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Montaigne: Essays by Michel de Montaigne

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About meA wandering Jew, except not a Jew; a prodigal with no intention of returning; a rover; a would-be scholar, artist, writer, ninjapiratesamurai, and badass. Or, perhaps, just a simple student in her early twenties nursing the usual Internet addiction, full of rhapsodic sentimental mirth.

About my libraryI am young and poor and a student. The books I actually have are catalogued at library-ghost.

I study literature, philosophy, intellectual history, and the classics, and I am extremely fond of children's literature. My library hence has those biases, but I try to dabble in just about everything, though given that I am slowly attempting to work back into cataloguing all I have, this isn't necessarily reflective of all of my interests. I am eventually going to attempt to review, in some depth, all of what I have here, a task to which I will approach as seriously as dragonslaying. (Or something.).

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I just read your review of Lolita and I absolutely had to pop over and let you know - it's pretty much the best review I've ever seen. It is spot-on accurate and insightful and deep and said everything that I felt while reading it but was too inarticulate to express.

Congratulations, anonymous internet person, you are brilliant.

Oh, and you made me want to read Moby Dick. I'll have to read your other reviews too, now.
(Forgot to mention: Borges is also a favourite of mine, for the mathematics and his delight in paradoxes. My non-reviews account has more overlap, apart from all my sf.)
Thanks for your comment -- Moby-Dick just absolutely blew me away. I just read your review of Lolita, and you've managed to say a whole lot of things I couldn't quite put together right. It's been sitting on my desk in the "to-review" stack for a couple of months now, but it's so difficult... and it's exactly as you say in your first paragraph: I love it, and I don't want to because it's about something awful. And saying that to folks who haven't read it and not coming off sounding like a repressed pedophile is... tricky. (If I did "favourite books" it would be a strong contender. I'll have to look out for the annotated edition, this is the second time I've heard it's a must.)

Hm. Glanced over your library and blog, think I'll keep an eye on your reviews. (I leave tomorrow for a couple of months away from reliable internet, rotten timing.)
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