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Brideshead Revisited
March 15, 2025Or: Catholicism, you’ve done it again! My understanding is that Evelyn Waugh had complex feelings about Catholicism, at least at the point of writing this book, because he got properly...
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A Room With a View
March 08, 2025I recently read a bunch of EM Forster’s short fiction, which included a bunch of early sc-fi and speculative fiction, including The Machine Stops, which pretty much covered how everyone...
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Heart of Darkness
October 20, 2024I bought the paperback of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness something like twenty years ago. It has followed me around multiple countries since then, unread. I don’t know specifically why...
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David Copperfield
October 03, 2024I’ve read some Dickens in the past, pretty sure I read Hard Times, since I remember a bunch of character names, if not what actually happened. I definitely read A...
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Ulysses
March 02, 2023I first tried to read Ulysses when I was 18. I made it to - what I now realise is the infamous - Chapter 3 (Proteus, following the semi-official Odyssey...
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Gravity's Rainbow
January 28, 2020Gravity's Rainbow is, I’m sure, a towering work of challenging fiction. But it is not one to be dipped into in ten to fifteen minute increments on the bus while...