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I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Archive for June, 2007

Drivel, pure drivel.
The story went something like this:
Him: She’s hot. I wouldn’t mind fucking her.
Her: He’s sexy, and I haven’t been laid in 5 years, even though I am a Vegas showgirl with huge tits, I am a puritanical single mother that uses a vibrator all the time.
Him: Man, I’m glad we are having […]

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This one was rather confusing.  It was written in a chick-lit style, dumbed down and rather goofy.  But within all that was loads of literary references and a sub-plot which made me think of the reasons people do the things they do.
I’m not really sure how to categorize it, really.  Silly, but had a little […]

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WRITTEN ON THE BODY - Jeanette Winterson

I think I love this author.
Don’t have the book in front of me, because I am lame, but it was an incredible love story.  About real love, the gut-wrenching but beautiful love… not romance novel love.

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WATCHMEN - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

“Come…dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a Quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.  Dry your eyes… and let’s go home.”
This book, which was recommended by a good friend, whom I respect much, though I have […]

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BELOVED - Toni Morrison

Baby Suggs and Denver at the end, they kind of blew my mind.
Will write more about this when I have it in front of me, too.