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'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,' he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The Lion" - Nelson Demille
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People of The Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
A bit of a long first sentence but I've noticed he doesn't make a habit of putting him into the rest of the story.
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Middlesex--Jeffrey Eugenides
I can't seem to put this one down. I'm reading at my desk while paperwork piles up past my eyebrows.
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Lucky you a really outstanding book ... I read it on hols in Portugal a couple of years ago & it was unputdownable (I hate that word but it's the only one that applies). Really made me think. Enjoy ... and to hell with the paperwork.Tralala wrote:I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
Middlesex--Jeffrey EugenidesI can't seem to put this one down. I'm reading at my desk while paperwork piles up past my eyebrows.
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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I fed it to the rats! They'll eat anything.Fran wrote:Lucky you a really outstanding book ... I read it on hols in Portugal a couple of years ago & it was unputdownable (I hate that word but it's the only one that applies). Really made me think. Enjoy ... and to hell with the paperwork.Tralala wrote:I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
Middlesex--Jeffrey EugenidesI can't seem to put this one down. I'm reading at my desk while paperwork piles up past my eyebrows.
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The perfect solution to paperwork ... must remember thatTralala wrote:I fed it to the rats! They'll eat anything.Fran wrote:Lucky you a really outstanding book ... I read it on hols in Portugal a couple of years ago & it was unputdownable (I hate that word but it's the only one that applies). Really made me think. Enjoy ... and to hell with the paperwork.Tralala wrote:I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
Middlesex--Jeffrey EugenidesI can't seem to put this one down. I'm reading at my desk while paperwork piles up past my eyebrows.
A world is born again that never dies.
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They're not so good with tax returns, though.Fran wrote:
The perfect solution to paperwork ... must remember that
...but obviously the best way is with sleeping pills and a plastic bag over your head...sitting in a tub filled with water, I think.
--Waiting Period by Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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