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John Lawson

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John Lawson’s imagination was born in the fires of the exploding Death Star, was raised in the uncharted wildernesses of Narnia, and exhibited a healthy disregard for the Prime Directive. It feasted upon giant peaches, blitzed through phantom tollbooths, and wagered heavily upon the outcome of the Westing Game. It retired skin jobs, tried to save Sarah Connor, and quested for the Holy Grail. It knew better than to press its face into a recently opened alien egg, it understood how a simple rafting trip could result in an extended dinosaur vacation, and it wept when Lowell and Huey died aboard the Valley Forge. It knows you’re not supposed to shoot a person’s gun and never give cigarettes to trees. It totally understands Wolverine’s anger is...more


Average rating: 4.48 · 44 ratings · 15 reviews · 3 distinct works
Witch Ember
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The Raven
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Sorrow
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
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The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume II by Anonymous
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Skulls by Armand Rosamilia
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For people who own both a iPad and another ereader (Kindle/Nook/Kobo/Sony/etc), which do you prefer...more

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The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems [Illustrated] by Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Hermann Hesse
“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room.

- Harry Haller”
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse
“Was all that we called culture, spirit, soul, all that we called beautiful and sacred, nothing but a ghost long dead, which only a few fools like us took for true and living? Had it perhaps indeed never been true and living? Had all that we poor fools bothered our heads about never been anything but a phantom?”
Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

Anthony Burgess
“Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.”
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess
“Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.”
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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