Modern Library Revue: #78 Kim

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Kipling, I have observed, is catnip to gentlemen over a certain age; how far they are over that age determines how much they own up to his allure.
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#16: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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At the center of this story, which, like many family histories, is at once tremendously unlikely and perfectly plausible, Jeffrey Eugenides has placed the two great standards of the human race: a pair of genitals, and a heart.
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The Lion, The Witch and Ishiguro

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The surprise in a large part of Kazuo Ishiguro's work is that he changes the very quality of the world in some subtle but deeply alarming way
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Summer of My Discontent

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Sometimes I read a novel that drags, and then another that drags, and then another, and before long I have spurned books in favor of internet television, Calvin and Hobbes, and puerile blogs.
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Modern Library Revue: #22 Appointment in Samarra

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This book is very spicy. I would imagine that it made an absolute scene upon its publication.
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