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Our public library doesn't have this. In fact they have nothing by Vollman. I found this paperback edition for $1 at a Friends-of-the-Library book sale. ...more "
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"This is an often hilarious book which has a terrible title (should have been called In the Middle of Nowhere with the Notorious Loony D H Lawrence) and has never been reprinted since it first came out in 1938. I can see why – it’s libelous and there’"
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The first Persuader appears on page 378: “A shotgun… The Mossberg M500 Persuader. It’s a paramilitary weapon.” If you’re not already acquainted with Colt, Glock, Steyr, PSM, Uzi, Para Ordnance, Heckler & Koch, Beretta, M9, M16, Kalashnikov, Makarov, ...more |
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Where is the What? If you have the same edition as me, the What is on the following pages: 62, 134, 205, 316, 513. The What is a story and a journey beyond the privileged First World. It’s not great writing by Eggers, but a story well told by the narra ...more |
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Where is the What? If you have the same edition as me, the What is on the following pages: 62, 134, 205, 316, 513. The What is a story and a journey beyond the privileged First World. It’s not great writing by Eggers, but a story well told by the narra ...more |
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“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it...
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
