Recent content by tom duck

I got the impression that somewhere it's meant to collapse categories so that the reader realises he's implicated somehow. That I missed, but I still love the premise: after countless re-measurings, the house is still bigger on the inside than it is on the outside...

the precocity isn't quite as interesting as the genius. If he had lived a bit longer perhaps we'd pay less attention to his beginnings.

I liked the crap dialogue - it reminded me of Woody Allen films, and some of the real people I know. I liked the ham-fisted locations because they reminded me to get off my arse and visit the real New York. But then I don't see why people in fillms have to talk the way they do in real life. I...

Hello Googled for an author, can't remember who, found myself here & wanted to stay! I'd like to meet y'all, I'd stand you a round of mohitos and try and avoid getting into a fight about how Heidegger sucks... How abt a food forum?

Riddley Walker is in a league of its own. I wouldn't really bother with anything else by RH apart from 'The Mouse and his Child' and 'Turtle Diary' - and 'how Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen' if you're 7 years old, of course personally I loved Kleinzeit I was just trying to...

I've just finished "Nine suitcases" by Bela Zsolt & recommend it; afterwards I tried reading Austerlitz but that suffered so badly in comparison that I still can't see myself finishing a book by Sebald - without knowing exactly why. Right now I'm trying to read 'Soldados de Salamina' by Javier...