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Staff Picks April 2006
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Brie: Just off the top of my head I would say that this is one of the great books of our age. It is the subtlest of miniatures that contains our deepest sorrows and truths and love - all caught in a clear, simple style in perfect brush strokes.
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The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton Zach A writes: By turns hilarious and terrifying, Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday is a lyrical search for truth in a world where nothing is what it seems. Luckily such an undertaking is not complete without anarchists, car chases, and a gentleman’s duel. Publisher: Penguin Classics Summary: In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called “The Man Who Was Thursday” “a very melodramatic sort of moonshine.” Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. Publisher: Vintage Summary: Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves’ historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn’t prepared for such an engaging book. But it’s a ripping good read, this fictional a I, Claudius by Robert Graves
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Luke: Planet Of The Apes by Pieree Boulle
Juliet: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Who is the real Charles Dickens in this most autobiographical novel? Is he the innocent and trusting David through whose eyes we are introduced to a cast of wonderfully eccentric characters? Or is it the ineffectual Mr. Dick who is unable to complete his manifesto on the decapitated King Charles? Read and discuss.
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March 25, 202350th Birthday of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl
The 1955 poem begins: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…” The New York Times published an article published in the September 6, 2023 New York Times Book Review entitled “West Coast Rhythms:” The article called national attenson to the Beat generation, Allen Ginsberg, and the poem Howl. An obscenity trial was brought against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who ran City Lights Bookstore, the poem’s new domestic publisher. Nine literary experts testified on the poem’s behalf. Supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Ferlinghetti won the case when Judge Clayton Horn decided that the poem was of ‘redeeming social importance Details City Lights Book Store has a set of birthday events around the world. Garry Wills provides a detailed review of Taylor Branch’s At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68. What a saga! Filled with people you liked and despised. If you remember the March on Selma, or even if you didn’t, what great history.. “There are no books too deep for teenagers” said Harry Eyres in a recent Financial Times Weeked Books Section. He recounts his books like War and Peace and Doctor Zhivago. “There are no books teenagers should read but there are no books too deep or difficult for teenagers. What you read at 16 may shape your imagination for the rest of your life: only the best will [email protected] columns at www.ft.com/eyres.” Read the article-> Read more Oats writes: ” Though it is a sequil of sorts to Brightness Fails, The Good Life is McInerney’s most fully imagined novel… Read more
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