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- Song and Dance Man
- Art of Bob Dylan
- By Michael Gray
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- Old Goriot (1)
- By Honore de Balzac
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- War's End
- Profiles From Bosnia 1995-1996
- By Sacco Joe
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Finished on Nov 19, 2009
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- Presentation Zen (10)
- Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)
- By Garr Reynolds
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Finished on Nov 15, 2009
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- Great Jones Street
- (Contemporary American Fiction)
- By Don DeLillo
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Finished on Oct 18, 2009
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- Nocturnes (1)
- Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- By Kazuo Ishiguro
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Finished on Oct 5, 2009
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- The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (16)
- By Nick Hornby
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Finished on Sep 20, 2009
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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
An honest reader's diary -
For a few years, Nick Hornby kept a diary of the books he bought and read: lots of lesser-known contemporary novels/biographies/non)fiction and the occasional (modern) classic. In these columns, Hornby mainly shows himself to be a lover of books and less of a critic. Readability is a good thing in h ... (continue)
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- Mr. Vertigo (3)
- By Paul Auster
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Finished on Aug 14, 2009
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- Ghost at Noon
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- Ghost at Noon (1)
- By Alberto Moravia
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Finished on Jul 25, 2009
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- Daisy Miller (17)
- By Henry James
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Finished on Jul 7, 2009
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- The Master (5)
- By Colm Tóibín
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Finished on Jul 5, 2009
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- Factotum (11)
- By Charles Bukowski
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Finished on Apr 13, 2009
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1 person find this helpful
Down & Out with Bukowski -
Factotum is the 2nd book by Bukowski I've read (after Post Office), and so far, they have been very much the same: Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski is a lazy alcoholic bastard without any ambitions but to drink, screw and bet on horses. Chinaski has as many jobs as the book has chapters - which i ... (continue)
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Nocturnes
Kazuo Ishiguro, best-known for the brilliantly written The Remains of the Day, is the only author whose entire oeuvre I've read. The fact that he publishes about one book every five years makes the task easier, but this is not the main reason. Time and again, I fall for the elegant, contemplative an ... (continue)
Kazuo Ishiguro, best-known for the brilliantly written The Remains of the Day, is the only author whose entire oeuvre I've read. The fact that he publishes about one book every five years makes the task easier, but this is not the main reason. Time and again, I fall for the elegant, contemplative and somewhat detached tone of his novels, and the oceans of emotions that stir beneath the surface of his prose.
In this collection of five short stories, the protagonists are all musicians, but the music is not what's at the centre of these stories. They serve mainly as a setting for the exploration of relationship issues. Most couples in the stories are breaking up, about to break up, or wondering whether they should.
None of these stories become melodramatic, partly due to the casual and sometimes witty tone of the narrator, and partly because most of time, the characters do not reveal their true feelings. They can be read between the lines - which to me is the best place for literary emotions to reside.
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