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Michael Marshall Smith
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Only Forward
— published 1994 — 18 editions |
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Spares
— published 1996 — 24 editions |
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One of Us
— published 1998 — 14 editions |
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What You Make It: A Book Of Short Stories
— published 1999 — 5 editions |
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Bad Things
— published 2009 — 12 editions |
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The Servants
— published 2007 — 13 editions |
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More Tomorrow: And Other Stories
by Michael Marshall Smith (Goodreads Author), Stephen Jones — published 2003 |
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Binary 2: Michael Marshall Smith - The Vaccinator: Kim Newman - Andy Warhol's Dracula
by Michael Marshall Smith (Goodreads Author), Kim Newman — published 1998 |
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Straw Men
by Michael Marshall, Michael Marshall Smith (Goodreads Author) — published 2002 — 23 editions |
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Killer Move
— published 2011 — 12 editions |
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Michael Smith said:
"Rereading this book after thirty years. The first time it kind of changed my life - and was probably a big factor in my reading philosophy at university. The ideas and tone are standing up extremely well.
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Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic
by Elizabeth Little (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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| A hardcore look at the grammars, underlying structures and idiosyncrasies of the world's languages, enlivened by a cheerful and intimate voice. | |
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Michael Smith
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
by David Talbot
read in May, 2013
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| A sweeping, interlocked non-fiction narrative of San Francisco from the 1960s to the late 1980s. The style's a tiny bit lowbrow at times, but it's compulsively readable, and Talbot's structure (flowing from one chapter to the next via an evolving cas...more | |
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Michael Smith
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
by Mark Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2012
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| Huge fun. A circular ramble through more interesting word facts than you could shake a stick at. Initially found the style excessively arch, but soon warmed to it, and there are genuinely laugh-out-loud moments. If you like words, you should buy this...more | |
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| Yes, this is as good as everyone says. Flynn knows how to drag you by the hair through a story, and her prose is word-perfect wonderful without being showy. Not sure some of the later interior landscapes for Amazing Amy - a stunning character - rang...more | |
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| A stunning slice of the very darkest American gothic. Superb voice, characters and balance. | |
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
"Anji wrote: "Great....will make a note for my ever expanding list! Hope to read another of yours soon enough,has been too long Mr. Marshall! :-p"
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“How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all?
Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.
Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.
Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”
― Michael Marshall Smith
― Michael Marshall Smith
“When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older the light still reaches you, sparkling as it comes up through your memories. And if you're lucky as you travel forward through time, you'll bring the whole of yourself along with you, gathering your skirts and leaving nothing behind, nothing to obscure the light. But if a Bad Thing happens part of you is seared into place, and trapped for ever at that time. The rest of you moves onward, dealing with all the todays and tomorrows, but something, some part of you, is left behind. That part blocks the light, colours the rest of your life, but worse than that, it's alive. Trapped for ever at that moment, and alone in the dark, that part of you is still alive.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
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