200628: reading second time...note again, the result of opposing thought-systems etc is not median, not synthesis, not relatively, but...

200704: vision of argentina in 1975, the height of the ‘dirty war’, from three perspectives. the gods are from classical mythology, the...

200710: this five does not mean i understand it all, but as with philosophy i enjoy not understanding. i am not scientific but my father...

Lisa Dillman (Translator), Edmund White (Foreword) 200721: there are some beautiful images here, some haunting, hurting narratives,...

Tintin #12, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator), Michael Turner (Translator) 200725: forgot how much i loved this tintin...

Lorin Stein (Translator) 200728: brutal, benign, bewildering, beautiful (now i have to read 'wittgenstein's mistress'...). as mentioned...

200805: years (decades...) since first reading. this might be first buddhism book i read, very concise, great translations, clear and...

Jonathan Wright (Translator) 200823: dark, satiric, violent, postmodern. this vision of Baghdad in the early years of this 21st century...

Rajesh Nagulakonda (Illustrations) 200831: history/myths of life. beautiful artwork. slight reference to four noble truths, eightfold...

Phyllis I. Lyons (Translator) 201003: the man who wrote 'to the point of murder'... then in paranoia tries to extricate himself from how...

201006: bleak, brutal, beautiful. exactly the right art for the story- rough, slashing, direct- and the right story for the art. not...

Culture #2 201102: wondrous, wildly imaginative, witty. excellent space opera of different sort. vision of conflicts an utopian society...

201227: my father did his masters in physics at cal tech when feynman was there in early 60s. he did not study but sat in on one of his...

(The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke #3) 210107: from childhood. this still greatly emotionally affects me, i do not remember when...

Jonathan Katz (Translator) 190819: previous read as [book:Beware of Pity|59149] exactly when i decided to reread this i am uncertain....

Chris Andrews (Translator) 210404: now here is something opposite the knausgaard i have just read. concise, comic, complete,...

210606: this is family epic set through modern history of uganda, seen from feminist point of view. that is, confronting patriarchal...

210624: when i took art history at u i really did not enjoy it, now i see it everywhere, love it everywhere, am endlessly fascinated by...

Margot Livesey (Introduction) 140220: second reading. years (decades...) after first, so i knew what i was getting, as this is one of the...

Barbara Shelby (Translator) 210428: this is my new favourite amado. what has bothered me on several other works of his, particularly more...