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"this will be the next set of books I read. I have read several books by Auster in the past. I picked them up after the movie Smoke several years ago. I was very taken with hist work then and expect to enjoy it more now." — Feb 08, 2015 07:36PM
"this will be the next set of books I read. I have read several books by Auster in the past. I picked them up after the movie Smoke several years ago. I was very taken with hist work then and expect to enjoy it more now." — Feb 08, 2015 07:36PM
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"Just started reading today, and I'm flying through it. Two lifetimes of life with the main character makes for an interesting read. I'm looking forward to picking it up again to morrow after work." — Feb 08, 2015 07:33PM
"Just started reading today, and I'm flying through it. Two lifetimes of life with the main character makes for an interesting read. I'm looking forward to picking it up again to morrow after work." — Feb 08, 2015 07:33PM
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"I'm so taken with this book, I'm kind of blocked for doing a review. I'm reading a couple other books, stalling for time. I think I need to get to basics on this review or I will natter on endlessly about it." — Mar 09, 2021 10:06AM
"I'm so taken with this book, I'm kind of blocked for doing a review. I'm reading a couple other books, stalling for time. I think I need to get to basics on this review or I will natter on endlessly about it." — Mar 09, 2021 10:06AM
“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.”
― Murder at the ABA
― Murder at the ABA
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