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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
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Mark Carew
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JM Coetzee, Herman Hesse, Paul Auster
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November 2012
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The world of HP Lovecraft to be an investigator.
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The Book of Alexander
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2018
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Beyond The North Wind
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2012
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4 editions
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Rabbit Redux is an almost plotless slice of life novel where the mundane is made beautiful by Updike’s descriptive prose. Everything is described. In your face, vividly. At times it is psychadelic. Rabbit blunders along like a fearless camera with a b ...more |
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| The best thing about these stories is when Jeeves extricates Wooster from his latest calamity. But there is too little Jeeves in this one, and too much blithering from Wooster (and the plot is insane). There are a few choice lines scattered about, an ...more | |
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Alice In Wonderland: The Original 1865 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Lewis Carroll Classics):
"One of those famous yet short books. So embedded in popular culture, that one feels like one already knows it. Back in 1865, this whimsical children's story must have made a big impact. However, imaginative, hallucinogenic, literature has moved on by"
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| It was only at the end of the book that I realised allegory may be at work. The tale is set during Easter, in a Russia so believable that the reader is there sharing life with interesting characters yet still wondering what the story is all about. Th ...more | |
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Sadly, the book did not grab me. Too much dialogue. Not enough story. Quite sophomoric, really. Definitely not one of the greatest novels (shouldn't that be novella?) of the twentieth century. There was too much telling of the story, hiding the author ...more |
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| Had hopes for this one. The introduction was intriguing, but then the more the story went on, the less I cared. Such a big heavy hardback and so little of substance. There was a lot of dialogue, a lot of telling, and far too much “tea and biscuits” d ...more | |
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| Had hopes for this one. The introduction was intriguing, but then the more the story went on, the less I cared. Such a big heavy hardback and so little of substance. There was a lot of dialogue, a lot of telling, and far too much “tea and biscuits” d ...more | |
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| Not a fan of this one, I'm afraid. From the first line, it made be think of Marquez, and the “not-true true world”. I got a third through the book waiting for it to grab me. But there was too much stretching for magic when maybe realism was enough. I ...more | |
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| My abiding memory of this book will be about how controlling a man can be with a woman, and even though the woman is literally programmed to obey and please him, it will never be enough for either party and certainly will be ruinous for the woman. To ...more | |
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| They don't write them like this any more! Enter Sherlock Holmes, a singular character, a brain, alive to every detail yet dismissive of women and most other people as boring -unless of course they are a client with a delicious puzzle for him to solve ...more | |
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