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Heart of Darkness

Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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Book Review 4: The New Confessions (W. Boyd)

Friday, July 11th, 2008
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Well, this book is aptly titled. I must confess that possibly Boyd is not the genius I proclaimed him in an earlier post. Bored and in need of some novel to read I drove, last night, through the heavy rain and traffic to the city (university) library. I had with me a detailed list of […]

Book Review Three: Any Human Heart

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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or, the Life of Logan Mountstuart Writ Large. Bad Aspects out of the way first: This book is written in a journal format over the course of Mountstuart’s life. As my suggested subtitle reads, sometimes I wondered whether AHH didn’t unnecessarily glorify the protaganist’s shortcomings. Inevitably, the book does drag in places and I confess that […]

Book Review Two: Motherless Brooklyn

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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Having read this book with some interest after finishing it I did my (now) customary google research to find out a  little more about it. The one interesting thing I found is that apprently Edward Norton will direct and star in an adaptation of the book. The question is, will he play the Tourette’s afflicted […]

Book Review One: There Are Doors

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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In General, there will be no plot synopsises on this site, if anyone ever comes to this site I may start writing them but really, this is just a good way of forcing myself to write something. I realised the necessity of this particular post when I noticed a reviewer on Amazon had mentioned Steven […]