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I finished The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and it was not what I had expected. What comes to mind when you think of a spy novel? Action? James Bond gadgets and iconic villains with plans for world domination? Explosions and murder in the dark? le Carré writes perhaps the complete opposite of …
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Very often, unusually often probably, I wish I could stop time and just sit and read or write all day. Now I wonder why our world is such that I need to imagine fantastic powers for myself, just in order to read all day... In the future, unless things change, even when we have robots …
I've started reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and it's another end of the world story. However, it is very well written so I'm not too annoyed, and I'm sure I'll check out more of her books afterward. Maybe there are so many stories about apocalypse because things always seem to be in decline lately. …
Jonas David 