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Frank Roberts

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50 Shades of Henry

“…Henceforward everything moves on shifting levels – our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life. A parallelogram in which we drop from one platform of our scaffold to another. Henceforward we walk split into myriad fragments, like an insect with a hundred feet, a centipede with soft-stirring feet that drinks in the atmosphere; we walk with sensitive filaments that drink avidly of past Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.14 · 7 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
Jackass on a Camel: Fossils...

4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
" I wouldn't expect much from this Nobel winner - Llosa hews tight to actual history so there is no "new" tale about Trujillo. He does add some depth to ...more "
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Alien by Alan Dean Foster
Alien
by Alan Dean Foster
recommended for: 10 year old astrobiologists, Mormons
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Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review...)

I was 11 years old when Alien came out. The buzz was huge, even among 6th graders, and everybody else on the planet
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Mona and Other Tales by Reinaldo Arenas
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This collection spans work Arenas had written during both his last years in his native Cuba and the decade of his life in the US after the Mariel Boat Lift in 1980. The stories run from dreamlike childhood passages (The Empty Shoes; In the Shade of t ...more
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Boston Noir by Dennis Lehane
Boston Noir
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Discovered at the Harvard COOP while looking for something entirely else.

Like any collection by assorted authors, Boston Noir is a mixed bag. There are some taut little crime ditties, some period dramas, and some stories fitting into the "Short" genr
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“¿Por qué estamos aquí nosotros, y no los neandertales? [...] fuimos afortunados por haber estado en los lugares adecuados en los momentos oportunos.”
Clive Finlayson, The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived

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This group is for anyone interested in Utopian and Dystopian Literature to discuss anything from Thomas More's Utopia to present day fiction. Everyone ...more
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