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Nick’s 2024 Year in Books
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Nick Milligan
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Enormity
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2013
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2 editions
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Enormity (Part One)
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2013
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3 editions
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Tomcat Feelings
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2017
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2 editions
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Part Two (Enormity Book 2)
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2013
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Guardian
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Megalodon
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2015
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Peripheral
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2015
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The Peeping Toms
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2015
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The Whale: review
Director Darren Aronofsky has long expressed his interest in studies of doomed characters. Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler explored manifestations of grief and regret through compulsions and addictions, and how they lead to the destruction of the self.
The Whale fits into an informal trilogy with those two movies. Charlie, brought to life by a deeply committed performance from Brendan Fras
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Totally riveting and candid memoir. Funny, poignant, devastating. A must read for any appreciator of either Hollywood history, Joan Didion or a truly uncanny life story. Some of the anecdotes are just astounding. Can't wait to meet Griffin this week and ...more |
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This is a 3.5 for me, but that rating isn't a function of Goodreads. I love DeLillo's writing style, but he's a little too cool here for me. Nothing moved my emotional dial. I didn't find any of the characters interesting. But I love his language. The ...more |
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| I can’t rate this. While I enjoyed listening to Flemyng’s reading while I drove around the last few weeks, I could hardly follow any of the events of this book. Was totally lost. By the end, the tech jargon was just washing over me as hypnotic techno ...more | |
“But the drugs don’t say no. Drugs don’t send you to your room without supper. They’re the careless parent that condones everything.”
― Enormity
― Enormity
“They started calling people my grandfather’s age “generation ink”. He represents the era when extensive tattoos tipped into the mainstream. Now the old men and women sit together in the lounge room of my grandfather’s nursing home, watching daytime television. They don’t watch sport. Tattoos from their wrist to shoulders and across their chest, snake beneath their woolen cardigans and cotton shirts. Withered souls eternally painted in often incomprehensible scrawling. Faded colours. But that’s not to say that they regret getting inked. Far from it. It’s a part of who they are. As real and as precious as the blank skin they were born with. Their tastes in music haven’t mellowed either. They slowly approach the sound-system, leaning on their walking frame, and skip to songs by Pantera and Sepultura. Or Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden. My grandfather enjoyed punk and post-rock bands like Millencolin, Thursday, Coheed and Cambria or At The Drive-In.”
― Part Two
― Part Two
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
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“They started calling people my grandfather’s age “generation ink”. He represents the era when extensive tattoos tipped into the mainstream. Now the old men and women sit together in the lounge room of my grandfather’s nursing home, watching daytime television. They don’t watch sport. Tattoos from their wrist to shoulders and across their chest, snake beneath their woolen cardigans and cotton shirts. Withered souls eternally painted in often incomprehensible scrawling. Faded colours. But that’s not to say that they regret getting inked. Far from it. It’s a part of who they are. As real and as precious as the blank skin they were born with. Their tastes in music haven’t mellowed either. They slowly approach the sound-system, leaning on their walking frame, and skip to songs by Pantera and Sepultura. Or Metallica, Slayer and Iron Maiden. My grandfather enjoyed punk and post-rock bands like Millencolin, Thursday, Coheed and Cambria or At The Drive-In.”
― Part Two
― Part Two
