Anecdotes


I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
Assholes Finish First (Tucker Max, #2)
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Sh*t My Dad Says
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less – The Authorized Collection of Clever Celebrity Comedy
Friends Like These
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max, #1)
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Curious Matrix by Domagoj PernarA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiWithout Opposite by Marcel EschauzierOneless Oneness by Marcel EschauzierAwakening the Other Way by Marcel Eschauzier
Entertaining and Enlightening
22 books — 17 voters
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ANECDOTES
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Marissa Piesman
Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete with details, like a big fat colorful nineteenth-century historical novel, inching forward slowly....Ida's narrative line, like her waistline, was ample. ...more
Marissa Piesman, Heading Uptown

Ezra Pound
Pisanello painted horses so that one remembers the painting, and the Duke of Milan sent him to Bologna to BUY horses. Why a similar kind of 'horse sense' can't be applied in the study of literature is, and has always been, beyond my comprehension. Pisanello had to LOOK at the horses. You would think that anyone wanting to know about poetry would do one of two things or both. I.E. LOOK AT it or listen to it. He might even think about it? And if he wanted advice he would go to someone who KNEW som ...more
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

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