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J.T. Twissel
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Palmer Massachusetts, The United States
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Throw your hat into the ring; not your head
I’ve lived in California for most of my adult life and so I don’t know . . . are all state primaries as crazy as ours? One news commentator referred to our upcoming gubernatorial primaries as “The Hunger Games” (a reference to a series of fictional battles for survival which are fought by teenagers.) Having … Continue reading Throw your hat into the ring; not your head →
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The Graduation Present
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2014
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Flipka
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2013
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Willful Avoidance
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2015
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Reading this book is like wandering down dark alleyways with no idea where they will lead. Sometimes you even wonder if the author knew where he was going, especially at the end. The protagonist often seems like an immature, self-centered fifteen yea
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“There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.
- from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition”
― A Clockwork Orange
- from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition”
― A Clockwork Orange
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