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The art of war: Pat Barker's Life Class6 comments

Niranjana wrote 1 week ago: Whether it’s about Iwo Jima or orcs and elves, writing on war depresses and bores me. Perhaps … more →

Tags: Desipundit, Reviews, writing, Art, Barker, Henry Tonks, Life class, Medicine, War

Interview with Bully Pulpit creator and host Luke Giordano

Matt Nelson wrote 3 weeks ago: On Wednesday, July 8th, the PHILLY IMPROV THEATER welcomes a brand new show to it’s monthly li … more →

Tags: Announcements, interdisciplinary, interviews, News, PHIT, recurring, Shows, Bully Pulpit, Comedy

Book Review: Pat Barker's The Ghost Road

clarifying wrote 4 months ago: Writing with verve and panache, Pat Barker captures England in the last months of the Great War, whe … more →

Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, great war, Culture, Craiglockart, Shell-shock, Siegfried Sasson, The Ghost Road, W. H. R. Rivers

Reflections on Reading Pat Barker's "Regeneration" Trilogy, #5 (of 5)

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 3/4/09 Here is  my final entry from the series I wrote in my philosophical journal  last summer, con … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, philosophy of fiction, Regeneration Trilogy

Reflections on Reading Pat Barker's "Regeneration" Trilogy, #4

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 3/2/09 Below is the next to last of the series of entries I made in my philosophical journal last su … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Regeneration Trilogy

Reflections on Reading Pat Barker's "Regeneration" Trilogy, #3

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 2/27/09 Below is the next entry from my philosophical journal concerning Pat Barker’s World Wa … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Regeneration Trilogy

Reflections on Reading Pat Barker's "Regeneration" Trilogy, #2

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 2/25/09 Below is the next entry in my philosophical journal, dated when originally written, from a s … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Regeneration Trilogy

Reflections on Reading Pat Barker's "Regeneration" Trilogy, #1

frankseeburger wrote 4 months ago: 2/23/09 When I was three years old I broke my leg.  I had to be hospitalized for ten days, flat on m … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Regeneration Trilogy, the construction of trauma

Pat Barker - Blow Your House Down8 comments

verbivore wrote 4 months ago: So, I’ve spent a few days thinking over Pat Barker’s 1984 novel Blow Your House Down. This was a dif … more →

Tags: Book Review, Books, contemporary lit

Dorothy Sayers, "Whose Body?"

carolwallace wrote 5 months ago: I went to Columbia to watch the Inauguration.  They had a Jumbotron below the steps of Low Library a … more →

Tags: Mystery, World War I, siegfried sassoon, Dorothy Sayers

Another World.6 comments

questionsandanchors wrote 5 months ago: After finishing Lamb, I began reading Cloud Atlas, a book Sonika has insisted I must read as soon as … more →

Tags: Kat's books, Fiction, another world

BBRLM Sally Nov 2008

sallycripps wrote 6 months ago: * The Household Guide to Dying by Debra Adelaide – 9/10 Much more complex that I thought it wo … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Napoleon's Double, Antoni Jach, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying, The Comfort of Figs, Simon Cleary, border crossing

Life Class2 comments

profmike wrote 6 months ago: As I was browsing through books whilst shopping for Christmas presents last week, I was surprised at … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Literature, Life class, First World War novels

Pat Barker, "Life Class"

carolwallace wrote 6 months ago: I’m glad I don’t live in Pat Barker’s head.  If we accept that what a writer puts on the page is  t … more →

Tags: Best Seller, Literary Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, Isabel Colegate, World War I, Ypres

They seriously don't think we spend our lunchtimes studying, do they?12 comments

V wrote 10 months ago: And so as V was struck down with indigestion reminiscent of but distinct from 'Alien', Dr Li … more →

Tags: study, Reading, randomness, Regeneration, Alien, Indigestion

VIDEO: Omniana: Pat Barker vs. Steve Gerben2 comments

unfunproductions wrote 1 year ago: Last month at Fergie’s Pub during the Ministry of Secret Jokes show, comics Pat Barker and Ste … more →

Tags: Steve Gerben, Ministry of Secret Jokes, OMNIANA

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker3 comments

redheadrambles wrote 1 year ago:    The Ghost Road by Pat Barker Winner of 1995 Booker Prize. The final novel in the “regenerat … more →

Tags: Books, 1% Well-Read, Booker 1995, Book Review, 1% Well-Read Challenge

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

redheadrambles wrote 1 year ago:    Eye in the Door by Pat Barker. First Published 1993, winner of Guardian Fiction Prize I seem … more →

Tags: Books, Book Review

Regeneration by Pat Barker

redheadrambles wrote 1 year ago: Book one of Pat Barkers WWI trilogy, first published in 1991. I have actually read this novel sever … more →

Tags: Books, Book Review


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