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0705 | Baltasar and Blimunda | Jose Saramago

Completed17 October, 202028 December, 2020

The last effort from Portugal I endeavoured to read through was the utterly futile Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. It is with great thankfulness that I can report Saramago…

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0642 |The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa

Completed2 March, 201913 November, 2019

Less than halfway through his bundle of tedium, Pessoa says Let the plotless novel come to an end If only … Instead, Pessoa moans on and on for another half…

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0495 | Time’s Arrow | Martin Amis

Completed28 May, 2015

Not read any of Martin Amis’ stuff since I started out with The Information which I rated mediocre 6 years ago. This, was far, far better. Time’s Arrow starts off a very…

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0465 | The Lusiads | Luís Vaz de Camões

Completed15 September, 2014

There’s no doubt that this deserves its place on the 1001 books list. There’s no doubt that this is one of history’s greatest works, an epic poem of both literary…

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0269 | In Europe – Geert Mak

Completed11 July, 2010

Context: Finally finished this off at our friends’ lovely house in Beamish, County Durham. REVIEW This was an amazing book and I can’t think why it isn’t better known. For…

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