240721: comfortable book for architects and architecture-interested. coffee table. big. heavy. extensive. many new buildings, many familiar- but then 240721: comfortable book for architects and architecture-interested. coffee table. big. heavy. extensive. many new buildings, many familiar- but then I look at art-architecture books (49). just photos, no plans, little capsule commentary. only in person seen ones in Canada (Vancouver, Montreal) and Hawai'i......more
220914: more autobiographies of married buddhists who were monk and nun, now run rif you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com
220914: more autobiographies of married buddhists who were monk and nun, now run retreat in south africa, teach everywhere... than actual buddhist philosophy, but it is interesting to see it in religious practice......more
200924: horrific. comic. propulsive. i rate this high three because i read it in two sittings, so easy to read, fun, funny, satirical interpretation o200924: horrific. comic. propulsive. i rate this high three because i read it in two sittings, so easy to read, fun, funny, satirical interpretation of all those postapocalyptic epics where not everyone dies and only the evil and the good survive. this is not so simplified. insight into machinations, thoughts, excuses of the sister from hell are... diverting. the young boy passing as a girl, the sincerely cultish cult, the female gangsters just as vicious, all good...
maybe would have liked more exploration of what the world minus men is like, but it is a long book as is, such would slow it down. focus is clearly on 'mothe'rs love'. interesting to compare with graphic series 'Y: the last man'... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1......more
100115: okay, is it really a four? this won some crime award in france, is possibly how horrifying is contemporary south africa, or just our crime-cen100115: okay, is it really a four? this won some crime award in france, is possibly how horrifying is contemporary south africa, or just our crime-centred way of thinking of it. well technically i was going for a three, but then realized i read it compulsively, fevered, in two sittings... and i think of how this is a violent, long, stereotypic sort of noir- in male and female characters, in sex, violence, murder, in thoughts, in political corruption, despite exotic locale- that would not reward rereading. but then who reads books twice anyway..?...more
120411: for some reason i read this as if a film, a film i have seen before, a film that has a confused voice-over. the banal, ordinary, the fantastic120411: for some reason i read this as if a film, a film i have seen before, a film that has a confused voice-over. the banal, ordinary, the fantastic change in his life that brings not terror but hope. there are choices made, choices we might wish to revisit, to change, to discover all those other lives we could have led. this is a short novella, suggestive, concise, that too easily could be reduced to an episode of twilight zone. i do not know the political implications of the strange change. i am not resident of south africa. i am resident of humanity. a tonic....more
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