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Friend Petrovsky, by any chance?

Those are great films

The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe DeNiro's Game, Rawi Hage To Siberia, Per Petterson The Unknown Masterpiece, Honoré de Balzac The White King, György Dragomán

Amazon UK were a bit rubbish with me, probably because they couldn't be bothered to actually read my reviews, since they are lengthier than most. Amazon US, however, were happy to post them up, until they changed the criteria to the fact that I had to have at least one purchase from them before...

You can add Hitomi Kanehara to the same vein as Ryu Murakami, say Snake & Earrings.

Not read them all, but some books spring to mind: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima Shipwrecks, Akira Yoshimura Rashomon and Other Stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa I Am A Cat, Natsume Soseki The Lake, Yasunari Kawabata The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruku Murakami In The...

Hu Mming and Mo Tivator went to see the two monks, Fr Igid and Fr Ivilous, and demanded, such was their arrogance, a cup of tea as they were dying of thirst.

Guy in my work (about fifty years old, I'd say) was talking to me about books yesterday because I usually have one on my desk. He's the sort who isn't listening to a word you say and just witters on about himself and you just sit there screaming 'f*&% off' internally but nodding your head and...

Must be a Canadian thing. ;)

Two days late with the news, Libra. ;)

Citizen X is exactly what I've been thinking as I read through this shit. I cannot believe that something so dumb, shallow, uninspired, and patronising can be feasibly considered as one of the best books the Commonwealth has had to offer in the past year (re: the Booker). Dull, dull, dull, weak...

Hope you used The Book People...? For me, today's lunch produced: A Dead Man's Memoir, Mikhail Bulgakov A Dog's Heart, Mikhail Bulgakov Ann Veronica, H.G. Wells

I think the only person that will grow rich with that book is Napoleon Hill.

Just finished this one and it's a nice antidote to the saffron and swirlng sari novels we get from India. Rather than tell us how good, romantic, sensual, aromatic, etc. that India is, we have a humorous take on Indian entrepreneurship, deliving into the seedier and miserable underbelly of life...

Is there more to it? Is opening cnn.com the memory itself? What was the news that day?

Yeah, but the Cyrano de Bergerac in fiction tend to be grotesques of him rather than be him himself. It's a fine line, I suppose, and we can stand on either side of it. From your own link: "the real Cyrano de Bergerac had little in common with the hero of the play bearing his name".

It makes perfect sense. Cyrano de Bergerac is not an author but a character.

Interpretations of Borges appear in Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose and Mark Z. Danielewski's House Of Leaves.

Yes, experienced that at the weekend there, having thrown out loads of food I'd intended to eat and then let go out of date. :sad:

I have eleven of them ready to go, some on the shelves, some on hold at the library to be collected, and others in the post. Two (Girl In A Blue Dress and From A To X) aren't out yet. I don't. I just go with whatever I feel like. After I finish my current read I'll be getting started. I may...