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  1. Ulysses by James Joyce. I did not like it at all. Writes like he`s on acid, I doubt that he was though. Terrible.
  2. Hello Chalie. I finished Human Traces a week ago, excellent it was too. Seb gives the impression of having done loads of reading on issues around psychoanalysis, and European history.The family dynamics are very well described throughout, yet I did find it odd that two psych doctors could end up in a situation where one weds the other`s patient, the other weds his friend`s sister. Kept on thinking how excruciatingly embarrassing it must have been for Thomas..."my sis is married to my ex buddy Jacques, who tried to have my wife Kat classified as insane." or Jacques saying " I am married to my ex pal`s sister, I thought his wife, who I see socially daily now, was a hysteric." I love the grand panoramic storyline, the sweep of history across many decades in 800 pages. I just loved the book..though I loathed the way animals are treated throughout, especially the cold clinical detail of Jacques cutting up frogs, it sickens me and I know mrs meagain could not read a book with such sickening descriptions in it.Regensburger said prior to Africa trip that Africa is a big country...really? I think in 1898 the intelligentsia would have it as a continent. And Regensburger should have been done for murder after callously killing a porter in an African journey. Overall a very good book, best read in ages.
  3. I have, I live in England. Never have I been happy to pay a large gas bill.
  4. Try Human traces by Sebastian Faulks. It will help if you know anything about history of mental health care etc.
  5. I took auto rickshaw in Calcutta and Varanasi. Never have I lost my keys
  6. It`s a funny thing, taste, is it not? After reading Brick Lane 5 years ago, I wrote to Monica Ali in praise of the book. Eventually I got a handwritten letter, delivered by hand to my home whilst I was out, from Monica. Anyway, some like, some dislike, nobody can like everything, it`s what makes the world so brilliant.
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