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    jenks replied to the thread Placenames not to conjure with.
    Vange
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    This has just arrived from his publishers. https://mailchi.mp/fitzcarraldoeditions/ae0s8pfzl0-7402245?e=d1758890cf
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    i've only read the Bellow but have Life and Fate on my TBR pile. I have got the final volume of a fantasy trilogy to read - i read the...
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    jenks replied to the thread Dickens.
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/02/is-dickens-better-than-shakespeare?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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    jenks reacted to version's post in the thread Poetry with Like Like.
    Someone linked me an Edmond Jabès book called The Book of Shares this morning.
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    jenks reacted to luka's post in the thread Dostoevsky with Like Like.
    That we resist being optimised and rationalised. That we sabotage the palace of crystal. That we insist on our own freedom even if it is...
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    jenks replied to the thread Dickens.
    a few years ago i had a go at writing something about GE - i'll attach it here (there are plot spoilers) it's not my final word on it...
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    jenks replied to the thread Dickens.
    It's hard to disagree when he's on form like he is in Great Expects - i recently taught a few passages from it to Y9s and i was once...
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    jenks reacted to Corpsey's post in the thread Dickens with Like Like.
    This is what I just mentioned, and so far I don't think he's being very unfair--or at least, he balances his distaste for his budding...
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    jenks replied to the thread Dostoevsky.
    This gives you a flavour of the issues of each individual translations...
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    jenks replied to the thread Dostoevsky.
    i read it in the P&V before i had read the criticisms of their translation. People i trust still rate the Garnett. I recently re-read...
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    jenks reacted to version's post in the thread Dostoevsky with Like Like.
    Maybe I should finally do Karamazov this year. I've two translations, one by P&V and one by Magarshack. Got The Idiot as a Wordsworth...
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    jenks replied to the thread Gene Hackman.
    Eric Clapton too
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    jenks reacted to version's post in the thread Read Serious Poetry with me & Corpsey with Like Like.
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    jenks replied to the thread Read Serious Poetry with me & Corpsey.
    I think Facing North is one of my favourites of hers - I got into her via Laurie Andersen - that voice/performance thing.
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