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Dmitri Bortnikov Svinobourg
Matthew Kneale Mr Foreigner
David Lodge The British Museum is falling down

I found this book by chance.. and I like it.. it is fun..
Some reviews
Some Indian blog
Or this

I'll post mine later

Monica Ali is a woman writer from Bangladesh. She lives in UK. Brick Lane is a nice book about immigration in London UK from the viewpoint of the bangladeshi community. Brick Lane is an enjoyable book the story of Nazneen (Nazanine), born and grown up in Bangladesh, is sold by her father to a Bangladeshi man living in London UK (Brick Lane) as a ( Read more... )

This is a book that belong to these books of pure fiction, I'd even say books that belong to the thriller or science-fiction shelves of bookshops, that is alledgedly not the "great literature". But nevertheless, in their category they are deep and thought provoking ( Read more... )

Here are reminders of the books I read/red and enjoy/enjoyed, for they are remarkable in some sense or another. I shall explain more some time... later, one day or maybe never.

I have a particular bent towards the literature of the late Austrian Empire (Doderer, Perutz, Musil, Canetti and many others). That period was a time of innovation, hope, ( Read more... )

For amateurs of strange and provoking thoughts: I strongly advise: The Dice Man. A curious book by Luke Rhinehart and with which the other book I talked about a few days ago- Improbable- bears some resemblance. Of course, the Dice Man is an older novel " The most fashionable novel of the early 1970s”, but nevertheless there are really some ( Read more... )

I fell on this page which collects titles of "math fiction" books.. interestingly most of it is connected to probabilities... Other topics must be too esoteric to write detective or other fictions about... But would be nice to find something related to geometry... or something even more sexy

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Я читаю невероятную книгу-трилльэр... тут, дорогой, тоже про твоего любымого Гейзенберг и проблеми измерения ... так уже модный кто не пишет про кванты.... прочитай когда-нибудь по русский, если переведено... ксати у меня знаком есть, который может будет работать где Мур (Пирон).. мура

I am reading this crazy detective book, Improbable ( Read more... )