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George’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at George’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
George Sandison’s Followers (6)
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George Sandison
Goodreads Author
Born
The United Kingdom
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Twitter
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Influences
Philip K. Dick, Daphne du Maurier, M. John Harrison, Iain Banks, Yuri
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Member Since
June 2016
Hooks, opening lines and blinkers
We all know, you’ve got to have a hook, right? It’s a vast yet overcrowded marketplace with a bajillion books for notably less than a bajillion readers.
People are brutal these days. My dad gives a book 50 pages to convince him to read on; some people decide based on Amazon’s Look Inside preview; many more are swayed by Goodreads scoring before they’ve read the book; occasional beautiful maniacs e
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“Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind.”
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“You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like thing to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time.”
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“Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.”
― La transmigración de los cuerpos
― La transmigración de los cuerpos
“People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon.”
― Lanark
― Lanark
“That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs.”
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