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Alex Budris said:
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Maybe all Maigret books deserve a four-star rating. Gorges Simenon's style is subtle and painterly - brilliantly capturing the day-to-day rhythms of a world that is less hurried and harried than ours, yet no less relevant. A world without corporate m
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“His whole body sank into coldness and wet and he couldn't;'t breathe and the moon was dark and wavery as it is when it's seen through water. A huge animal was lolloping towards him... like an ape on all fours. It had two heads. (pg 44; Breakneck Crag)”
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“Sometimes the only difference between living and dying is that living hurts more.”
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“It's like training a rat to be a dog so you can train the dog to be a monkey... (pg 72)”
― Hardweird: Bleakwarrior Enters the Pith of Shadows and Other Tales of Cosmic Disorder
― Hardweird: Bleakwarrior Enters the Pith of Shadows and Other Tales of Cosmic Disorder
“Life was one big horrible climb up a greased pole to nowheres... a greased pole that rose out of emptiness below us and disappeared into a black dream above us...”
― Angel's Flight
― Angel's Flight
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