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F.E.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at F.E.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
F.E. Beyer’s Followers (108)
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F.E. Beyer
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Member Since
May 2012
The Worm and the Ring
The Worm and the Ring by Anthony Burgess My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Worm and the Ring is remarkable not so much for Anthony Burgess taking a crack at his former colleagues at Banbury Grammar School, but rather for the author’s creativity in animating a school serving ���drearily picturesque towns���. Burgess had already ... The Worm and the Ring
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Buenos Aires Triad
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Smoko
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The Crushed Can
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"Georges Simenon. Espejismos
En 1933 Georges Simenon realiza un viaje a la Unión Soviética. Siguiendo el Mar Negro, permanece ocho días en Odessa, lo cual le permite obtener un impresión bastante precisa de la situación en aquel momento (y mas a result" Read more of this review » |
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"I picked this up in a bookstore while visiting Tbilisi last week and was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed this book and wanted to add my own perspective in response to some of the other reviews.
Having also spent time in SE Asia, I don't think Wade in" Read more of this review » |
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| On the train in the perfect city of Miridion all human passengers sit talking to their own 'Echo.' This scene made me think of cell phone addiction ... and self-obsession. ‘All That We Reflect’ is set in a dystopian future but tackles many of our cur ...more | |
"1.5 stars The only Jon Ronson project (book, film, tv show, audiobook, or podcast) I had trouble getting through because it was all so banal. There’s only so much I can take of pornstars’ catty rumors, macho posturing, crocodile tears, and rapid-fire"
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"As a graduate from Cambridge, Andrew Eames left his life in London to travel in South East Asia. He gave himself a time limit of two years, and this book captures those travels, and his return home about two and a half years later. It was published i"
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| I think this would have been much better written in third person. The problem was the poetic landscape descriptions credited to the narrator, Big Country, a rough mafia bag-man. I get it that he develops into a human with some depth. But a tough guy ...more | |
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| I'm surprised her publisher accepted this combination of anthropological research into the lives of factory girls in Dongguan and the tale of her own family's history in Manchuria. But it worked for me. Captures human resilience and folly very well. ...more | |
“He was twelve hundred down. This was
against the odds, true bad luck, and then it occurred to him the fights could be rigged. He hadn’t been paying attention to the politicians. Were they winning? Could they be ring-ins: invertebrates betting on invertebrates? He wanted to bust their faces, but willed himself to walk out the door. The invertebrates, sooner or later, always won.”
― Buenos Aires Triad
against the odds, true bad luck, and then it occurred to him the fights could be rigged. He hadn’t been paying attention to the politicians. Were they winning? Could they be ring-ins: invertebrates betting on invertebrates? He wanted to bust their faces, but willed himself to walk out the door. The invertebrates, sooner or later, always won.”
― Buenos Aires Triad
“This curve in the river, a stone’s throw from one of the biggest tourist draws in the city, was worth cleaning, but the catamarans didn’t go further upstream to where faecal matter from the barrios and heavy metals from industry were plentiful. The funds to clean up that crap had been embezzled, or so they said. If the river was ever cleaned, journalists would miss using it as a symbol for corruption in the city.”
― Buenos Aires Triad
― Buenos Aires Triad
“Don’t burn your throat with the hot mince, mate,” I said.
“Looks like a bloody pelican.” Dawn had stopped her buttering to stare at Ross eating. Johnno, too, was transfixed and held his mug suspended halfway to his mouth. “Bloody hell, finished it in five seconds.”
The pie-eating show was over before it began and Dawn returned to bending Johnno’s ear.”
― Smoko
“Looks like a bloody pelican.” Dawn had stopped her buttering to stare at Ross eating. Johnno, too, was transfixed and held his mug suspended halfway to his mouth. “Bloody hell, finished it in five seconds.”
The pie-eating show was over before it began and Dawn returned to bending Johnno’s ear.”
― Smoko
“Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.”
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“He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life. ”
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“Mi cabeza es un laberinto oscuro. A veces hay como relámpagos que iluminan algunos corredores. Nunca termino de saber por qué hago ciertas cosas.”
― El túnel
― El túnel
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