Sunday  the Third of January, 2005
Books I've read in the past year, according to All Consuming:- (Who was it who sent me the Ministry of Fear for Christmas? A genuine anonymous benefactor, or someone who didn't realise that Amazon doesn't automatically put sender names on wishlist packages? Or should I be waiting for a visit from a deformed stranger telling me that I was sent the book by mistake?) [  ]
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Penguin Great Ideas : On the Shortness of Life by Seneca Am on page 8; "Picked up the Seneca to read instead of the Nietzsche - I'm in a far more Stoic frame of mind at the moment. Good, timeless thoughts, and well translated." Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov Am on page 192; "An obituarist in hiding from the Russian underworld, with the solemn companionship of a metre-high penguin, rescued from a local zoo. Brilliantly measured and deadpan, that the summary sounds like hilarious surreal rubbish, but is played completely straight. Very reminiscent of Magnus Mills." Penguin Great Ideas : Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche Am on page 4; "Lovely slim, nice-paper paperback bought for its slim nice-paper paperbackness, and the fact that I've still not really read any Nietzsche." Weighing the Soul : Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre by Len Fisher Am on page 125; "Rambling stories of contested scientific discoveries, of their contexts and legacies, tied loosely together with a theme of childhood intuition. Fairly casually written, which gets across some of the enthusiasm Fisher gives on radio, but a bit too loose and pop-sci. (Although the sprawling endnotes of greater scientific detail make good, solid reading.)" Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court by Patrick Hamilton Am on page 79; "The unreliable amnesia of a dark and oddly mechanical split-personality, heading back to London to marry or to kill the woman he loves." Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius by Paul Strathern Am on page 23; "A history of economic theory, sweeping through general background and pausing to focus in on the interesting or absurd bits. A slightly slow read, but some good enlightening things in there." Against Nature: by J.-K Huysmans Am on page 29; "One of Will Self's favourites, apparently. Grumpy Parisian gets bored of people and goes off to live in a decadent museum. A bit annoyed by a note from the translator saying how she's gone for simple language because "not everyone has a crossword-puzzle mentality", but it's looking okay so far." The Complete Short Stories by J.G. Ballard Am on page 137; "Entire worlds, amazingly compressed - an excellent running theme of altered sound-physics, so far. Thanks to Matt Jones."
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