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  1. Amy Tanner _ The Virgin of Hopeless Causes

    They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been.
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  2. Marshall McLuhan _ The Mechanical Bride: Folklore

    The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of historical romance, from Sir Walter Scott to Thornton Wilder. But mainly this formula works as a means of flattery. The public is not only invited inside but encouraged to believe that there is nothing inside that differs from its own thoughts and feelings. This reassurance is provided by endowing historical figures with the sloppiest possible minds. The great are "humanized" by being trivial.The debunking school began by making the great appear as corrupt, or mean and egotistical. The "humanizers" have merely carried on to make them idiotic. "Democratic" vanity has reached such proportions that it cannot accept as human anything above the level of cretinous confusion of mind of the type popularized by Hemingway's heroes. Just as the new star must be made to appear successful by reason of some freak of fortune, so the great, past or present, must be made to seem so because of the most ordinary qualities, to which fortune adds an unearned trick or idea."
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  3. David Benioff _ City of Thieves

    Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
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  4. Mario Puzo _ The Godfather

    Kay could see how Michael stood to receive their homage. He reminded her of statues in Rome, statues of those Roman emperors of antiquity, who, by divine right, held the power of life and death over their fellow men. One hand was on his hip, the profile of his face showed a cold proud power, his body was carelessly, arrogantly at ease, weight resting on one foot slightly behind the other. The caporegimes stood before him. In that moment Kay knew that everything Connie had accused Michael of was true. She went back into the kitchen and wept.
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  5. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris {this was after Paris} and she had superb taste. {This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?}
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  6. David J. Bell _ Bring Her Home

    Taut, intelligent, and intense suspense that is deeply human."-Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Gunmetal Gray"Exciting and well-layered....David Bell is a master storyteller with a sure hand at crafting characters you feel for and stories you relish."-Allen Eskens, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Life We Bury"A tense and twisty suspense novel about the dark secrets that lie buried within a community and a father who can save his daughter only by uncovering them. Will leave parents wondering just how well they truly know their children."-Hester Young, author of The Gates of Evangeline and The Shimmering Road "A gripping, immersive tour-de-force full of twists and turns. BRING HER HOME kept me flipping the pages late into the night. Don't expect to sleep until you've finished reading this book. I could not put it down!"-A. J. Banner, bestselling author of The Good Neighbor and The Twilight Wife"In David Bell's riveting BRING HER HOME, the unthinkable is only the beginning. From there, the story races through stunning twists all the way to its revelation, without letting its heart fall away in the action. Intense, emotional, and deeply satisfying. This one will keep you up late into the night. Don't miss it!"-Jamie Mason, author of Three Graves Full and Monday's Lie "Spellbinding and pulse-raising, BRING HER HOME hooked me from the first sentence and surprised me until the final pages. Sharply written and richly observed, this book is about the secrets we keep, the mysteries that keep us, and the lengths a father will go to for the daughter he loves. David Bell is a masterful storyteller who has perfected the art of suspense in BRING HER HOME."-Sarah Domet, author of The Guineveres
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ The Doll's House

    Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
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  8. Angela Carter _ Saints and Strangers

    There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock."
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  9. Virginia Woolf _ Selected Essays

    And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
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  10. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
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  11. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance {...}; as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as points out {in his }, she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
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  12. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
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