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booklit

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Reviews of mostly fiction, spanning world, classic, and contemporary works.

• Added on: Sep 11th, 2007
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: booklit
• Listed in: Entertainment Books
• Tags: books reviews book fiction literature reading

Recent Posts

• David Vann: Legend Of A Suicide

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 17:00 in america, short stories, memory, suicide, penguin, first person narrator, unreliable narrator, vann

  In Ichthyology, the opening story of David Vann’s collection, Legend Of A Suicide (2008), there appears a fly that gets stuck in a fishtank and, in its panic, sends off a series of ripples that highlight his predicament. It’s a visible s...

• Walter Tevis: The Man Who Fell To Earth

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 02:00 in america, alcoholism, Sci-fi, loneliness, humanity, existential, penguin classics, tevis

  Science fiction has been in the news a lot these days, most notably with Kim Stanley Robinson’s much publicised criticism about the lack of recognition awarded to the genre by judges of the Man Booker Prize (although it’s likely that sf ...

• On The Nobel Prize in Literature

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 02:00 in prizes & awards

  With the impact of recognising Herta Müller as the 2009 Nobel laureate in literature slightly dampened by rising expectations that she would be the recipient I find myself still happy, like last year, that it has went to a writer I have no experienc...

• Robert Coover: Briar Rose

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 02:00 in america, folklore, desire, postmodern, metafiction, grove press, coover

  The American writer Robert Coover would appear to be a dot on the landscape of British literary consciousness - I don’t know how well known he is in the States - but a small number of his better known titles, such as The Public Burning, The Ori...

• Alexander Pope: The Art Of Sinking In Poetry

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 23:00 in poetry, humour, satire, England, non-fiction, essays, pope, oneworld classics

  Alexander Pope is considered one of England’s greatest poets of the eighteenth century, known for satirical poems as The Rape Of The Lock and the Dunciad. He was a member of the Scriblerus club, along with names like Jonathan Swift and John Arb...

• Philip Roth: The Breast

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 19:17 in america, sexuality, satire, vintage, roth, 1001 books, existential, first person narrator

  Having intended, at one time, to read the books of Philip Roth in order of publication, a brick wall was soon hit with second book, Letting Go, Roth’s first novel proper and still his largest to date. It just went on and on, never serving up th...

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get your book fix here. if you cannot read the actual tome, this is the next best thing. very detailed reviews.

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