Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers 300916: not always the philosophers i might want to talk to- in many cases dead, in many cases...

240410: this was an easy, quick read, that i had thought was simply a historical novel at the beginning, that i had to rethink what i had...

210125: have to up the rating from three, as it persists in melancholy way. this is not Jules Verne as science fiction/engineering...

241019: this is very like ‘walking man’ by taniguchi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684533.The_Walking_Man but set in shogunate edo....

270719 much later later addition: i look at this again, slip back into that meditating calmness, now read more books fiction and non,...

030811: powerful story weaving together the madness of civilization destroying itself by war, and the end of a way of life, beautifully...

051010 second review: i just read it again. realized this is perhaps my favourite goodis- probably for the doomed romance plot. here the...

i have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...

130117: this is a later later addition: as a reading project i have read several dickens this year, as follows: this is a later addition:...

The History of an Illusion 100818: i do not know if this is a five- let alone on a sort of philosophy i do not much read (analytic) but...

An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness F.L. Pogson (Translator) 240716 this is a much later later addition: i have now read ...

(Children of the Sea, #1) 230915: possibly the most beautiful art i have seen in graphic work. in extensive depiction of the seas, the...

211121: another reason to improve my french reading. read at least three times. this slim novella is exactly what i want in romance:...

Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...

C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...

George Burnham Ives (Translation) 131218: everything you want in hopeless romantic dysfunctional love. and an opera...

150319: best, most complete, great essays on reception, bio, myth, aspects of composition, style, subject, influences, art history,...

170319: probably the most fun i have ever had with any book over 225 years old. except maybe the windmill guy. but then my idea of ‘fun’...

220319: fun./review to come... ok review now days later. we lived in bruxelles when my father was on sabbatical so my parents really...

210419: read somewhere that to understand ‘la nausee’ (nausea) you have to read his philosophy text l’etre et le neante’ (being and...