a travelogue
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09/09/07
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Blindness by José Saramago
Saramago said, when accepting the Nobel Prize in 1998. “The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels,” and I would basically agree with him. Quite possibly one of the darkest most disturbing books I’ve …continue reading »
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10/15/07
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
It has a great plot, but in general I thought this one sucked. You see a lot of them in the dollar bin at bookshops, there’s a reason for that.continue reading »
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Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Early work by one of the most compelling contemporary writers.continue reading »
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The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley
Alice Notley’s thoughts on this book: "I love to write long poems, to be utterly involved in a particular poem as a way of living a life." Couldn’t have said it better myself. After <em>The Battlefield where the Moon Says …continue reading »
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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
One of the most original ideas I’ve come across in recent memory, erudite and extremely well written for a "popular" science book.continue reading »
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10/15/07
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
I’m a little disappointed in this collection, there are some standout pieces, notably the essay on grammar and usage, but the rest lack a certain earnestness that marks his better writing.continue reading »
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The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
So it goes and goes. You either like 5,000 page novels or don’t. And to think Proust wanted the whole thing bound up as one book…continue reading »
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10/16/07
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Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs
My family is from the Budapest area and left around the time of World War I. I was in a bookstore one afternoon and stumbled across this book which I thought might provide an interesting glimpse of what my great …continue reading »