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Chuck Palahniuk
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.”
Kurt Vonnegut

Douglas Coupland
“You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.”
Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

Haruki Murakami
“Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.”
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Albert Camus
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
Albert Camus, The First Man

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSkagboys by Irvine WelshTrainspotting by Irvine WelshRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Disturbingly Enticing
498 books — 197 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFight Club by Chuck PalahniukRequiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessSkagboys by Irvine Welsh
Thrillers
4,825 books — 5,940 voters

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