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"If you can get through a single literary conversation without someone mentioning Marcel Proust, then you do not spend enough time on Goodreads. In 2013, I will read the seven-volume work In Search of Lost Time (also called Remembrance of Things Past)...more
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"I also think this is a great review, Stephen. I like the point you make about it being an upsetting read, regardless of its satirical intent. I think...more
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Preconcetti sventato ancora una volta! Whoever designed the cover of this novel and came up with its title (because I refuse to believe either of these disasters were Jess Walter’s doing) must have had one thing in mind: make this book appear to be as...more |
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"The epilogue could have been really lame if it wasn't done right. I loved it, though. I normally enjoy a sense of closure anyway, but this was even be...more
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| WAIT A SECOND. Doesn’t Sting refer to Humbert Humbert as the “old man in that book by Nabokov”? If so, then maybe he ought to have reread Lolita before opening his big fat mouth. Because that “old man,” Mr. Fields of Gold, happens to be only in his 3...more | |
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
read in April, 2013
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Remember when we used to have live TV and stations would air previews for a program they were trying to promote? Have you ever then gone and watched that program only to discover that the preview was kind of misleading? Well, the previews for this boo...more |
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There don’t appear to be enough reviews of Infinite Jest on Goodreads so I thought I’d go ahead and write another one. Anyway, I kind of hated this book. I hated that its characters are essentially parodies of themselves which limited my ability to co...more |
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“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolaño
― Roberto Bolaño
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin
― Benjamin Franklin
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2013: The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 is the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time. The reading schedule can be found h...more
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
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This group read of DFW's Infinite Jest begins January 01, 2013 and finishes April 30, 2013. Please see this thread for the current reading schedule. Wh...more
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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