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Bride of the Fat White Vampire (Fat White Vampire, #2)

by Andrew Fox (Goodreads Author)

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Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)

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Mark Covington said: " Great story but someone needs to take Karen's thesaurus away. Sometimes it seems that she looks up a word in the theasurs and replaces it without regard to the actual meaning of the word. ...more "

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"Great story, a little too much thesaurus." — Oct 05, 2011 05:53AM

Aug 23, 2011 01:39PM · see review

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Dancing Bear (Milo Milodragovitch, #2)

by James Crumley

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Mark’s Quotes

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.”
― Dr. Seuss, Fox in Socks

tags: childrens, humor

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