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02 February 2009
The Little Prince is perhaps the most loved and most widely read book in the West after the Bible. The book has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books ever. This is a voyage of discovery that compares to reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse without the sexual experiences. As with many of the great books of...
20 January 2009
Only very occasionally in over 40 years of active reading have I come across a book that immediately grasps and maintains my attention. Although I read this book over 10 years ago its vibrant prose and profundity of scope remains as a deep and joyful memory. A Suitable Boy is a behemoth of a book, my copy had over 1400 pages of densely spaced text and Wikipedia states it is one of the largest...