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Glenn Dixon
Goodreads Author
Born
Canada
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/gedixon
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Juliet's Answer: One Man's Search for Love and the Elusive Cure for Heartbreak
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2017
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25 editions
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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
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2026
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11 editions
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Bootleg Stardust
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2021
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Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth
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2009
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6 editions
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Tripping the World Fantastic: A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet
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2013
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8 editions
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In the Teeth of the Gods
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2012
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2 editions
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The Look Book: Spring 2017 Sampler
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Scottish Gaelic: voices of my Celtic ghosts
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2013
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Spiritual War Physical Soldier
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Growing Older With Ease
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Why does music get stuck in our heads?
If a song gets stuck in your head, how can you get it out?
First, remain calm. That Abba song can’t last all day. Can it?
Diagnosis:
If an undesirable song seems to persist in your mind, you have what’s called an Ohrwurm. That’s German for “ear worm.” These worms can be insidious and frightening. Do not panic.
One of the most important properties of music is that we can listen to it over and over. Tha Read more of this blog post »
First, remain calm. That Abba song can’t last all day. Can it?
Diagnosis:
If an undesirable song seems to persist in your mind, you have what’s called an Ohrwurm. That’s German for “ear worm.” These worms can be insidious and frightening. Do not panic.
One of the most important properties of music is that we can listen to it over and over. Tha Read more of this blog post »
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"I’m so glad this novella is getting more attention now that it’s been adapted into an Oscar-nominated film — and a gorgeous one at that. Since I first discovered it in one of those annual Best American Short Stories or O. Henry anthologies, I’ve read"
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“There was a time, not so long ago, when refrigerators could not dream and vacuum cleaners could not weep.”
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| Well, look, this book probably changed my life when I read it (decades ago at age 11 or so). I've re-read it over the years (even quite recently) and it retains its charm. A classic in the best sense of the word. Something everyone should read at lea ...more | |
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| This book is not for everybody. George Saunders is an incredibly original writer and if you're not open to his quirky style, you will not like it. I'd suggest reading some of his short stories first to understand how he writes (which is really quite ...more | |
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| I feel like this book should be better known. Among the many novels dealing with AI (though this one is much more than that) I think this one of the most interesting... investigating who exactly is at fault when a self driving car becomes involved in ...more | |
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| I feel like this book should be better known. Among the many novels dealing with AI (though this one is much more than that) I think this one of the most interesting... investigating who exactly is at fault when a self driving car becomes involved in ...more | |
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“We tourists, I later found out, were invited on purpose. Like all good tourists everywhere, we wore an assortment of badly fitting colourful hats and an unflattering rainbow of shorts. What we didn’t wear was black, especially in the tropical heat. So the first people the spirits saw were us. No doubt that scared them immensely.”
― Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth
― Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth
“There was a time, not so long ago, when refrigerators could not dream and vacuum cleaners could not weep.”
― The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
― The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t take long. Even the speakers of the weaker language, or their children, anyway, soon start conversing in the more powerful tongue.”
― Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth
― Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth
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“The last song recorded for Abbey Road was Lennon’s BECAUSE - a three-part harmony in C sharp minor inspired by hearing Yoko Ono play the Adagio sostenuto of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight).”
― Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
― Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
“the kind of arrogance that exists in a tacit assumption between two men that they are the only people capable of appreciating how stupid everybody else is and how wise and profound their own thoughts are.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“Pierre now saw the absence of suffering and the satisfaction of our basic needs, followed up by freedom to choose an occupation,”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“he knew that men who want something are only too ready to arrange all the evidence to suit their wishful thinking and willingly exclude anything that contradicts it.”
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― War and Peace
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Thank you kindly does the friend request, Glenn!Silence of the Lambs is a particular favorite, as well.
