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Jamie gave 5 of 5 stars to:
High Lonesome by Barry Hannah
High Lonesome
by Barry Hannah
read in February, 2012
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Wild and weird and somehow in that wildness and weirdness, true. I feel like I should have been reading Barry Hannah long before now. I feel like I’ll be making up for that from now on.

This just kept building and two of the last three stories, “The...more
Jamie made a comment on her review of Wildfire
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"Yeah, to me Elmore is the top shelf of westerns. This didn’t live up to that standard, but it was fun to read and great to get some context on the old...more"
Jamie gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Wildfire by Zane Grey
Wildfire
by Zane Grey
recommended to Jamie by: Daniel
read in February, 2012
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A whole lot of fun. Not as tightly written as something like Saber River or Yuma, and the dialogue lacks that sizzle, but the man can tell a story. Pull off a little time-travel and give Zane Gray Elmore Leonard’s rules for writing (really, just 3, 4...more
Jamie made a comment on Daniel Villines's status in Wildfire
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"In other words, it has the three things that make a book great? Horses, cowboys, and horses. Of course, for me I’d have to switch up Potter’s line: co...more"
Jamie made a comment on her review of In the Loyal Mountains
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"“Pig-Eye” is amazing. “Swamp Boy” broke my heart at the end, did not see that coming. All of these were so good; I was happy to see some of the charac...more"
Jamie gave 2 of 5 stars to:
Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham
Liza of Lambeth
by W. Somerset Maugham
read in January, 2012
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Dislike: printed Cockney slang, too-neat-and-tidy convenient death. This is Maugham’s first, though. First! He was twenty-three. What was I doing at 23?

You could say, this is the novel he wrote before he started flipping novels on their head.
Jamie gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The Hero by W. Somerset Maugham
The Hero
by W. Somerset Maugham
read in January, 2012
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Solidly good, solidly great when it comes down to some of Jamie’s ideas (on wars, on reason). An early sign of Maugham’s strengths, “The last thing I expect is consistency in an animal of such contrary instincts as man.” Not without great cheekiness,...more
Jamie is now following Daniel's reviews
Daniel Villines
Daniel Villines is on page 205 of 342 of Wildfire: I think that there’s just as much risk in writing a simple story as there is in trying to explore the complexities of the human condition. In other words, this is really pretty good.
Jamie gave 5 of 5 stars to:
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
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Someone would have had to physically pry this book out of my fierce little clutches last night to get me to even eat dinner. Finished it in five hours flat without intending anything of the sort. I couldn’t put it down. I know I say this a lot but Ma...more
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories


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