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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: March 31, 2020, 05:38:01 PM »

I've just started reading The Leopard; rather surprisingly I've not actually read it before. That's pleasure. For work, well, an awful lot of things. Though reading them is quite pleasurable as well.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2020, 10:17:13 AM »

V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival and Alan Garner's Where Shall We Run To? - two books that have certain thematic similarities for all that they are very different.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2022, 07:15:31 PM »

Finally getting round to Asa Briggs' Victorian Cities, which I have dipped into before but embarrassingly have not read in full.

A very fine book, one of the classics of Urban History.
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2022, 08:29:47 PM »

It's excellent but parts of it are hard to translate. The last scene is used extensively in Mahler's Eighth Symphony - the bit with the Anchorites is a personal favourite.
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2022, 08:25:22 AM »

J.G. Farrell's Troubles and a collection of Bulgakov's short stories.
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« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2022, 01:23:25 PM »


With the extra serendipitous joke added by Serendipity of an unpleasant character called George Osborne being killed at Waterloo.
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2023, 10:28:59 AM »

I've recently read Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night (and somewhat surprisingly, perhaps, for the first time) and Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Both are novels characterized by a high level of moral seriousness and I would cheerfully recommend the pair of them, though would note that, despite the apparent framing, Gaudy Night is not a detective novel in the conventional sense at all.
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