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"Wait, so is this ALL gonna be terrible bullshit? Or is it gonna get, like, way way better? Like a whole lot better? It is very bad right now. Who told this drunk DFW fan to try to write the Blair Witch Project?" — 16 de May 20:00
"Wait, so is this ALL gonna be terrible bullshit? Or is it gonna get, like, way way better? Like a whole lot better? It is very bad right now. Who told this drunk DFW fan to try to write the Blair Witch Project?" — 16 de May 20:00
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Philip K Dick is the Kafka of scifi - or maybe just the Kafka of America - endlessly paranoid and inventive. It's dangerous to read too many of his stories in a row; they start to run together. But then, so does Borges. My favorite right now is the l...more |
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“Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.”
― Pierre-Simon Laplace
― Pierre-Simon Laplace
“He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?”
― Quentin Tarantino, True Romance
― Quentin Tarantino, True Romance
“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quichotte
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quichotte
“I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”
― Leonard Cohen
― Leonard Cohen
20th Century: The List (Select)
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Here's the in-progress master list of 20th century works I hope to tackle in 2012. What'd I miss?
Book Challenges (Select)
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updated 31 de Oct 08:45
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I've realized that need a place to track all the books I've read for this challenge. (Real-life friends: don't even bother, this is so geeky you will puke in your brain.)
The Awesomeness Scale (Select)
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I've been inspired by NewEngland's argument for Gogol's short stories, which was simple and effective: "There's a talking dog." So, while walking the dog just now, I expanded that into a detailed and 100% reliable Awesomeness Scale for books. Suggestions, insults and fierce arguments welcome.
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