Posts Tagged ‘book reviews’
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The Slynx- Tatyana Tolstaya
The Slynx – Tatyana Tolstaya – 2007 Posted by Steven on 22/1/2013, 9:46:28 It’s an unusual book in that it starts out as a satire like a post-apocalyptic Animal Farm. But midway through the novel, its plot beg...
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Skios – Michael Frayn
Skios – Michael Frayn – 2012 Posted by Lale on 21/4/2013, 10:43:17 I am half-way through Skios and it is fun. It would make a fun movie, of course. And similar ones have been...
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Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser – 1900 Posted by Lale on 19/5/2015, 10:19:52 I am now reading another book which promises to be a favourite of mine (I hope I am not speaking too soon, because I am only at the begin...
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The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes – 2011 Posted by Lale on 6/2/2012, 9:24:45 I was disappointed. I did not think that this book was remarkable in any way. Maybe because neither Veronica, nor her mother had any ...
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The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West – 1918 Posted by guillermo maynez on 21/4/2014, 12:19:48 This short novella (90 pages in the Penguin Classics edition) by Rebecca West is wonderful!! It is a war novel that t...
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Recollections of Things to Come (Los recuerdos del porvenir) – Elena Garro
Recollections of Things to Come (Los recuerdos del porvenir) – Elena Garro – 1963 Posted by Guillermo Maynez on 8/12/2012, 11:47:15 Remembrance/Recollections of Things to Come I finished last night, and I thought it...
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The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker
The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker – 1966 Regeneration The Eye in the Door The Ghost Road Posted by guillermo maynez on 2/4/2014, 11:49:55 I just finished reading the three books that compose this trilogy by Pat ...
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Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett – 1929 Posted by Steven on 3/7/2012, 9:34:01 (non-spolier) I’m almost finished. The narrator says at one point that Dinah had her hair “marcelled.” I had not seen tha...
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Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
Radetzky March – Joseph Roth – 1932 Posted by guillermo maynez on 17/6/2013, 16:29:52 First impressions: This novel is a monument and a mausoleum. But it’s alive. Things get damaged, things get broken. The pro...
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Republic – Plato’s Republic
The Republic – Plato – c. 380 BCE Posted by Steven on 1/11/2013, 12:11:19 More mentions Plato’s The Republic once or twice in Utopia and this invites comparison. There are some similarities, but many more diff...
