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Led Zeppelin Unauthorised
by Stephen Davis (1985).

Probably won’t be of much interest to anyone unless a fan. The story of the rise and fall is typical of any rock n’ roll group, the usual brainless Zeppelin’s vertigious debauchery and misogyny.

by Cesare Pavese (1948). Three young men, being young, nocturnal, and bored, met Poli, who has all the money to indulge in his whims. No purpose of existence, achievements, feeling wasted, women, drugs here and there, hunting, the usual.

by Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline (illustrator).
A cliché and formulaic story of a vain, indifferent, very finely-crafted china rabbit who “has never felt love”, suddenly finds himself lost, away from all comforts he has previously taken for granted. Pretty illustrations though.

by José Saramago (1991).

Here’s a gospel where Jesus is a very common human being without a priori divinity if confused, pessimistic and guilt-ridden, an unwilling “restive lamb that resists being taken to be sacrificed”. He is unsure of himself, plagued with nightmares and guilt passed down by his deceased father, aghast at the power he chanelled and at the inescapable covenant with the power-hungry God.