Thanks for that heads up, I just grabbed a copy of that one!
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The Gondwane Epic by Lin Carter.
I am on the second book in the series; The Enchantress at World's End.
These were written in the early 1970's and owe much to the works of Jack Vance's Dying Earth and Clarke Ashton Smith's Zothique books. I think there is a bit of Lovecraft's Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath influence as well.
Lin Carter is perhaps best known along with Sprauge de Camp as the editors of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian series of books.
I am on the second book in the series; The Enchantress at World's End.
These were written in the early 1970's and owe much to the works of Jack Vance's Dying Earth and Clarke Ashton Smith's Zothique books. I think there is a bit of Lovecraft's Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath influence as well.
Lin Carter is perhaps best known along with Sprauge de Camp as the editors of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian series of books.
Recently read through John Williams’ short bibliography—Augustus, ‘73 national book award winner, I can’t praise enough.
I’ve just acquired Butcher’s Crossing. Thanks. I’m looking forward it it very much.
I'm doing hard work with War And Peace by Leo Tolstoi. It has been translated to Finnish in four volumes. I have to take breaks between them (not typical for me) and read some more intense books, like Lion by Conn Iggulden. However, I must say that War And Peace doesn't make any impression on me. Perhaps my expectations were too high, or maybe I just don't get the point of the story - that wouldn't be the first time, remembering back reading the Tin Drum, for example. But The Tin Drum was magnificent novel, nevertheless.
I am reading Conn Igguldon’s Bones of the Hills. It is third novel in his conqueror series about Genghis Kahn and rise to power / campaigns.
Richard Halliburton's Seven League Boots. What a shame this talented adventurer/author died at the age of 39-years in 1939!
April reads and a recently acquired Smith-Corona.
For better legibility
Highly recommend Wittgenstein’s Mistress. The experimental yet simplistic novel (though neither quality is ever cloying) follows the thoughts of a woman that seems to be the last person in the world. No reason is given as to why she is. Primarily, she thinks about art and goes to empty historical sites.
I also finished some books I’ve been working my way more slowly through - the first volume of Gustav Flaubert’s letters and Robert Alter’s translation of the five books of Moses. Both highly recommended. Alter is a preeminent scholar of Hebrew and comparative literature and his translation is fair and attentive and models on the language of our great English literature.
Flaubert needs no introduction so I will leave off with this quote:
“I have nothing but immense, insatiable desires, frightful boredom and incessant yawns. Also a broken pipe and dried out tobacco.
Shit! Adieu; keep well.”
Currently reading "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by journalist Ted Conover. As a person who has worked in the corrections field for over nine years, I must say I find Conover's approach so far to be refreshing; he tells things from an officer's perspective and does so without sentimentality or pity, showing all things regardless of how they make him, corrections officers, or the prison system as a whole look, good and ill.
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