221218: i usually have more luck with nobel and booker than other prizes, pulitzer, hugo, nebula, edgar, kirkus, giller, governor...

201108 later addition: i should add my feelings about the book, not just the time. for it is beautifully written as diary, mundane...

200715: [book:Lolita|7604] from the girl's perspective is problematic characterisation. vanessa is not so clearly child but child...

Liz Heron (Translator) 210904: this is much more scholarly take on the story of [book:The Passion of Artemisia|8184087], so maybe not as...

210519: never studied the 'primary' hellenic texts, histories (euripides etc.) or current archaeological, historical work surrounding...

Stephen Snyder (Translator), Markus Juslin (Translator) 131119: i think i will give this an immediate review, without reflection,...

Charlotte Whittle (Translator), César Aira (Introduction) 201011: not for everyone but definitely for me. haunting, hypnotic, harrowing....

William Weaver (Translator) 020219 from ???: i can read this and find something new every time: for me this is the perfect book. first...

William Weaver(Translator) 211003: think i read this first as trade ppk (33 yrs ago!) had read [book:The Name of the Rose|119073] 3 times...

Philippe Jaworski (Translator) 211015: do not know how much i was translating while reading, and how much is memory, but it seems to...

(Continental European Philosophy) 030714: later confusion: discovered an earlier graphic text 'introducing Foucault', source of some of...

Saul Frampton

Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (volume II) 290813: this is Volume 2: as a usual collection there is usually some very good,...

(Key Concepts) 251114: i have read some books on deleuze, some by deleuze, some by deleuze and guattari- and thus the crowded many within...

080814: this. this. just this... excellent intro to deleuze, indirectly capturing the experience of what little read of his work- that...

R.J. Hollingdale (Translator), Walter Kaufmann (translator) 250118 later later addition: rereading a book comparing nietzsche and...

Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty’s Aesthetics 070218: i read this over two days, very long flight then morning here. this interrogates one...

Galen A. Johnson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael B. Smith (Translator) 241017: this is a great if familiar selection of three important...

Society, Philosophy, Literature 220918 this is a much later later addition: after reading more, particularly Nietzsche and Buddhism,...

300120 later later addition: this is the first book that determined how i ever thought of buddhism [book:What the Buddha Taught|390562]...