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Al Riske
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Precarious: Stories of Love, Sex, and Misunderstanding
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2010
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Sabrina's Window
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Sleeping with Smiley (Literature & Fiction)
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Excerpt from the short story "Sleeping with Smiley," which opens the collection, Precarious.
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| Greg Bardley's writing is so good it's criminal. The guy has style. And a wicked imagination. And nobody has more fun with his characters than Mr. Bardsley does. | |
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| Somewhere in noir heaven Raymond Chandler is smiling down on Robert Baty, nodding his head, and saying, ‘That’s the way you do it, son.’ | |
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It’s hard to sum up how funny and entertaining this book is! It’s possibly the funniest book I’ve read and includes a cast of characters “too weird to live, and too rare to die.” Crazy Larry was one of my favorite characters, as well as th... " Read more of this review » |
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I may revisit the 5-star rating in a week or two, but after reading this book through all last night in a single sitting, it seems ungenerous to give it anything less. Muriel Barbery walks the high-wire throughout - the... " Read more of this review » |
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A most incredible book. So well written. Humorous and heartbreaking. I was stunned by the ending. It just so happens I'm reading Anna Karenina at the same time. The references made in Elegance to Anna are uncanny. I think "The Elegance of the Hedg...
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| Slow start, strong finish. All-in-all a truly wonderful novel with unforgettable characters. | |
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham
― W. Somerset Maugham
“It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow
― E.L. Doctorow
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It was a truly seminal book for me.By the way, I was born in your neck of the woods. Shelton, to be exact.
