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Dan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Dan Moore
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"not a mats obsessive in terms of music but i cannot get enough of their brand of congenital upper midwestern nihilism, just as a template of coolness imprinted on my brain at its most receptive and vulnerable stages. hilarious, bleak, a little tender"
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| OK, now we're talking... this is still not Georgette Heyer, but it's much closer than the other 70s-80s pretenders. What this had me thinking about is how easy it is to destroy something by loving it so much that you try to recreate it... basically w ...more | |
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"I'm deeply invested in the future of Green Boy. Fabulous, like reading a Georgette Heyer."
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"Simply splendid.
It is my second Regency romance by Joan Smith (my first was Imprudent Lady, here my review) but I'm on the path to become her fan. By now, I can tell that I am a fan of Georgette Heyer and Jude Morgan. I like a lot of Regency romances" Read more of this review » |
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| OK, now we're talking... this is still not Georgette Heyer, but it's much closer than the other 70s-80s pretenders. What this had me thinking about is how easy it is to destroy something by loving it so much that you try to recreate it... basically w ...more | |
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| Instant entrant in my "Mid-90s Business Books Where People Working Before Widespread Adoption of the Internet Compete To Build Some Cool Thing" Hall of Fame along with Car: A Drama of the American Workplace. This one is about the airline industry fro ...more | |
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| It's really easy to parody Murakami, and when you haven't read him in a while sometimes all you can remember is the parody. but once a guy starts telling me about his records/food/ladies/visions/college experience I'm all the way back in. ...more | |
"Wodehouse really hams it up here playing up the differences between the alternately rustic or vulgar Americans and his polished egalitarian hero. "
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| Georgette Heyer might have the highest value over replacement player of any genre author of all time—her regency novels are truly great entertainment on the level of Agatha Christie but it seems like basically nobody did the same thing with anything ...more | |
“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”
― Descent into Hell
― Descent into Hell
“Melmotte is really little more than rumor and illusion; his sudden rise is due less to any deep scheming or villainy on his part than to society's apparent inability to enforce its own standards.”
― Trollope's Later Novels
― Trollope's Later Novels
“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.”
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
― Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.”
― The Human Comedy
― The Human Comedy
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.”
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
― Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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