10-12-2017, 01:56 PM | #16 |
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I don't read many new releases, but I'm looking forward to Paul McAuley's Austral (Science fiction) and Pierre Lemaitre's Rosy and John (Crime fiction) in the next month.
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10-13-2017, 08:53 AM | #17 | |
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The types mentioned by others are what I would call aeroplane books, which do tend to be throwaway blockbusters whose purpose is to take your mind off the flight. But I've read Dracula and Frankenstein while lying in a sunny garden, so I'm not particularly fussy as long as the sun is shining, it's warm and there's a cat somewhere near. |
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10-13-2017, 10:03 PM | #18 |
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I'm looking forward to Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20) by Michael Connelly, due out Oct. 31.
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10-15-2017, 06:17 AM | #20 |
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What I have on pre-order for the month of October:
Dark Blood - Louis Guilloux “Considered a masterpiece by Gide, Malraux, Camus, and Pasternak, Guilloux’s 1935 Blood Dark remains the least known in English of France’s twentieth-century blockbuster novels. Guilloux breaks with the tidiness of traditional French fiction to provide a hallucinatory—and tragicomic—vision of a single day in the life (and death) of a small port town in Brittany during the mutinous and revolutionary year of 1917. At the heart of this apocalyptic satire lies the outsize figure of Cripure, a nihilistic highschool teacher of philosophy, a monstrous Ahab of the intellect suicidally in quest of his Nietzschean white whale. Guilloux’s Le Sang noir here emerges afresh—and urgent—in this new translation by Laura Marris.” —Richard Sieburth “We come upon Blood Dark with something of a shock. For here is a novel projected in the grand style of the nineteenth century, a mountain of a novel, sprawling . . . out of which there emerges a great tragic figure.” —Harold Strauss, The New York Times |
10-15-2017, 07:26 AM | #21 |
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