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Really enjoying this - such creative and evocative use of language. It flows, and you get lost in the story's eddys...

Thoroughly enjoying this anthology - very varied, fun stuff.

He is particularly passionate about education:
"...defenders of secular university education...implicity maintain that people will be properly affected by concepts even when they hear about them only once or twice, at the age of twenty, before a fifty year career in finance or market research, via a lecturer standing in a bare room speaking in a monotone."

A thought provoking read so far. Alain de Botton discusses, very respectfully, I think, how some of the structures and philosophies underlying religion might be incorporated sensibly into an atheist's life.

I couldn't live in the incredibly brutal, primitaive way these guys did - but it is truly impressive nonetheless.

Best described as a slow seduction...

Very interesting - I can fully appreciate the comment in the intro about Wyndham not really having found his voice in this one.

Some very interesting ideas, well expressed as always.

Still slogging through this. Not entirely sure why...

Will I finish it or not? It's a bit of a slogfest, I confess. do hope it's all worthwhile.

Loving this so far - the descriptions of Istamboul are wonderfully evocative of my visit there.

As reliable as Sam Vimes himself.

Each of these stories so so different - you really need time to digest each one independently, like a boa constrictor swallowing dumplings.

Looks like fun so far!

All very political so far...

It takes a while to get into this - he repeats himself rather a lot at the start, but it's shaping up to be interesting. By todays standard, of course, the sex is quite restrained, but I guess I can see why it was banned in 1959.