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A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
Very strange. Glad to see Garcia Marquez up there, though.
ReplyDeleteDown right weird's how I'd call it. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat book do I cringe from reading even though it has gotten good reviews? Any modern book of over 600 pages. I'll happily read the tried-and-true monster books such as Middlemarch, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Don Quixote. But a book has to have withstood the test of time for me to devote that much effort to it. That is why I haven't read any Vollmann or Wallace. I'll wait until they write a short book. Usually I'll start with an author's short book to judge if I should read their longer works.
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