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carey jeggs 1st Feb 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo (1992)	I can imagine Frank Skinner saying 'And what doesn't Friedrich like'?
carey jeggs 31st Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo (1992)	He wasn't too keen on Englishwomen's feet either.
carey jeggs 31st Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo (1992)	I'm baffled by the business about the soup.I would have thought that eating it before, not after,the meal was the usual practice.He thinks the Germans are barbaric for doing this and cites Venetian cookbooks of the sixteenth century as confirmation. All nutritionist websites I've checked insist that soup as starter is best for digestion.
carey jeggs 14th Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra	'Nietzsche is dead' God
carey jeggs 13th Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra	'You would not enjoy Nietzsche,Sir.He is fundamentally unsound.' Jeeves.
carey jeggs 12th Jan 2016		Book Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Of all his books it's the one I like least.I've read it about half a dozen times but I'm finished with it now.It's a bit overblown and probably best read in German so that you get the benefit of the puns although his two main translators,Reg Hollingdale and Walter Kaufmann,have said that it is possible to render his 'voice' into English without distortion of tone.Still,I prefer the the aphoristic books of his middle period,particularly The Gay Science. His bizarre notion of the Eternal Recurrence,whereby we keep living exactly the same lives repeatedly,is something that I fervently believed in round about 1973-74. But at that time I was in a dark place....Irlam
carey jeggs 7th Jan 2016		Book Leo Tolstoy - War And Peace	Another thing they've got over Penguin Classics is that they haven't resorted to desperate gimmicks like publishing stupid pop star autobiographies.
carey jeggs 11th Dec 2015		Book Charlie Gillett - Rock File (1972)	The best thing about this book is its back-cover photograph.I don't have the book any more,just the back-cover which I still use as a bookmark.
carey jeggs 27th Nov 2015		Book Rich Podolsky - Don Kirshner. The Man With The Golden Ear (2012)	It's been said of Don Kirshner that he had the mind of a fourteen year old girl.I think it was intended as a compliment.
carey jeggs 25th Nov 2015		Book Ian Fleming - Moonraker (1955)	Very silly story but the compensations are in the writing.There's a scene where Bond is searching an office which contains the observation that 'Bond knew a lot about filing cabinets.' It's things like that that you can't get from the films. Priceless
carey jeggs 25th Nov 2015		Book Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (1955)	I only started reading Fleming about three years ago after reading an article by Philip Hensher lamenting the decline in the quality of mainstream thriller writing.He was praising Fleming, John Buchan and Nevil Shute at the expense of Dan Brown. Something particularly striking about this book is the line:- 'Bond lit his eightieth cigarette of the day.' There's no comment or mitigation offered which I found refreshing as it serves as an antidote to our modern pieties.

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