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August 24
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Paul
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Paperback)
by Flannery O'Connor
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Paul said:
""No pleasure but meanness."
One of my favorite short story collections.
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Paul
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Solaris (Paperback)
by Stanisław Lem
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Paul said:
""Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed."
Much more than a...more
"Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed."
Much more than a science fiction novel. Interesting questions and ideas. Great writing....less
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Paul
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Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Paul said:
""I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts."
A psychological journey into the over-conscious mind of the underground man. Be careful.
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August 15
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Paul
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to:
Lolita (Paperback)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Paul said:
""She would try to relieve the pain of love by frist roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a gener...more
"She would try to relieve the pain of love by frist roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward fist the scepter of my passion."
Some of the most delicious language I have ever read. ...less
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Paul
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Glory (Paperback)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Paul said:
""Petals had fallen from the almond trees, and stood out pale on the dark earth of the damp path, like almonds in gingerbread. Not far from some enormous cedars of Lebanon grew a lone birch tree, with that particular slant to its foliage that onl...more
"Petals had fallen from the almond trees, and stood out pale on the dark earth of the damp path, like almonds in gingerbread. Not far from some enormous cedars of Lebanon grew a lone birch tree, with that particular slant to its foliage that only a birch has (as if a girl had let her hair down on one side to be combed, and stood still). "
Another great book from Nabokov....less
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Paul
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to:
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Paul said:
""With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events a...more
"With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures."
A collection of letters on life and art from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Perhaps the book that has had the most profound effect on my life....less
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Paul
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to:
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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read in November, 2006
Paul said:
"" 'He thought he knew me. And he knows me as little as anyone else in the world knows me. I don't know myself. I know my appetites, as the French say. Those two want that dirty ice cream. They know that for certain,' she thought, looking at two ...more
" 'He thought he knew me. And he knows me as little as anyone else in the world knows me. I don't know myself. I know my appetites, as the French say. Those two want that dirty ice cream. They know that for certain,' she thought, looking at two boys who had stopped an ice-cream man, who was taking the barrel down from his head and wiping his sweaty face with the end of a towel. 'We all want something sweet, tasty. If not candy, then dirty ice cream.' "
One of my favorite novels....less
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