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09/09/07 // Book:: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald “All forms of colour were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contrasts, no shading any more, only flowing transitions with the light throbbing through them, a single blur from which only the most fleeting of visions emerged.” This …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung A childhood survivor of Cambodia’s Pol Pot regime, Loung Ung’s memoir is rough and brutal but in the end hopeful about the world. As her site says, the book is about “the unnerving strength of a child.” Read it while …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald All of Sebald’s books read like non-fiction, though they’re all listed as fiction, but this one actually is non-fiction and compiled mainly from a series of lectures he gave over the years about post war Germany and the German psyche. …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse Five. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. What else is there to say? Vonnegut was one of a kind and he’ll be missed.continue reading »
10/16/07 // Book:: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon What is there to say? One of the best books of the twentieth century.continue reading »

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