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Mike’s 2025 Year in Books
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Mike Kleine
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Kanley Stubrick
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Mastodon Farm
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2012
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Arafat Mountain
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Third World Magicks
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Where the Sky Meets the Ocean and the Air Tastes Like Metal and the Birds Don't Make A Sound
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Lonely Men Club
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burnin' oceans.
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The Mystery of the Seventeen Pilot Fish
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agbogbloshie
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Karaoke Night at Daisuke's
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| There are fifteen poems in this chapbook. Every single one has one line that is repeated, immediately. I thought that was neat. The theme I think is cowboys and lit cigarettes and horses and the moon. (Also made me think of Cormac's THE BORDER trilog ...more | |
“The water looks really nice like this,” Allen says.
“Yeah,” you say, looking like you are looking at the water, or, at least, how you imagine you would look looking like you are looking at the water.
You look at the water and don’t say anything.
Then you peek, just for a second, to look at Allen.
Allen isn’t even looking at the water.
He’s crying about something.”
― Mastodon Farm
“Yeah,” you say, looking like you are looking at the water, or, at least, how you imagine you would look looking like you are looking at the water.
You look at the water and don’t say anything.
Then you peek, just for a second, to look at Allen.
Allen isn’t even looking at the water.
He’s crying about something.”
― Mastodon Farm
“You are driving home.
You listen to ‘Tongue Tied’ by Grouplove.
Someone side-swipes the Ferrari.
You almost strike three pedestrians and crash into a Dunkin’ Donuts.
This is somewhere near the Brooklyn Bridge and you find out—later—the lady who hit you, she died.
She was old.
“Wasn’t wearing her glasses,” someone on the street says.
“She was basically driving blind,” the police officer says. “I’m surprised this didn’t happen earlier.”
An EMT examines you.
You try and act normal.
“Am I hurt?” you ask.
“You’re not hurt,” the EMT says.
You talk to the cops.
“Am I in trouble?” you ask.
“You’re not in trouble,” a young cop says.
You freak out a little.
You can smell pomade in your sweat.
“Everything is under control,” someone says—another police officer.
You freak out some more.”
― Mastodon Farm
You listen to ‘Tongue Tied’ by Grouplove.
Someone side-swipes the Ferrari.
You almost strike three pedestrians and crash into a Dunkin’ Donuts.
This is somewhere near the Brooklyn Bridge and you find out—later—the lady who hit you, she died.
She was old.
“Wasn’t wearing her glasses,” someone on the street says.
“She was basically driving blind,” the police officer says. “I’m surprised this didn’t happen earlier.”
An EMT examines you.
You try and act normal.
“Am I hurt?” you ask.
“You’re not hurt,” the EMT says.
You talk to the cops.
“Am I in trouble?” you ask.
“You’re not in trouble,” a young cop says.
You freak out a little.
You can smell pomade in your sweat.
“Everything is under control,” someone says—another police officer.
You freak out some more.”
― Mastodon Farm
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“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.”
― How I Became a Famous Novelist
― How I Became a Famous Novelist
“I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.”
― Lucky Man
― Lucky Man
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
― The Black Riders and Other Lines
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
― The Black Riders and Other Lines
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Thank you for accepting my friendship, Mike!
Hello thanks for the friend request. I look forward to stalking your shelves and reading your reviews.
Tfitoby wrote: "your answer to my security question, somebody really told you that reading was a waste of time? i honestly thought that was some kind of tv/movie cliche."Oh that. Yes, somebody did really say that to me in real life, once.
Then you also have the other side of the coin. People who ask you if you read and if you reply "no," then they decide you're not cultured (enough.)
your answer to my security question, somebody really told you that reading was a waste of time? i honestly thought that was some kind of tv/movie cliche.
Tfitoby wrote: "Mike wrote: "So this story I wrote got published. :)"i really enjoyed reading this by the way"
Somebody said what? And thanks, for enjoying the story, mainly. Also, for leaving a comment.
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Mike wrote: "So this story I wrote got published. :)"i really enjoyed reading this by the way
wait, somebody really said that to you? in real life?
A list I made a little while ago... http://www.amazon.com/lm/R369C2CQN0AC...I still stand by it. Should I make a new one for 2011/2012?
