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Jason S. Hornsby
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Jason has a proxy, and has exercised it much here in China.
I'm on page 60 of a new novel, and am really, really excited about it. I've honestly never been so psyched to work on something in my life. This is a project unlike anything I've ever tackled before, and can't wait to see how it all turns out. Imagine an international horror novel that wanders from the poorest provinces of China to the... read more »
I'm on page 60 of a new novel, and am really, really excited about it. I've honestly never been so psyched to work on something in my life. This is a project unlike anything I've ever tackled before, and can't wait to see how it all turns out. Imagine an international horror novel that wanders from the poorest provinces of China to the... read more »
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Every Sigh, the End
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Eleven Twenty-Three
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The Perfect Spiral
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Zombie Writing!
by Armand Rosamilia (Goodreads Author) , Eric S. Brown , Joe McKinney (Goodreads Author)  4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Eleven Twenty-Three (Literature & Fiction)
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This is a very short excerpt from my forthcoming novel, "Eleven Twenty-Three." It's from somewhere in the middle of the book, and I chose it just to give everyone an idea of the tone and direction. I hope you enjoy it.
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I have been hearing about this novel for a few years now, and it came highly recommended. After one of my favorite directors, a Mr. David Fincher, decided to make it his own and adapt it into a film, I knew I had to read it. The reviews always say tha...more |
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“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi
― Aung San Suu Kyi
“Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”
― Albert Camus
― Albert Camus
“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”
― Michael Crichton
― Michael Crichton
“Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life. And why the FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it. I don't have any bloody use for it.”
― Charlie Kaufman
― Charlie Kaufman
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Tragically broke and still unem-fucking-ployed. David bought the tickets, though they were pretty cheap and didn't have any Ticketbastard fees attached. I'll buy you a shirt. :)
Oh, this is bullshit! If I had a top 5 things I miss about America list, the concert thing would definitely be in there. I am going to miss the bad-ass band Murder by Death, and I am also going to miss Local H!? It's the Local H one that really kills me, though. That band is so amazing live. If you don't go, you're either a damn fool or tragically broke due to America's wintry economy.
Who has two thumbs and just got tickets to see Murder By Death at the Orpheum? This girl!(Local H is playing there next month too. This is why you have to return to America.)
Remember that book of suicide methods I loaned you when you were in town? Keep it - I found another copy at Haslam's in St. Pete today. Hold onto yours, because it's out of print and an extremely rare find, as well as being a totally absorbing read.
You've no idea the kicking, screaming, wailing, rending of garments, and cursing of God that occurred when I realized I missed not one, but two calls from you. I'm sure it's no mean feat to call from the future. I'll send you a lengthy email later and fill you in on the non-happenings in my barren Tunguska crater of a life... and let me know a day/Beijing standard time when you're free, and I'll tell you when would be a good time to call me that day. I miss you a hell of a lot.
Look at this.Remember that story we were both obsessed with last year, about the beautiful successful young couple who developed intense paranoia of Scientology and the government and each killed themselves within a week of each other?
Gus van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are collaborating on a film about them.
Brandon wrote: "I just finished ESTE and I wanted to tell you that I loved it. It was one of the better purchases I made in 2007."Thanks a lot, Brandon. Hopefully, the new novel will not disappoint. If you like zombies, how do you feel about ghosts?
