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Matthew Allard
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November 23, 1983
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To Slow Down The Time: Stories  4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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2010
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Reverence Library: Volume One by Daniel Beirne, Joshua Allen (Goodreads Author), John Moe  4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Spotted this on a shelf at the bookstore and later checked it out from the library. I enjoyed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and thought this might be another fun series of mystery/thriller books. It's a good book and a quick read, but I thin...more |
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| Having read Cloud Atlas (a book that was written after this one) first, it's fun to see so many of the parallels. Both books are extremely similar, I thought. Even with some overlap of minor characters here becoming more fleshed out in the later book...more | |
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| I enjoyed this. Then I tackled a couple of blogs where it was torn apart, mostly from a feminine perspective. Still, I enjoyed it. It paints well that time of life where priorities are all mucked, we're dependent and melodramatic and too self-conscio...more | |
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| I couldn't put this down. It's smart and thoughtful and honest. It's a book I'd want to write and never know how or where to begin. There was eerily so much of my youth in here, feelings and moments so succinctly described, that I felt Van Meter was ...more | |
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| I think King himself sums it up best near the end of this book: "You don't need writing classes or seminars any more than you need this or any other book on writing ... You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this book. I think Esbach is a good writer, and I think this book is an achievement. Whether or not she successfully sold me on all characterizations, motivations or plot developments is another story. But that doesn't diminish the fact tha...more | |
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| I don't know what to think of it. Hollinghurst's pre-AIDS gay world is hard to fathom. This is an important work to go there, and so unflinchingly (especially given when it was published)...but I felt a very strong disconnect reading it, one I can't ...more | |
“Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.”
― David Leavitt, Collected Stories
― David Leavitt, Collected Stories
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
― William Blake
― William Blake
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