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Michael Kimball
djmogo
, January 01, 2012
You can read this one in a single sitting, and you probably will, and you'll probably reread it soon if you're the rereading type. It's intensely sad, but not in a mopey Wes Anderson kind of way, or the standard literary fiction way. The writing is astoundingly good. Read it.
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All The Names
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Jose Saramago
djmogo
, January 01, 2010
Powell's wants to know the best book I read in the last decade, and it's probably nearly a tie between this and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. But I probably have to go with this one. Saramago concluded his Nobel address talking about this, his then-most-recent book: He wrote that following Blindness, he started All the Names "as if trying to exorcise the monsters generated by the blindness of reason, started writing the simplest of all stories: one person is looking for another, because he has realised that life has nothing more important to demand from a human being. The book is called All the Names. Unwritten, all our names are there. The names of the living and the names of the dead." I've read a lot of great books, and very few are as distinctive and perfect as this one.
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Dan Chaon
djmogo
, October 26, 2009
Just read this book over the weekend, and couldn't put it down. I'd been hearing the name Dan Chaon for awhile now, and am glad I finally got one of his books to the top of my reading pile. I'll definitely be reading more.
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