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Books like Childhood’s End 1952
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Childhood’s End
Books closest to Childhood’s End
Earth abides 1949Also epic, earnest and grave
No god but God 2005Also earnest, grave and epic
The Songs of Distant Earth 1986Also epic, earnest and grave
Contact 1985Also epic, earnest and grave
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1 1995Also earnest, classical in form and grave
2010, odyssey two 1982Also epic, earnest and grave
Coffeeland 2020Also epic, earnest and grave
Moving Mars 1993Also epic, earnest and grave
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee 2019Also earnest, grave and epic
India after Gandhi 2007Also epic, earnest and classical in form
The Farthest Shore 1972Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Embracing Defeat 1999Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Alexander 2004Also epic, earnest and grave
1492: Conquest of Paradise 1992Also epic, grave and earnest
The Silent World 1956Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Series
Prohibition 2011Also earnest, classical in form and epic
The American Revolution 2025Also epic, grave and earnest
THE DAYS 2023Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Albums
- Mother Earth 2000Also earnest, grave and classical in form
- Yesterwynde 2024Also earnest, epic and grave
- Sarah Brightman Sings the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber 1992Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Games
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey 2006Also epic, earnest and grave
Expeditions: Rome 2022Also epic, grave and earnest
Aquaria 2007Also earnest, grave and epic
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