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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-28 10:12:07 for The Art of Loving (P.S.).
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A great book that will utterly change your attitudes towards love and relationships.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-13 07:41:08 for God And The State.
(Language: English)
Like a literary threesome involving Dawkins, Marx and Chomsky.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-03 06:22:08 for The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.
(Language: English)
Great book about Science for a Novice like me.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-06 01:37:38 for Saint Morrissey A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan.
(Language: English)
A fine love letter of a book which in its style imitites the wit and flamboyance of the saint the love letter is addressed to.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-22 06:26:29 for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
(Language: English)
So banal and yet so strange. Soo myopic in its preoccupations but also so timelessly universal.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-07 01:41:42 for Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.
(Language: English)
Interesting if somewhat slim book about the affinity between anthropology and anarchism. It also shows how the modern political and economic structures of hierarchy that we live in shouldn't be taken inevitable and for granted. Simply for the fact that historically speaking they are very recent developments.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-18 10:16:08 for Naked Lunch.
(Language: English)
A writer who is very seldom credited for being an incredibly intelligent, despite his somewhat disturbed life. This book should held up alongside Ulysees and Metamorphosis. It is a brilliantly imaginative and colourful metaphor for addiction in all its forms, cultural, physical and political. It also has a fantastic preface. Do not dismiss as just drug addled self-indulgence. This book should be up there with kafka'a Metamorphosis as one of the great literary pieces of imagination. It is not only about drugs but the nature of how addiction is knitted right the way through our entire society. If you can't get through the main book read Burroughs preface to this edition. One of the best essays I have ever read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-03 03:02:37 for Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs.
(Language: English)
This is what real Journalism is about. Shame most journalists don't practice it. xx
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-15 12:32:11 for An Anarchist FAQ: Volume 1 (Afaq).
(Language: English)
The finest compendium of anarchist ideas and theory in book form. Read this if nothing more. xx
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-08 03:17:38 for Escape From Freedom.
(Language: English)
Great book about the complexities of liberty. xx
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-18 12:23:54 for Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million.
(Language: English)
Frigtening expose on Bolshevism.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-10 11:51:17 for Filth.
(Language: English)
Welsh's best book. Any book which has the thoughts of a tapeworm running through the text is good enough for me. xx
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-10 11:48:19 for The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics).
(Language: English)
Beautiful and disgustingly amoral at the same time. yummy.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-10 11:46:07 for Way By Swann's.
(Language: English)
One of the greatest books of one of the greatest series of books ever written. A great meditation on memory, love, desire, childhood and most importantly cake! One of the finest pieces of modernist literature. This is a great book about childhood and love, and if anyone wants to read any of this great series of books at least read this, its magic.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-10 11:41:27 for Birthday Letters.
(Language: English)
Beautiful book of poems about Ted Hughes wife sylvia Plath who committed suicide. Using all his imaginative and technical skill Hughes lays to death the myth that he was responsible for her death. xx
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-17 08:32:21 for Queer.
(Language: English)
Moving book about unrequited desire.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-17 08:18:13 for Junky The Definitive Text of "Junk".
(Language: English)
The more naturalistic little sibling of its giant brother The Naked Lunch. Very simply but clarity and beauty details the ins and outs of living a life addicted to heroin. Also gives you an interesting nice glimpse of Burroughs childhood at the beginning.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-17 08:15:04 for The Cat Inside.
(Language: English)
Why is it that the one person in Literature who shares my deep affection for cats is a gun-obsessed, drug-obsessed homosexual that shot his wife pissed? What does this say about me? hmmmmmmmmmmm?
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-03-17 07:46:36 for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics).
(Language: English)
Great stories. Profoundly underrated; Carrols imagination has influenced generations of writers. This was 4 years the favourite text of the surrealists and is really without sounding horribly pretensious, a surrealist novel. There are so many memorable images here, also the original illustrations are delicious. I want to eat them. Also Carroll must be one of the few authors to create a character that took on a life of its own to such a degree, that it became bigger than the story it came from. I am of course referring to humpty dumpty. It took reading Through The Looking Glass to realise that was where the character originated from. A great and very underrated book. Was influential on twentieth century surrealism. And it includes Humpty Dumpty, what more could you want.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-21 06:11:18 for Tipping the Velvet.
(Language: English)
Lovely historical detail. Sarah Waters captures the growing desires of a young woman for another woman wonderfully. This is full-bellied stuff and people who are squemish of lesbianism should beware.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-21 06:02:26 for The Night Watch.
(Language: English)
Beautiful novel set in the 40’s. Told backwards, it begins in 1947 and moves back to 1941. Details which seem insignificant become momentously important as the plot thickens. This book is a gorgeous examination of love and repression. Captures every meticulious detail of what that period was like.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-21 05:53:58 for The Bloody Chamber & Other Sto.
(Language: English)
Carter digs into the dark side of our fairy tales. Anyone who thought there was anything innocent about childrens stories, read this and think on.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-15 03:46:57 for Anarchism: From Theory to Practice.
(Language: English)
Marvellious introduction to anarchism. Also is aided by the fact that it is very balanced and self-critical. Guerin doesn't hesitate in pointing out the errors that individual anarchists and anarchist movements have made.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-15 03:41:06 for The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 1917-1921 (Black Rose Books; No. E 24).
(Language: English)
A fact by fact exposal of the teachery, cynicism and barbarism that occured after the Bolsheviks stole the revolution and destroyed it shortly after the October revolution. Despite many of Lenin's libertarian sayings prior and during the October revolution such as ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS! Giving the peasants land and factories to the workers, neither happened once they had reconsolidated their power through the state. One-man management became the new rule of the new aristocracy who within days of taking power had set up a secret police (Cheka) who systematically went about murdering and torturing anyone who was an apponent of the new regime, which as rudolf rocker put it 'lagged behind Fascism in nothing'. The Bolsheviks had the control, the workers had none.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-15 03:27:48 for Chomsky On Anarchism.
(Language: English)
Not the finest book on anarchism in my opinion but definitely worth a read. A thrown together piece that's good. Proof again that anarchism is not only not chaos but its opposite. It was the things i reasd when I was starting tio change my mind about Trotskyism; at the time of first reading this I was till a memmber of a leninist political party. This I think swung me towards libertarianism and pointed out to me once again the sham of marxist/leninism.
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