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Fri - September 28, 2007Super-CannesBoy, J.G. Ballard's childhood experience
in China under Japanese occupation must have really messed him up! He has
written some disturbing novels as an adult.
Posted at 04:25 PM Read More Mon - June 25, 2007Life is ElsewhereWhile in Atlanta for a conference, I
tripped across a Milan Kundara book I hadn't seen before:
Life is
Elsewhere. So, of course I had to
pick it up for a read.
Posted at 10:12 AM Read More Sun - January 7, 2007Watership DownThrough some very tangential connections,
I came across the animated film
Watership
Down. It was a fascinating
viewing; well-drawn, beautiful and terrifying at the same time, its a story of
rabbits on the run, told in the way a Disney animation never would. So, this
lead me to reading the book Watership Down, by Richard Adams.
Posted at 01:39 PM Read More Mon - August 14, 2006Tue - May 23, 2006The Book of Laughter and ForgettingAs a follow up to recently reading
Kundara's Laughable
Loves , I decided to re-read
The Book of Laughter and
Forgetting. I first read this
rambling non-novel back in the 1980s. Well, apparently it's been retranslated,
by Milan Kundara himself, so that the English is more close to his original
Czech version. It's still a memorable read.
Posted at 11:45 PM Read More Mon - April 24, 2006Laughable LovesI was at the bookstore this past week, to
pick up a book about AJAX (the software techniques, not the cleansing agent!)
and I decided to pick up some light reading as well. Browsing the shelves, I
saw a Milan Kundera book I had not recognized,
Laughable
Loves.
Posted at 10:56 PM Read More Sun - February 26, 2006GilgameshWhile in the library last week in search
of a soccer coaching book, I tripped across this book:
Gligamesh: A New English
Version, by Stephen Mitchell.
Decided to take it home with me. It was a quick and delightful
read.
Posted at 11:16 PM Read More Mon - January 2, 2006The Kite RunnerWas given this book as a Christmas
present, and just finished it. Overall, a profound, sad book.
Posted at 05:54 PM Read More Mon - September 26, 2005Smartest Guys in the RoomI've been doing an Enron study lately.
Picked up a couple of books on the Enron saga:
Smartest Guys in the
Room, and Sherron Watkins'
Power
Failure. Both are excellent reads
...
Posted at 05:11 PM Read More Tue - February 22, 2005Homage to CataloniaContinuing the trend,
I'm re-reading George Orwell's
Homage to
Catalonia. It remains just as
interesting as the first time I read it.
Posted at 01:23 AM Read More Fri - February 18, 2005For Whom the Bell TollsContinuing my Spanish Civil War trend
, I picked up Hemingway's exceptional novel at the newly opened McGovern
Stella Link Library (which, by the way, is a remarkable building and
an excellent facility) in our neighborhood, and polished it off in a few days.
I had forgotten how entertaining of a writer Hemingway was.
Posted at 12:59 AM Read More Tue - November 2, 2004ImmortalityMilan Kundara is one of my favorite
authors. Recently, i picked up his novel
Immortality,
and completed it a few days later. Like Nabokov, Kundara is a "post-modern"
novelist, in the sense that he doesn't always follow the strict pattern of
narrative story in his novels. Instead, his books read like part story, part
thought-provoking essay.
Posted at 05:15 PM Read More Wed - August 4, 2004The Basque History of the WorldReading The Spanish Civil
War piqued my interest in the Basque people. Luckily, one day a
whimsical little book at our local bookstore caught my eye: The Basque
History of the World , by Mark Kurlansky. Before reading this book,
all I knew about the Basques was:
Posted at 11:04 PM Read More Tue - August 3, 2004The Spanish Civil WarA couple of months ago, with a few hours
to spare, and having already eaten ice scream at Amy's (it was a hot day),
Francois and I decided to roam over to
Quarter Price Book
Store. We drive by it all the
time, but I've never dropped
in.
Couldn't find any sci-fi books that I wanted to read, but I was suddenly reminded to check up on books on the Spanish Civil War. Ever since reading George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, a dozen years ago, I've wanted to learn more about this conflict, but just never ran into the right occasion. Well, this time I was lucky. On the shelves was a copy of classic text, Antony Beevor's The Spanish Civil War . Posted at 01:24 PM Read More Thu - April 22, 2004LIES, Inc.Fans will be excited to discover there's
a new book by Philip K. DIck!
Lies,
Inc. is an expanded version of
Unteleported
Man, and it's a rambunctious,
heavy-tech sci-fi adventure. For the first 99 pages, the reader is treated to a
fast-paced, gadget-heavy, mind-boggling story line. Then, suddenly, the novel
dives into an extended LSD trip ...
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