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I read this expecting a serious book of psychological research into human happiness. Silly me! What I got was a self help book which might be renamed the Book of Platitudes based on a rehashing of popular philosophy with case studies attached. < ...more |
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'Strangeland' is, in a manner of speaking, Dreamland. Dreamland is the pleasure centre of Margate (which I visited myself as a child) but dreams play a major role in the construction of her territory while Margate is the central part of that territor ...more |
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A solid folk horror offering from 1943 by the prolific and wide-ranging pulp fiction writer Anthony Boucher that manages to bring elements of Machen's 'White People' into alignment with a genre of Wild West occult horror of which a master exponent wa ...more |
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We have already reviewed Greene's first novel ('The Man Within', 1929) and pronounced it pretty dreadful. Greene allowed that particular effort re-publication but refused the honour to his next two books which tells you something. Neither is currentl ...more |
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These seven tales of Junichiro Tanazaki cover the period from 1910 (when he was in his mid-twenties) through to the 1930s (his forties) with one ['The Bridge of Dreams'] from his old age in 1959. They show a progression from a writer under ...more |
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This book is a good run down of commercially disruptive technologies, at least those disruptive as of 2017. Things move so fast that one wonders how long this text will be useful but at the time of reading two years later it still acted as a decent p ...more |
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The central purpose of this book is quite simple and worthwhile - a re-exposition of international history in terms of the ongoing dialectic between networks and hierarchies and, as such, it is enlightening and useful. Being a popular acco ...more |
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This is a posthumous book, published in 2002 five years after Berlin's death, and represents the recovery of six BBC lectures, given on radio in 1952, from incomplete transcripts and notes. The lectures were an attempt to convey to the educated lay p ...more |
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This relatively recent biography (2014) of Yukio Mishima has the virtue of concentrating on the person and the social and political conditions of his time rather than on his literary merits. The works are, of course, all covered and placed in their c ...more |
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Well regarded at the time (1980), Chatwin's fictional and short account of a slave-owning family's fortunes in nineteenth century Dahomey now appears as a dated and even a rather patronising account of the history of slavery and Africa. It ...more |
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“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”
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Books That Shouldn't Be Movies
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Ever have a favorite book and have it ruined by the movie making process? Or find out that your favorite book will now be in a theater near you? Yeah, ...more
Back Kicks And Broken Promises
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Art, Theory and Literature of the Grotesque
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A group to discuss, discover, and perhaps even re-introduce this potent way of looking at the world. Subject to include but not limited to: The Histor ...more
Secret History
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Secret Histories, crypto-thrillers and occult fantasies. These are books that purport to tell us the secret history of the world through a fantastic l ...more
The Macabre & Creepy Edgar Allan Poe group
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A group of wacky people who love Poe as much as I do,and enjoy reading his stories,and discussing them. With October coming up, I am always in the moo ...more
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