Henry 磊磊 Roark
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June 2009
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Not in the Mood: Essays
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Imitation Intimacy: Poems
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Of course I'm biased. Entertaining concept and many quotable one-liners. The monologues near the end knocked off the rest of the half star for me. If you don't want to read an entire book, enjoy this slightly adapted excerpt of a poem from Richard Si ...more |
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Of course I'm biased. Entertaining concept and many quotable one-liners. The monologues near the end knocked off the rest of the half star for me. If you don't want to read an entire book, enjoy this slightly adapted excerpt of a poem from Richard Si ...more |
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| I’ve never read a book that started so strong and then tanked so hard in flames. Perhaps it’s bad editing. You can see the downward spiral starting in Part 2 with Dillard and then it tanks with Eliot. Part 3 starts the dumpster fire in a New York sum ...more | |
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“He possessed a deeply private arrogance, a bedrock of self-certainty that needed neither proof nor explication—for although he had a warrior’s reputation, and an honorable standing within his tribe, his self-conception had not been shaped by his achievements. He simply knew that his beauty and his strength were without compare; he simply knew that he was better than most other men.”
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“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Travel offers the opportunity to find out who else one is, in that collapse of identity into geography I want to trace.”
― A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
― A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland



















