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Cornwell stirs a reader’s bloodlust and proceeds to slake it with this novel that slowly turned overwhelming odds onto its head and mercilessly, furiously, battered it with a poleaxe. Besides being a work that drew focus on the menace of the longbow,...more |
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What a charming piece of work. I am not one much for writing letters. I used to when I was small. And all of them were addressed to my father abroad (decidedly NOT unknown). Most of these, however, took no more than one page of a yellow pad. And laste...more |
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A few pages in into this book and I already felt the first stirrings of regret. Regret for not having read this sooner. Regret for not having picked up another work by this author right after having enjoyed, “The Man Who Was Thursday,” …THREE YEARS AGO...more |
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Ever had the feeling that the characters were too big for the story? I haven’t read much of Gaiman’s work, and my sentiments after reading this book is probably something familiar among his fans, but in reading The Graveyard Book, I could not help but...more |
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“the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
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