Michael Finkel
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
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2005
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
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2002
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Here Be Monsters... 50 Days Adrift At Sea
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2011
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Alpine Circus: A Skier's Exotic Adventures at the Snowy Edge of the World
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1999
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The Art Thief
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2023
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
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Thanks for reading the book, Dana. Yes, you have pointed out a rather confusing line. Chris, though he grew up in Maine, was working in Mass. installing car and home alarms (after finishing a computer tech school there), and so that is where he began
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"POETRY OF DEPARTURES
by Philip Larkin Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound Certain you approve This audacious, purifying, Elemental move. And they are right, I think. We all h" Read more of this review » |
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“I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“I read. That's my form of travel.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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“I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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