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Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson – 1748 Posted by Joffre on 6/8/2014, 11:41:31, in reply to “Clarissa” Harold Bloom has said he finds Clarissa second only to Don Quixote in aesthetic eminence. I don’t ...
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The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje
The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje – 2011 Posted by Steven on 16/4/2013, 22:35:54 I finished The Cat’s Table this evening. It’s a much more serious book than Skios, but short and easy to read. It i...
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Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel – 2012 Posted by Steven on 24/6/2012, 9:07:46, Bring Up the Bodies I finished the sequel to Wolf Hall yesterday, reading half of it in one day which should tell you how engrossing...
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Books written in the Second Person Singular – deWitt, McInerney, et al.
Books written in the Second Person Singular Posted by Lale on 13/10/2014, 9:38:54 I recently read (and enjoyed) a book written in the SECOND person singular, as in “You drink your whiskey in one gulp and you leave the roo...
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The Bone People – Keri Hulme
The Bone People – Keri Hulme – 1984 Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 2/2/2013, 11:43:46 I’ve given up on “The Bone People” on page 175. I don’t like them. Not even the kid has inspired sympathy,...
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The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler – 1939 Posted by guillermo maynez on 3/9/2014, 11:30:02 I took a break from WWI / Vietnam to read Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep”. I still think “Farewell ...
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Amelia – Henry Fielding
Amelia – Henry Fielding – 1751 Posted by Steven on 30/5/2015, 15:56:05 I just finished another 18th century girl: Amelia by Henry Fielding. Its lack of humor and its high moral tone are both surprising for Fielding,...
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As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying proves the claim that the stream-of-consciousness style of prose can be a genuinely beautiful artform. In a sublime mixture of inventive verbage and character transformations amid a sorrowful tale of a...
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A Mind at Peace (Huzur) – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
A Mind at Peace (Huzur) – Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar – 1948 Posted by Steven on 5/8/2012, 23:35:28 Just finished it. What an amazing book! At times I wasn’t sold on it, but eventually I couldn’t put it down, a...
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Against the Grain / À Rebours – Joris-Karl Huysmans
An invaluable discovery. It is a wonderful book about French decadentisme, but more than that, an incredible fantasy about alternatives to the vacuity of life, an Existentialist precursor, an exercise in eccentricity, a catalog...
