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Jason Pym
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The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking
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2012
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Travels Through Dali with a leg of ham
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A Dali Sketchbook
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2017
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Three Monks and a Bad Apple: Equivalent Sayings in Chinese and English (Mandarin Notebooks, #1)
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2012
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汉字博物馆
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2024
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris:
"Fascinating glimpse into mediaeval Paris around 1407 at the time of the assassination of Louis of Orleans, and the wider geopolitics of the era. The book is a little repetitive - as Eric Jager himself states in his very helpful notes on how he dealt "
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I lived in London for a year - this to me is London in literary form. It is squalid, desperate, occassionally violent. There are only two types of people, users and the used. It is bleak and nasty. The cover is covered in critics lauding its genius, mo ...more |
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An illustration and one paragraph about Narnian denizens on each two page spread. Lovely and beautifully fitting illustrations by Pauline Baynes, a great map also by her (but too small! Should have been two pages). The summary of the Chronicles, the ...more |
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A novel that came out in 1994. Dredd is like the X-Files, you can do pretty much anything with it: Noir, a musical, gonzo aliens, action, thriller, comedy whatever. Here it goes dark and gritty like the 2012 film, drugs, violence, serial killers. That ...more |
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A novel that came out in 1994. Dredd is like the X-Files, you can do pretty much anything with it: Noir, a musical, gonzo aliens, action, thriller, comedy whatever. Here it goes dark and gritty like the 2012 film, drugs, violence, serial killers. That ...more |
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.”
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“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
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“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing
1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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1. Never open a book with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
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