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How Forests Think
Long Walk To Freedom
The Savage Detectives
Pale Fire
Pale Fire is a delightful escape-room of a novel, with layers of meaning, unreliablility, and puns that might seem a bit highfalutin but crucially does not take itself seriously. The conceit of a somewhat crazy man telling a story through...
The Complete Cosmicomics
Rules Of Civility
There is something half-full about books by Amor Towles, and I can’t quite place it. Maybe it is just an undue obsession with trappings of wealth? Or maybe they are just without objectionability - feels like most proper literature is...
Molloy
Maybe I am biased, predisposed by the forces of Canonized Culture, to find such great beauty in the stream-of-conscious depiction of a man (two? or just the one?) on an odyssey of his own making in Ireland - but this...
Sense And Sensibility
In an uncontroversial opinion, I think Jane Austen is quite good.
The Three-Body Problem
I think the parts that I found interesting in this book, Liu Cixin did not. There are some intriguing concepts here, I think alien astronomy during the cultural revolution is a cool setting to explore…but there is a also a...