Oasis: What's the Story

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Various levels of cataloging to suit a library’s specific needs, including WorldCat Collection Manager, and customized MARCs. It had me turning the pages so fast to see what was going to happen to them, and to find out the mystery of the Oasis! While I consider myself far too old to be 'mad for it', what I liked about 'Oasis: What's the Story' was the unusual, probably unique, perspective this memoir is written from. We're told they're these great friends, and they must be since Alif (our protagonist) was able to talk them all into going with her to an archaeological dig to Dubai for their summer vacation. Oasis” finds a group of friends on an archeological dig in Dubai when a sandstorm rips them from camp and their walk through the desert leads them to an oasis filled with a variety of things that should not exist but then again a group hallucination doesn’t exist either, or does it?

Dulwich's mid-century modern architecture is recognised for its qualities of light, landscape and lifestyle. On 10th and 11th August 1996, Oasis played the concerts that would define them, a band at the height of their powers playing to over 250,000 people. Harold Sidney- Based on William Phillips, a co-editor of The Partisan Review with Philip Rahv, Sidney is Taub's second-in-command. After the initial set up, the "here we are in the desert lost" the rest of the book is a back and forth between the six of them wondering what is real, what is a dream, is it heaven, hell, somewhere in between. When they are given the floor, however, Taub and his followers are unable to articulate what it is they want or on what grounds they wish to expel Joe.

So you've got this bunch of kids who are off to the desert for some archaeology fun but then there's a sandstorm, they get stuck wandering the desert and suddenly happen upon an oasis that should most definitely not be there. The photos featured in this book, the majority of which have never been seen before, have been carefully selected from his vast photographic archive. Dad’s] four-wheel drive was encrusted with dust, and Dad’s shadow appeared longer and thicker than anyone else’s. Although set in an entirely different context this book made me think about two of my favourite reads from long time ago -Solaris by Stanslaw Lem and The Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Nathan Strugatsky (both books belong to the classic science-fiction genre).

My initial thoughts upon hearing of this book: A book that's inspired by archaeology and the music of London Grammar?While this didnt wind up being the favorite book I had originally anticipated it being, it wasn't bad by any means.