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Everyone talks about Wild Honey these days but, if you don't know Wild Honey, now you do
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7/4 from 73 woody bass, slinky rhythm and Pigpen blues
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I've only Little Dorrit and Curiosity Shop to compare it to, but Dickens definitely seems more experimental and scathing here. I learned...
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.I’m still waiting for mine. I have a horrible feeling that the total implosion of Unbound/Boundless may mean mine forever remains in a...
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Dour wasn't he...the wife not collaborating yes. I found some things online after he died where students at UAE stated how amazing he...
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jenks replied to the thread Good (and bad) Biographies of Writers.I thought the Sebald one showed just how difficult a man he was and potentially an unpleasant one - wife and daughter refusing to...
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.I think you should finish it - i must have tried Proust half a dozen times before it finally clicking - I've now read the whole thing...
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.I’ve read it. It’s pretty readable. Found the relentless present tense quite wearing after a while and I did wonder if a modern...
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.I think I like it because he allows himself to become a bit more unhinged in it - there are the usual great comic characters but there...
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.One of my favourites of his.
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Reading "Our Mutual Friend" (about 150 pages in). The social satire's on par with "American Psycho", the murky Thames stuff is superb...
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jenks replied to the thread things you have noticed..
