140718: this is read 3 times. this is the book that made his name. it has been translated but i do not know how: a lot of the pleasure is...

if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 220611: this is probably the most academically accurate of the...

sympathetic midcentury portrayal of man not only marrying two women, but working as travelling salesman. no violence, no action, a lot of...

2111218: read in two days, so that is rec. not quite taken as my comics illustrator friend r, but propulsive, pulpy, pomo. and no doubt...

211216: very good. perhaps only three. but there are some good chapters, particularly 3- nature of reality, 4-mechanism of bondage, in...

(Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) 020616: this is engineering fiction written by engineers for engineers. beware readers who are not sf...

241019: this is very like ‘walking man’ by taniguchi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684533.The_Walking_Man but set in shogunate edo....

Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...

C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...

130519 read in french: i have read this before in translation years (decades...) past, 3rd r-g i think. since then have read some...

Kakyoung Lee (Illustrator), Paul La Farge (Translator) 050719: there is an interesting point about how literal translation of the title...

180220: excellent introductory textbook to an entire tradition of philosophical thought little known in the ‘west’. rather than the core...

200704: vision of argentina in 1975, the height of the ‘dirty war’, from three perspectives. the gods are from classical mythology, the...

Lisa Dillman (Translator), Edmund White (Foreword) 200721: there are some beautiful images here, some haunting, hurting narratives,...

201006: bleak, brutal, beautiful. exactly the right art for the story- rough, slashing, direct- and the right story for the art. not...

Culture #2 201102: wondrous, wildly imaginative, witty. excellent space opera of different sort. vision of conflicts an utopian society...

Jonathan Katz (Translator) 190819: previous read as [book:Beware of Pity|59149] exactly when i decided to reread this i am uncertain....

210624: when i took art history at u i really did not enjoy it, now i see it everywhere, love it everywhere, am endlessly fascinated by...

Barbara Shelby (Translator) 210428: this is my new favourite amado. what has bothered me on several other works of his, particularly more...

.??? 2010s: i have read this now 3 times, and read (some) of the negative reviews, but i am confused, i do not understand complaints...