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books i own in hardcopy but have yet to finish or even open. some bought some loaned some gifted.
Congratulations to the following 10 works for being inducted into the r/TrueLit Hall of Fame, and thereby disqualifying themselves from consideration for this, and all future, r/TrueLit Favourite Books lists: Moby Dick - Herman Melville Ulysses - James Joyce…
Sebald is a silkworm inching his way along a mulberry leaf, drinking in every detail no matter how banal, so that he might transmute the world into a single delicate thread. Out of calamity he gathers all that we’ve put into the world and distills it into a m…
Conveys Sebald's all-encompassing perception of the world and time. He is the oracle of the past, a historian of our collective decline. Never read anything quite like it.
There is no antidote, [Browne] writes, against the opium of time. The winter sun shows how soon the light fades from the ash, how soon night enfolds us. Hour upon hour is added to the sum. Time itself grows old. Pyramids, arches and obelisks are melting pilla…