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07/14
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The Pickwick Papers (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Growth of the Soil (Paperback) by Knut Hamsun |
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read in July, 2008
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"The unparalleled history of the family of Isak - a sublime experience, with moments of eminence only to be recognized in portions of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. Hamsun is a complete master and I love this book freely and without reservation.
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Everyday Drinking (Hardcover) by Kingsley Amis bookshelves: memoir-non-fiction |
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read in July, 2008
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"Helpful and charming. Very helpful and very charming. Back and forth from the coffee table to the kitchen counter with this one.
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Allen Wilcox
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The Pickwick Papers (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Allen Wilcox
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Hunger: A Novel (Paperback) by Knut Hamsun bookshelves: existential-canon |
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| June 25 | ||
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Ignorance: A Novel (Paperback) by Milan Kundera |
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| June 21 | ||
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Fatelessness (Paperback) by Imre Kertesz |
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Allen Wilcox
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""The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness."" — Andre Malraux | |
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Allen Wilcox
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Liquidation (Paperback) by Imre Kertesz bookshelves: existential-canon |
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Allen Wilcox
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"Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining." — Samuel Beckett | |
Allen's favorite quotes
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
— Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
"Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining."
— Samuel Beckett (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library))
— Samuel Beckett (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library))
""The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.""
— Andre Malraux
— Andre Malraux
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Nice, good to see we have things in common. Actually I friended you because you have a kickass taste in books, and you read the book that I'm reading now, and you're reading the book now that I'm planning to read next. How do you know the books I'm going to read? Ha.
hi mister, excellent quote there. i am borrowing it.
Nice, good to see we have things in common. Actually I friended you because you have a kickass taste in books, and you read the book that I'm reading now, and you're reading the book now that I'm planning to read next. How do you know the books I'm going to read? Ha.
hi mister, excellent quote there. i am borrowing it.
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