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Nathan Larson

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Nathan Larson is best known as an award-winning film music composer, having created the scores for over thirty movies, such as Boys Don't Cry, Dirty Pretty Things, and Margin Call. He was deeply involved in the hardcore punk scene in Washington D.C., and in the 1990s, he was the lead guitarist for the influential prog-punk outfit Shudder to Think. THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM is his first novel, the first of three in a series. The second installment, THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, is Larsons latest work.

Larson lives in Harlem, New York City, with his wife and son. ...more

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	The Dewey Decimal System (Dewey Decimal, #1) 3.12 avg rating — 590 ratings — published 2011 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heroin Chronicles (Akashic Books: The Drug Chronicles) by Jerry Stahl (Editor), Antonia Crane (Goodreads Author), Ava Stander 3.47 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nervous System (Dewey Decimal, #2) 3.66 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stockholm Noir (Akashic Noir) by Nathan Larson (Goodreads Author), Carl-Michael Edenborg (Editor), Martin Holmén (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.43 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Immune System (Dewey Decimal, #3) 3.80 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching in Nature's Classroom: Core Principles of Garden-Based Education 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boogie Man: Der zweite Dewey-Decimal-Roman (Literatur) by Nathan Larson (Goodreads Author), Andrea Stumpf (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: disadvantage, internal, parasites

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“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...”
― J.G. Ballard

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“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

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“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
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