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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,440,902 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,821,350 ratings — published 1890
Light from Uncommon Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 37,780 ratings — published 2021
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 409,608 ratings — published 1967
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 121,328 ratings — published 2012
Hellboy, Vol. 11: The Bride of Hell and Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,949 ratings — published 2011
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 59,679 ratings — published 2014
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.65 — 23,185 ratings — published 2020
Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 12,089 ratings — published 2000
The Vital Factor (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 401,950 ratings — published 2002
The Mission of Manicheism: Lecture 2 of 18 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2008
The Revolution Betrayed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,015 ratings — published 1937
Parliament of Rooks #5: A Season in Hell (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 155 ratings — published
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 21,762 ratings — published 2009
Faust: Parts I & II (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,476 ratings — published 1832
The Devil in Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 1,829 ratings — published 1772
The Lancashire Witches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 428 ratings — published 1854
Call Me Burroughs: A Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 565 ratings — published 2013
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 4,147 ratings — published 1814
The Night Before Christmas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 4,299 ratings — published 1831
My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 34 ratings — published 2006
Pandora Hearts 1巻 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 26,091 ratings — published 2006
Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,273 ratings — published 2022
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 410,337 ratings — published 2020
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.75 — 165 ratings — published 1931
Even Though I Knew the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 19,072 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
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avg rating 3.55 — 269,021 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 930,459 ratings — published 1955
Conan the Swordsman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 819 ratings — published 1978
The Faust Legend: From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
.Murder in the grave (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
Worlds of Ink and Shadow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 1,956 ratings — published 2016
This Woven Kingdom (This Woven Kingdom, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 93,254 ratings — published 2022
The Paths We Lay (The Path of Temptation, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 2,356 ratings — published 2021
Kingdom of the Cursed (Kingdom of the Wicked, #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 214,023 ratings — published 2021
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 352,273 ratings — published 2020
The Emperor of Evening Stars (The Bargainer, #3)
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avg rating 4.05 — 50,699 ratings — published 2017
Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1)
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avg rating 3.90 — 187,580 ratings — published 2016
The 53rd Card (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 16 ratings — published
The Devil You Know (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,823 ratings — published 2016
The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set (Bartimaeus, #1-3)
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avg rating 4.44 — 6,043 ratings — published 2012
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 252,243 ratings — published 2004
The Piano Room (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 66 ratings — published
The Master's Apprentice: A Retelling of the Faust Legend (Faustus, #1)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,860 ratings — published 2018
Nazi Menace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 263 ratings — published 2020
Compensation (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.33 — 3 ratings — published 2015
Trapped in a Video Game Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,071 ratings — published 2016
Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 83 ratings — published 1933
My Friend Bobby (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.31 — 26 ratings — published 1963
“They will not remember you, of course. But ideas are so much wilder than memories, so much faster to take root."
It will be fifty years before she realizes he is right. Ideas are wilder than memories.
And she can plant them, too.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
It will be fifty years before she realizes he is right. Ideas are wilder than memories.
And she can plant them, too.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Living in 21st century civilisation entails a neo-Faustian bargain. In return for your ‘soul’ (or at least your fundamental authenticity, let’s say), you will receive extensive benefits. Immortality isn’t yet available but relative affluence, a well-distracted sense of amortality and longevity are clear benefits. Freud (1908/2001) understood the bargain involved in surrendering thus, repressing the depths of our instincts and giving huge status to the superego. Society will soothe your anxieties if you smile rather than frown, and always reply ‘Fine’ to the meaningless ‘How are you?’ An occasional, darkly leaky ‘Mustn’t grumble’ may be tolerated. Endorse the status quo, have children and don’t talk about suffering and death. Absolutely avoid ‘that odd shit’ spoken by weirdos like Rust Cohle (see Chapter 4). For the superior neo-Faustian package of enhanced benefits, help to boost capitalism with entrepreneurial projects; support (indeed be part of) religion, psychotherapy, the self-help industry and the rhetoric of well-being and flourishing; distance yourself from civilisation’s discontents, especially DRs; do not get visibly ill, old or die, or be very discreet or upbeat about it when it happens. If you ever consider defecting to the DR club, you may rapidly lose all benefits.”
― Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives
― Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives
