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Re-reading it to my soon-to-be-baby at the moment. 'Gentle' is the word I'd use for Herriot. Lovely characters, funny set-ups, just great. Of course I cleverly (!) left out the bit at the beginning about the difficult calving. My wife has enough on h
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Murakami is a brilliant writer who keeps you guessing. 'Kafka on the Shore' is another in his list of crazy writings. The message isn't very profound but the writing is beautiful. Another in what I call his 'Sex and suicide' genre.
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"Unputdownable. Not sure what he's trying to say but he does say it beautifully!" — Oct 15, 2009 04:21AM
"Unputdownable. Not sure what he's trying to say but he does say it beautifully!" — Oct 15, 2009 04:21AM
“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
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“I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.
But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.”
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But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.”
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“No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.”
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“Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.”
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“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
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