1987


Misery
Norwegian Wood
Beloved
Watchmen
Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
The Tommyknockers
Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower, #2)
Sphere
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Matilda by Roald DahlHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne JonesAlanna by Tamora PierceMossflower by Brian JacquesRedwall by Brian Jacques
Children's Fantasy of the 1980s
174 books — 55 voters
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1 by Alan MooreV for Vendetta by Alan MooreThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanWatchmen by Alan MooreCrisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman
Best Comics of the 1980s
112 books — 2 voters

1984 by George OrwellEvery Five Years by Christine ArdigoThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanMagic America by C.E. MedfordThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
Books Set in the Eighties
208 books — 91 voters
This Time of Darkness by Helen Mary HooverEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardBrother in the Land by Robert SwindellsBut We Are Not of Earth by Jean E. KarlFuturetrack 5 by Robert Westall
Children's Science Fiction of the 1980s
227 books — 18 voters


Colin Wilson
The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists at an abstraction. ...more
Colin Wilson, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast

The living body cannot be defined in terms of the binary opposites that structure conceptual reflection. The body is neither "subject nor object," neither "in itself" nor "for itself," neither res extensa nor res cogito. Rather the body is the mean between extremes—the "milieu" in which opposites like interiority and exteriority, as well as subjectivity and objectivity, intersect. Never reducible to the differences it simultaneously joins and separates, the body is forever entre-deux. ...more
Mark C. Taylor, Altarity

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