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Jäsen: georgematt

Kirjasto577 kirjaa — katso kirjasto

Arvostelut23 arvostelua — katso arvostelut

Pilvetavainsanapilvi, tekijäpilvi

AvainsanatFantasy (108), Science Fiction (69), Horror (51), Fabulation (50), Favourites from my adolescence (48), Anarchism (46), Modern Novels (43), Multiverse & Many Worlds (36), Dark Fantasy (35) — kaikki avainsanat

RyhmätCheating The Ferryman, Cinebooks, Happy Heathens, New Wave Science Fiction and Fantasy, radicalhistory, Revolutionary left, The Horror Film: History, Reference, and Beyond, The Weird Tradition, Weird Fiction

LempikirjailijatPeter Ackroyd, J. G. Ballard, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Ramsey Campbell, Angela Carter, John Crowley, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M. John Harrison, M. R. James, Franz Kafka, H. P. Lovecraft, China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, Edgar Allan POE, Iain Sinclair, Clark Ashton Smith, Gene Wolfe (Yhteiset suosikit)

Tietoja minusta I love reading (and do a bit of writing too)and for me is the quickest and safest route to other worlds and psychologies. You can travel to strange lands, experience weird mental states, feel terror and fear from the safety of your armchair or just enjoy a great story. To add to the pleasures of reading you can gain knowledge and understanding of the world and the cosmos around you. What other media or artform compares to that?
I am an average inhabitant of Britain,living in a London suburb with a dull, low paid office job (working only four days a week thank god) but a denizen of an imaginative inner world.
To quote the great J.G. Ballard: 'I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us,to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.'

Tietoja kirjastostani My library contains books I have bought since my early teens and the content, style and subject matter of the novels and short stories tend to be highly imaginative and fantastical or science fiction. The non-fiction are mostly books on radical left and libertarian politics and history, general philosophy, popular science and cosmology, and the arts (literature, cinema and music.)
I have rid myself of many books over the years due to lack of space and nearly all of these I did not like or were not my style. Thus you will find hardly any fiction books with a star marking below three. As for non-fiction I have no star markings at all because I have some books which although I find interesting I disagree with their viewpoint or ideas. This makes the star marking redundant.

Oikea nimiGeorge Matthews

SijaintiWalton-On-Thames, Surrey, England

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RekisteröitymispäiväSep 5, 2006