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In 2004 verscheen In Europa, de neerslag van een reis die Geert Mak maakte door Europa, in het laatste jaar van de twintigste eeuw. De geschiedenis van die eeuw was zijn leidraad. Mak reisde naar Londen, Stalingrad en Madrid, langs de bunkers van Berlijn, bekeek de geparfumeerde kleerkasten van Helena Ceausescu in Boekarest en de speelgoedauto's in een verlaten crèche in Tsjernobyl. Het werd een inventarisatie: hoe lag het continent erbij aan het slot van de eeuw?]]> 450 Geert Mak 9046704211 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 currently-reading 4.26 2004
author: Geert Mak
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]]> 10799 A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.]]> 293 Ernest Hemingway 0099910101 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 :'( 3.83 1929
author: Ernest Hemingway
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]]> 34122206 The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.]]> 320 Kassia St. Clair 0143131141 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.08 2016
author: Kassia St. Clair
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]]> 51746565 The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars.

This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.

With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway. With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.]]> 42 Ursula K. Le Guin 1999675991 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 4.56 1986
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Amper een boek, maar wel heel goed!
]]> 224774593 208 Guy Delisle 9493383008 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 4.00 2024
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]]> 396094 This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780141182636

Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.]]> 177 F. Scott Fitzgerald ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 Broke my heart, old sport! 3.88 1925
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Broke my heart, old sport!
]]> 11397090 174 George Orwell 9029022663 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 sint Petersburgse vertellingen. De thema's van 1984 en Animal farm zijn zo iconisch en monumentaal dat we durven vergeten hoe helder Orwell's proza is, en deze vlotte pen vinden terug in zijn debuut.
7/10: Londen was niet zo interessant als de parijse plongeurs.]]> 3.92 1933
author: George Orwell
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.92
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In de voetsporen van Gogol's sint Petersburgse vertellingen. De thema's van 1984 en Animal farm zijn zo iconisch en monumentaal dat we durven vergeten hoe helder Orwell's proza is, en deze vlotte pen vinden terug in zijn debuut.
7/10: Londen was niet zo interessant als de parijse plongeurs.
]]> 52374 Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

This edition has a new afterword, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference.]]> 336 Susan Sontag 0312280866 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 currently-reading 4.15 1966
author: Susan Sontag
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]]> 58169 Where do ideas come from?

In Catching the Big Fish, internationally acclaimed filmmaker David Lynch provides a rare window into his methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

Lynch describes the experience of "diving within" and "catching" ideas like fish - and then preparing them for television or movie screens, and other mediums in which he works, such as painting, music, and design. Lynch writes for the first time about his more than three-decade commitment to Transcendental Meditation and the difference it has made in his creative process.

In brief chapters, Lynch explains the development of his ideas - where they came from, how he grasps them, and which ones appeal to him the most. He specifically discusses how he puts his thoughts into action and how he engages with others around him. Finally, he considers the self and the surrounding world - and how the process of "diving within" that has so deeply affected his own work can directly benefit others.

Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally intriguing to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.]]> 181 David Lynch 1585425400 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.78 2006
author: David Lynch
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]]> 58949850 'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine Evaristo

Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem but, despite their conflict, the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them is undeniable.

Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. We know that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage?

This story is a masterful exploration of what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, of race and the relationships that shape our lives. Now with a new introduction by Zadie Smith, it is as radically compelling and relevant today as it was when first written nearly forty years ago.


'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' Tayari Jones

'Her work is an act of giving her community back to itself, so that people - African-Americans but the diaspora as well - can see and witness themselves' Diana Evans]]> 96 Toni Morrison 1784744786 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 Liberation is liberation: the recognition of somebody in everybody ]]> 4.31 1983
author: Toni Morrison
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average rating: 4.31
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Een zeer straf, al dan niet frustrerend kortverhaal met een aangenaam, al dan niet extensief voorwoord van Zadie Smith dat je beter er na leest.
Liberation is liberation: the recognition of somebody in everybody
]]> 18758779 371 Gustave Flaubert 9020413805 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 [spoilers removed] 3.83 1856
author: Gustave Flaubert
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average rating: 3.83
book published: 1856
rating: 4
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[spoilers removed]
]]> 1249630 Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto recém formado em Medicina. Neste momento faz-se uma longa descrição da casa - "O Ramalhete," cujo nome tem origem num painel de azulejos com um ramo de girassóis, e não em algo fresco ou campestre, tal como o nome nos remete a pensar. Afonso da Maia era o personagem mais simpático do romance e aquele que o autor mais valorizou, pois não se lhe conhecem defeitos. É um homem de carácter, culto e requintado nos gostos. Em jovem aderiu aos ideais do Liberalismo e foi obrigado, por seu pai, a sair de casa e a instalar-se em Inglaterra. Após o pai falecer regressa a Lisboa para casar com Maria Eduarda Runa, mas pouco tempo depois escolhe o exílio por razões de ordem política. Há em Os Maias um retrato da Lisboa da epóca. Carlos, que mora na Rua das Janelas Verdes, caminha com frequência até ao Rossio (embora, por vezes, vá a cavalo ou de carruagem). Algumas das lojas citadas no livro ainda existem - a Casa Havaneza, no Chiado, por exemplo. É possível seguir os diferentes percursos de Carlos ou do Ega pelas suas da Baixa lisboeta, ainda que algumas tenham mudado de nome. No final do livro, quando Carlos volta a Lisboa muitos anos depois, somos levados a ver as novidades - a Avenida da Liberdade, que substituiu o Passeio Público, e que é descrita como uma coisa nova, e feia pela sua novidade, exactamente como nos anos 70 se falava das casas de emigrante. O romance veicula sobre o país uma perspectiva muito derrotista, muito pessimista. Tirando a natureza (o Tejo, Sintra, Santa Olávia...), é tudo uma choldra ignóbil. Predomina uma visão de estrangeirado, de quem só valoriza as civilizações superiores - da França e Inglaterra, principalmente. Os políticos são mesquinhos, ignorantes ou corruptos (Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto...); os homens das Letras sao boémios e dissolutos, retrógrados ou distantes da realidade concreta (Alencar, Ega...: lembre-se o que se passou no Sarau do Teatro da Trindade); os jornalistas boémios e venais (Palma...); os homens do desporto não conseguem organizar uma corrida de cavalos, pois não há hipódromo à altura, nem cavalos, nem cavaleiros, as pessoas não vestem como o evento exigia, as senhoras traziam vestidos de missa. Para cúmulo de tudo isto, os protagonistas acabam vencidos da vida. Apesar de ser isto referido no fim do livro, pode-se ver que ainda há alguma esperanca implícita, nas passagens em que Carlos da Maia e João da Ega dizem que o apetite humano é a causa de todos os seus problemas e que portanto nunca mais terão apetites, mas logo a seguir dizem que lhes está a apetecer um "prato de paio com ervilhas," ou quando dizem que a pressa não leva a nada e que a vida deve ser levada com calma mas começam a correr para apanhar o americano (eléctrico). Mais do que crítica de costumes, o romance mostra-nos um país - sobretudo Lisboa - que se dissolve, incapaz de se regenerar. Quando o autor escreve mais tarde A Cidade e as Serras, expõe uma atitude muito mais construtiva: o protagonista regenera-se pela descoberta das raízes rurais ancestrais não atingidas pela degradação da civilização, num movimento inverso ao que predomina n'Os Maias.]]> 681 Eça de Queirós 9725681363 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.98 1888
author: Eça de Queirós
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> 207781 284 Robert Henri 0064301389 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.92 1929
author: Robert Henri
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> 7797030 93 Annie Ernaux 9029522550 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 In 1 ruk uit! 4.13 2000
author: Annie Ernaux
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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In 1 ruk uit!
]]> 59007109 Listening time: 20 hours and 47 minutes.

This brand-new unabridged audio book of The Two Towers, the second part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA award-winning actor, director and author Andy Serkis.

Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs.

Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin—alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.]]> J.R.R. Tolkien ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.55 1954
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.55
book published: 1954
rating: 4
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Frodo en Sam > Aragorn en the gang
]]> 37398 229 Toni Morrison 0452269652 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.90 1992
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> 42653593 Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.]]> 560 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 9028261710 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 In ieder geval, leve frankrijk!]]> 3.98 1932
author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1932
rating: 4
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Of 4.5, ik weet het nog niet zo goed.
In ieder geval, leve frankrijk!
]]> 24596440
De duivel en zijn handlangers overvallen Moskou. Het moet tussen 1925 en 1940 zijn. De stad is in paniek: willekeurige mensen worden plotseling krankzinnig of onthoofd, veranderen in vampiers of verdwijnen op mysterieuze wijze. Nog voor de komst de duivel heeft de ‘meester� een roman geschreven over Pontius Pilatus, de romeinse stadhouder die na de kruisiging van Christus zijn handen in onschuld waste. Hoewel zijn boek niet mag verschijnen, wordt hij in de kranten tóch van ‘pilatisme� beschuldigd. Zijn geliefde, Margarita, vindt dat hij zich tegen die onrechtvaardigheid moet verzetten maar hij nog voor hij dat kan overwegen wordt hij gearresteerd en opgesloten in een gekkenhuis.

Margarita, die hem geliefde wil redden, ontmoet het duivelse gezelschap, sluit zich daarbij aan en verandert in een heks. De duivel zelf raakt zo van haar onder de indruk dat hij haar wens vervult. Aan het lijfelijk bestaan van de geliefden komt een eind, zij verlaten Moskou spoorslags door het luchtruim en vinden onderdak in een bescheiden huisje op het platteland waar zij ‘voor de rest van de eeuwigheid� mogen blijven.

Michael Boelgakov (1891â€�1940) heeft van 1928 tot vlak voor zijn dood aan De meester en Margarita gewerkt, de periode waarin Rusland door Stalin werd omgevormd tot een communistische terreurstaat. Pas in 1967 verscheen in Moskou een zwaar gecensureerde versie ervan. De eerste vertalingen van deze ‘corrupteâ€� tekst zorgden voor een wereldwijde literaire sensatie. Deze uitgave in onze Russische Bibliotheek® bevat de complete, ongecensureerde tekst van Boelgakovs satirische en tragikomische huzarenstuk, in de meesterlijke vertaling van Marko Fondse en Aai Prins. Tegenwoordig geldt De meester en Margarita als een van de belangrijkste romans uit de 20ste eeuwse wereldliteratuur.]]> 448 Mikhail Bulgakov ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 4.00 1967
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1967
rating: 3
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Veel toppunten maar gaat evenveel keren de dieperik in. Laatse honderd pagina's heb ik me er serieus door moeten slaan. Mooi einde wel
]]> 7723 The Metamorphosis,� a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.

Bringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. �The Judgment,� which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and �The Stoker,� which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with �The Metamorphosis,� form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,� and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.

Also included are â€�In the Penal Colony,â€� a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and â€�A Hunger Artist,â€� about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafka’s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.]]> 224 Franz Kafka 1593080298 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 4.08 1915
author: Franz Kafka
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> 32487313
Portnoy's Complaint is the famously outrageous confession made to his analyst by Alexander Portnoy, the Huck Finn of Newark, who is trust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Thirty years after it was first published, Portnoy's Complaint remains a classic of American literature, a tour de force of comic and carnal brilliance, and probably the funniest book about sex ever written. It was recently designated one of the hundred best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library judges.]]> 272 Philip Roth ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 Heel grappig. 3.54 1969
author: Philip Roth
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1969
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Heel grappig.
]]> 58966668 Listening time: 22 hours and 38 minutes.

This brand-new unabridged audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA award-winning actor, director and author Andy Serkis.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

In ancient times, the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages, it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose...]]> 23 J.R.R. Tolkien ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5
Een aantal gedachtes in verhouding met de films.
- Aragorn en Gandalf zijn niet erg vriendelijk of aangenaam.
- dwergen spelen een grotere rol in de gouw, iets wat je niet echt ziet in de film, er zijn weinig dwergen in het algemeen.
- Bilbo is de eerste persoon ooit die de ring van hem kom afstaan, belangrijk!
- Een ongelofelijk beklijvend gevoel van verval waait over Midden Aarde ( vernoemd naar het Noorse Mitgard) Alles lijkt al zijn beste tijd gehad te hebben, Khazad-dum is een grote graftombe voor het dwergen ras en de elfen lijk ver voorbij hun hoogdagen.
- dit gevoel van verval en hopleoosheid lukt waarschijnlijk beter met een boek van 400 pagina's economische taal dan met een film, die genoodzaakt zijn een snelle actie scene te hebben.
- Merijn's personage leunt dichter aan dat van Frodo dan Pepijn wat voor een mooie spiegeling zorgt. de aristocratische Meesters Frodo en merijn hebben hun speelse kompaan/ Dienaar Sam en Pepijn.
- Frodo is echt een fantastisch personage


]]> 4.62 1954
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.62
book published: 1954
rating: 5
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Ben er wel echt weg van. Ik las dit toen ik 9 of 10 jaar oud was, volledig in de ban van de films maar met schaamrood in mijn wangen moet ik bekennen dat Tolkiens sobere beschrijvingen van de natuur samen met gedichten en liederen me weinig aanspraken. Nu is dat dus volledig omgekeerd. Zeker met deze Audio versie verteld door Andy Serkis ( acteur achter gollum) die de liederen tot leven laat komen.

Een aantal gedachtes in verhouding met de films.
- Aragorn en Gandalf zijn niet erg vriendelijk of aangenaam.
- dwergen spelen een grotere rol in de gouw, iets wat je niet echt ziet in de film, er zijn weinig dwergen in het algemeen.
- Bilbo is de eerste persoon ooit die de ring van hem kom afstaan, belangrijk!
- Een ongelofelijk beklijvend gevoel van verval waait over Midden Aarde ( vernoemd naar het Noorse Mitgard) Alles lijkt al zijn beste tijd gehad te hebben, Khazad-dum is een grote graftombe voor het dwergen ras en de elfen lijk ver voorbij hun hoogdagen.
- dit gevoel van verval en hopleoosheid lukt waarschijnlijk beter met een boek van 400 pagina's economische taal dan met een film, die genoodzaakt zijn een snelle actie scene te hebben.
- Merijn's personage leunt dichter aan dat van Frodo dan Pepijn wat voor een mooie spiegeling zorgt. de aristocratische Meesters Frodo en merijn hebben hun speelse kompaan/ Dienaar Sam en Pepijn.
- Frodo is echt een fantastisch personage



]]> 55886800 Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey—Can a hero find his way home? Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years—battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon—to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.


Praise for Stephen Fry's Greek Myths

“Fry is at his story-telling best . . . the gods will be pleased� � The Times'

“Brilliant . . . all hail Stephen Fry� � The Daily Mail

“A head-spinning marathon of legends� � The Guardian

“A rollicking good read� � The Independent

“An Olympian feat. The gods seem to be smiling on Fry - his myths are definitely a hit� � The Evening Standard
]]> 400 Stephen Fry 1405948418 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 Heel aangenaam. Dit boek gaat over veel dingen: Orestes, Aeneas, thuiskomen, Fry's afscheid aan Griekse Mythologie. Waar het niet over ging was (Helaas!) Fry's versie van Odysseus, nooit een gevoel gehad dat ik hem heb ontmoet.
In alle eerlijkheid kan ik nu gewoon terug Mythos op leggen :p]]> 4.31 2024
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Audioboek, verteld door Stephen fry (Natuurlijk)
Heel aangenaam. Dit boek gaat over veel dingen: Orestes, Aeneas, thuiskomen, Fry's afscheid aan Griekse Mythologie. Waar het niet over ging was (Helaas!) Fry's versie van Odysseus, nooit een gevoel gehad dat ik hem heb ontmoet.
In alle eerlijkheid kan ik nu gewoon terug Mythos op leggen :p
]]> 22568670 Essay over de jukebox is een poging van Handke om het belang van de jukebox te begrijpen, een zoektocht die hem, terwijl hij op reis is in Spanje, naar de literatuur over de jukebox leidt, naar de geschiedenis van de muziekdoos en naar herinneringen aan de muziek van The Beatles, die op hun beurt de verschillende fases van zijn eigen leven toelichten.]]> 108 Peter Handke 9068012703 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.29 1990
author: Peter Handke
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]]> 6364207 277 Alberto Moravia 9028421785 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.5=> 4 3.29 1929
author: Alberto Moravia
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3.5=> 4
]]> 38474
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.]]> 448 James Baldwin 0141186372 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 4.32 1962
author: James Baldwin
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average rating: 4.32
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Goed boek. Alleszins beter dan het ander werk dat ik van Baldwin las, waar zijn eindeloze dralen me serieus de keel uit hing. Dit is nog steeds te lang wel.
]]> 199126293 A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising―and declining―fortunes.

Campbell Flynn, art historian and biographer of Vermeer, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public―yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. Entangled with a brilliant student, he begins to see trouble brewing for his family and friends. All his worlds collide―the art scene and academia, fashion and the English aristocracy, journalism and the internet―as dangerous forces enter his life and Caledonian Road gives up its secrets.
Andrew O’Hagan has written a social novel in the Victorian style, drawing a whole cast of characters into company with each other and revealing the inner energies of the way we live now.

“Not only a peerless chronicler of our times, O’Hagan has generosity, humour and tenderness, which make this novel an utter joy to read.â€�―Monica Ali, author of Love Marriage and Brick Lane]]> 614 Andrew O'Hagan 1324074876 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.73 2024
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]]> 1593668
Twenty years later, he begins to tell his haunting story of life on the plains. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, 'a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself'.]]> 111 Gerald Murnane 1930974280 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.78 1982
author: Gerald Murnane
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]]> 851541 Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.

Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.

The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds.]]> 413 Alfred North Whitehead 0029345707 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.20 1929
author: Alfred North Whitehead
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]]> 108713 311 Iceberg Slim 0862415934 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.00 1967
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]]> 20949444 336 Glyn Johns 0399163875 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.60 2014
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average rating: 3.60
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]]> 938212 246 Charles Portis 0879519312 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.83 1979
author: Charles Portis
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> 86524
The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.

We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible� goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.

We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam� Rayburn (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . .

Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection� in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines.

We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness� of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ.

Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.]]> 882 Robert A. Caro 0679729453 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.39 1982
author: Robert A. Caro
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]]> 40969531
Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, the young girl hides the ability to read and communicate with the souls of objects, and the power to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. Ophelia must leave her family and follow her fiancée to the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity? Though she doesn’t know it yet, she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.]]> 446 Christelle Dabos 1787701425 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.89 2013
author: Christelle Dabos
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]]> 13662
Then a wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes to steal the Tombsâ€� greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Tenar’s duty is to protect the Ring, but Ged possesses the light of magic and tales of a world that Tenar has never known. Will Tenar risk everything to escape from the darkness that has become her domain?]]> 180 Ursula K. Le Guin 0689845367 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 . 4.12 1971
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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]]> 26931 Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history during the years before the Civil War, when slavery was tearing the country apart. But within this broader scope, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, of romance and familial life and death that make the reader feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.]]> 758 Russell Banks 0060930861 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.94 1998
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]]> 6551700
A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.]]> 226 Toni Morrison 0307386589 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 :') 4.11 1970
author: Toni Morrison
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> 944103 The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African (Nigeria) Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine Drinkard has been translated into more than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa's most influential writers.]]> 125 Amos Tutuola 0571049966 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.78 1952
author: Amos Tutuola
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]]> 3876 The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]> 189 Ernest Hemingway ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 Mooie taal. Was ik twintig had ik deze personages waarschijnlijk verhemelt, nu zijn ze eerder zielig. Even entertainend wel]]> 3.81 1926
author: Ernest Hemingway
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average rating: 3.81
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Mooie taal. Was ik twintig had ik deze personages waarschijnlijk verhemelt, nu zijn ze eerder zielig. Even entertainend wel
]]> 85449583 "Soseki's lightest and funniest work." -Donald Keene
A hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, Botchan is a perennial classic in Japan and has occupied a position of great importance in the canon of Japanese literature, one vaguely analogous to Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye in American culture. The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent four years teaching English in a middle school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges. The result is a chain of collisions large and small.
"The story will be found equally entertaining as a means of studying the peculiar traits of the native of Tokyo which are characterized by their quick temper, dashing spirit, generosity and by their readiness to resist even the lordly personage if convinced of their own justness, or to kneel down even to a child if they acknowledge their own wrong. Incidentally the touching devotion of the old maid servant Kiyo to the hero will prove a standing reproach to the inconstant, unfaithful servants of which the number is ever increasing these days in Tokyo. The story becomes doubly interesting by the fact that Mr. K. Natsume, when quite young, held a position of teacher of English at a middle school somewhere about the same part of the country described in the story, while he himself was born and brought up in Tokyo. It may be added that the original is written in an autobiographical style. It is profusely inter laded with spicy, catchy colloquiums patent to the people of Tokyo for the equals of which we may look to the rattling speeches of notorious Chuck Conners of the Bowery of New York." -Yasotaro Morri]]> 164 Natsume SÅ�seki 1514893266 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.00 1906
author: Natsume S�seki
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]]> 287542 520 C.V. Wedgwood 1590171462 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.17 1938
author: C.V. Wedgwood
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]]> 2986601 Esteban Trueba, een tirannieke, wellustige grootgrondbezitter, staat centraal in het leven van vier uitzonderlijke vrouwen: Rosa de Schone, de nimf met het groene haar. Haar zuster Clara, de dromerige helderziende, en haar dochter Blanca, die een verboden liefde koestert voor een linkse protestzanger met wie zij een dochter krijgt.
Dit meisje, Alba, zal later, in een tijd van verval en terreur, de wonderbaarlijke geschiedenis van haar familie optekenen om, zoals ze zegt, 'het verleden te laten herleven en mijn eigen ontzetting te overwinnen'.]]> 431 Isabel Allende 902841651X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.05 1982
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> 45993356 In this graphic novel, three cutting-edge, world-renowned cartoonists team up to tell a tale of an 18th-century pirate � one who's more gallows fodder than a Hollywood swashbuckler.

Guy is no master mariner, with a clipped red (or black) beard. He's just an ordinary member of the crew â€� able enough, but also a lazy, cowardly liar, a drunkard, and a thief. His story is told in two allegorical parts: "The Blowout" and "The Hangover." Three contemporary comics titans, Belgian Olivier Schrauwen (Parallel Lives) and the French duo Ruppert and Mulot (The Perineum Technique) collaborate to bring you the best pictorial and narrative elements of the great tales of the sea â€� bright colors, grand battles, gallows humor â€� in this tour de force of black comedy.]]> 184 Jérôme Mulot 1683962893 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.77 2019
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]]> 4835 Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.]]> 224 Salman Rushdie 0670886580 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.99 1990
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Mooi, maar wel echt, echt voor kids.
]]> 34146440 192 Corinne Maier 1910620319 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 2.5]]> 3.77
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Schattig, loopt wel in de valkuil dat het niet meer wordt dan een wikipedia artikel dat door een tekenpen is gehaald. De constante opsomming van gebeurtenissen laat weinig ruimte voor mooie dialogen.
2.5
]]> 52165442 136 Catherine Sauvat ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.34 2019
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]]> 13543121
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.

As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.]]> 432 Christopher Buehlman 1937007863 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.20 2012
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]]> 457228 Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, ï¬�red up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,â€� drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to ï¬�nd a world as irremediably changed as they have been.]]> 274 John Williams 1590171985 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.18 1960
author: John Williams
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Thema's van McCarthy en de helderheid van Coetzee. John Williams zet een straf staaltje gruwel neer in dit verhaal over de bison jacht.
]]> 13041079 123 Cyriel Buysse 9045007983 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.93 1924
author: Cyriel Buysse
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> 51037781
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.]]> 239 Ursula K. Le Guin ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 Dat Le Guins werk zo verschillend aanvoelt is te duiden aan haar proza. Alsof ze een vlijmscherpe hamer hanteert, direct maar nog steeds vol inzicht. De duidelijke zinnen duwen de picareske heldenreis vluchtig voort. De held in die helden reis is Ged, een simpele boerenjongen die zichzelf omtovert tot Sparrowhawk, de grootste tovenaar van Earthsea. Een verhaal zo simpel dat Leguin het al verteld in de eerste zinnen.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts it peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. p.12

Toevallig dat ik ook Eco’s De Naam van de Roos aan het lezen ben want zowel Eco als Le Guin zijn begeesterd door een bepaalde semiotiek. Bij Eco gaat neemt dit een christelijke vorm aan maar Le Guin gebruikt om de Magie de verklaren in Earthsea. Het idee achter het ware woord, je échte naam. De kracht van de taal maar ook de nietigheid ervan.

If you could name it, you could master it p.48

A wizard is of Earthsea is nog steeds bedoeld voor jonge lezers, maar noch het verhaal noch de themas worden gekleineert. Het vind hier net zijn kracht in. Kinderliteratuur vindt vaak zijn diepgang in de simpliciteit van zijn verhaal en weinig auteurs die het in zo mooie woorden doen als Le Guin.

Yet a greater skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. That night, and always from then on, he offered and gave Ged friendship, a sure and open friendship Ged could not help but return. P.48]]> 4.00 1968
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In 1968 verscheen A Wizard of Earthsea, van Ursula K. Le Guin. 14 jaar nadat Tolkien het Westerse ideaal van Fantasy in de hoofden van zijn lezers etste. Archetypes als bebaarde tovenaars of dwergen zijn vandaag nog steeds vastgeroest aan personages als Gandalf en Gimli. Die esthetiek, mede verbeeld door de populaire films van Peter Jackson, lossen echter snel op wanneer je Le Guins roman openslaat. De wereld en diens personages, lijken een eigen bron te zijn aan onuitputtende inspiratie voor menig boek of film. Studio Ghibli verfilmde Tales of Earthsea al maar daarvoor was haar werk aanwezig in verschillende media. Het schaduw monster dat zich brandmerkt op het hoofdpersonage in de film "Princess Mononoke" doet ons herinneren aan de antagonist van dit boek. Ook 'The legend of Zelda' en 'Harry potter' lijken meer van Le Guins werk geleend te hebben dan Tolkien.
Dat Le Guins werk zo verschillend aanvoelt is te duiden aan haar proza. Alsof ze een vlijmscherpe hamer hanteert, direct maar nog steeds vol inzicht. De duidelijke zinnen duwen de picareske heldenreis vluchtig voort. De held in die helden reis is Ged, een simpele boerenjongen die zichzelf omtovert tot Sparrowhawk, de grootste tovenaar van Earthsea. Een verhaal zo simpel dat Leguin het al verteld in de eerste zinnen.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts it peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. p.12

Toevallig dat ik ook Eco’s De Naam van de Roos aan het lezen ben want zowel Eco als Le Guin zijn begeesterd door een bepaalde semiotiek. Bij Eco gaat neemt dit een christelijke vorm aan maar Le Guin gebruikt om de Magie de verklaren in Earthsea. Het idee achter het ware woord, je échte naam. De kracht van de taal maar ook de nietigheid ervan.

If you could name it, you could master it p.48

A wizard is of Earthsea is nog steeds bedoeld voor jonge lezers, maar noch het verhaal noch de themas worden gekleineert. Het vind hier net zijn kracht in. Kinderliteratuur vindt vaak zijn diepgang in de simpliciteit van zijn verhaal en weinig auteurs die het in zo mooie woorden doen als Le Guin.

Yet a greater skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. That night, and always from then on, he offered and gave Ged friendship, a sure and open friendship Ged could not help but return. P.48
]]> 2667239 De Avonden vertelt het verhaal van Frits van Egters, die in de donkere decemberdagen van vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog zich een houding probeert te geven tegenover zijn ouders en vrienden. Over alles ligt een grijze waas van melancholie, en met zijn eigenzinnige gevoel voor humor probeert hij door het pantser van de verveling te breken. In het ontroerende slothoofdstuk komt hij tot het louterende inzicht dat hij door te kijken en te observeren de zinloosheid heeft bezworen: 'Het is gezien, het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.']]> 287 Gerard Reve 9023462432 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.25 1947
author: Gerard Reve
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.25
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]]> 20863042 232 Mark Fisher ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.5, fan van Burial geworden. 3.98 2014
author: Mark Fisher
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.98
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4.5, fan van Burial geworden.
]]> 1041398 238 Connie Palmen 9053330283 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.60 1991
author: Connie Palmen
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average rating: 3.60
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]]> 204114625
Die herfstdag in 2017 was geen willekeurig gekozen dag: het was een dag gevuld met doelloosheid, verveling, ledigheid, Voor Thibault was het weer een ‘verspilde dag�. Toen hij zijn neef Olivier erover vertelde, had die meteen door dat dit een ideaal onderwerp was voor een nieuwe grafische roman.

Op aangeven van Thibault inventariseerde Olivier minutieus de gebeurtenissen van die bewuste zondag. Vervolgens ging hij praten met mensen die die dag met Thibault te maken hadden en noteerde hij ook hun verhalen. Uit al deze elementen construeerde hij de magistrale striproman Zondag.]]> 476 Olivier Schrauwen 9461740417 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 4.39
author: Olivier Schrauwen
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.39
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]]> 2947312 157 Nescio 9023656784 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.00 1956
author: Nescio
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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Een boek voor, door en over losers.
]]> 9644304 189 Jan Wolkers 9029077034 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.65 1969
author: Jan Wolkers
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.65
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]]> 25147338
Roy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meijer discusses the author's tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused and its unusual narrative structure.]]> 424 Multatuli 9044628488 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 Metakaders, raamvertellingen, bijna postmoderne reflecties,een perfecte fabel over een steenkapper en dan een nog betere fabel in de vorm van ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó en Adinda. Poëzie (Niet alleen in het Nederlands) en kritiek op die poëzie. Vreemd meanderende zinsbouw en eindeloze reflecties over het koloniaal systeem. De bureaucratie, die als zich als een kankergezwel tussen de aristocratie en het proletariaat ontpopt en vanuit de middenpositie beiden Controleert. De Nederlandse Calvinistische handelsklasse, die zonder fantasie of creativiteit zich wast van het lijden van de mishandelde Javaan . Kopieën van echte brieven uit Lebak en Insulinde ZO Veel ideeën voor 300 pagina’s
Havelaar, een schim van de auteur zelf, die zich nog eens verstopt achter Multatuli, en Droogstoppel en Stern (raamvertellingen alom). Wordt opgevreten en meteen weer uit gespuwd door de Koloniale machine van 19e eeuws Nederland. Een straf voor het vertonen van de kleinste hoeveelheid mededogen ten opzichte van de Javaan, of eigenlijk Soendanees allen gestoken onder de mooiste naam van de Nederlandse literatuur.
En dit alles schreef hij in minder dan een maand.
Pure waanzin, maar ook Geniaal. Net zoals Quixote is de hoeveelheid aan Ideen soms te verwarrend en heeft het verloop wat weg van iemand met een concentratie stoornis. Iets om eindeloos op terug te komen.]]> 3.16 1860
author: Multatuli
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
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ZO. VREEMD!
Metakaders, raamvertellingen, bijna postmoderne reflecties,een perfecte fabel over een steenkapper en dan een nog betere fabel in de vorm van ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó en Adinda. Poëzie (Niet alleen in het Nederlands) en kritiek op die poëzie. Vreemd meanderende zinsbouw en eindeloze reflecties over het koloniaal systeem. De bureaucratie, die als zich als een kankergezwel tussen de aristocratie en het proletariaat ontpopt en vanuit de middenpositie beiden Controleert. De Nederlandse Calvinistische handelsklasse, die zonder fantasie of creativiteit zich wast van het lijden van de mishandelde Javaan . Kopieën van echte brieven uit Lebak en Insulinde ZO Veel ideeën voor 300 pagina’s
Havelaar, een schim van de auteur zelf, die zich nog eens verstopt achter Multatuli, en Droogstoppel en Stern (raamvertellingen alom). Wordt opgevreten en meteen weer uit gespuwd door de Koloniale machine van 19e eeuws Nederland. Een straf voor het vertonen van de kleinste hoeveelheid mededogen ten opzichte van de Javaan, of eigenlijk Soendanees allen gestoken onder de mooiste naam van de Nederlandse literatuur.
En dit alles schreef hij in minder dan een maand.
Pure waanzin, maar ook Geniaal. Net zoals Quixote is de hoeveelheid aan Ideen soms te verwarrend en heeft het verloop wat weg van iemand met een concentratie stoornis. Iets om eindeloos op terug te komen.
]]> 75647101 182 Bastien Vivès 9030377895 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.50 2022
author: Bastien Vivès
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Vives begint zich oud te voelen en in de stripwereld, de kunst voor gekwetste jongetjes ( zijn eigen woorden) uit zich dat vaak met creatieve burnout en een platvoerse herhaling van motieven. Net de twee dingen waar het hoofdpersonage, Denis mee sukkelt tijdens het prestigieuze Stripfestival in het winterse Angouleme. Een leuk verhaal over onuitgesproken verlangens raast lekker voorbij en Vives' glasheldere tekeningen versnellen dit geraas des te meer. Toch is dit onderwerp geen onbekend terrein voor Vives en de sporen tonen zich. De laatste albums voelen ook meer aan als uitgewerkte storyboards voor films dan strips, en dan nog een film waarvan ik denk dat die beter zou zijn dan het origineel. In elk geval, een striptekenaar die ZO goed dialogen schrijft kom je niet elke dag tegen, koesteren dus!
]]> 4492520 135 Bastien Vivès 2203012161 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.58 2008
author: Bastien Vivès
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]]> 57013438
Het contact met haar is al jaren verstoord; moeder en zoon zien en spreken elkaar nauwelijks. De gebeurtenis is voor de hoofdpersoon aanleiding in de dagen tussen overlijden en crematie van zijn moeder stil te staan bij hun gezamenlijke ervaringen, waarvan die in Jappenkamp Tjideng wel de aangrijpendste zijn. De grote liefde van het jongetje Jeroen voor zijn moeder is door een aantal gebeurtenissen veranderd in een even grote haat, die zich soms lijkt uit te breiden tot alle moeders, alle vrouwen.]]> 152 Jeroen Brouwers ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.01 1981
author: Jeroen Brouwers
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.01
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rating: 4
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Wanhoop en weemoed, omhelst door het mooist mogelijke Nederlands.
]]> 9371784 1117 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 9025364225 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5

P.S. Een vraagje voor mijn filosofie kenners: Is Don Quichot een goed voorbeeld van Camus' gelukkige Sysiphus?]]> 3.98 1615
author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Een beetje te veel om iets over te zeggen denk ik. Wat wou ik dat ik de ridder met het droeve gelaat was! Trakteer me eens op een wijnzak en ik vertel je, raamvertellingsgewijs, alles wat ik er van vind.


P.S. Een vraagje voor mijn filosofie kenners: Is Don Quichot een goed voorbeeld van Camus' gelukkige Sysiphus?
]]> 58730649 Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world.

Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions (US) and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.]]> 99 Jessica Au 1913097765 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.79 2022
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Leest lekker door, maar in alle eerlijkheid liet Jessica Au's experiment omtrent herinnering me een beetje koud. Koud genoeg voorrr...
]]> 56269147
Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City from her home state of Indiana as a working class activist (and member of then-unknown Cold War hold-out, Democratic Socialists of America), just before the first major movement for economic justice of the millennium, Occupy Wall Street. Of course, Occupy went bust, then Bernie Sanders went boom, and she threw herself into the campaign with everything she had. Frost has been one of the foremost evangelists of labor and socialist politics ever since, as a writer, activist, former staff and lifetime member of DSA, and cohost of the wildly popular Chapo Trap House podcast.

Dirtbag is the much-anticipated debut from one of the most engaging and insightful writers of her generation. This book is more than a political memoir; it is a chapter in the story of the only movement that has a chance to reshape our world into something better. It captures an electric time of thrilling triumphs, stupid decisions, friendships and rivalries new and old, struggle, joy, setbacks, and heartbreak, all with magnetic prose, remarkable candor, and unflappable humor.

Throughout it all, Frost burned the candle at both ends, relentlessly campaigning for socialism and the labor movement, from the American Midwest to the British rust belt, and rallying the troops with her brothers-in-arms as a self-described propagandist for the glorious cause of the workers movement (and somehow, always finding moments for plenty of reckless adventuring). The time was a brutal calamity of work and play, with all of the late nights, hard fights, and joyous camaraderie powered by the hope and the faith that maybe, somehow, this time, socialism could actually win.]]> 288 Amber A'Lee Frost 1250269628 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 Trump, Clinton en Sanders fascineren wel nog steeds, zelfs tijdens Biden. Een Linkse draai is altijd mogelijk, maar in het geval van USA, zelden mogelijk gemaakt.
2.5]]> 3.70
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Dirtbag toont aan dat het linkse project van de Milennial generatie al een fascinerende periode in de politieke geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten is. Van Occupy Wall street, social justice warriors, WOKE zijn tot het dramatisch linkse falen in de vorm van Trumps verkiezing tot Presidentr. Spijtig genoeg is Amber Frosts Proza niet prangend genoeg om die interesse tot leven te wekken. Het constante meanderen tussen politiek activisme en haar liefdesleven zorgt ervoor dat mijn aandacht piekt bij het ene en verwatert bij het andere. Ook de ontbrekende historische context voor de leek die niet elk nieuwsfeitje volgde op twitter, maakt dit een te persoonlijke reflectie die niet volstaat voor essays maar niet persoonlijk genoeg is voor een memoir.
Trump, Clinton en Sanders fascineren wel nog steeds, zelfs tijdens Biden. Een Linkse draai is altijd mogelijk, maar in het geval van USA, zelden mogelijk gemaakt.
2.5
]]> 29959887 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016

When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins.

Davíd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, Davíd is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of.

In this mesmerising allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives.]]> 260 J.M. Coetzee 1911215361 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.5/5]]> 3.54 2016
author: J.M. Coetzee
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Vreemd! Maar dan kijk je nog eens naar de titel en lijkt het toch allemaal te kloppen.
3.5/5
]]> 11231005 110 Thomas Mann 9025334016 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 2.5]]> 3.61 1911
author: Thomas Mann
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average rating: 3.61
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Prachtige zinnen. Die wel echt heel, heel lang zijn. En Tadzio is veertien.
2.5
]]> 16142241 De kolonel krijgt nooit post is door Gabriel García Márquez zelf bij tal van gelegenheden zijn meest geslaagde boek genoemd. Het is het verhaal van een tragikomische kolonel, die de zware last moet torsen van armoede en een astmatische vrouw. Zijn enige trots in de algehele misère is zijn magere vechthaan met lange poten, die voor hem en voor het hele stadje het symbool is geworden van de trotsering van alle ellende in het aangezicht van de volstrekte wanhoop.]]> 80 Gabriel García Márquez 9029088648 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 Gabriel Garcia Marquez noemt deze korte roman zelf zijn meest geslaagde boek.
Achterflap van deze editie

Wat versta je onder geslaagd? toegegeven, vergeleken met ander werk van Marquez zou dit dunne boekje waarschijnlijk meer voldoen aan de gangbaardere kenmerken van een roman. Er zijn helder afgelijnde personages met verschillende beweegredenen. Er is een duidelijk decor in de vorm van het bergstadje Macondo en er is ook veel, veel meer dialoog dan een boek als 100 jaar eenzaamheid .
Allemaal vreemde elementen voor een verhaal dat uit de vingers van van Gabo komt. Desalniettemin leest het wel lekker. Maar moest je, als beginner, je teentje in de vijver van Marquez zijn oeuvre willen dippen, zou je ik je toch Kroniek van een aangekondigde dood in de handen steken.
in't Kort: leuk maar middelmaats.]]> 3.58 1961
author: Gabriel García Márquez
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez noemt deze korte roman zelf zijn meest geslaagde boek.
Achterflap van deze editie

Wat versta je onder geslaagd? toegegeven, vergeleken met ander werk van Marquez zou dit dunne boekje waarschijnlijk meer voldoen aan de gangbaardere kenmerken van een roman. Er zijn helder afgelijnde personages met verschillende beweegredenen. Er is een duidelijk decor in de vorm van het bergstadje Macondo en er is ook veel, veel meer dialoog dan een boek als 100 jaar eenzaamheid .
Allemaal vreemde elementen voor een verhaal dat uit de vingers van van Gabo komt. Desalniettemin leest het wel lekker. Maar moest je, als beginner, je teentje in de vijver van Marquez zijn oeuvre willen dippen, zou je ik je toch Kroniek van een aangekondigde dood in de handen steken.
in't Kort: leuk maar middelmaats.
]]> 42613624
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.

In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.

Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best.

Read by the author. Running time 15 hours.]]> 15 Stephen Fry ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.28 2018
author: Stephen Fry
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average rating: 4.28
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Nog steeds heerlijk, al vind Stephen Fry door alle heldenmythes heen, geen echte vervanger voor zijn versie van Zeus in Mythos. Waarschijnlijk zijn beste creatie. Herakles is leuk, en hij lijkt zich te amuseren met Theseus, maar hij vliegt rap door Oedipus en Medea. Deze kritiek is natuurlijk muggenziften.
]]> 60582780
Based on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.

The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.

Combining fiction with autobiography and historyâ€� the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript―Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.]]> 639 Mircea Cărtărescu 1646052021 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.31 2015
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]]> 49227740
The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry's hands the stories of the titans and gods become a brilliantly entertaining account of ribaldry and revelry, warfare and worship, debauchery, love affairs and life lessons, slayings and suicides, triumphs and tragedies.

You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.

Thoroughly spellbinding, informative and moving, Stephen Fry's Mythos perfectly captures these stories for the modern age - in all their rich and deeply human relevance.]]> 15 Stephen Fry 140593431X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 4.25 2017
author: Stephen Fry
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literair equivalent van comfort food.
]]> 786699 325 Derek Walcott 0374523509 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.97 1990
author: Derek Walcott
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> 61157636 Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness, she escapes to Berlin, is overcome by depression on her return, and trapped in a psychiatry clinic for five years. After electroshock therapy and inhumane treatment, she is released into the care of friends and family, making tentative steps in a halting journey towards recovery.

In her unique, unstructured style, Tezer Özlü explores the extremity of her inner life and the painful pleasures of memory. Translated into English for the first time by Maureen Freely, this novel is a classic akin to The Bell Jar and Good Morning, Midnight.]]> 96 Tezer Ozlu 1788168712 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.70 1980
author: Tezer Ozlu
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.70
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]]> 37539457
A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.]]> 266 Sally Rooney 0571334644 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.93 2018
author: Sally Rooney
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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]]> 32261 here and here.

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousinâ€� Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.]]> 518 Thomas Hardy ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 Scandalousss 3.83 1891
author: Thomas Hardy
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1891
rating: 5
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Scandalousss
]]> 60707 160 J.L. Carr 0940322471 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.10 1980
author: J.L. Carr
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]]> 61049 Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday."ÌýÌý-- The Village Voice

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

National book Critics Circle Award Finalist]]> 160 Anne Carson 037570129X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 favorites 4.28 1998
author: Anne Carson
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Iets om eeuwig over na te denken, op terug te komen, onderzoeken en herbeleven....
]]> 57583824 84 Ken Loach 2130829309 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 2 2.5 3.89 2021
author: Ken Loach
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2.5
]]> 10466465
Une trilogie étonnante qui revisite de façon moderne le péplum fantastique à la sauce Poisson Pilote. Inutile de se fier aux repères historiques, volontairement mis à mal par Merwan Chabane et Bastien Vivès, grande révélation de ces dernières années. Une odyssée singulière et innovante.]]> 56 Merwan 220506309X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.33 2010
author: Merwan
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fantastisch begin, maar raakt halverwege een beetje verdwaalt in zijn postmoderne meta trucjes.
]]> 489732 'The horror, whatever it was, had not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous beauty'

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.

This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality, and the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd.]]> 253 Oscar Wilde 0141439572 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 Prachtig Engels 4.21 1890
author: Oscar Wilde
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book published: 1890
rating: 4
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Prachtig Engels
]]> 31450681 312 Robert Louis Stevenson 1509828060 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 3.81
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]]> 10882679 The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence, or a manifestation of something else entirely?]]> 134 Henry James 0141441356 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 in't kort:
[spoilers removed]]]> 3.19 1898
author: Henry James
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average rating: 3.19
book published: 1898
rating: 3
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Ik weet niet of het Victoriaans engels met zijn ontelbare adjectieven en bijwoorden me evenveel smaakt als het complexe Nederlands van iemand als Brouwers. Leuk spookverhaal wel, en een zot hoofdstuk waar een vrouw een man ziet in een veld en dat is het enige wat er gebeurt.
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]]> 6194 J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.]]> 152 J.M. Coetzee 0140283358 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.94 1980
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]]> 5315572 302 Ming Dong Gu 079146816X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.30 2006
author: Ming Dong Gu
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]]> 50998778 Cliënt E. Busken zit de hoofdpersoon vastgegord in zijn rolstoel op de gesloten afdeling van een instelling waar hij tegen zijn zin verblijft en denkt, piekert, maalt en bedoelt. Hij zegt niets en misschien is er iets mis met zijn gehoor, maar van wat om hem heen gebeurt blijft hij een scherp waarnemer en inwendig voorziet hij zijn medebewoners en het personeel van snerpend commentaar. Ongericht wentelen zijn gedachten door elkaar en bewegen zich van verontwaardiging en machteloos verzet tegen zijn situatie via troebele herinneringen naar megalomanie. Cliënt E. Busken beschrijft een dag van zijn verblijf in de psychiatrische instelling. Navrant en hilarisch openbaart zich een warrig geestesuniversum.]]> 257 Jeroen Brouwers 9025455948 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.48 2020
author: Jeroen Brouwers
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Indrukwekkend staaltje taal. Brouwers' eindeloze bijzinnen verdwalen doelloos in de mistige gedachtenkronkels van de aftakelende Busken. Ja, als dit ons allen te wachten staat, dan liever een mes op de keel.
]]> 53443339
In Troy you will find heroism and hatred, love and loss, revenge and regret, desire and despair. It is these human passions, written bloodily in the sands of a distant shore, that still speak to us today.]]> 414 Stephen Fry 0241424585 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 literair comfort food 4.36 2020
author: Stephen Fry
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average rating: 4.36
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literair comfort food
]]> 13036842 132 Voltaire 9025369154 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 3 Paar keer goed gelold. 3.5 3.75 1759
author: Voltaire
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Paar keer goed gelold. 3.5
]]> 18373 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Ìý
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence � a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?]]> 311 Daniel Keyes 015603008X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.19 1966
author: Daniel Keyes
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]]> 17286000 In deze novelle zijn er de hoofdstukjes, waarin deze collega's anno 1979 filosoferen over het fenomeen schrijven, hun beweegredenen en of al bestaande een gelijkenis, een afspiegeling is. Daarmee afgewisseld zijn er hoofdstukjes gewijd aan een verhaal met personages, geïnspireerd door de schrijversdiscussie.
De volgende bijzonderheid is dat de dokter en de militair van het verhaal, spelend in Bulgarije 1897, een Nederlandse schrijver van honderd jaar later te voorschijn roepen (jawel).
Deze verwevenheid maakt de novelle tot een spel, in de titel een lied genoemd.
In deze editie staan een voorwoord van de Hongaarse schrijver Péter Eszterházy en een kleurenkatern met documentatie over de roman.
De eerste druk verscheen in 1981 bij de Arbeiderspers. JM]]> 95 Cees Nooteboom ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.61 1981
author: Cees Nooteboom
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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Kei mooi en kort. Een post modernistische stijloefening die nog een beetje sentimentaliteit met zich weet mee te brengen. Nootebooms Nederlands is zo meesterlijk dat zijn lange zinnen eerder een genot dan een kwelling zijn.
]]> 94034 675 Luther Blissett 0156031965 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 4.22 1999
author: Luther Blissett
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> 21524919 143 Marguerite Duras 9029079339 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.60 1984
author: Marguerite Duras
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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Duras' glashelder proza duikt diep in het ongemak van het koloniale kaste systeem en de verzwegen regels die deze met zich meebrengen. De schrijfster slaagt hier in zonder ooit de hartverscheurende gevoelens van haar personages aan de kant te schuiven.
]]> 11100788
In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle.]]> 181 Ben Lerner ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.81 2011
author: Ben Lerner
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]]> 27224823
Bastien Vivès, Florent Ruppert y Jérôme Mulot, grandes autores de historieta contemporánea, llevan a cabo un experimento único: mezclan las melodías más íntimas de sus personajes con la gran sinfonía de la aventura. Y el resultado es explosivo, gracioso y extraordinario.]]> 130 Bastien Vivès ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.56 2015
author: Bastien Vivès
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]]> 2737415 59 Hugo Claus 9023447875 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.69 1999
author: Hugo Claus
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 23028514 129 Sophocles 0199769818 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 Banger 3.56 -429
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Banger
]]> 20025490 132 Henrik Ibsen 0486110206 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.92 1879
author: Henrik Ibsen
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1879
rating: 4
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]]> 16111254
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web.]]> 178 Knut Hamsun ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 Voor fans van Gogol, Hesse en Scorseses King of Comedy]]> 3.80 1890
author: Knut Hamsun
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average rating: 3.80
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Een heerlijk manishe monoloog.
Voor fans van Gogol, Hesse en Scorseses King of Comedy
]]> 32585 134 Knut Hamsun 0486431681 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 4.09 1890
author: Knut Hamsun
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1890
rating: 4
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]]> 14836 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,� all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnightâ€� s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.]]> 647 Salman Rushdie 0099578514 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 5 Odin verloor zijn oog voor de kunst van Poezie, geeft Rushdie zijn oog op voor een Nobel prijs?]]> 3.98 1981
author: Salman Rushdie
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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Ik zou heel graag hier iets heel lang over willen schrijven, maar ik ben op vakantie. Dikke pech!
Odin verloor zijn oog voor de kunst van Poezie, geeft Rushdie zijn oog op voor een Nobel prijs?
]]> 3841963
While the first part of the graphic novel is told from her father's perspective, the second part is told in flashback by the protagonist, Sophie, to her young daughter.

This is a beautiful, unexpected tale, told from the heart, which reachers far beyond the story that originally inspired it. It tells of a young woman who is madly in love, and a father who, in spite of his prejudice, stands up for her love. More than that, it is about families, growing up, heartbreak and real life.]]> 60 Judith Vanistendael 9054921900 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 3.69 2007
author: Judith Vanistendael
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]]> 15799416
Simón finds a job in a grain wharf. The work is unfamiliar and backbreaking, but he soon warms to his stevedore comrades, who during breaks conduct philosophical dialogues on the dignity of labour, and generally take him to their hearts.

Now he must set about his task of locating the boy’s mother. Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simón catches sight of a woman he is certain is the mother, and persuades her to assume the role.

David's new mother comes to realise that he is an exceptional child, a bright, dreamy boy with highly unusual ideas about the world. But the school authorities detect a rebellious streak in him and insist he be sent to a special school far away. His mother refuses to yield him up, and it is Simón who must drive the car as the trio flees across the mountains.]]> 288 J.M. Coetzee 1846557267 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 4 Met zijn puntgave zinnen schaatst Coetzee zonder al te veel moeite door deze typische, postmoderne, roman. Wat betekent ouderschap, kinds zijn, regels, waarheid en fictie. De grenzen zijn steeds troebel en het wordt, zoals we bij deze schrijver gewend zijn, lekker in vraag gesteld. Hier en daar verliest zijn kenmerkend scherp oog op die vaagheid wel wat focus.

7.5/10]]> 3.46 2013
author: J.M. Coetzee
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average rating: 3.46
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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Begaafde kinderen zijn, net als probleemkinderen, meermaals de verantwoordelijke voor de vermoeide zuchten van hun ouders. Men kan de vraag stellen of ze niet uit hetzelfde kruis gesneden zijn.
Met zijn puntgave zinnen schaatst Coetzee zonder al te veel moeite door deze typische, postmoderne, roman. Wat betekent ouderschap, kinds zijn, regels, waarheid en fictie. De grenzen zijn steeds troebel en het wordt, zoals we bij deze schrijver gewend zijn, lekker in vraag gesteld. Hier en daar verliest zijn kenmerkend scherp oog op die vaagheid wel wat focus.

7.5/10
]]> 48467 This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631)

The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with "wise blood," who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles.

This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.]]> 256 Flannery O'Connor 0374530637 ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 3.84 1952
author: Flannery O'Connor
name: ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1952
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]]> 1330324 513 Amitav Ghosh 071956896X ³§²¹Ã¯»åÂá²¹³ó 0 to-read 3.97 2008
author: Amitav Ghosh
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average rating: 3.97
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