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Frank Herbert: The Works
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The Secret Gnomonclature of James Joyce's "The Sisters" Revisited
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Up the Creek
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Pretty Little Dead Things and Other Stories
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2012
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Leve non Lespri and Other Stories
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2012
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Memphis Blues Again Episode 1
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2013
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Franz Kafka: The Trial.
A few weeks ago by accident I stumbled across Orson Welles’ 1962 version of the Franz Kafka novel The Trial. Intrigued, and knowing next to nothing about Welles, I was next led to the 2015 documentary Magician: the Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles which, among other things, suggests that Welles had remade Kafka’s book in his own image. Finally, as my own real life abruptly spiraled into som
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One of the finest books I've recently read ― or rather, listened to, as I experienced it first as an utterly engrossing audiobook ― is Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, from 2016. Admittedl ...more |
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Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel, is one looooooooooooooong book. By itself, that’s no bad thing. Some of my favorite novels are long books. What it has going for it is its literary style. As I was swimming through it, especially the fir ...more |
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| In 1923 TS Eliot designated James Joyce's approach to writing the novel Ulysses as "the mythical method" ― "a way of controlling, or ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary ...more | |
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| Alfonso Zapico's 2011 book James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner ― A Graphic Biography, is most excellent. My hardbound, 231-page copy is a 2016 North American edition. Zapico's illustrations are first-rate. Occasionally he gets a fact wrong here or th ...more | |
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| If people know anything about the American Civil War's Battle of Chancellorsville, it is that this battle was Robert E Lee's masterpiece, despite the fact that it is also the place where Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded. But the Battle ...more | |
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| It took me almost two years ― and 501 pages of handwritten notes ― to make it all the way through Catherine Flynn's incredibly beautiful 2022 edition of The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses, subtitled "The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes." This massive, 2 ...more | |
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Gordon Rhea's splendid writing and historic composition continues in his 1997 book The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864. Rhea's series overarches Grant's Overland Campaign. He possesses a keen knack fo ...more |
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Phillip wrote: "a friend of joyce is a friend indeed! - pass the shem and shaun and never mind the babble of the washerwomen at the brook ... its a beautiful music, this riverrun - turn it up and play it loud."I've puttered around the Wake but so far unwilling/unable to commit to actually doing something like reading it, although I do read about it now and then. I'm unconvinced that it wasn't a substantial error on JJ's part. Your opinion?
a friend of joyce is a friend indeed! - pass the shem and shaun and never mind the babble of the washerwomen at the brook ... its a beautiful music, this riverrun - turn it up and play it loud.
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