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Sound

"Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."

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Tue Jul 24 12:21:06 BST 2007

The Mill on the Floss

This book is not a spectacular read. Its plot would be unsustainable were it not for George Eliot's piercingly brilliant insights into human nature, which hang extraneously on its uneventful narrative. Unlike Middlemarch, the web of characters in this novel is perfunctory, and altogether rather unsympathetic and uninteresting. Although you witness the long lives of the characters, you never feel as if you have aged with them as you do in her later novels.

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Tue Jul 17 12:29:43 BST 2007

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell's great account of what poverty is like as a plongeur in Paris and a tramp in London. Its anecdotes are entertaining, thought-provoking, educational, interesting. I finished it in like two days, definitely worth a read.

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Tue Jul 17 12:28:34 BST 2007

Verse

I wonder how many poets write their verse like prose, and divide the lines up later... This is a serious question, though it sounds stupid. More to come.

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Mon Apr 30 21:43:23 BST 2007