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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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Wonderful. Occasionally a diary but so often out of order and with so many undated entries that it should be viewed more as a collection of thoughts. Pessoa has a melancholy touch throughout, a ponderous and romantic nature, his misanthropic cynicism ...more |
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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 | |
“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
