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He stood there almost passively, gazing at a face that had no right to be called one, while the long blackened fingernails reached for his throat and finished what the fragments of glass had begun.
“Obsessive and easily bored, he was incapable of being sexually faithful to any woman. He reveled in being a wanderer, an eavesdropper, a stranger”
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
“The world was filling up with people, it seemed to him, who pulled their punches everywhere they went in life. Light beer, decaf coffee, low-sodium seltzer.”
― Nobody Runs Forever
― Nobody Runs Forever
“Adventure is the unexpected experience of discovery, of course; but it is also a kind of death, an end of innocence.”
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
― Figures In A Landscape: People and Places – An Essay Collection of Globe-Trotting Travel, Incisive Literary Criticism, and Personal Profiles
“We tolerate difference only when we don’t have to look at it or listen to it, as long as it doesn’t impact our lives.”
― Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
― Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
“Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.”
― Less Than Zero
― Less Than Zero
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Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
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Biography, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel
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