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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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Flesh Gothic by Edward Lee
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Innocents by Cathy Coote
Innocents
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The End of Alice by A.M. Homes
The End of Alice
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read in March, 2009
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It takes a truly titillating combination of subject matters for me to identify a work as disturbingly sexy, and dark interpersonal drives are what does it for me. The End of Alice was written for people like me, who wish more *good* authors would ta...more
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Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Running With Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
read in March, 2009
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I simply expected more from this memoir. At its core the art of memoir is self-indulgent, so I anticipate that at the get-go, but frankly the author of this work thought his life was more remarkable than I did. It was an odd upbringing, with compelli...more
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Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Zombie
by Joyce Carol Oates
read in February, 2009
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This was a real page-turner for me, a single afternoon read. It's written in a diary style from the point of view of a very believable childlike predator. I read a lot of true-crime and consider myself well-versed in criminal psychology, and I though...more
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H.L. Mencken
“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
H.L. Mencken

Sylvia Plath
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Charles Bukowski
“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”
Charles Bukowski

Chuck Palahniuk
“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk
“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
Chuck Palahniuk

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