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Reading this in tandem with Stephen King's new novel JOYLAND.

"You shouldn't underestimate how exhausting it is to die." Spoken by a dead person. I have to believe that, since I can't verify myself.

"Going to turn the drunkards into doctors and the pickpockets into lawyers? Or how about into politicians, they can't do worse than the ones we've got, eh, Aaron, boy?"

I have to read carefully so I don't miss anything when clerics, politicians and a courtesan meet and "socialize" in 19th century St. Louis. Great read so far.

Everyone on Goodreads should watch and listen to this:
Suzanne Vega performing her song Harper Lee impersonating Carson McCullers.

I have CHOSEN that one to read next after quite some pondering. My to-read list has gotten too long I guess.

I have to read this now. The author offered a free signed book to the first reader who discovers a hidden reference to Stephen Kings's "On Writing" in his (the author's, neither the reader's nor Stephen King's) story.

"Not for the first time I wished I had an 'undo' button for what I said."

I like the story so far. Great main character.

FUROR EXITIUM SCIENTIA. On the book's cover. Hmm. I think it means "Rage is the demise of knowledge" or something like that.

"They talked [... ] of the doing of the cats on the night the caravan left, and of what was later found in the cottage under the dark trees in the repellent yard." This is a story for cat-lovers.

A pleasurable read, as expected. One annoyance though: The text of this Kindle edition is set in a sans-serif font. Bad idea.

I wanted to read this for a long time.

Die letzten 10% habe ich gelesen, während ich auf den Beginn eines Rockkonzerts wartete. Selbstverständlich in der ersten Reihe einer großen Halle. So ein Kindle ist schon praktisch :-) Das Buch ist übrigens sehr gut... traurig und gut.

"Früher war ich immer irgendwohin unterwegs, immer in großer Eile und erfüllt von einer rasenden Ungeduld, denn überall, wo ich anlangte, mußte ich erst einmal lange warten."

"Alle Katzen neigen zu geheimnisvollen Zuständen; dann sind sie weit weg und völlig unerreichbar." Dies ist u.a. auch ein Buch für Katzen- oder Hundeliebhaber; auch Kuhfreunde kommen auf ihre Kosten.

"Der Lampenschimmer fiel auf den Weg, und der Schnee auf den kleinen Fichten glänzte gelblich." Das passt zwar jetzt gar nicht, aber hier viel mir Zappa ein, der sagte: "Don't eat the yellow snow."

"Von äußerer Freiheit konnte wohl nie die Rede sein, aber ich habe auch nie einen Menschen gekannt, der innerlich frei gewesen wäre."

"Ich mußte mich ganz still verhalten und ihn einfach überstehen. Es war ja nicht der erste Tag in meinem Leben, den ich auf diese Weise überleben mußte."
Ein Buch, dass zum Nachdenken anregt, insbesondere über Wände oder Mauern, seien sie nun sichtbar oder unsichtbar wie hier, denn das sind die schlimmsten.

Die erste Überraschung für mich: Das Buch ist bereits 1963 erschienen, und damit so alt wie ich. Die Autorin ist bereits 1970 verstorben (im Alter von 49). Vermutlich wegen des Films aus dem letzten Jahr, habe ich das Gnaze viel später verortet.

"The fourth wall was completeley covered with books, hundreds of old leather bound books."

"This evening, he would offer to Gaia the greatest sacrifice he could: one less human being to contaminate the earth." Is this the way to show your love to mother earth? I think not. Bad, bad guy.

I think I've never read a book set up in Japan, that was not written by a Japanese. Intriguing start.

It seems like I'm the first one here on GR, who has put this on the currently-reading shelf. Strange. Usually I'm always behind. I listened to a Podcast of the first chapter from the author's website. This book sounds really good to me!

"'Let's just enjoy tonight and forget about anything that's wrong with this world'" I have nothing to add.

"'Um, normally, sir, but the computers on board this ship are designed to save power, um, not to detect life on board.'" Yeah, right. Just set the priorities straight.

"'She has the power to castrate men with their eyes if they look at her for too long.'"
Of all the characters in books I would like to meet in real life, this is one I have the a strong urge not to.

"It was at times like these that Bill remembered why he preferred to work alone." I can relate to this. The scene around it made me LOL. So true... ipso facto :-)

On this day, 80 years ago, May 10th 1933, Nazi Germany conducted the biggest book burning campaign in its ill-fated history.
Tens of thousands of works became victims of these small-minded, cowardly, effing Nazi pigs.
The only thing you should do with a book is read it, and then read it again.
Never harm a book, or it will harm you back!