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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen KingMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Apparently, the entire Stephen King industry was spawned by a daydream about naked teenage girls in the shower, pelting another girl with tampons. And there's a great lesson in that: a creative writer can't censor himself--more than that, he has to pay close attention to his own imaginings and memories without shame, has t... read more »
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The Jump Artist
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Concepts in Medical Physiology
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| Freud's first-person account of the first two decades of psychoanalysis. It's written (and translated) with the singing rhetorical brilliance of all Freud's work, but it's not suited to the novitiate to psychoanalysis. Its summary of the core theorie...more | |||||||||||
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