well as microscopic examination of the lives of Ritchie and Bec by looking through the lens of love and betrayal...
Ritchie used to be guitarist in a rock'n'roll band, Lazygods, together with his wife Karin. Now, they live in a big house with their two lovely children, and Ritchie the successful producer of an X-Factor for teens style show. Apart from production troubles, there's a hotly denied rumour going around that Ritchie has been seeing a fifteen year old. Very sad, very rock'n'roll, very of the zeitgeist. You just know that it will come back to bite him eventually.
Whilst Ritchie's life is constrained by family and job, his younger sister Bec has no such ties now. She was going out with Val, the Editor of a red-top newspaper, but when he got too serious she called it off. A medical researcher, she's a free spirit, going where her work takes her. Then she makes a discovery - finding a microscopic parasite that gives partial immunity to malaria. She infects herself - only trouble is that uncontrolled, the parasite causes spells of temporary blindness. Bec compounds her medical success by falling in love with Alex - a medical researcher making breakthroughs in stem cell treatments for cancer. Alex just happens to have been the drummer in Ritchie's first band - he still drums his fingers all the time, 'as an elaborate form of fidgeting, it helped him think.'
Science's golden couple make big news, eclipsing Ritchie, who's also taken aback by finding out that it was Karin the fans worshipped in the Lazygods. Alex has family problems of his own, he works for his Uncle Harry who is dying of cancer, and Harry is leaving everything to Alex, rather than his own son Matt who is too God-fearing for him, and this is complicated by the arrival of his layabout brother Dougie down from Glasgow on the scene. Meanwhile, Alex is desperate for a baby with Bec, and it's just not happening. It builds up so there are just too many secrets, lies and barriers to communication in Ritchie and Bec's families. The dam is going to break and they are forced to choose between love and betrayal.
I particularly enjoyed reading about Bec - she was mesmerising as a character, serene, slightly aloof in a good way, independent, and then there was the whole self-experimentation thing - foolhardy or brave? A bit of both, I'd wager. The science could have got quite difficult, but Meek has a light touch with it and although I'm not a biologist, it all felt very authentic and well-researched. The personality of Ritchie too, despite all his faults, is sympathetically drawn. He is on the verge of a mid-life crisis at the beginning of the book, and you do want to find out what's going to happen. Schadefreude, yes, but also hope that he can pull himself together.
There is a huge amount more to the brother and sister relationship - what happened to their father in particular, and Alex's family too, that I've not mentioned above. The dynamics are complicated - and reminded me somewhat of The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale, which also has a science and TV background and explores complex emotions. Both books are solid and totally gripping, full of moral dilemmas. I really enjoyed this novel. It's a big read in all senses. (9/10)
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Heart,
Sukie (South Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
This is a big novel both physically (over 500 pages) and in terms of content. Meek isn't afraid to tackle difficult subjects - science v religion, the cost that comes with success, betrayal and forgiveness, sibling rivalry, parenthood, love, ethics... - but maintains a light touch with such heavyweight topics so that the book is always readable and fascinating.
Bec and Ritchie are the central characters - brother and sister who couldn't be more different. Former rock star and TV producer Ritchie's star might just be on the wane and he is desperate to keep hold of all the trappings of fame he has acquired - the luxury home he shares with his wife and children, his money and status. Yet with a media storm poised to break about his fifteen-year-old lover, he's on the brink of losing everything.
Bec, meanwhile, is a scientist whose research has led to a breakthrough in the quest for a malaria vaccine. She's the light side to Ritchie's darkness, yet she might just have made herself a dangerous enemy who is out for revenge.
Both characters are well-drawn and convincing, as are the minor characters that populate the story. Meek seems incredibly knowledgable about the science world, as well as TV production/media, and I was completely drawn in to the action.
I wasn't expecting this to be such a witty novel but there are moments of real comedy genius, and some brilliant asides that show what a sharp, smart writer Meek is. I loved legendary scientist Harry meeting the dogwear-designer for instance - just a wonderful set-up. Also Ritchie's hope that his young son is a school bully so that other children will fear him in the playground - such a warped hope for one's child speaks volumes about Ritchie's state of mind.
If I have a criticism it's that the book felt a bit flabby in the middle, and perhaps the plot could have been tighter here. But overall, this is a great read, very well-written, posing lots of interesting questions, and it's a book I'd recommend.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Stupendous Novel of Conscience, Humour and Betrayal.,
Tommy Dooley "Tom" (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
Meet Ritchie Shepherd an ex rock musician of questionable merit who used to front erstwhile chart toppers `the Lazygods'. He has now re-invented himself as a TV presenter for `Teen Makeover' which is one of those talent show competition type things, the only proviso is they have to be teenagers, which is right up his alley as he has a thing for young girls; a very big thing for very young girls that is.
His sister Bec is a malaria researcher who has taken her calling very seriously indeed even being self infected with a newly discovered parasite to see if it is a cure all. She has just turned down a marriage proposal to a very powerful newspaper editor, who is slightly twisted to put it mildly and takes up with one of Ritchie's old band mates Alex. He is a bit of a medical research wiz too following the footsteps of his much loved uncle Henry who is hilarious by the way. He thinks he has stumbled across a process that may actually be able to challenge ageing and is hailed as the wunder child of the medical world, so his getting together with Bec seems like a match made in heaven.
The problem is Bec's ex lover has dirt on everyone and after a bit of a wig out sets up a blackmailing web site where in order to be let off the hook you have to dish the smut on someone close to you - a sort of Wiki - backstab type thing. The thing is how far would you go to protect your self if they had the dirt on you?
I absolutely loved this; it is funny, well written engaging, inventive and highly original. Praised by Louis De Bernieres author of `Captain Correli's Mandolin', which has to be high praise indeed. This is the sort of book that would make for a great TV adaptation, but I think you may lose some of the story in the richness of the text which is both accessible and high quality making this an absolute gem of a read. Can not recommend highly enough, one to read again and again and tell your friends about - James Meek has written literary gold.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Still not sure what to make of it,
David (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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I finished this a few days ago and still can't quite make up my mind. On the postive side - it's a good read and you do want to keep turning the pages. But what is it? It's full of caricatures, rather than real characters. It's funny but it's not a black comedy. I think it's problem is that it wants to be taken seriously as a 'moral thriller', as Philip Pullman says on the cover, but it doesn't quite make it. Comparisons to Dickens are completely OTT. Dickens could get away with characters who are almost caricatures of types of people, because he made them real and you believed in them. You can't do that with Meek's cast - engaging and amusing though some of them are. The morality is too simplistic - too stark, too black and white. Real morality is much more complex and real people are just, well more real than this set of collection of rather superficial characters. It would have been better done as black comedy. It almost makes it: Richie - the talent show slimeball; Bec - Miss Goodietwoshoes; Alex - the scientist with a touch of Aspergers; and Val the hypocritical News of the World-style moralistic editor.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars I don't get it,
elsie purdon "reads too much" (dorset uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
Newspaper reviews for this novel have included quotes such as "Dickensian characters" and "Dostoevskyan intensity".
So I had high hopes.
I disliked the main character immediately, as the reader is supposed to, a nasty, sleazy ex-rock star Richie, who currently a TV presenter with a thing for under age girls. Gross.
His sister Bec is the "good" sibling. She's a scientist trying to find an immunisation programme for Malaria, but she has made a dangerous enemy and that person wants revenge via Ritchie. As the novel proceeds her actions become more complex, is anybody just all good or all bad?
She does something that might be morally bad, but she does it for a "good" reason. Perhaps? She's not sure and I don't care.
I found Meek's writing too brief, and slick. I wanted the writing to be more detailed, the characters more complex , more rounded out.
I couldn't believe enough in the charters and I became annoyed and frustrated.
I didn't like the people, I didn't care about them and the writing left too many plot holes. I kept wondering if I had missed something, perhaps left a page out.
In the end I just didn't really want to read the book. it feels like a waste of my time. I write this certain that another person will love it to bits. It's all a matter of taste and this book and the author's writing are not mine.
I think it is too clever, too shallow and misses out the heart of people and the real life that goes on. I just can't find it in this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Very readable, very forgettable - 3.5 stars,
Purpleheart (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
'The story doing the rounds at Ritchie Shepherd's production company was accurate when it appeared inside the staff's heads, when they hardly sensed it, let alone spoke it. It was like a slight stink, clear enough to note, too trivial to mention.'
The novel begins with the unlikeable Ritchie, who is suspected of cheating on his wife once again - by a group of his employees. The opening chapter is a little clumsy in its style, lumping the group with the same thoughts and then letting us know that Ritchie is having an affair with a not quite sixteen year old, a young person that he is clearly using his position of power to seduce... so far, so topical.
At the heart of the novel is the relationship Ritchie has with his sister, Bec. They are chalk and cheese, light and dark. He is sleazy, she is a malaria researcher. It's a long novel and Meek uses a number of points of view and, for this reader, loses narrative drive because of that. He poses moral dilemmas and his characters seek their own resolution to those dilemmas. If the characters were more believable then I would have been more involved in the outcomes, as Meek deals with interesting themes.
For me, this not in the same class as The Heart Broke in or We are Now Beginning Our Descent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Betrayals,
Eleanor (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
Ritchie is a former rock star turned TV producer, living in luxury with his wife and children. His sister Bec, by contrast, is not interested in fame or money, devoting her life to finding a cure for malaria. The assured opening of "The Heart Broke In" concerns the rumour that Ritchie is having an affair with an underage girl. Ritchie would do anything to keep this affair secret, even if it means committing a terrible act of betrayal.
Ritchie is a brilliant character, self-regarding, selfish, and self-justifying, and Meek skillfully allows the reader to feel his despair whilst fervently wishing he gets his come-uppance. Ritchie is resentful of his 'saintly' sister, but Bec is a complicated character with her own moral struggles. The siblings are just two of the book's large ensemble cast, all of whom are vividly drawn as they weave in and out of each other's lives.
At times I thought that Meek hammered home his themes and foreshadowings with a bit of a heavy hand, but nevertheless
"The Heart Broke In" is a well-written and enjoyable read with a great love story at its core. Philip Pullman has said of this novel, 'I suppose we could call it a moral thriller.', and this seems an apt description. The last 100 pages especially are absolutely riveting as events come to a head, raising hard questions about revenge, justice, and human weakness.
5.0 out of 5 stars Breadth and credibility,
Emily - London (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
I'm a convert to James Meek. He really has been in rooms with former IRA terrorists and with malaria researchers. This is a novel that credibly walks you into different conversations round the world. When he describes a tabloid editor going mad, you feel he knows whereof he speaks. When we watch a mother burying her child dead of malaria in Africa, there are small details.
This reminds me of Margaret Drabble at her best in the 1980s – when she was writing State of England novels that stretched further afield. This one catches the arc of science in flux, and ranges from Papua New Guinea to Tanzania to London. Malaria vaccines that 'half work' are the news of the moment – even two years after this novel was written – so Meek is up there with what will be trending. It catches the arc of rock music in flux too – the inspired and the mediocre. It touches a raw nerve in its use of media – the Moral Foundation blackmailing the vulnerable to dish the dirt on other celebrities, and on people the media have tried to 'celebritise' who were just getting on with their lives. It poses the challenge of religion – when a fundamentalist Christian family has no real answer to a daughter who switches her allegiance to Islam for its clearer sense of right and wrong and for a young man, and when family values mean falling out with the grandfather of your children.
He has been accused of writing 'restrained and over-analytic characters' – that are not sufficiently flesh and blood. But this novel gets into the heart of scientists obsessed by their work and into the dubious morality of mediocre celebrity.
It has been described a' moral thriller'. It is certainly about notions of right and wrong. It is about revenge and about forgiveness. It is about the right way to live one's life, and about different meanings of family loyalty and disloyalty, family versus doctrine, and perhaps family wins out in the end. It addresses concerns which are not simply world stage – the headlines of scientific breakthrough and celebrity disgrace – but more essential, how people die, how they get into debt, what women will do to have a child.
You identify with both the heroes and the villains – even if not with the walk-on baddies. Meek is not afraid of multiple perspectives – the narrator with a god's eye view. You want to find out what happens at the end and for good and bad, sister and brother, both to make it through. I won't tell you what happens.
4.0 out of 5 stars Betrayal - one of the darkest concepts,
Lost John (Devon, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Hardcover)
James Meek has put a huge amount into this 550 page novel; including, it seems, something of his own Scottish and London experiences, and much research into single-cell life forms, malaria, cancer and more. Besides various places in London, the Home Counties, Dorset and Scotland, we visit Papua New Guinea, Tanzania and (in each case, briefly) Cardiff, Dublin and San Francisco. We learn something of independent production of documentaries and entertainment series for TV.
But none of that is what the novel is 'about'. That is much more a matter of human relationships; ambition, noble and ignoble; struggle with, and sometimes against, standards set by others; absolutes such as loyalty to marriage partners, family, children and comrades in arms; and the antithesis of loyalty, betrayal. The back cover of the book asks, "Would you betray someone you love to give them what they want?" The answer, you think - even several hundred pages into the book - is no. Then James Meek comes up with a situation where an entirely decent person perhaps might.
There are some good lines in the book - "the gnawing, competitive hedonism of London"; "He looked like an old conscript, the kind of old man who gets called up when a war is almost lost"; "Ritchie waited for several heartbeats" (i.e. using heartbeats as a measure of time); "He died, not frightened but pre-occupied, busy in the act of trying to change his mind". There is a whole paragraph (p 205) on the river of money that flows through London, "a sediment of macerated currency washed off the cash mountains of Eurasia"; and James Meek clearly doesn't find The Shard any more aesthetically attractive than I do.
James Meek is good too on self-deception: Ritchie's mother had moved to Spain, afterwards persuading herself - with help from a British tabloid newspaper circulating there - that she had been forced into exile by the aspects of British society, real and imagined, that British tabloids daily deplore; whilst Ritchie, a faded pop star who moved into TV light entertainment, had convinced himself that his various changes of artistic direction were a matter of personal choice, made whilst producers and critics were still urging him to continue as he was.
After reading a blockbuster such as this, one that takes us through more experiences, more exotic locations, more moral quandaries, and quite as many difficult situations as most people go through in a lifetime, we ought to feel we have been on an emotional rollercoaster ride but that the overall effect is positive and that we have gained at least a little more wisdom. The novel may work like that for others, but for me it didn't.
One problem area is that none of the many players is sufficiently attractive for us to root for them. That, despite several of them having a lot going for them, and virtually all having at least some redeeming features. Try a simple test: sexual relationships apart - which in novels at least tend to be transitory - how many of them have good, longstanding friends who can be relied on to stand by them even after they make big mistakes? Family members not excluded.
Or maybe that's an unfair question: with loyalty like that there would be no betrayal.
It's a six-and-a half out of ten novel for me, so to round that up to four stars is generous. Most of my four star novels would be well ahead of this on my list of recommended reads.
4.0 out of 5 stars A good but uncomfortable read about human failings,
Marleen (Cavan, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heart Broke In (Paperback)
I received this book from Canongate through Nudge.
Ritchie Shepherd is a former rock star turned television personality with an unhealthy appetite for girls who are much too young even though he is married and has two young children. Because he is very good at lying to himself about himself he doesn't see anything wrong with what he does:
"He'd discovered that he felt no same about cheating on Karin until she found out...Karin's happiness was more important to him than everything. That's why he would do whatever he could to protect her from the knowledge that he was having sex with someone else."
Bec Shepherd, Richie's younger sister is a scientist specialising in defeating malaria, a goal she has halfway accomplished. Still struggling with the death of her father at the hands of terrorists in Northern Ireland when she was a young girl, Bec seems to allow life to happen to her to such an extend that she accepts a marriage proposal just because it takes her by surprise. When she changes her mind and tells newspaper editor Val Oatman that she won't be marrying him the relatively stable lives of the Shepherds go into freefall, even if not all of them are aware of it. Val feels betrayed and is on a mission to make the Shepherds pay for the insult he has suffered. And if he destroys the family in the process, all the better.
This is a good book, but I couldn't call it a pleasant read. This story is intriguing in the same way as a natural disaster will capture your attention. You know that what you are watching is horrible, yet you can't make yourself look away. Told in sentences that flow beautifully and with words that pull the reader along this is the story of human shortcomings. Pride, selfishness, self-deceit and betrayal feature in this story as normal examples of the human condition. As a result it is hard to like or sympathise with any of the characters in this book. And yet it is equally impossible to completely dislike them; they are too recognisable to be disregarded as outright villains.
This book made me feel slightly uncomfortable while I was reading it, possibly because the theme in this book is just a little bit too close for comfort. Maybe we recognise ourselves in these people who lie to themselves and those around them in order to keep up an image of themselves that they like rather than reveal the truth of who they really are.
And that is both the problem with and the power of this book. While we would like to think that we are nothing like the characters in this story, the truth is probably that on some level we all lie to ourselves and believe what we tell ourselves. While our `sins' maybe not be of the same gravity as the ones committed by some of the characters in this story, our way of justifying our actions or lack thereof is probably quite similar.
I did find this book a bit too wordy at times. Full description follows full description in this story; surroundings, moods, thoughts, motivations, everything is spelled out and illustrated. I can't help feeling the story would have captivated me more if there had been less words in it.
Dealing both with today's obsession with fame and the human knack for self-deception, this is a story of our times, painting a none too flattering but probably all too accurate picture of what it is that motivates us and how that leaves us morally deprived.
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