Archive | September, 2008

“Rushing to Paradise” by J.G. Ballard

13 September 2008 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

I read “Crash” a while back. Everything that happened in the book from beginning to end was completely unbelievable, but still I quite liked it. It was somehow compelling, like the car crashes it described. The characters were unreal, human emotions and motivations were absent, the plot meandered through more and more ridiculous territory, and [...]

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“Doctor Criminale” by Malcolm Bradbury

13 September 2008 · Reading · Comments { 0 }

The original idea of this blog was to provide somewhere for me to record the books and articles I read. I forget things so easily: I know I’ve read “Catcher in the Rye”, for instance. I see it on my bookshelf sometimes, and the spine has creases. It’s definitely been read. But I can’t remember [...]

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