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F.E.’s 2025 Year in Books
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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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"This roman à clef novel is a somewhat journalistic look at the world of heroin addiction, beginning in the late 1940's. Much is made of Burroughs' academic dissection of this subculture, as much of the "novel" describes this milieu with a clinical ey"
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"Another roman à clef offering from Burroughs. This novel details Burroughs' alter-ego's pursuit of a largely uninterested straight man, who decides to dabble in homosexuality. In the introduction to the 1985 release of the novel, Burroughs states tha"
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"“At the age of twenty-four, I was more prepared for death than I was for life. My first experience of the world outside the classroom had been war…I learned the murderous trade at Quantico, Virginia, practiced it in the rice paddies and jungles aroun"
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Siamese Nights (A short story from The Atlantic) (From the Archives of The Atlantic):
"Paul Theroux's Siamese Nights (A short story from The Atlantic) is a novelette about an accountant from Maine working in Bangkok susceptible to the usual temptation of working in the Thai capital. Refusing at first to join his co-workers at one of th"
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A good balance between the informative and entertaining. Living in a smoky, peat-fire-heated cottage along with their animals, the McMurdos are humble but hardworking and resourceful. The author brings to life 17th and 18th-century Scotland, where, mu ...more |
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Philip wrote: "F.E. - congrats on this. I'm not a Kindle user, so will probably spend the $10 to buy a "real" book on Amazon - probably the most I've
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“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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