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“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.” — poet/writer/hater Jonathan Swift

“[He is] the most vigorous hater we’ve ever had in our literature.” — Edgell Rickword We’re not supposed to “hate”. “Hate” calls to mind tiki torches. Or “hate crimes.” But there is a productive kind of hate. A galvanizing hate. … Continue reading

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Books Within Books: Gulliver’s Travels in Jane Eyre

I love it when books show up in books, when books play a huge part in a character’s life. Kind of like movies-in-movies. In keeping with the Iranian theme here from last week here’s a post I wrote I about … Continue reading

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The Books: Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats: Jonathan Swift

Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine “[He is] the most vigorous hater we’ve ever had in our literature.” … Continue reading

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The Books: “Gulliver’s Travels” (Jonathan Swift)

Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Classics), by Jonathan Swift Edgell Rickword said, of Jonathan Swift: “[He is] the most vigorous hater we’ve ever had in our literature.” He said those words in the 20th century and I … Continue reading

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2007 Books Read

(in the order in which I finished them, understanding that very often I read many books at the same time). I count re-read books, by the way. I’ll include links to any posts or book excerpts I might have done … Continue reading

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The Country of the Houyhnhnms

Check this out: a really cool map!! I just finished Gulliver’s Travels – and it is the kind of book where you make maps in your head, to try to get the lay of the land.

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Classics Challenge: Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels was the third book I read in my “classics challenge”. Here’s the main page of the challenge – it’s really fun to look through and see what everybody else is reading. Of course there is lots of overlap. … Continue reading

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How to Read When You Are an Itsy-Bitsy Midget

… and the books are huge: From Gulliver’s Travels: They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind. But their libraries are not very large; for that of the King’s, which is reckoned … Continue reading

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The Classics Challenge

I shall participate in the 2007 Classics Challenge. Read 5 classics in the month of January and February. I’ve been meaning to get on this anyway, so this’ll be fun. It’s great to look at the books everybody is choosing, … Continue reading

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Jessa Crispin has an interesting interview with Peter Boxall, editor of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I loved what Boxall said at the end: “Having benefited from an extraordinary number of emails and letters as well as … Continue reading

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