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such an odd book. synopsis: wayward artist spends her time assembling parts to build her perfect man. surprising things occur. [image] hard to classify. bizarre fantasy... postmodern romance... portrait of erotic fixation... story of an artist luxuri ...more |
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if you like the lightly hard-boiled UF horror of Sandman Slim, then this is probably a 4 star book for you. the subgenre is just not my jam, which is not a reflection on the author's skills or the book itself. the central concept of "The Black Lands" ...more |
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| This amusing, barbed, surprisingly empathetic death-farce is my first real find of the Halloween season, despite being a murder mystery rather than a horror novel. Still, the foolishness of myopic humans can always be considered horrible. Chain chain ...more | |
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| Grandfather lit his pipe and had us all take a seat around him; he was in a tale-telling mood. We've heard a lot of his stories over the years - mainly ones about his time in space. But it being Halloween season, we knew this time we were in store fo ...more | |
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a bit less quality than the prior volume. still fairly entertaining, with a handful of excellent stories and only one that was laughable drek. with this second stage in his career, story-wise it appears that CAS became less interested in yearning tal ...more |
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| an excellent finale for a smashing series. I particularly appreciated how the chapters alternated between magical duo Will & Bran and the resolutely "normal" Drew children, showing their differing reactions to the Rising. everything comes togethe ...more | |
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- and the impression is given of a monumental but neglected folly, built by a sequence of playful potentates for their own amusement down the centuries. travel writer Jan Morris composes a requiem for all of her favorite places and cultures, casting t ...more |
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“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”
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“When the tragedies of others become for us diversions, sad stories with which to enthrall our friends, interesting bits of data to toss out at cocktail parties, a means of presenting a pose of political concern, or whatever…when this happens we commit the gravest of sins, condemn ourselves to ignominy, and consign the world to a dangerous course. We begin to justify our casual overview of pain and suffering by portraying ourselves as do-gooders incapacitated by the inexorable forces of poverty, famine, and war. “What can I do?” we say, “I’m only one person, and these things are beyond my control. I care about the world’s trouble, but there are no solutions.” Yet no matter how accurate this assessment, most of us are relying on it to be true, using it to mask our indulgence, our deep-seated lack of concern, our pathological self-involvement.”
― The Best of Lucius Shepard
― The Best of Lucius Shepard
“Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.”
― Tales of the Dying Earth
― Tales of the Dying Earth
“I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.”
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“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”
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― Forgetting Elena
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"don't you worry baby boo/you'll always have an angry gorilla to be angry with you"
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no one in the audience seems unduly disturbed
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