Posts Tagged ‘book reviews’
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The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier
The Lost Steps – Alejo Carpentier – 1953 Posted by guillermo maynez on 4/9/2013, 12:56:38 I finished this last night, and as I read I was thinking about what a pity it is that it took me so long to discover t...
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Lanark – Alasdair Gray
Lanark – Alasdair Gray – 1981 Posted by Joffre on 1/11/2015, 15:47:54 Anyone read Alasdair Gray’s Lanark? Any reason not to read that on Kindle? I’m reading Morrison’s Song of Solomon now. I just s...
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Jin Ping Mei / The Plum in the Golden Vase / The Golden Lotus
Jin Ping Mei / The Plum in the Golden Vase / The Golden Lotus – c. 1368–1644 (Translated by David Tod Roy) Posted by Joffre on 29/4/2013, 12:28:09 Maybe some of you have already noticed. I just saw that the final volume o...
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë – 1847 Reviewed by: Barb Bowling Date: 6 November 2006 If you haven’t read this Gothic tale, you should. I first read this as a romance when I was sixteen and loved it, reread ...
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell – 2010 Posted by Steven on 30/10/2012, 14:07:43 Much of the novel takes place in Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki harbor. There is a very nice Wikipedia...
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Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace – 1996 Posted by Robby McMahan Honest, lovely, smart. David Foster Wallace was the 800-pound gorilla of his generation of writers, could do whatever he wanted and proceeded to do...
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In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) – Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) – Marcel Proust – 1913 Posted by guillermo maynez on 29/5/2014, 11:01:42 I am now embarking on what will be a years-long project: reading Proust’s magnum opu...
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker – Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker – Tobias Smollett – 1771 Posted by Steven on 3/9/2012, 9:29:04 I am about a third of the way through this novel and enjoying it. Has anyone else started it? Earlier this year I read...
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The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene – 1948 Posted by Steven on 2/8/2010, 21:26:53 The following questions are from Penguin’s website. There are some pretty good ones here. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS How relevant...
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Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Hard Times – Charles Dickens – 1854 Posted by Steven on 26/6/2013, 8:37:20 Hard Times is unlike Dickens’s other novels in many respects. It is much shorter. It is the only one that doesn’t use London as ...
