Journal Entry 1 by davemurray101 from Maryville, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of 'Living.' Each teacher delivers himself of a great 'Generality,' each great Generality launches a new great 'Adventure,' from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, 'it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.' 

Journal Entry 2 by davemurray101 at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (3/29/2011 UTC) at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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Posted to Crimson-tide as part of the 1001 RACBK giveaway for March/April 

Journal Entry 3 by crimson-tide at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Thanks once again for your generosity, Dave. This one certainly looks different!