1.0 – Blog's Title: Ten Books To Read — By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 28 May 2023.
1.1 – Contents:
2.0 – 2.3: Legal Disclaimer /
3.0 – 3.6: An Introductory Comment On The List Of Ten Books /
4.0 – 4.6: The Desert Of The Tartars,
circa 1938 by Italian author: Dino Buzzato /
5.0 – 5.2: The Abyss / French: L'Œuvre au noir, circa 1968 by Belgian-French author: Marguerite Yourcenar /
6.0 – 6.3: About A Boy, circa 1998 by British author: Nick Hornby /
7.0 – 7.4: Gallowglass, circa 1990 by crime-fiction author: Barbara Vine /
8.0 – 8.2: Norwegian Wood,ノルウェイの森, circa 1987 by Japanese author: Haruki Murakami /
9.0 – 9.2: Corporal Hitler's Pistol 15 June 2022 by Australian author: Tom Keneally /
10.0 – 10.5: I Am Legend, circa 1954, by North American author: Richard Matheson //.
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2.0 – Legal Disclaimer: This blog post is the exclusive intellectual property of Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 4 December 1976–, Google email: craigsjlacey@gmail.com.
2.1 – By way of law, no hacking, copying, editing or disseminating of the blog is permitted.
2.2 – Ten photographic reproductions, jpegs, have been used within this blog: nested as the final sub-point, each of which is used within the editorial-educational rights's context.
2.3 – Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 4 December 1976–, Australia; 17 April 2023, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4000; Copyright 2023, Craig Steven Joseph Lacey.
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3.0 – An Introductory Comment On The List Of Ten Books: I have decided to write a list, that is of books which I have been intending to read, and to publish that list on this, my blogger site: Dont.Get.Mouthy.With.Me.
3.1 – There are many lists of must-read books nowadays, such as from Times Magazine and Le Monde, which advocate what is essential in cultural nous, but I am really writing for my-self, no-one else, and, perhaps, whoever wishes to read the same or similar books as my-self?
3.2 – My choices are often quite personal: I will mostly keep undisclosed as to the reasons why I keep confidentiality, and in any case, the sociology is of primary importance.
3.3 – Every-thing I write and publish on-line is my own: I write in total isolation at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
3.4 – I hope my blogs will be read: I have few replies and continue to be marred using technology platforms, with-out naming names of technology provider.
3.5 – The possibility of being edited and censored on the Internet from out-side of Australia, such as from Asian governmental agencies, is more realistic than I had ever considered.
3.6 – Living in such times, it is almost impossible to focus on literature, art, design and culture: I continue to do as such, as is my right.
4.0 – The Tartar Steppe / Il Deserto Dei Tartari, literally: 'The Desert Of The Tartars', also published as: The Stronghold / La Fortezza, is a text by Italian author: Dino Buzzati, first published circa 1938.
4.1 – The text was influenced by the poem of 1904: Waiting For The Barbarians by the Greek poet: Constantine P. Cavafy.
4.2 – Dino Buzzati's text was re-published: 1 November 2005 by Verba Mundi, in an English language translation; 198 pages: ISBN-10 1567923046; ISBN-13 978-1567923049; Item Weight: 9.6 ounces; Dimensions 5.5 x 0.61 x 8.25 inches.
4.3 – The Opposing Shore / Le Rivage des Syrtes, circa 1951 by the French author:Julien Gracq, is based on a similar topic: Publisher José Corti; Published in English circa 1986, 353 pages.
4.4 – The novel was adapted in to a film of the same title, translated as: The Desert Of The Tartars, 29 October 1976, 140 minutes, by Italian director: Valerio Zurlini, that features the actors: Jacques Perrin as Drogo, Max von Sydow as Ortiz, Vittorio Gassman as Filimore and the film score is by Ennio Morricone.
4.5 – Dino Buzzati's text influenced the Australian–South African author: J. M. Coetzee's text of 27 October 1980, viz.Waiting For The Barbarians, Secker & Warburg, 156 pages; hard-cover edition; ISBN: 0-436-10295-1, but the title is borrowed from Constantine P. Cavafy's eponymous poem also.
4.6 – The book cover's art, the front of a dust jacket for the first British edition, published by Secker & Warburg, circa 1952, is displayed directly beneath:
5.0 – The Abyss / L'Œuvre Au Noir is a novel of circa 1968 by the Belgian-French author: Marguerite Yourcenar.
5.1 – The edition I researched is published by Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Ninth Printing;1 August 1981, 374 pages, ISBN 0374516669; 978-0374516666.
5.2 – The book cover's art is displayeddirectly beneath:
6.1 – The first edition: 4 May 1998, Gollancz, Britain, hard-back and paper-back, 278 pages, ISBN 0-575-06159-6.
6.2 – The title is a reference to the song: About A Girl, 2.48 minutes, released 15 June 1989, from the album Bleach, DGC label, by the American band: Nirvana.
6.3 – The book cover's art is displayeddirectly beneath:
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7.0 – Gallowglass: The above text About A Boy, circa 1998 by Nick Hornby, ought to be read in conjunction with Gallowglass, circa 1990 by Barbara Vine, that is, the nom-de-plume of Ruth Rendell, the celebrated British author of the fictional crime / detective genre.
7.1 – The texts are both "British" and of the 1990s; involve a narrational perspective of a boy and focus on inter-relations with an older, male "mercenary type"; both embroiled through contractual obligations.
7.2 – The publisher is Viking, Britain; Harmony, United States of America, 1 March 1990, pages 304, ISBN 0-670-83241-3.
7.3 – Gallowglass, circa 1990 focuses on an example of the once prolific reported cases of kid-napping and ransom orders of the 1970s and 1980s through-out Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, including regions of Africa and South East Asia.
7.4 – The book cover's art is displayeddirectly beneath:
8.0 – Norwegian Wood /ノルウェイの森 / Noruwei no Mori, is a novel of circa 1987 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
8.1 – The book's title is from Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown Away) a song by the British rock band The Beatles specifically their album of 1965: Rubber Soul.
8.2 – The book cover's art is displayeddirectly beneath:
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9.0 – Corporal Hitler's Pistol: An Australian text: by the well-known Australian "Jewish / Han" author Tom Kenneally, viz. Corporal Hitler's Pistol, Winner of the 2022 ARA Group Historical Novel Prize.
9.1 – The publisher is Penguin, first edition, 15 June 2022; Paper-back; 352 pages; ISBN-10 1760893234; ISBN-13 978-1760893231; 19.8 x 2.6 x 13 centimeters.
9.2 – The book cover's art is displayeddirectly beneath:
10.1 – With the macabre and haunting genres of cultural texts forming the basis of my recent research and blogging, viz. on my other blogger site: thoughtsdisjectamembra—regarding the changeling mythos—a post-apocalyptic genre of text is only feasible to list here.
10.2 – I read the text long ago, and I over-looked the recent filmic adaptation of 14 December 2007, the United States Of America, Parental Guidance-13, TV-14, directed by Francis Lawrence.10.3 – The available cover art displays a B-grade or pulp fiction, low quality style of text: it ought to be remembered, American film director: Quentin Tarantino made "re-famous" during the 1990s, the schlock of crime and Spaghetti Western styles of such film genre: often the cringe-worthy texts are dismissed by a misguided snobbery.10.4 – From a sociological perspective, the text is an artefact which can be analysed according to linguistics, semiotics, music and further technical factors.
10.5 – The book cover art is displayed directly beneath:
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