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Guy Winter
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"I must number in the few who enjoyed this short, dark book. This is not often numbered with Stevenson's top classic work. For me, however, this is a definite classic as I define one. My three criteria for a classic are: longevity (more than 50 years "
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I am a foolish reader who, like many, take on a booker short-list, or a booker winner, and expect it to wow me. And it did, and it didn't. I have an unsophisticated mind. To any reader who reads books as an art critic views a great master" Read more of this review » |
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What a journey, I was left exhausted but exhilarated by this walking Odyssey! The emotion is as raw as Antonia's feet after a long day on the Camino, and it is this searing honesty that ultimately powers both her and the reader through some testing p ...more |
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Xavier’s box suddenly flickered back on, next to Monika on the big screen. “Oh, piss off, Xavier!” I said. Xavier disappeared again. “…and asking you to love me!” Guy Winter |
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“For a moment the closing meeting was almost beautiful- like a ballet in space, like 2001. That was before it started, of course, while the meeting room was being set up.”
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| Even re-reading the blurb at the top, you want to love this book... And it's all beautifully written. But the whole astrology thing just doesn't land for me at all. It is woven in with the gossamer threads of the Emperor's New Clothes, yet if it does ...more | |
“They say we Highlanders take in dancin' wi’ our mother’s milk!” said Tam.
“You must have skipped your breakfast that day then!” said Souter Johnnie.” ...more Guy Winter |
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“I’m just a boy- standing in front of a screen- with a whole bunch of other people watching…”
Xavier’s box suddenly flickered back on, next to Monika on the big screen.
“Oh, piss off, Xavier!” I said.
Xavier disappeared again.
“…and asking you to love me!”
― Watchdog- A Credit Crunch Fairytale
Xavier’s box suddenly flickered back on, next to Monika on the big screen.
“Oh, piss off, Xavier!” I said.
Xavier disappeared again.
“…and asking you to love me!”
― Watchdog- A Credit Crunch Fairytale
“For a moment the closing meeting was almost beautiful- like a ballet in space, like 2001. That was before it started, of course, while the meeting room was being set up.”
― Watchdog- A Credit Crunch Fairytale
― Watchdog- A Credit Crunch Fairytale
“There’s something special about gemstones, isn’t there?” said Malthus. “Something primal. We covet them, even once we have lost our greed for so many other things in the world. I hardly eat at all now, nothing but the odd teaspoonful of raw foie gras marinated in Montrachet- and yet I still hunger for diamonds.”
― Billionaire Suicide Club
― Billionaire Suicide Club
“They say we Highlanders take in dancin' wi’ our mother’s milk!” said Tam.
“You must have skipped your breakfast that day then!” said Souter Johnnie.”
― Tam: The Three Changelings
“You must have skipped your breakfast that day then!” said Souter Johnnie.”
― Tam: The Three Changelings
“There’s a code amongst the restless spirits of the world. You have to show each other that there is something more to life than the action- the moments when you lose yourself in the flood.”
― Billionaire Suicide Club
― Billionaire Suicide Club
“Somehow I always thought I’d die in London,” said Wright. “In the rain.”
“Death has no nation,” said Malthus, puffing out a dense cloud of cigar smoke. “You can find him anywhere if you look hard enough.”
― Billionaire Suicide Club
“Death has no nation,” said Malthus, puffing out a dense cloud of cigar smoke. “You can find him anywhere if you look hard enough.”
― Billionaire Suicide Club
“Newgate was Hell enough for me!” said the Murderer. “That slow trudge through Birdcage Walk from the prison house to the scaffold, with the walls closing in on me with each step, the bars on the roof penning me in. The baying crowd outside, waiting for nothing but to see me die. And the damp- everywhere the damp, freezing my bones to their marrow. No earthly blanket can keep out that Old Bailey chill! So what was that, sir, if not a Hell on earth? And now the pain! It never leaves me…”
― Billionaire Suicide Club
― Billionaire Suicide Club
“Why would they burn you?” said Moreland. “Why, can’t you see it, man? People like you have been burned for centuries! Burned as witches and heretics, all over Europe! Murdered by the law. By humanity’s primitive ignorance of science. Hate- fear- stupidity... Nothing is more likely to actuate men in this world- even in this year of 1805. You are the monster in their own minds, that they pursue with fire and pitchfork. It is a superstition as old as humanity itself.”
― Billionaire Suicide Club
― Billionaire Suicide Club
