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Royal Highness (Paperback) by Thomas Mann bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Paperback) by Alex Ross bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The City and the City (Hardcover) by China Miéville bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Jayaprakash voted on the book list Best science fiction books
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Thorgal Vol.6: City of the Lost God (Paperback) by Jean Van Hamme |
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The Archers: Thorgal 4 (Thorgal) by Jean Van Hamme |
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Beyond the Shadows (Thorgal) by Jean Van Hamme |
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Thorgal Vol.5: The Land of Qa (Paperback) by Jean Van Hamme |
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The Graveyard Book (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) |
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read in July, 2009
Jayaprakash said:
"A much better novel than Neverwhere, Anansi Boys or Stardust. Quite dark, fantastic and gripping, with a male protagonist who for once is not completely nondescript, although he still tends to be overshadowed by his supporting cast. A very tightly en...more
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Jayaprakash
read and liked
Jeremy's
review of The Time Traveler's Wife:
"So, I got to read about the guy Audrey Niffenegger wants to fuck. That's cool. Really, in the end, the only thing this book gave me was a fun magical word I get to say if I ever get the power of spontaneous time travel: "N...more " | |
"'I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.'"
— Georges Simenon
— Georges Simenon
"There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it."
— Thomas Mann
— Thomas Mann
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye."
— John Milton (Areopagitica)
— John Milton (Areopagitica)
"Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. "
— Rohinton Mistry (Family Matters)
— Rohinton Mistry (Family Matters)
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
In Defense of Lowe-Porter
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We feel current translators of Thomas Mann too often takes swipes at H. T. Lowe-Porter, who, during Mann's lifetime and often with his cooperation, tr...more
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