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What's the difference between the merely expensive and the aristocratic?
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Trinity Six by Charles Cumming first time I've read this thriller writer,great!
LJ Reviews 2010 December #1
The premise of Cumming's (A Spy By Nature; Typhoon) fifth thriller is that the "Cambridge Five"â€"Maclean, Burgess, Blunt, Philby, and Caincross, who spied for the Soviets during World War IIâ€"included a sixth man yet to be identified. Cumming expertly orchestrates his score, beginning slowly with English professor and Russian history scholar Sam Gaddis facing unpaid bills and needing a publication advance. Sam gets a book idea from a friend who has been researching the alleged sixth man. When the friend dies unexpectedly, Cumming's composition soon picks up tempo with the involvement of a beautiful MI6 agent, evidence of betrayals at all levels of government, and more deaths bearing messy signs of Russian secret service involvement. Lauded as "an upcoming [Len] Deighton," Cumming may be favorably compared with Charles McCarry and John Le Carré. His plotting and his language are powerfully engaging, VERDICT Spy fiction fans will enjoy the ingenious plot with well-developed characters, a keen sense of time and place, an undercurrent of fear, and plenty of gore. [100,000-copy first printing; see Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/10.]â€"Jonathan Pearce, California State Univ. at Stanislaus, Stockton
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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from Pessl, Marisha
I love fearless people who build companies and outsiders who design worlds, anyone who isn’t afraid to break the mold or stand alone. I love old movies
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw is great
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
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What's the Difference between the Merely Expensive and the Aristocratic?
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Next up...The Woman Upstairs
Messud's scorching social anatomy, red-hot psychology, galvanizing story, and incandescent language make for an all-circuits-firing novel about enthrallment, ambition, envy, and betrayal. A tour de force Booklist Reviews 2013 March #2
This looks interesting...
JUNE 2013
The aristocracy in democracy
A review of Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume,Arthur Goldhammer
In 2008, The French critic Lucien Jaume published an interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that won a prize from the Académie Française. An English version by the eminent translator Arthur Goldhammer has now appeared, which is a second recommendation. The book’s subtitle, “The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty,” reveals that it takes up a worthy and understudied topic in today’s theorizing about democracy—which amounts to a third recommendation. To put it more plainly and aggressively: Can a democracy sustain itself without the help of its rival, apparently its enemy, aristocracy?
M. Jaume does not raise this question directly. His book studies Tocqueville through Tocqueville’s French contemporaries. On the basis of a letter in which Tocqueville says that, in writing Democracy in America, he always had his own country in mind, M. Jaume conclude ...
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