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Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre. A lecture and book review. Existentialism condensed, squeezed in between the heated defensive polemics.
 
Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon. Murder mystery at the place, with all the people and events as background.
 
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover.

A novel for baseball lovers. J. henry Waugh creates an entire fantasy league and it becomes his life as he plays out all the games by himself on his kitchen table in his every waking moment. Soon he can hardly tell real life from fantasy life and the reader will find the book hard to put down as the dramatic tension rises.
 
Amsimov's Foundation and Foundation and Empire. In a furious fit of reading, I finished both in 4 days. I don't know if I should bother reading the rest of the series.
 
Turn of the screw - Henry James :star4:
Beautifully written and chilling.

Bangkok Tattoo - John Burdett :star4:
wild, funny, sleazy, addictive, and a serious page turner. The best I've read, in the crime fiction genre, in a while.
 
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg :star4:

A little slow moving at times, but good tension. Interesting mystery, thinking characters.
 
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt.

A renewed plea from the left for re-emphasizing the goals of social democracy in governance, after decades of an allegedly failed growing shift toward privatization and individual self interest.

"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."
-- from Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village, 1770
 
Heimliches Begehren by Diana Voigt and Ines Rieder

I cried in the ending, very poignant. The biography of Sidonie Csillag, the homosexual patient of Freud. :innocent:
 
Restless by William Boyd :star5:

This is only the second Boyd I've read, and I look forward to more. His weaving of time lines is effective story telling.
 
Since posting last in this thread, I read:

The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
A Feast for Crows - George RR Martin
 
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