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Cover of A Choice of Gods
Cover of The End of Mr. Y

  • mostly "matrix" veering into "alice in wonderland", with a hint of "thornbirds", darrida, the birth of homoeopathy, rough sex, the history of time, what else?, oh, and genesis 2:16. too much on one's plate to handle, honestly: but she teaches creative writing at uni, so.

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    ― Posted on Nov 29, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of Fun Home

  • pruned of the oh so very central gay issue, hark hark!, the story is the usual one of a disfunctional family. the young enthusiast lesbian is quite irritating, when she is eager to morph into a boy and blasts her father for being a closet gay - and a manque' interior decorator, as if it was a fatal ... (continue)

    pruned of the oh so very central gay issue, hark hark!, the story is the usual one of a disfunctional family. the young enthusiast lesbian is quite irritating, when she is eager to morph into a boy and blasts her father for being a closet gay - and a manque' interior decorator, as if it was a fatal flow. i admit my aversion to all things american, though.

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    ― Posted on Nov 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years

  • poor aidy: "for some reason i always feel comforted when i am in woolworths. when i was a child, i spent my first pocket money there. it is good to know that whatever travails we may suffer in life, woolworths will always be there"... not so caustic as the other adrian mole books (townsend had to fa ... (continue)

    poor aidy: "for some reason i always feel comforted when i am in woolworths. when i was a child, i spent my first pocket money there. it is good to know that whatever travails we may suffer in life, woolworths will always be there"... not so caustic as the other adrian mole books (townsend had to face a kidney transplant - donated by her son - and serious illness) but very effective in portraying the worst of the blairite era. hum, was there a best?

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    ― Posted on Nov 24, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of The Footprints of God

  • part "da vinci code", part "futurama" (the heads in the bell jars), mostly "the fugitive".

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    ― Posted on Nov 5, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud...

  • you can wrap yourself up in this just for the sheer beauty of verse and the evocative poetic images. but reading english poetry aloud is the most effective way to experience the internal rhythms of the language, so different from romance languages (which may sound a little flat in english, since the ... (continue)

    you can wrap yourself up in this just for the sheer beauty of verse and the evocative poetic images. but reading english poetry aloud is the most effective way to experience the internal rhythms of the language, so different from romance languages (which may sound a little flat in english, since the natural rhythms are quite different).

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    ― Posted on Nov 7, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of Edith Sitwell a Unicorn Among Lions

  • it's hard to be a woman - and more so when you are very plain AND a poet. a biography devoted mostly to her poetical work (which dr. leavis blasted), with heartbreaking glimpses on her personal life.

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    ― Posted on Oct 12, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of Comforters

  • the devil exists, and he can type - or does he? the comforters in the title are the useless friends who assist job - to no avail - in the bible. the book marks the author's conversion from critic and poet to novelist, and her coincident conversion to catholicism. balanced between supernatural mister ... (continue)

    the devil exists, and he can type - or does he? the comforters in the title are the useless friends who assist job - to no avail - in the bible. the book marks the author's conversion from critic and poet to novelist, and her coincident conversion to catholicism. balanced between supernatural mistery and subtlety, very witty and amusing at times, this is a mischievous challenge to post war realism.

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    ― Posted on Oct 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

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Cover of Dark Echo

  • can a ghost story be boring? oh yes, this one was.

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    ― Posted on Sep 20, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of Black Juice

  • dark fairy tales set in a distopic, possibly pagan multiverse. the first story is quite chilling, unforgettable, the others you can live without.

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    ― Posted on Sep 16, 2009 | Add your feedback

Cover of The Third Policeman

  • not funny, not funny at all. weird and amazing in its apparent clarity, but deep, and with a very convincing cochlear shape. quite an experience. unfortunately, the book is known to the world because of a tv series called "lost": it sold in 3 weeks, after being quoted by some character, as many copi ... (continue)

    not funny, not funny at all. weird and amazing in its apparent clarity, but deep, and with a very convincing cochlear shape. quite an experience. unfortunately, the book is known to the world because of a tv series called "lost": it sold in 3 weeks, after being quoted by some character, as many copies as in the former 30 years.

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    ― Posted on Sep 11, 2009 | Add your feedback

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