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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Michael Hanquiniouax
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Celine, Houellebecq, Hamsun, Krasznahorkai, Fallada, Patrick Hamilton,
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February 2025
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| An odd book but one which, in terms of narrative more so than prose, offered some genuine originality. I couldn't entirely say I loved it but I was always intrigued by what I was reading. The main aspect of the book is that it essentially tells two s ...more | |
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| A life story in the same vein as 'Of Human Bondage' detailing a young man who rejects his family's Christianity and spends the rest of his life dealing with his strained relationship with his family and his worldview. Enormously accomplished work, ep ...more | |
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Typical Mishima focusing on bleak themes, this time a fatherless boy seeking a role model but only doing so in order to justify making that man the focal point of his growing resentments. Stark, often cold prose but always worth reading. |
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| A fictional country has been at war with another fictional country for 300 years but there has been a delicate peace established for many years. Aldo is sent to a fortress to keep an eye on the enemy should they ever dare to start the war up again. T ...more | |
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| Written in a strange, almost stream-of-consciousness language that isn't really needed, the book, nonetheless, is easy to read and fairly enjoyable once you get beyond the choice of format. The book is a straight-forward post-apocalyptic story set at ...more | |
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| A loner, almost certainly psychologically damaged by the events of the first Word War, named Victor Baton, has no friends and seeks to make some. The problem is he's profoundly unlikable with a victim complex, an incel, a man who thinks women don't l ...more | |
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| A fairly simple story regarding our inability to get what we want from life. Two men (George and Lennie) are looking for work, Lennie being mentally disabled and George essentially his carer. They dream of having their own place, some land, where Len ...more | |
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Magnificent. Sometimes there's nothing better than a good old-fashioned bildungsroman. This one starts with the protagonist, Philip Carey, as a child with a disability and quickly moves on to his adolescence. He goes to school, goes to Germany, works ...more |
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“The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the original source of life.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
