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Hello and welcome to the literature podcast, A Novel Review. My name is Seamus and together we will explore, dissect and discuss the wonderful world of literature and the wonderful world of literature is a vast and dense jungle, so let’s start making our way through, one book…
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The Collector by John Fowles | When Love Becomes Possession (opens the original)
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To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com What happens when a lonely man wins the lottery, buys a secluded house, and decides the one thing missing from his collection is a woman? John Fowles’ The Collector is part psychological thriller, part Gothic nightmare, and part very uncomfortable thought experiment about love, possession and freedom. And, rather inconveniently, the inspiration for it gets even creepier. Painting: Today I painted a butterfly Some of the books a
Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson | Malazan Review (opens the original)
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To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates doesn’t so much invite you into its world as drag you behind a galloping horse and demand that you keep up. The second Malazan Book of the Fallen novel is bigger, darker and considerably less interested in holding your hand, throwing assassins, empires, gods, ancient grudges and one spectacularly brutal desert crossing into the same literary blender. Yet beneath all the bloodshed and battlefield
William - an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton | Forgotten Women of Literature (opens the original)
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To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com Few novels puncture patriotic certainty with quite the elegance of William – An Englishman. In this episode, I wander through Cicely Hamilton's quietly devastating World War I novel, where satire, social observation, and unfortunate timing expose the absurdities of English life and what it mean to be ‘English’. A forgotten classic that remains uncomfortably modern. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo | Ghosts, Memory, and the Haunted Past (opens the original)
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To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com A haunting novel where ghosts whisper, memories return, and every silence echoes with unresolved longing. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo uncovers haunted landscapes, fractured time, and unforgettable voices, revealing how the past refuses burial. Painting: Today I painted a skull under Pedro Paramo’s hat Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo Substack: https://substack.com/@alexan
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and the loneliness epidemic (opens the original)
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To follow and support us, click here: http://anovelreviewpodcast.com In a world where Artificial Friends are needed to sustain and nurture human relationships A.I is not the problem but rather, the result of a larger issue. Only a world that is socially adrift and suffering under the weight of a loneliness epidemic would reply on such a technology to try mimic genuine feeling and relation. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, “Klara and the Sun” explore this society where relations are fractured and people s
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