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Rings of Saturn
Rings of Saturn | W G Sebald
The Rings of Saturn--with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
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plemmdog
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First read of 2024 completed. Not for the lighthearted. “Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.”

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BookwormM
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Mehso-so

#Reading1001 this one reads too much like non fiction for me to enjoy it, it is a collection of ramblings about life, the universe and everything pretending to be a travelogue about the English coast/countryside.

Didn‘t work for me but everyone else seemed to love it.

I did learn new things from this do I give it credit for that, particularly about silk worms and the silk industry.

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TheEllieMo
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Nothing to do with the planet or #Saturn5, but this tale of a walk around East Anglia came to mind for today‘s #RedRoseSeptember prompt.

@arlenefinnigan @Cinfhen

Cinfhen I bet this is a #1001Book @BarbaraBB ??!?! Um, I think I liked about 5 so far🤪 (edited) 5y
arlenefinnigan Sounds intriguing! 5y
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catiewithac
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Oooohh I love a good giveaway 😍 My favorite book so far this year has been W.G. Sebald‘s The Rings of Saturn!

Thanks @callielafleur for #clearingtheshelves3

callielafleur Thanks for entering! ❤️ 6y
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catiewithac
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Difficult to describe, easy to read: this book is simply MARVELOUS ‼️ The book seems like a straightforward account of the narrator‘s walking tour of East Anglia in 1992. But prepare to be transported into the past, into dreams, into the very mysteries of life. Sebald‘s prose is pure magic! This is now one of my favorite books ever 😍🤩

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AMVP
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#junebookbugs day 28 - #aplanetinthetitle

Resolve to #catchup on my June themes today, in whatever order I can.

Quite enjoyed this dream-like collection of travel logs and essays, which strive more to impose a mood on the reader than inform.