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Don Juan

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Don Juan

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Don Juan is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 6 times across 6 issues between May 17, 2024 and October 11, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “List of all books reviewed below. Don Juan”; “Book review contest finalists are: … Don Juan”; “I told myself that I’d review one, And so I guess we’ll settle for Don Juan”. It most often appears alongside Dominion, How Language Began, How the War Was Won.

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  • Category: Books
  • Mention count: 6
  • Issue count: 6
  • First seen: May 17, 2024
  • Last seen: October 11, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Choose Book Review Finalists 2024
May 17, 2024 · Original source
...ites Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy Consequences of Language Defining Death Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Discrimination and Disparities Djinn Dominion Don Juan Don't Make No Waves, Don't Back No Losers Egypt's Golden Couple Elon Musk End Times Eothen Eve Food of the Gods For Whom the Bell Tolls Frankenstein Free Range Kids Fund...
Open Thread 334
June 17, 2024 · Original source
2: Book review contest finalists are: Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Dominion, Don Juan, Family That Couldn't Sleep, How Language Began, How The War Was Won, Nine Lives, Real Raw News, Silver Age Marvel Comics, Sixth Day, Spirit of Rationalism, Complete Rhyming Dictionary, The Pale King, Two Arms and a Head, and Ballad of the White Horse. Honorable mention to at least Catkin, Road of the King, World Empire Lost, Piranesi, Meme Machine, and Determined. I might promote some honorable mentions to finalists depending on how tolerant you all are of book reviews, and some others to honorable mention after I read more reviews. First review goes up this Friday! Thanks to everyone who entered.
Your Book Review: Don Juan
July 05, 2024 · Original source
But Byron? After all, it’s been a century Since George gave up his life to join the Greeks In breaking from their Turkish penitentiary Before the Brits could lap up their antiques. However great his corpus, what adventure re- Sung here can match its author’s final weeks? Yet still, I told myself that I’d review one, And so I guess we’ll settle for Don Juan.
Inline links: breaking, their antiques
Don Juan (rhymes with ‘through one,’ à la gringo) Dates back to — I don’t know — some days of yore. The legends say this playboy struck a bingo With women wed and single, rich and poor: He’d charm, disguise, connive — forgive the lingo — To please (ahem) his little matador, And shush his conscience, nagging at his vice, By crying, “Tan largo me lo fiàis!”
Inline links: “Tan largo me lo fiàis!”
Don Juan’s childhood was a true anomaly; His father was a serial philanderer, So Juan’s learning was awash with homily: His brilliant mother (I don’t want to slander her) Defied her intellect and raised a qualm all ye Free-thinkers understand — or so I’ll gander: her Son learned the classics, but with strict omission Of sex, to keep him from his pop’s tradition;
Open Thread 338
July 15, 2024 · Original source
2: Several people speculated that the recent Don Juan review was secretly by me. It wasn’t, but unrelatedly I have been working on a Don-Juan-related project, which I might show you at some point. I’m mentioning this now so that I don’t seem like I’m plagiarizing the (excellent) review.
Inline links: the recent Don Juan review
Vote In The 2024 Book Review Contest
September 27, 2024 · Original source
1: Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa 2: Dominion 3: Don Juan 4: The Family That Couldn’t Sleep 5: How Language Began 6: Real Raw News 7: Two Arms And A Head 8: How The War Was Won 9: Silver Age Marvel Comics 10: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary And Poet’s Craft Book 11: The History Of The Rise And Influence Of The Spirit Of Rationalism In Europe 12: The Pale King 13: Nine Lives 14: The Ballad Of The White Horse
Inline links: Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Dominion, Don Juan, The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, How Language Began, Real Raw News, Two Arms And A Head, How The War Was Won, Silver Age Marvel Comics, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary And Poet’s Craft Book, The History Of The Rise And Influence Of The Spirit Of Rationalism In Europe, The Pale King, Nine Lives, The Ballad Of The White Horse
Book Review Contest 2024 Winners
October 11, 2024 · Original source
Don Juan, reviewed by Amedeo Rothson. Amedeo has been called “the greatest writer who has ever lived,” namely by himself. He writes occasional essays and still-more-occasional verse at The Titan’s Breakfast.
Inline links: Don Juan, The Titan’s Breakfast