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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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Matt Kelland
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February 2012
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| It's easy to look back on the early days of CYA with a sense of nostalgia, but the truth is that most of them weren't very good. There are no meaningful choices in the story, and most of the outcomes are random and unsatisfying. ...more | |
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| This is by far the most accessible translation of the Mabinogion, and a welcome relief after Evangeline Walton's overlong adaptations of the Four Branches. The tales are easy to read and enjoyable - until we get to the Arthurian ones. Those are tedio ...more | |
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| I almost gave up. The story wasn't engaging me, and the writing felt like a Victorian school translation at times, with a word order that's more Latin than English. "And so did Manawyddan King upon the throne sit, the dawn with pleasure great looking ...more | |
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| I had a copy of this 40-odd years ago and could never get through it. This time I read cover to cover in two sittings (it would have been one, except for the irritating need to sleep). It's a fast read, and the story is intense. The ending is a littl ...more | |
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| This was a real slog when I first read it 40-odd years ago. Now, at the age of 60, I found it utterly engrossing. It has many of Hesse's familiar themes: spiritual search, disillusionment, rejection, intellectualism vs worldliness, and so on. But whe ...more | |
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| Started off interesting, but the stories became very samey after a while. I also found his technique of having every sentence as a separate paragraph irritating. | |
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| The idea was intriguing, but it took too long to get going, and then the second half felt rushed. | |
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something”
― Information Anxiety 2
― Information Anxiety 2
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?”
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.”
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