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Utopia-Sir Thomas More
Utopia – Sir Thomas More – 1516 Posted by Steven on 1/11/2013, 12:11:19 Here is my review of Utopia, followed by some random thoughts on More’s Utopia compared to Plato’s Republic. In a separate post I&#...
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Under Western Eyes- Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes – Joseph Conrad – 1911 Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 16/3/2013, 11:12:57 All of the works by Conrad that I’ve read are emotionally charged, not in a melodramatic way, but in a tense way. Ten...
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The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James – 1898 Posted by Joffre on 16/6/2013, 16:24:41 After reading The Beckoning Fair One, which I found okay, I read a book called How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton. I found tha...
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The Tunnel – Ernesto Sábato
The Tunnel – Ernesto Sábato – 1948 Posted by Steven on 3/12/2012, 19:56:40 I just finished it today too. It bugs me that it kept reminding me of something else I had read, but I couldn’t remember what. Of cour...
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Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Achebe never depicts tribal, pre-European African life as bucolic or peaceful. I think it is a brutally honest portrait of Igbo machismo, violence, and cruelty. Which, of course, does not also forgive Europeans for their own br...
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The Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt – 2011 Posted by guillermo maynez User on 18/9/2013, 13:52:44 Thanks Lale for this wonderful recommendation that I surely would have otherwise missed. I enjoyed this tale a lot....
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The Prague Cemetery – Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery – Umberto Eco – 2010 Posted by Sterling on 12/10/2012, 22:51:01, Actually, I don’t know if I’m going to reveal any spoilers or not. At the moment I have some random thoughts that do n...
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The Monk (Lewis) / Seven Gothic Tales (Blixen)- Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk – Matthew Gregory Lewis – 1796 Seven Gothic Tales – Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) – 1934 Posted by guillermo maynez on 30/10/2013, 17:31:49 I’ve turned Gothic after reading these two books. ...
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The Tapestries – Kien Nguyen
The Tapestries – Kien Nguyen – 2003 Posted by guillermo maynez on 22/7/2014, 13:21:20 Following several of your recommendations on books about Vietnam / Cambodia / Laos, I have recently read “The Tapestries...
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A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth – 1993 Posted by Steven on 18/4/2009, 21:37:30 Here is an unexpected link between one of our novels and today’s news: A Suitable Boy is set in India shortly after its independence ...
