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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
recommended to Eric by:
Evan Marrow
recommended for: Fans of detective stories
read in May, 2013
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| I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. The premise was interesting enough -- Carl Mørck, a brilliant but depressed curmudgeon of a detective, and Assad, his mysterious but ever-helpful assistant, open Department Q, a cold case departmen...more | |
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I read this book in 1994, and it changed the way I thought about stories.
Up until that point in my life, the vast majority of the books I'd read were fantasy and science fiction. Many of them were good books. Many, in retrospect, were not. Then I... " Read more of this review » |
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Rating: 1* of five (p81) What was I thinking? I don't like books about teens. Well, that's not entirely true...I am not a Serial Killer is about a teen boy who's sure he's the evilest thing ever born, is told from his PoV, and yet that g... " Read more of this review » |
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When it comes to Hannibal Lecter, I’m like one of those music hipster douche bags that everyone hates because I’ll snootily declare that I knew about him long before most people did and that he’s sucked ever since he got really famous.
I’d read th... " Read more of this review » |
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Apr 10, 2013 11:33am
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“1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
“Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud.
That's because 90% of everything is crud.”
― paraphrased from Theodore Sturgeon, award-winning science fiction writer in the 1950's
That's because 90% of everything is crud.”
― paraphrased from Theodore Sturgeon, award-winning science fiction writer in the 1950's
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