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Dan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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"I'm worthless as a poetry critic, other than to say that I liked this. Several very striking poems: "Church Going", "I Remember, I Remember", and "At Grass" particularly stuck out. He's clearly grown quite a bit from the not-particularly-essential Th"
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To me the distinguishing feature of Peak Salinger is that I have no idea what he wants me to think about the character he just showed me, even when it seems obvious. Part of this is that he's effectively two different authors. The Salinger who wrote ...more |
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| This sort of book is—not in the leather-jacket sense—The Most Dangerous kind there is, because the brand-new reading you're using to map hidden currents in the work of a particular novelist does not produce falsifiable claims. Frequently a book like ...more | |
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"This book looks at what Kendrick sees as Trollope's grand unified theory of writing as laid out in his autobiography. I think what Trollope has to say about writing is really interesting and is not far afield from what some of today's writing manuals"
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“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”
― Descent into Hell
― Descent into Hell
“Melmotte is really little more than rumor and illusion; his sudden rise is due less to any deep scheming or villainy on his part than to society's apparent inability to enforce its own standards.”
― Trollope's Later Novels
― Trollope's Later Novels
“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.”
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.”
― The Human Comedy
― The Human Comedy
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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