Van de serie Het bureau van Voskuil heb ik lang genoten. Ik zag dat o.a. Paul Brussel dit ook heeft gelezen.
Laatst werd ik getipt op het boek "De gebroeders Karamazow" van Dostojevski. Heeft iemand dit boek toevallig gelezen?
Nu voor de zoveelste keer Nineteen Eighty-Four aan het herlezen en voor de zoveelste keer sla ik steil achterover van de kracht en kwaliteit van Orwells proza. Volmaakt in alle opzichten.
Ik heb een facsimile (uit 1984); word je daar hebberig van?
If you're into keeping tabs on irony, check this out. Amazon apparently sent out its robotic droogs last night, deleting copies of the George Orwell novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four from Kindles without explanation, then refunding the purchase price. As you can imagine, a lot of people caught in the thick of Winston and Julia's love story aren't very happy -- and rightfully so -- the idea that we "own" the things we buy is pretty fundamental to... ownership. We're not sure exactly what happened, but it seems that the publisher of said novels, MobileReference, has has changed its mind about selling content on the Kindle, and poof! Amazon remotely deleted all previously purchased copies. It's all a bit Orwellian, is it not? Good thing we "permanently borrowed" hard copies of both from our middle school library, huh? Let Hate Week commence.