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emjay

emjay

Joined September 2016

the story of my experiments with books
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Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
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Under the Net | Iris Murdoch

"Why should life be made endurable? I know that nothing consoles and nothing justifies except a story but that doesn't stop all stories from being lies."

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The Hollow (Poirot) | Agatha Christie
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Christie writes such beautiful books. with her the detective mystery is simply a tool to do what an author should truly do - explore humans in all their virtue and vices.

#christie #poirot #detective #mystery #thehollow

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The first book I read from modern library's hundred best books.

#ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice #JamesCain #Classics #Literature

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I make these simple quote edits of stuff I like as I read. hope you guys like it.

I read this book because my crush was reading it :P
And then I fell in love with the characters, the book, Clavell and Japan

#JamesClavell #Shogun #Japan

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Zuleika Dobson | Max Beerbohm
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part of my plan to finish modern library's 100 best books (one list at a time) which is started before discovering this place.

Max Beerbohm is Wodehouse made a bit more mature and a bit more frivolous. some critic called Wodehouse's work 'Eden before the fall'. Beerbohm, at least in Zuleika Dobson is Eden continuously falling and rising.