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21 Mar 2021, 8:45 pm
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I'm reading Elizabeth Gaskell's novella, "Lois the Witch" (1859) about the Salem witch trials.
It's a short story of just more than 100 pages, and it was first published in Charles Dickens' literary magazine All the Year Round.
I always love Mrs Gaskell's writing but this is definitely one of her best. 
25 Mar 2021, 2:09 am
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25 Mar 2021, 4:16 am
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
ah ah, people moving away from goodreads
yeah another american supremacy site 
oh that's not the point
*interesting its not translated in english, but in plenty other languages
(too busy buying into scifi-lalaland, scifi-supremacy, haha there's not even that, running rings around bushes, fooled again) >>>>> the "new" (huu)man or ? the golem 
and 
history mystery & fairytales
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23 Apr 2021, 10:01 pm
Misery by Stephen King.
If you have watched the movie (but have never read the book), the infamous "leg-breaking" scene where Paul Sheldon gets hobbled by Annie Wilkes is much more violent in the book than in the movie. 
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24 Apr 2021, 4:03 am
If you have watched the movie (but have never read the book), the infamous "leg-breaking" scene where Paul Sheldon gets hobbled by Annie Wilkes is much more violent in the book than in the movie.
Lordy, most certainly!
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24 Apr 2021, 2:36 pm
If you have watched the movie (but have never read the book), the infamous "leg-breaking" scene where Paul Sheldon gets hobbled by Annie Wilkes is much more violent in the book than in the movie.
Lordy, most certainly!
In the movie, the way Annie says "God, I love you" to Paul after she hobbles him
she says it like she's in love with him.
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24 Apr 2021, 5:01 pm
If you have watched the movie (but have never read the book), the infamous "leg-breaking" scene where Paul Sheldon gets hobbled by Annie Wilkes is much more violent in the book than in the movie.
Lordy, most certainly!
In the movie, the way Annie says "God, I love you" to Paul after she hobbles him
she says it like she's in love with him.
She is.
25 Apr 2021, 6:50 am
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19 Dec 2021, 6:40 am
A favorite. Great choice
I would offer Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanazaki. I love his direct, realistic style, mixed with the emotional power. Also how he compares marriage to puppet theater.
Also, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. I relate to Mr. Stevens maybe more than any other fictional character. The book never mentions Asperger's or autism, but he clearly has many traits. I love the contrast of his inner life set against WWII and the related political drama. I feel like my life is encapsulated in the scene where he is waiting to go to bed at the inn. Once he finally escapes the conversation at the bar, he tries to sleep, but realizes he won't because he can hear everything going on in the bar below him.
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