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Since this book of 80 years ago, much literature has been written on the topic of "outsider" (e.g., The Collector), so I rate it 4 instead of 5 stars. Still a good read for its simplicity, which more long-winded writers would obfuscate. In Kafka's The ...more |
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| I recommend the guilty pleasure of any of Hiaasen's books, and lucky for me I still have a few left to read. This is his third, after Tourist Season and Double Whammy featuring his usual cast of wicked and ridiculous characters in a tangle of mayhem. ...more | |
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“If I’d have wanted civilization I’d have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living,” Augustus said. “Me and you done our work too well. We killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with.”
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“There’s more than a million species of insect and only one species of human being,” the man said. “When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.”
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An homage to the cat companion he spent years with, and to our feline friends in general, and a reminder of the memories we keep of our own four-footed partners. I found the readability a bit stilted but the affections expressed sincere. |
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Decoding Dylan: Searching For The Sources To The Songs Of Bob Dylan:
"The idea of Bob Dylan being a great songwriter and at the same time a musical magpie who borrows tunes, words, riffs, anything he feels like, from older songs dates from around 1963, as soon as he started slinging out his grand anthems. The first bat"
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Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground:
"Here’s a vast book which takes one of the most interesting and important stories in all of modern music, stuffed full of the most colourful and crazy characters, and makes it as dull, neutral and drained of life as a police report. The author appears"
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"A completely insane feat, and one I cannot see ever being replicated. It's no surprise that Adams found it difficult to publish Watership Down. For one, he was an unknown author aged 52, but more importantly, it was a children's book about talking ra"
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“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it...
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row