Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 8 October 2011
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Horse's Ass
Charlie Owen has captured exactly, the slightly dark, often cynical humour that exists or at least did exist in the Police Service. This book is both hysterically funny and yet deeply moving in almost equal measure. Whilst it is set in Manchester, it could I suspect, be set in almost any urban overflow in Britain and manages to cause the reader to empathise with every character, even the baddies.
Very Little ... Almost Nothing - Death, Philosophy, Literature
The 'death of man', the 'end of history' and even philosophy are strong and troubling currents running through contemporary debates. Yet since Nietzsche's heralding of the 'death of god', philosophy has been unable to explain the question of finitude. Very Little...Almost Nothing goes to the heart of this problem through an exploration of Blanchot's theory of literature, Stanley Cavell's interpretations of romanticism and the importance of death in the work of Samuel Beckett.
Joe and his enemy Bobby Fuller go back to 1913, where they meet Jim Thorpe, Bobby Fuller's great-grandfather. However, along the way they have several disagreements and, again. and almost die and also, Bobby Fuller tried to give steroids to Jim Thrope.
Clara Rinker is a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner. She's also the best hitwoman in the business. Lucas Davenport should know - she almost killed him. That was then and this is now.
Isaac Titsingh was head of the Japanese station of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. He could also read Chinese. In Japan, his impact was enormous. He became a friend and confidant of the shogun's father-in-law, the famously wise but wily Shimazu Shigehide, almost causing war between father and son-in-law. He also attempted the project of equipping Japan with an ocean-going fleet.
