Literature

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Everything Is Illuminated Books Are For Losers, 4 days ago, 4 comments Culture > Literature Everything is Illuminated is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer and it is probably the best book that I've read in about the last (50 years5 years5 months5 weeksquite some timeI don't know). Before I learned to love this book, I learned to hate... [Click here to read more]

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What to look for in a man (size definitely does count) Secret Writers Business, 4 days ago, 2 comments Culture > Literature This is the truth of the matter. Size DOES count. There is only one kind of man it is worth loving, shagging and shacking up with if youre inclining towards the til-death-do-us-part arrangement. And that is a man with a very very very big brain.... [Click here to read more]

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Vox by Nicholson Baker Cult Fiction, 7 days ago, 1 comment Culture > Literature Vox by Nicholson Baker is an interesting novel, depicting a single phone-sex conversation between a man and a woman. It's this kind of bizarre scenario that give Vox its cult edge, putting it on bookshelves with Fight Club and Slaughterhouse 5. [Click here to read more]

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Demons at Dusk Open Book, 8 days ago Culture > Literature Hearing stories in the news today, it is all too easy to assume that, as a society, we have become more violent. Just today I spoke with a colleague about what could possibly be so wrong with us that we find it necessary to inflict pain and... [Click here to read more]

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The Children by Edith Wharton Cenacle, 9 days ago Culture > Literature Picture Courtesy: Famous Poets and Poems Edith Wharton is usually compared with Henry James and usually judged to be his inferior. I find her to be a much greater artist. In her best works, she can play on your emotions like a surgeon... [Click here to read more]

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Beta Girl Wants to Read Your Book! Beta Girl Blog, 10 days ago, 8 comments Culture > Literature If you are an author, and you'd like to see your book reviewed on the Official Beta Girl website, we'd love to read your book! We've been getting requests for more reviews, and here's where you come in! We primarily want to review romance or... [Click here to read more]

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The Book Thief Fiction Arts, 10 days ago Culture > Literature I am not a person who cries a lot over fictional things. There are people who cry when watching movies, or TV shows, or emotional books. [Click here to read more]

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Behold, a Nerd Lola Tahlulah, 12 days ago, 3 comments Culture > Literature Speaking plainly, Ms. Lola Tahlulah is a geek. It cannot be denied. It is a fact that I attempted to hide for years. I felt I was destined to be hip...a member of the literati that carried herself with the cool confidence that comes from knowing... [Click here to read more]

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The Wind was Deafening Lola Tahlulah, 12 days ago, 2 comments Culture > Literature Greetings. My name is Lola Tahlulah and I am a writer, a lover, and a builder of walls. The walls that I build are not of brick or stone, but of stories and words. I build these walls to shelter myself from those outside of myself. I am deep... [Click here to read more]

225 Vote

Legends of Orble : Part 1. "David" Debate Fan, 15 days ago, 98 comments Culture > Literature For the first in this hysterical series, I think it apropos that we begin with the Black Knight himself, David. Wikipedia's definition: A black knight is a soldier or knight who either is not bound to a specific liege or does not want his... [Click here to read more]

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Be Careful What You Wish For... Books Are For Losers, 17 days ago, 4 comments Culture > Literature Ugh, this book stinks! A stupid story about some dumb girl named Samantha Byrd (I hate girls at the best of times, let alone morons like this) who is granted three wishes and then wastes them on some stupid girl crap and then the twist is... [Click here to read more]

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Death On The Nile Books Are For Losers, 17 days ago, 1 comment Culture > Literature Hercule Poirot is one of literature's most charming gents. Sometimes I like to imagine that I'm a delicate and innocent young British lady, perhaps enjoying a relaxing cruise on the Nile located in exotic Egypt. Everything seems to be going... [Click here to read more]

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Wizard's First Rule Books Are For Losers, 17 days ago Culture > Literature This is the worst book that I have ever read (not exaggerating in the slightest). Everything about it sucks, particularly the characters, the setting, the writing style, the author, the readers, the artwork, and the fact that it was published... [Click here to read more]

45 Vote

Allen & Unwin fiction promotion: May – June 2008 Secret Writers Business, 20 days ago, 4 comments Culture > Literature Those of us who write fiction are inclined to stuff our fingers in our ears and go lalalalala when were told that fiction doesnt sell. Given how much fiction I read personally, and that I have to make do without a market research team at my beck and... [Click here to read more]

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Life on the Refrigerator Door Open Book, 20 days ago Culture > Literature Considering the almost epidemic number of cancer victims today, it is hardly surprising that this topic would make its way into the pages of fiction. As in real life, it seems every other character is affected in some way with this most feared and... [Click here to read more]

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InDigest Issue 5 Celluloid Notes, 21 days ago Culture > Literature Issue 5 of InDigest is up and online. So listen up best of the net. Maybe the first four weren't good enough for your hotsy totsy awards, but, oh, is Issue 5 something special. In the new issue we've got a gallery of sculpture from Alonso Sierralta,... [Click here to read more]

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A Love Song episode.2 The Nest of Blue Lark, 24 days ago Culture > Literature I felt so shocked,because she looked so deep but gentle.For many years I remained single,and persued only truth. [Click here to read more]

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The Historian Fiction Arts, 24 days ago Culture > Literature My life is a little bit busy at the moment, cluttered up by things I should have done weeks ago that have piled up, but what that means is that I havent had time to read anything new which I can blog about. So for today, at least, I am going to be... [Click here to read more]

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Shadow of the Wind Open Book, 25 days ago Culture > Literature It has been a long time since I have been confused by a novel, but Carlos Ruiz Zafons Shadow of the Wind has done just that. At first we seem promised of an important journey taken by a young boy as his father leads him to a magical, secret... [Click here to read more]