Mel C
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"I may be way off track here but so far this is reading like a really dark Wes Anderson movie. I love it. So vivid." — Oct 01, 2015 05:40PM
"I may be way off track here but so far this is reading like a really dark Wes Anderson movie. I love it. So vivid." — Oct 01, 2015 05:40PM
Mel C
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in July 2015
Mel C said:
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DNF. Nope nope nope. Still can't stand Rushdie's better-than-thou verbose-as-eff style. He just rubs me up the wrong way. He needs to take a scythe to his writing.
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progress:
(page 17 of 647)
"Even though I've just had to sit through two pages describing a nose, and the longest non-sentence sentence in the history of the written word, A SENTENCE THAT SAYS NOTHING AND GOES NOWHERE, I will persevere. At least for a few more pages." — Jul 02, 2015 04:36PM
"Even though I've just had to sit through two pages describing a nose, and the longest non-sentence sentence in the history of the written word, A SENTENCE THAT SAYS NOTHING AND GOES NOWHERE, I will persevere. At least for a few more pages." — Jul 02, 2015 04:36PM
“Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.”
― Survival in Auschwitz
― Survival in Auschwitz
“You're either on the bus or off the bus.”
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
― The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
“When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.”
― Skinny Legs and All
― Skinny Legs and All
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
― Post Office
― Post Office
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