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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 Never Let Me Go  by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm not going to tell you what this book is about, because one of the pleasures of reading it is figuring out, bit by bit, what's going on – much as the characters themselves do, as they grow up. What I can say is that it takes place in England, in the late 90s, but that it's soon obvious this isn't the 90s England we are familiar with. |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 Saturday  by Ian McEwan. The latest Ian McEwan novel takes place in London on Saturday 15 February 2003, the day of the march against the war on Iraq. McEwan shows how even desirable lives – the protagonist, brain surgeon Henry Perowne, enjoys his work, loves his wife, and has warm and gifted children – cannot be completely insulated and protected from global concerns and outside threats. |
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Eudaimonia and The Pursuit of Happiness |
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Thursday, 26 October 2006 |
 Are we pursuing the wrong kind of happiness? Are we pursuing the wrong kind of happiness? Jim Baxter asks if an aspect of ancient Greek thought could suggest a better approach for the future. Solon, the Athenian lawmaker, lyric poet and all round swell guy, was asked by King Croesus, “Who is the happiest man you have ever seen?” Solon’s reply was, “I can speak of no man as happy until they are dead.” If this remark sounds bizarre to modern ears, it is because our concept of happiness is very different from that of the ancient Greeks.
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