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| Okay those of you that claim to love the Stieg Larsson "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" books, you have an opportunity to fall for another great, intellectual stimulating and suspense driven Scandinavian author: Jo Nesbo. This is my 2nd or 3rd novel of...more | |
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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| There are few historians that can make it seem like you're actually reading a novel and not some dry history. Erik Larson is one of those. While his narrative may be lacking the minute details of academic accounts, that might actually be the point--t...more | |
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Usually Timothy Zahn is known for his very well written SW:EU books that have added so much to the SW canon and truly put himself as one of the chief influences into the resurgence of the SW popularity the last 20+ years. With all the books out there...more |
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“Be always drunken.
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Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude of your own room, you should awaken and the drunkenness be half or wholly slipped away from you, ask of the wind, or of the wave, or of the star, or of the bird, or of the clock, of whatever flies, or sighs, or rocks, or sings, or speaks, ask what hour it is; and the wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is the hour to be drunken!” — Charles Baudelaire |
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway
― Ernest Hemingway
“It never got weird enough for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
― Hunter S. Thompson
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac
― Jack Kerouac
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The Gonzo Nihilist
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