2 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: On finishing - "I'm feeling pretty weird right now; I've just finished a novel."
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4 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "Travellers Back in Time" - I collected all the fiction mentioned in the Kottke and Marginal Revolution posts about "How would you survive if you travelled back to 1000AD?" and made them into an Amazon Listmania list.
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7 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: Bang, Bucks, and Delivery in Recompense - "If your novel is six times as long as normal, it needs to deliver six times as loud a climax."
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24 month ago
deusx : Rick Dakan - GEEK MAFIA -A novel of comics, games, and crime - "Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe..."
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35 month ago
jkottke : A list of the 100 best first lines from novels - I feel like I've pointed to this before, but in case I haven't, here's a list of the 100 best first lines from novels. I'm partial to those of Pride and Prejudice, Lolita, and Anna Karenina.
erikbenson : 100 first lines to novels - I love first lines. I could live on them alone.
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37 month ago
erikbenson : Interesting story about the friendship between Camus and Sartre, and its end - They were both philosophers and novelists, writing about nausea and the absurd.
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41 month ago
kellan : "i was never any good at sports..." - Ask MetaFilter: i need more sprawling post-modern novels NOW! Great list, though very Ameri-centric and dominated by men #
Matthew M. Boedicker : sprawling post-modern novels
jkottke : What sprawling postmodern novels should you be reading?
philgyford : I was never any good at sports... | Ask MetaFilter - Recommended sprawling post-modern novels, for if I ever finish the ones currently on my shelf. (via Tom Carden)
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