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Orion Reads: Eichmann in Jerusalem
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A diary of books etc. Monday, November 27, 2006. A Report on the Banality of Evil. To cut to the chase, the trial lasted about half a year and found Eichmann guilty of several mortal crimes. The appeal was comparatively brief and found him even more guilty, and Eichmann was swiftly executed. Eichmann in Jerusalem is extremely difficult to reduce:. Firstly it's a significantly technically involved work: If The Oxbow Incident. For starters, Arendt's prose voice is abysmal. I'm a big fan of long and con...
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Orion Reads: April 2005
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A diary of books etc. Tuesday, April 26, 2005. Mark Twain, Kung-Fu Hustle, Martin Gardner. I've been reading slowly lately, not sure why. Saw the Kung-Fu Hustle. It's fun. Not as fun as Shaolin Soccer. I've started reading one of Martin Gardner's. Collection of mathematical puzzles from Scientific America. I recently almost finished The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories. It's no Huck Finn. But it's pretty good. I didn't finish it only because i lost it. The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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Orion Reads: December 2004
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A diary of books etc. Thursday, December 30, 2004. I am rather pointed, bub. Now with anonymous comments! You can insult my taste and pretend it's not you! Just be sure to translate it to norwegian and back. To disguise your voice because i'm pretty sharp, bub. English - german - french - english). They cannot humiliate my taste and to pretend to him are you! You are simply sure to translate it for the Norwegia. And of return to a coating your voice,. Because I am rather pointed, bub. A 1977 or so hardbo...
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Orion Reads: Ligotti - My Work Is Not Yet Done
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A diary of books etc. Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Ligotti - My Work Is Not Yet Done. Imagine my thrill, my capering joy, to learn that the Ligotti. Volume My Work Is Not Yet Done. Was not in fact due out in something like 2010, but was in fact written in 2002 and published in paperback in 2009! For those who may not know, Ligotti is my current favorite author, especially the collection of short stories, Teatro Grottesco. In Teatro Grottesco manages somewhat more effectively to communicate the cannibal...
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Orion Reads: March 2005
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A diary of books etc. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Picked a beauty with the Czech film Little Otik. Http:/ www.filmforum.com/archivedfilms/otikshow.html. Posted by good old o at 5:10 PM. Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Finally finished Ursula LeGuinn's The Dispossessed. They have no possessive words in their language (altho some get introduced in translation). No property, of course. There word for 'work' is the same as the word for 'play'. Re living in a small Arctic town. Nonetheless, i think it's a useful, if ...
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Orion Reads: January 2005
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A diary of books etc. Friday, January 28, 2005. Not too much going on. I read a few pages of baudolino. Each day on BART,. But mostly i'm reading You'll be the Death of Me. Posted by good old o at 11:14 AM. Monday, January 24, 2005. This week i finished two books which Kai. Gave me: The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge. And The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhart. By i know not whom and even google doesn't know. - Which is ironic in the light of Isabelle's own book, The Oblivion Seekers. Um, i don't really want ...
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Orion Reads: All The Shah's Men
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A diary of books etc. Saturday, October 14, 2006. All The Shah's Men. Is taking a student-run course at Berkeley on the modern history of Iran. Which led to some discussions in the living room, which led the Matthew. Bringing out All the Shaw's Men - An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. In 1919, the British imposed the Anglo-Persian Agreement. Fast forward past a series of puppet prime ministers and de facto puppet shahs to 1951, when Mohammad Mossadegh. Administration seems to have legi...
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Orion Reads: test
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A diary of books etc. Monday, March 11, 2013. Things have changed w/ blogger, so a quick test post. Posted by good old o at 10:33 AM. A diary of books etc. View my complete profile. The Origins of Totalitarianism. LeGuinn, Grimm, Snicket, OBrien. A High Wind in Jamaica. McCullers, Twain, Pratchett, Wodehouse, and not qu. Ligotti - My Work Is Not Yet Done. Alices Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Loo. Omnivores Dilemma, the. Mykle goes to antarctica. The link i most wish weren't broken in the world.
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Orion Reads: more angela carter
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A diary of books etc. Thursday, December 24, 2009. Is fantastic. I went on to read a collection of three novels, The Magic Toyshop, The infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman,. Was written early, and is more or less a coming-of-age story about a young girl mixed with puppetry and strange magic, not always good. It explores sexual politics and power, and is quite good. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Finally, Wise Children. Is the real crowning jewel in this collection.
