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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.
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F.E. Beyer
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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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At the core of this thinly plotted collection of vignettes is the truth that enslavement and Western imperialism have destroyed and continue to destroy and impair countless lives without mercy, and that traces of this carnage and brutality confront u " Read more of this review » |
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"One can only take so much of feeding the dog, the cats and the cattle.
Tedious and repetitious beyond what I believed I could endure. I needed some form of writing that at least excited the imagination, but this was more endurance over art. " |
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"A rather modern Chinese novel with a slight Bukowski quality to it, by which I mean, it's a first person narrative detailing the bog-standard life of an everyman -- no frills or thrills, just a momentary look at the experiences of a man who exists in"
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"I read this directly after Brad Thor’s Rising Tiger, a novel I felt was filled with flabby writing. Osbourne can definitely write and he does a great job of creating a pastiche of Raymond Chandler, right down to the bloated plots that meander enough "
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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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