ABDecker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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No less impressive than Pissarro today was this painting in the main part of the museum: Holbein’s Dead Christ in the Tomb. Dostoevsky was so shaken by it that the picture became a key image in his novel The Idiot: “Why, a man’s faith might be ruined by looking at that picture!” https://t.co/irBWuOjERY

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Language deemed 'offensive' cut out of Roald Dahl books: Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach have become Cloud-People and yet Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, once a "most formidable female" is now a "most formidable woman" - why not "person"? Bizarre. https://t.co/Nodkh8xJJW

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To be James Bond, Ian Fleming mused, beware of men with moustaches and girls in ankle bracelets. Sounds like he and Ellen in my debut, The Dark Frontier, would get on well, but I fear she might not be glamorous enough for Bond https://t.co/wqEdSNjjwH

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"Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism." Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman And here we are now in the worst of both worlds. https://t.co/8P5drFxnMG

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Oates has never written a novel on a computer, nor would she. "If James Joyce had written Ulysses on a word processor, he might still be writing it. Because you can always keep revising and maybe Joyce would never have finished." https://t.co/WVxrhiVb3s

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@AlJamesBooks You could remind them that Charles Dickens was self-published, as was Beatrix Potter, TS Eliot, and A Time to Kill by John Grisham was originally self-published. And many more...

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OTD in 1904 Chile’s great poet Pablo Neruda was born, beautifully celebrated around 50 years later by Christopher Logue with this set of poems based on Neruda’s ‘Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair’ https://t.co/hEV9kyySH7

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Virginia Woolf on Joyce's Ulysses: "the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating" & "the scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges" So there’s hope for us yet

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@AudreySolene For me, as a young lad keen on adventure, it was the work of an author rarely mentioned today: Rider Haggard (Allan Quatermain, King Solomon’s Mines, She – I loved them all. Also Conan Doyle, but The Lost World rather than Sherlock Holmes.

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"Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him" The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope https://t.co/OS85nw90d5