The Crocodile [#books #reviews]

by Maurizio De Giovanni

Rating: 8/10

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems [#books #reviews]

by T.S. Eliot

Rating: 6/10

There will be time, there will be time
[...]
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

(Page 5)

Pyramids [#books #reviews]

by Terry Pratchett

Discworld
← Wyrd Sisters
Guards! Guards! →

Rating: 8.5/10

And then the world went mad.
All right, madder.

(Page 199)

Shōgun [#books #reviews]

by James Clavell

Rating: 9/10

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
Mariko

The Big Bad Fox [#books #reviews]

(Le grand méchant renard) by Benjamin Renner

Rating: 9/10

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [#books #reviews]

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rating: 7/10

At lenght did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came [...].

(Page 21)

Towards Zero [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Superintendent Battle
← Cards on the Table

Rating: 8.5/10

When you read the account of a murder―or say, a fiction story based on murder, you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story.
It's Zero Hour.
[...]
It's Zero Hour now.
Superintendent Battle

(Page 223)