Wed, 16 Jul 2008
The Heaven Tree Trilogy and Moby-Dick
Edith Pargeter, a.k.a. Ellis Peters, author of the Brother Cadfael series, on her The Heaven Tree Trilogy "the best thing I have done. The best piece of writing, the story best worth telling, the characters most formidably alive, the theme best worth pursuing to the end: The work that came nearest what I wanted it to be."
Meanwhile, I'm engrossed in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the great good humor therein. See, for example, this delightful bit of damnation:
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008
Alan Furst
As recommended on the gunroom mailing list: the novels of Alan Furst based in 1930s and 40s Europe.
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Anthony Trollope
Added to Mt Toberead: the novels of Anthony Trollope. There doesn't seem to be a "collected works" available at amazon, so what the heck - maybe I'll run them through TeX.
Recommended on the gunroom mailing list in a thread started by someone who spotted a "Plantagenet Palliser For President" bumper sticker.
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