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Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.07 — 384,854 ratings — published 1981
Cujo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.81 — 332,301 ratings — published 1981
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,677 ratings — published 1981
A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.37 — 483,521 ratings — published 1981
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.04 — 70,922 ratings — published 1981
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,224 ratings — published 1981
George's Marvellous Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.02 — 102,348 ratings — published 1981
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,914 ratings — published 1981
The Hotel New Hampshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.93 — 70,179 ratings — published 1981
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.97 — 252,595 ratings — published 1981
The Mosquito Coast (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,406 ratings — published 1981
God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
by (shelved 8 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.88 — 158,432 ratings — published 1981
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,787 ratings — published 1981
The Wave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.63 — 45,003 ratings — published 1981
Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.32 — 37,486 ratings — published 1981
Stranger with My Face (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,373 ratings — published 1981
The Claw of the Conciliator (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,331 ratings — published 1981
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Ramona, #6)
by (shelved 6 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.11 — 73,836 ratings — published 1981
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,252 ratings — published 1981
Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.28 — 43,320 ratings — published 1981
The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,260 ratings — published 1981
The Dark Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,284 ratings — published 1981
Danse Macabre (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.67 — 32,254 ratings — published 1981
If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,054 ratings — published 1981
A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,487 ratings — published 1981
Loitering with Intent (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,681 ratings — published 1981
Chances (Lucky Santangelo, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,987 ratings — published 1981
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,130 ratings — published 1981
Tar Baby (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.00 — 24,882 ratings — published 1981
Irish Thoroughbred (Irish Hearts, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,241 ratings — published 1981
Asterix and the Black Gold (Asterix #26)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,562 ratings — published 1981
Early Autumn (Spenser, #7)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,509 ratings — published 1981
A Savage Place (Spenser, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,870 ratings — published 1981
Firestarter (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.92 — 253,217 ratings — published 1980
Good Night, Mr. Tom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.32 — 54,729 ratings — published 1981
The Witches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.18 — 438,201 ratings — published 1983
The Minds of Billy Milligan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.27 — 37,628 ratings — published 1981
Scary Stories Treasury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,509 ratings — published 1981
Johnny Mnemonic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,336 ratings — published 1981
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,656 ratings — published 1981
The Rebel Angels (The Cornish Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,165 ratings — published 1981
Peter the Great: His Life and World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,403 ratings — published 1980
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.50 — 50,153 ratings — published 1981
Little, Big (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.80 — 12,759 ratings — published 1981
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,815 ratings — published 1981
Sixty Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,203 ratings — published 1981
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as 1981)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,070 ratings — published 1981
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said as much to Edward. To reprint Nazi propaganda and to make a theocratic claim to Spanish soil was to be a protofascist and a supporter of 'Caliphate' imperialism: it had nothing at all to do with the mistreatment of the Palestinians. Once again, he did not exactly disagree. But he was anxious to emphasize that the Israelis had often encouraged Hamas as a foil against Fatah and the PLO. This I had known since seeing the burning out of leftist Palestinians by Muslim mobs in Gaza as early as 1981. Yet once again, it seemed Edward could only condemn Islamism if it could somehow be blamed on either Israel or the United States or the West, and not as a thing in itself. He sometimes employed the same sort of knight's move when discussing other Arabist movements, excoriating Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party, for example, mainly because it had once enjoyed the support of the CIA. But when Saddam was really being attacked, as in the case of his use of chemical weapons on noncombatants at Halabja, Edward gave second-hand currency to the falsified story that it had 'really' been the Iranians who had done it. If that didn't work, well, hadn't the United States sold Saddam the weaponry in the first place? Finally, and always—and this question wasn't automatically discredited by being a change of subject—what about Israel's unwanted and ugly rule over more and more millions of non-Jews?
I evolved a test for this mentality, which I applied to more people than Edward. What would, or did, the relevant person say when the United States intervened to stop the massacres and dispossessions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo? Here were two majority-Muslim territories and populations being vilely mistreated by Orthodox and Catholic Christians. There was no oil in the region. The state interests of Israel were not involved (indeed, Ariel Sharon publicly opposed the return of the Kosovar refugees to their homes on the grounds that it set an alarming—I want to say 'unsettling'—precedent). The usual national-security 'hawks,' like Henry Kissinger, were also strongly opposed to the mission. One evening at Edward's apartment, with the other guest being the mercurial, courageous Azmi Bishara, then one of the more distinguished Arab members of the Israeli parliament, I was finally able to leave the arguing to someone else. Bishara [...] was quite shocked that Edward would not lend public support to Clinton for finally doing the right thing in the Balkans. Why was he being so stubborn? I had begun by then—belatedly you may say—to guess. Rather like our then-friend Noam Chomsky, Edward in the final instance believed that if the United States was doing something, then that thing could not by definition be a moral or ethical action.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
I evolved a test for this mentality, which I applied to more people than Edward. What would, or did, the relevant person say when the United States intervened to stop the massacres and dispossessions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo? Here were two majority-Muslim territories and populations being vilely mistreated by Orthodox and Catholic Christians. There was no oil in the region. The state interests of Israel were not involved (indeed, Ariel Sharon publicly opposed the return of the Kosovar refugees to their homes on the grounds that it set an alarming—I want to say 'unsettling'—precedent). The usual national-security 'hawks,' like Henry Kissinger, were also strongly opposed to the mission. One evening at Edward's apartment, with the other guest being the mercurial, courageous Azmi Bishara, then one of the more distinguished Arab members of the Israeli parliament, I was finally able to leave the arguing to someone else. Bishara [...] was quite shocked that Edward would not lend public support to Clinton for finally doing the right thing in the Balkans. Why was he being so stubborn? I had begun by then—belatedly you may say—to guess. Rather like our then-friend Noam Chomsky, Edward in the final instance believed that if the United States was doing something, then that thing could not by definition be a moral or ethical action.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes for ceremonies they don't understand.”
― Rabbit Is Rich
― Rabbit Is Rich














