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| This was a lot of fun, interesting aliens, interesting "mentally ill" folks, a little bit of sex, a little bit of paranoia, on and on. I was expecting more of a downbeat vibe but that really wasn't the case. | |
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I wonder if I would enjoy this book as much if it was a pure work of fiction as opposed to what it is. Is it the fascination of watching Coetzee basically carve himself up for 200+ page that makes it fun? I dunno. All I know is, I see quite a bit of m...more |
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The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
by Phillip Knightley
read in April, 2013
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| A decent book, though not exactly what I thought I was buying. I thought I'd be getting something with a bit more low-level Cloak and Dagger spying details, but that's not what this is; it's more of a high level, rivalries among various agencies, bud...more | |
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| Not bad, a nice Steinbeckian eye for detail, but... hmmn. Something is missing. A book taking place over a day or two with a bunch of misfits seems right up my alley. Dunno... the characters all pretty much stayed in their box, but maybe I shouldn't...more | |
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I picked this up specifically looking for a novel about mental illness (or "mental illness" if you prefer.) I enjoyed it. In temporal scope* and level of detail on a complex subject, the book has a whiff of TC Boyle about it, but Faulks is quite diffe...more |
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is on page 404 of 787 of Human Traces: This understated novel has suddenly gone on a profanity laced tirade on page 404
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“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.”
― Theodore Dreiser
― Theodore Dreiser
“there are certain advantages in being cursed by all and sundry ... especially, it dispenses you with having to be nice to anybody ... there's nothing more emollient, stultifying, emasculating than wanting to be liked ... "not nice!" ... that does it, you're free! ...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North
“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,”
― Woody Allen
― Woody Allen
“Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation.”
― Jay McInerney
― Jay McInerney
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
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