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| The prose was sharp and engaging, the magical realism well handled, and it was REALLY fun to have female characters who have sexual appetites (crazy, right?) but "characters drift through unlikely scenarios and approach the very edge of having an act...more | |
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is on page 48 of 338 of Delusions of Gender: I'd read this faster if I didn't have to put it down and grit my teeth so often remembering how condescended-to I was, being female, into computers and comics, and into writing and arguing literary theory when I was younger. Fuck, it makes me want to punch people.
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| Less a horror movie on paper than a murder ballet. How this book manages to swing both "economical, graceful prose" and "jaw-dropping violence" at the same time, I do not know. Color me impressed. | |
“The other fifty percent of those seriously misguided individuals who claim to be Neil naysayers are probably being one hundred percent honest when they make the shocking and outrageous claim to "not be fans." They are, nonetheless, also one hundred percent wrong. While casting no aspersions whatsoever about their moral character, they probably either utterly pretentious poseurs or totally vicious bastards.”
― David Wild, He is...I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond
― David Wild, He is...I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond
“one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.”
― Patricia Highsmith
― Patricia Highsmith
“JUDAS PRIEST BUDDHIST PRIEST! WILL YOU SET THE FUCKIN' HOOK?”
― David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
― David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
― Richard Brautigan
― Richard Brautigan
“But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what. ”
― Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale
― Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale
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