Blake Nelson
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Recovery Road
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2011
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Girl (Girl, #1)
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1994
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Paranoid Park
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2006
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The Prince of Venice Beach
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2014
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Destroy All Cars
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2009
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Gender Blender
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2006
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Prom Anonymous
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2006
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Rock Star Superstar
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2004
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New Rules of High School
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2003
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Dream School (Girl, #2)
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2011
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"I've been a fan Blake Nelson ever since his cult classic GIRL back in the 90's. The narrator of RED PILL, Martin, is similar to GIRL's Andrea, in that they are both kind of hapless, upbeat, charming people with interesting (but not judgemental) insig"
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"Dirty Snow: a withering parade of apathy, it languishes and eventually disintegrates in a desolate gray landscape of inscrutable uncertainty. (A perfect summer beach read.) Eighteen-year-old Frank, the fiercely vacant antihero, is a callous, arrogant"
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"I devoured it. The same way I devoured Girl almost 22 years ago. There's just something about Blake Nelson's writing style and characters that makes me pause and absorb the words every couple of pages. That perfect way he describes certain things. BO"
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“But I let myself love him anyway. I let myself love him with all my heart. I give myself that. I tell myself I deserve it.”
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“But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.”
― Girl
― Girl
“No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.”
― Recovery Road
― Recovery Road
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“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”
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“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
― Rabbit Is Rich
― Rabbit Is Rich
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
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