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THE LEFTOVERS by Tom Perrotta
Book Quote: “What mostly struck her, reading the files, was how deceptively normal things seemed in Mapleton. Most people just put on blinders and went about their trivial business, as if the Rapture...
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NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill
Book Quote: “We have an extra responsibility to play the game right.” Book Review: Review by Roger Brunyate (SEP 07, 2011) The book jacket of the hard-bound edition is entrancingly deceptive. Printed...
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LIGHTNING PEOPLE by Christopher Bollen
Book Quote: “If you take any event and isolate it, blow it up huge so you can study its slightest grain, there’d be a million tiny impossibilities worming every which way across the landscape, all the...
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LOST MEMORY OF SKIN by Russell Banks
Book Quote: “The Kid reminds the Professor of Huckleberry Finn somehow. Here he is now, long after he lit out for the Territory, grown older and as deep into the Territory as you can go…and there’s no...
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REAMDE by Neal Stephenson
Book Quote: “…what mattered very much to Richard was what an imaginary dwarf would encounter once he hefted a virtual pick and began to delve into the side of a mountain. In a conventional video game,...
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THE VISIBLE MAN by Chuck Klosterman
Book Quote: “Don’t overthink what’s happening here, Vicky. I am not a swamp monster, Vicky. I’m not an invisible man. I’m not a vampire, and I’m not God. I’m just an incredibly interesting person.”...
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FALLEN LAND by Patrick Flanery
Book Quote: “When people asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up, Paul Krovik did not say he was going to be a fireman or soldier or pilot, as some boys will before they know the kind of...
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EUROPE IN SEPIA by Dubravka Ugresic
Book Quote: “Every day the world we’re living in is increasingly turning into…a circus. Yes, I know, the comparison’s a dull one. It’s what people used to say in ancient B.G., (Before Google). It’s a...
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BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK by Ben Fountain
Book Quote: There are ten of them in the limo’s plush passenger bay, the eight remaining soldiers of Bravo squad, their PA escort Major Mac, and the movie producer Albert Ratner, who at the moment is...
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ORFEO by Richard Powers
Book Quote: “Five viral strands propagate, infecting the air with runaway joy. At three and a half minutes, a hand scoops Peter up and lifts him high above the blocked vantage of his days. He rises in...
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