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My
fifth novel, Lexicon, is out today in the US & Canada,
so I’m going
to spend some of today visiting New York bookstores, looking at it,
and feeling weird. The
early press
on this book has been kind of shockingly good, like what you
dream about as an author but never actually happens, so I’m daring
to think that THIS COULD BE IT, the book that allows me to
use the word “bestselling” without abus... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 18, 2013 04:47
Average rating: 3.73 · 13,719 ratings · 1,453 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,583 ratings — published 2002 — 27 editions
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 2,638 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,480 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
Lexicon
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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so I’m going
to spend some of today visiting New York bookstores, looking at it,
and feel... Read more of this blog post »
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“There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.”
Max Barry, Company

“Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.”
Max Barry, Company

“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”
Max Barry, Machine Man

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