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Ben C. Davies
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And So I Took Their Eye
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"I wanted and expected to enjoy this novel more than I did. There’s much that’s gripping and clever but it was spoiled for me by a sloppiness in its construction, most notably an excess of half-baked and obfuscating characters. Was this novel rushed t"
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| Not sure what to think about this book. I enjoyed it, but also felt so much was missing. I never normallt want books to be longer, but felt this could have had another few hundred pages and really pulled some of the loosely explored storylines (inclu ...more | |
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"There’s a little trick I love in sung music: when the lyrics are deep but the melody is light and non-dramatic—or vice versa. I hadn’t realised literature could do that too. Szalay pulls it off masterfully. I read this in two days I couldn’t put it d"
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“The mausoleum of the unworthy. At the
end of the day, aren’t they all? Through the history of time, murderers, rapists, thieves, and
crooks all given a legacy they never deserved.”
― And So I Took Their Eye
end of the day, aren’t they all? Through the history of time, murderers, rapists, thieves, and
crooks all given a legacy they never deserved.”
― And So I Took Their Eye
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road
