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I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames

Alright. So I realise it’s not exactly in a bookseller’s interest to discourage someone from reading a book you’re trying to sell, but I can’t help it. I really dislike I Love You More Than You Know by Jonathan Ames because it’s, well, boring.

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

No, no, no, no, no! The Black Swan is NOT the book version of the Natalie Portman movie – something I’ve had to clarify a number of times. How unfortunate for its author, Nassim Taleb (and for me because of all the explaining I’ve had to do) that his book should have faded to the […]

Love me! Love me!: Self-Help Books as Evidence of Human Regression

As some of you may have noticed, there aren’t many self-help books in this bookshop (and those we have ended up here quite accidentally). This is because we don’t like self-help books. Our forefathers never needed self-help books, probably because they didn’t need as much “self-help”. And even if they did, “self-help” books aren’t usually […]

Imagine All The People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama

I always feel uncomfortable when people ask me, “What’s the last book you read?”. I can never ever answer the question because of this nasty habit of mine which I’ve been trying to break for years – the habit of starting 15 books at the same time (quite literally, no exaggeration here) and never finishing […]

Rashomon

Rashomon has always been one of my favourite stories. My first encounter with it was my viewing of Akira Kurosawa’s film of the same title, which I have placed in its entirety here, thanks to Youtube. The film (and short story) is essentially about the difficulty of finding out the truth about a rape and […]

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The Bridge Over the River Kwai

Clips from the movie adaptation of the book, The Bridge Over the River Kwai.

The Strangest Books We’ve Ever Read – Part 1

There are some bizarre books out there, and we’ve been asked to list those that are “too strange to be of interest to a well-adjusted human being”, mentioned in the shop description. Here’s a list, then, of ten of our weirdest, in a weekly series. Aghora: At the Left Hand of God – Robert Svoboda […]

Obsessed With The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata has to be one of the most amazing epics in the history of Mankind. It’s often been compared with Homer’s Odyssey and Illiad, but The Mahabharata is older, more massive, and has been kept much more alive, by South and Southeast Asian traditions, in unbroken chains of transmission.