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M.R.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at M.R.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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M.R. Dowsing
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Anchin to Kiyohime / 安珍と清姫 / (‘Anchin and Kiyohime’, 1960)
Obscure Japanese Film #261
Ayako Wakao
The Heian era. Kiyohime (AyakoWakao) is the feisty daughter of a village headman. Out hunting a foxone day, she fires an arrow at it, but hits a handsome young monk,Anchin (Raizo Ichikawa), in the arm (presumably there was nocappuccino around in those days for her to spill on him). Apparentlyconfusing the first aid procedure for arrow wounds with the on
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The Assassination of Adolf Hitler
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| No question this author can write - the problem is, he writeth too damn much! This very long book flits confusingly between the past and present and throws in lots of letters from random unexplained characters along the way. I decided to bail after 1 ...more | |
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Faulkner once said that all novels are shipwrecks. Derelicts. and he was right. There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone without" Read more of this review » |
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"Good lord! I thought I’d never get through this damn thing. Sixteen days to cover the mere span of 570 pages, to say it was slow going would be a supreme understatement. The Engineer of Human Souls reminded (in many more ways than one) of another WWI"
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| Time Travel: April/May 2013 Book Club Nominations: | 42 | 125 | Apr 13, 2013 07:04AM |
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
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Feb 27, 2013 08:40AM
Hi Nathan. No I haven't read everything, not by a long shot - there are loads of 'em! I'd strongly recommend The First Men In The Moon and The Invisible Man though if you haven't read them yet. His SF short stories are really good too and I also like The War In The Air. The Food Of The Gods was disappointing though, although it started well...
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I haven't read Queer but I've read the others - all good choices I reckon! 1984's so depressing though... Have you read Coming Up For Air? That's probably my favourite Orwell and shows he could be funny too.
That's a toughie! At the moment, though, I'd say maybe "All The King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren, "Under The Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry, "Three Days Before The Shooting" by Ralph Ellison, "Silence" by Shusaku Endo and "Sometime A Great Notion" by Ken Kesey. You've got to tell me yours now!
