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Knife
This was published today, right when I started reading Rushdie’s memoir Knife: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
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I have admired Hamid Ismailov ever since I read The Devil's Dance. This book is as confusing as that one, filled as it is with Central Asian poetry and expressions. The story gets clearer after the first part, but more and more merges with the epic p
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| The Kyrgyz epic Manas has been transferred through generations via the Manaschi, poets who sang the whole epic, a tradition that still continues today. This book is an excerpt from the Manas, named after its hero. The story feels similar to Homer’s I ...more | |
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What We Can Know
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| Back when I was young (said grandpa…), I used to be a decent pianist, ready to be a professional musician. As a pianist, you need to be really good to make a living out of playing, though, so most pianists end up being piano teachers after graduating ...more | |
"I still haven't read Pachinko, but I was blown away by Free Food for Millionaires (FFFM), so I was really looking forward to this one.
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"Campbell's monomyth is a dense difficult read with many references and repetitions of ancient Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Chinese epics sharing the same patterns in similar hero stories, hence the title, The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
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| Rather than describing the last days of the dinosaurs, this book is about the first days of what followed the fifth great extinction: the rise of mammals and everything else. The text reads as if you are in a National Geographic documentary, but with ...more | |
Nobel Prize Winners
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From the sublime to the abstruse, from the bestsellers to the rightly unknown. To read the winners of the Nobel Prize in literature is a roller coaste ...more
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It's Goodreads' book club to discuss – online and in person – the best books on digital security and privacy. (formerly CSM Passcode book club) ...more