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Jayaprakash’s 2025 Year in Books
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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Born
in Chennai
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September 2008
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Ashes and Entropy
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2018
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4 editions
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The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 2
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2022
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Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities
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2023
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Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
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2014
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Come Tomorrow: And Other Tales of Bangalore Terror
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2020
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Strength of Water
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2019
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5 editions
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A Volume of Sleep
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2017
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Journal of Megrim
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2021
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Broken Cup
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2020
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Shelter From The Storm: and other myths
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2023
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2 editions
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Jayaprakash’s Recent Updates
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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| I genuinely thought this was going to be lesser Lively, an easy send-up of 70s arts and self-realisation culture. Instead, it's an astute virtuoso performance which both illuminates its themes - pretension, the meaning of art, the creative nature, gr ...more | |
"The sole survivor of an apparently apocalyptic event must come to terms with what being a person means without other humans, or any prospect of personal legacy. I absolutely adored this: the translation is limpid and compelling, the main character – "
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"Most readers seem to find that the short length and fractured nature of this book detract from its impact. They probably do, but it does have an impact, and although you could read it as autofiction or art book, there’s a reading of it as straight fi"
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"Ellison’s novel Invisible Man (1952) made a huge impression on me last year, but it’s the only fiction he ever completed; his second novel, Juneteenth, was a compositional disaster, and was only recently published in unfinished form. Shadow and Act i"
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The excellent introduction by Paul Bailey is best read after the novel itself. Taylor might be at her best writing about quietly monstrous or grotesque people. Her novel Angel is such a portrait, and so is this novel, focusing on the tall, blonde, kin ...more |
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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A lost young woman from Jamaica finds her way to London, finds religion, finds her way to Crow Street, marked for demolition. And all the different people in it. And poor Rebel. What an extraordinarily capacious novel. A more self important novelist w ...more |
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
rated a book it was amazing
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A lost young woman from Jamaica finds her way to London, finds religion, finds her way to Crow Street, marked for demolition. And all the different people in it. And poor Rebel. What an extraordinarily capacious novel. A more self important novelist w ...more |
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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| Although life is quite full and satisfactory, there's a part of me that prefers to have lived in novels, and this is one of those novels. ...more | |
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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| A third rate biography of an incomparable talent. Get Susan L Aberth's Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art instead, you'll get most of the life story there too and more of the art, more insight into the art, and no lightweight Guardian co ...more | |
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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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“She wouldn't start a religion. She wouldn't teach anyone truth. The problem starts there. When you decide to teach someone truth. It is a problem, when someone teaches you truth.”
― Strength of Water
― Strength of Water
“I want to find a terrible secret at the city’s heart
then go all the way back and find the first truths soaked into this land
and further, furthest, I want to walk
in empty space forever right here
don’t follow me”
― Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
then go all the way back and find the first truths soaked into this land
and further, furthest, I want to walk
in empty space forever right here
don’t follow me”
― Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”
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“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”
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“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
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“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. ”
― Family Matters
― Family Matters
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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Sorry I've fallen so far behind in keeping up with people's reviews. I went through a period of 'pointed stick time' (these are times when I'm convinced that any technology more complex than a pointed stick is too prone to breakdown to be reliable). Through all of September, my computer was in the shop. I'm getting caught up on my backlog, but it'll likely be some time before I get caught up. So I, as well as my correspondents, will likely have to school ourselves to patience for some time yet.
Oouh I was so surprised when I finally entered to yr prof page!!I was about to comment on the picture I show on yr avatar & now.. Anyway I am sure we'll get along, from following Ya for the whole time I show an genuine match on our tastes
Take care Jay ( such a loong name at first I thought u were pulling my leg or that u were wearing a Hindu nickname, Like Sam in Zelazny's work on "lord of Light" )
I will be sure to add U on my future recommendations :D
Thanks for the acceptance. Quite a nice list of books you've read there.
Hey welcome to Goodreads.Heh i didnt know you rated Jack Vance that highly.
Cheers, Ivonne