1) Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Láinez. A fascinating book, with dippings into the philosophy and religion of the era...
2) The glory of the Empire;: A novel, a history, by Jean d' Ormesson. It's a fictional Take on an entirely fictional Empire, based on Rome and Byzantium; and it has everything, including scholarly footnotes, some even in French and German.
I'm thinking Larry might like the second one...
2) The glory of the Empire;: A novel, a history, by Jean d' Ormesson. It's a fictional Take on an entirely fictional Empire, based on Rome and Byzantium; and it has everything, including scholarly footnotes, some even in French and German.
I'm thinking Larry might like the second one...
If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't understand it.
Rare and unique books
- 21/04/2012 07:12:20 PM
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Two off the top of my head...
- 21/04/2012 07:55:46 PM
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I would have to think for more but...
- 21/04/2012 09:56:03 PM
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I bought that Jarry book a week ago off of your mention of it here.
- 02/05/2012 03:51:46 AM
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Re: I bought that Jarry book a week ago off of your mention of it here.
- 02/05/2012 03:36:34 PM
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A few more (only my own opinion)
- 29/04/2012 07:27:18 PM
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Re: A few more (only my own opinion)
- 30/04/2012 10:44:09 PM
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- 01/05/2012 01:35:11 PM
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Murakami as New Weird? *NM*
- 02/05/2012 04:08:31 PM
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Eh, it's the kind of spec fic that's hard to place but I think it kind of fits on the continuum *NM*
- 02/05/2012 08:53:45 PM
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Finch is quite good, but it's really the third book in a sequence
- 02/05/2012 09:23:01 PM
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