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Pastoraliaby: George Saunders September 03, 2001 |
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A lot of writers' names seem to be bandied about in connection with George Saunders: Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Carver. Let me add a couple of more old-world names to the mix: Nikolai Gogol and Franz Kafka. What Gogol was to the 19th century and Kafka to the 20th, I believe Saunders is to the 21st. In a hundred years' time, we'll probably all be calling certain scenarios "Saundersesque". Except we'll probably be doing it in hushed voices, while the boss is over the other side of the office screaming down the phone.
Saunders has a lot in common with those two writers: all three write about a world recognisably similar to our own, and yet where certain rules seem to have been re-written. All are almost unbearably dark ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripby: George Saunders March 07, 2005 |
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I think my curiosity about this was piqued by seeing the front cover. And once I'd begun reading, I couldn't stop until the last page. It's a wonderful little fable crackling with gentle satire and it's also strange, definitely strange. The strangeness of the story is brought out and enhanced by Lane Smith's deeply odd illustrations.
This is a book I think anyone with average reading skills could enjoy. I liked it so much I gave a copy to my brother who enjoyed HIS copy with his young son, who also found the whole thing most enjoyable. Brighten your day with a Frip ! >>More Details |
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The Brain-dead Megaphoneby: George Saunders March 03, 2008 |
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I think my curiosity about this was piqued by seeing the front cover. And once I'd begun reading, I couldn't stop until the last page. It's a wonderful little fable crackling with gentle satire and it's also strange, definitely strange. The strangeness of the story is brought out and enhanced by Lane Smith's deeply odd illustrations.
This is a book I think anyone with average reading skills could enjoy. I liked it so much I gave a copy to my brother who enjoyed HIS copy with his young son, who also found the whole thing most enjoyable. Brighten your day with a Frip ! >>More Details |
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' Collection)by: George Saunders April 16, 2007 |
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Warped environments. Pitch-perfect prose. Coroporate strong-arming; humanity down but not out; roof-tarring, gamblers; talking baby masks.
Saunders is back. And this time he's skewering consumerist largesse as never before. Let's not beat about the bush. In Persuasion Nation is uneven. 'Brad Corrigan, American', 'My Flamboyant Grandson', and 'My Amendment' in particular are slight pieces that rely on conceits that just don't carry the weight that the story needs. But then when we get to 'CommComm', 'The Red Bow' and 'Bohemians'...and I suddenly feel the way Ray Carver's fans must have felt the first time they read 'A Small Good Thing' and 'Cathedral' - a talented author reaching a new pinnacle in his work. ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Doing Philosophy: A Practical Guide for Studentsby: Clare Saunders, David Mossley, George MacDonald Ross, Danielle Lamb April 07, 2008 |
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This is an excellent book, and I'll definitely be advising my first-year Philosophy students to buy it. *Doing Philosophy* basically tells the student beginning philosophy at university everything they need to know. The topics include finding resources, reading philosophy, plagiarism, referencing, taking notes, seminar discussions, and more. In particular, I think the chapter on writing philosophy - and especially the examples of essay questions, together with advice on how to tackle them - will be hugely useful. It's easy to forget just how different writing a philosophy essay is to anything else most beginning philosophy students have done; even (perhaps especially) those who have studied philosophy at A-level. The authors guide the student through ... Read More:
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The Cydonia Codex: Reflections from Marsby: William S. Saunders, Richard C. Hoagland, George J. Haas September 30, 2005 |
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This is an excellent book, and I'll definitely be advising my first-year Philosophy students to buy it. *Doing Philosophy* basically tells the student beginning philosophy at university everything they need to know. The topics include finding resources, reading philosophy, plagiarism, referencing, taking notes, seminar discussions, and more. In particular, I think the chapter on writing philosophy - and especially the examples of essay questions, together with advice on how to tackle them - will be hugely useful. It's easy to forget just how different writing a philosophy essay is to anything else most beginning philosophy students have done; even (perhaps especially) those who have studied philosophy at A-level. The authors guide the student through ... Read More:
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The Braindead Megaphoneby: George Saunders September 04, 2007 |
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The Braindead Megaphone is a collection of the journalism of the wonderful short story writer, George Saunders. Although it is not your typical journalism. Not quite.
It starts with a call to arms. The Braindead Megaphone of the title piece is our current mass media. It shouts the loudest and is the most often heard. Saunders charts its beginnings in the OJ Simpson trial. To wring thousands of hours of coverage from what could be summarised in two minutes necessitated a dumbing down. "And now we go to our glove expert in Vancouver who will discuss the history of glove-wearing" and so on. By the time something really important came along, the Iraq war say, we no longer had the tools to discuss it. This ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Civilwarland in Bad Declineby: George Saunders February 06, 1997 |
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Every bit as good as Saunders' other collections. The recurrent themes and style of his writing sometimes make his stories feel as if they are all part of one gigantic novel about the American Dream gone sour. There's a real sense of humanity here, too -- like the best satirists, Saunders is angry beause he cares.
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David Watson: A Biographyby: Teddy Saunders, Hugh Sansom May 19, 1994 |
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An interesting biography os a gifted Christian leader. Watson lost his father when young but went to public school and was an army officer during National Service. An atheist, his life was turned round when he was approached by the Cambridge University Christian Union. He went on to study for ordination into the church of England. After curacy in Gillingham he moved to Cambridge and had a charismatic experience. With others he visited Martyn Lloyd Jones to talk about this. Lloyd Jones were are told had been a surgeon. In fact he was a physician before entering Christian ministry. I find it somewhat hard to believe than The Doctor would describe Watson's experience as baptism in the spirit. Interestingly Watson did not. He seems to have been a very restrained ... Read More:
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The green beret: The story of the Commandos, 1940-1945by: Hilary St George Saunders 1971 |
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An interesting biography os a gifted Christian leader. Watson lost his father when young but went to public school and was an army officer during National Service. An atheist, his life was turned round when he was approached by the Cambridge University Christian Union. He went on to study for ordination into the church of England. After curacy in Gillingham he moved to Cambridge and had a charismatic experience. With others he visited Martyn Lloyd Jones to talk about this. Lloyd Jones were are told had been a surgeon. In fact he was a physician before entering Christian ministry. I find it somewhat hard to believe than The Doctor would describe Watson's experience as baptism in the spirit. Interestingly Watson did not. He seems to have been a very restrained ... Read More:
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