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Rebecca, A
Title: Rebecca
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: gothic fiction
Pages: 357
Rating: A
Notes: As a general rule, I do not buy books. Among the dozen or so that I own, half of them are plays by Shakespeare, the others childhood favorites that I do not bother to read again. This book, however, is worth owning. The story is a union ( Read more... ) -
Daughters of Eve, C-
Title: Daughters of Eve
Author: Lois Duncan
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: feminist, suspense fiction
Pages: 239
Rating: C-
Notes: I loved Lois Duncan since I read Down a Dark Hall some years ago; and memory of that book and others warranted second readings, so I was glad to find I hadn’t read all of her work. She has a way of doling the creepy in ( Read more... ) -
FUCK YOU
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison ( Read more... ) -
Infinite Possibility
I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being "for" society and then "against" it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase -- still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man ( Read more... ) -
Goats
"Goats," China said, his voice dragging like a broken exhaust. "You look at 'em long enough, you see the universe. Good and evil, love and war, God and the Devil. Know what I mean?"
-- Monica Ali, "Sundowners"
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The Fountainhead, A
Title: The Fountainhead
Author: Ayn Rand
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: controversial literary fiction
Pages: 725
Rating: A
Notes: (Quotes here.)
My first encounter with Ayn Rand came in the form of Anthem, barely a month ago. The ideas this woman has are interesting in both cases, at times reminiscent of Oscar Wilde. The style is something to get ( Read more... ) -
Quotes...
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The water had been turned off by a society to whom Cameron never paid his bill.
The reasons? It was not necessary to wonder about its reasons. It was necessary only to hate, to hate blindly, to hate patiently, to hate without anger; only to hate, and let nothing intervene, and not let oneself forget, ever.
"Oh, I ( Read more... )