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Austin divides people. I like the way she writes and what she writes about because I like comedy of manners. But the things she writes about are pretty bleak.

I've never been able to finish the...

shklovsky had an idea of the desensitised world as "algebraized" and breaking free of that is the pursuit of an independent, conscious mind.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Capote.

I remember reading the secret agent at school. I think it is his best book and the furthest away from what he normally wrote... it's one of the books that make him an early modernist. It has big,...

the garden of cyrus. It's not an unknown book though, just one that doesn't seem to be very popular right now. I thought parts of it were inspired.

I read and write. And am new here too.

collected stories by lord berners

She completely avoided the trap of sentimentality in writing about animals. Though her pets were obviously close favourites, she recorded their deaths or misadventures coolly in her journal. And she...

rebound

Pride is a difficult thing to be worked against. Humility is perfect.

I don't think any writer rises to sustained prominence without giving something meaningful. Even though I dislike their achievements (i'm thinking of d.h.lawrence right now) I'll acknowledge their...

something I am interested in achieving.

everything before wwI is arcadian
everything before wwII is frenetic

After the second world war things had to change.

it is a parody of a religious topic. Is that interesting?

Vile Bodies makes me laugh out loud and so has some Pratchett.

I didn't really find Carroll's Alice stuff funny.

I've been told that my first 'proper book' was the Little Prince, but I most remember Peter Rabbit and Alice. We read along with our parents, so it's difficult to remember when I started reading...