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Welcome. What you will find here will be my random thoughts and reactions to various books I have read, films I have watched, and music I have listened to. In addition I may (or may not as the spirit moves me) comment about the fantasy world we call reality, which is far stranger than fiction.

Showing posts with label psychological novels. Show all posts

Showing posts with label psychological novels. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Angus Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes a novel I have often thought that the full title of this novel should be Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: A P...

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Hermann Hesse: Demian

Hermann Hesse Demian trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck Bantam Books edition In an earlier post, Baltasar Gracian suggested t...

Sunday, May 4, 2014

The Face of Another, the novel

Kobo Abe' The Face of Another This is the novel that is the basis for the film of the same name which I commented on a short time a...

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Patricia Highsmith and the Talented Mr. Ripleys

The title is somewhat misleading for Patricia Highsmith is directly responsible for only one talented Mr. Ripley--the one found in The Tale...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Nov 11. 1821--Feb. 9, 1881

It was about an handful of decades ago that I sat down, took up a book, and began to read-- "Towards the end of a sultry afternoon earl...

Monday, September 22, 2008

Tana French: Two novels--Psychological or Police Procedurals?

Tana French's first two novels are strange ones. The two are linked in that they are supposedly police procedurals, involving Dublin...

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