Archive for 'Books'
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
This is the first book of his that I have read, I had never heard of Cormac McCarthy before one of my friends suggested that a couple of his books would be good reading for over the holiday period. He was right.
Cormac McCarthy’s style, almost a complete lack of punctuation, takes a bit of [...]
Posted: January 8th, 2008 under Books.
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The Black Angel - John Connolly
I read now only about one novel a month. When I read a novel it is like going to the cinema and watching a good film. I feel cheated sometimes leaving the cinema when the film was said to be great, and it is lacklustre.
I feel the same way about this last book I read [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Books, Just Life.
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Failed States by Noam Chomsky
Reading Failed States by Noam Chomsky just now, it is not an easy read. A friend of mine called it a polemic, but it is not, it does not that that type of tone, if you want a polemic on the United States read Michael Moore, he has the tone and the anger.
However, there [...]
Posted: April 2nd, 2007 under Books.
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