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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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6 editions
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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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"Great writing, fascinating ideas, and a complex structure that weaves different POV characters (sometimes the same under different names) at different times into something which is much more than the sum of its simple revenge plot parts. It's mawkish"
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Great story and dialogue. Beautiful line art. And a fun, thought out magic system. If you like this, I also recommend Frieren (darker, much slower) and Delicious in Dungeon (more humour, but equally detailed world building). All great fantasy manga. |
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Funny, but if you're a teacher it's funny and painfully accurate. We've all had the 'psychos in 4C'. I was afraid getting halfway through that this would have a mawkish, saccharine ending where all the boys find empathy and greater meaning in life - ...more |
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'A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle. More bullets made more holse in door, door-frame and wall, but by that time I had carried my noodle into a safe corner, one out of line with the window.' A detective rocks up in Poisonville ...more |
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"This book needs no introduction, obviously. Innumerable people recommended it to me, to the point where I feared I would find it overhyped. And in truth, I avoided it for a time because I was worried. Dungeon Crawler Carl is exactly what I expected i"
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"This book came with some heavy expectations, and it definitely came up to scratch. A weird, dystopian, mediaeval horror, which I think captures not only the details of the era (Christopher Buehlman acknowledges Barbara W. Tuchman's classic A Distant "
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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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