![]() It's a dark comedy that reveals a very pessimistic view of humanity that's a common thread in Ito's stories. On a certain level, the situation and the characters are so over the top that they start to feel like players in a comedy. Reading the Lovesickness stories again after the initial sense of shock from the 90s can put them in a different light. Soon the entire town has gone insane, and the hero can only watch helplessly as things just go to hell. The women and girls who killed themselves frequently haunt the same crossroads as ghosts eager to drag you to hell. A surly teen moves back to town after a few years away and decides to hunt down and stop this ghostly man, only to be mistaken for him and chased by girls for love advice. His cynical advice often drives them to insanity and suicide. If they seek a ghostly handsome man in the fog, he can tell them if they will ever find true love. This series of stories is about an urban legend that high school girls and some adults believe in slavishly. ![]()
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![]() I don’t mean just a few but some racial slurs I won’t repeat are said so often it made me take pause. This book may offend some people, so warning. I was dismayed as the long list of racial slurs that litter this work, some more than others. I had some times where I was impatient with the book, but eventually these parts always paid off. I can’t say I am a rabid fan, but I liked this author’s works enough to seek it out and read it all so that speaks, Pun unintended- Volumes. I enjoyed the work immensely as I have all of this authors other works. This is possibly the most mixed up and ADHD work I have ever read. There are times when the work has stupid dick jokes and quips that make me roll my eyes, other times I’m pasting post it notes to mark a poignant passage. The book in turns reminds me of Raymond Chandler, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Charles Burn’s comic books, The work of the Church of Subgenus, Jack Chick Tracts, The Outer Limits TV show and more. ![]() ![]() There are elements of Sci Fi, Noir, Hard Boiled Detective, Comedy and a few other genres. The book really cannot be described as horror, nor is it really a thriller. ![]() ![]() John Dies at the End is a novel written by David Wong (Pseudonym for Jason Parguin) that was first published 2007 by Permuted Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of several Christmas books, including the bestselling The Christmas Bus, The Christmas Dog, Christmas at Harrington's, and The Christmas Pony. Join bestselling author Melody Carlson on an emotional journey into the heart of what family truly means at Christmastime.| Melody Carlson is the award-winning author of over two hundred books with sales of more than five million. As love begins to blossom, family secrets emerge, and old wounds are healed, Rachel realizes that she will do whatever it takes to ensure that Holly has the loving family she needs. With her young niece Holly in tow, Rachel anxiously makes her way from Chicago to Ohio's Amish country. But with so many unexpected occurrences of late, perhaps she shouldn't have been surprised. ![]() Rachel Milligan never imagined that she and her seven-year-old niece would spend the week before Christmas on a quaint Amish farm in Ohio. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both women live with the ghosts of their lost loves, and those ghosts impact the lives of their family members who come afterwards. Nora, Fiona’s great aunt, is a survivor of the Lost Generation of WWI Paris, just as Fiona survives the AIDS epidemic that annihilates her brother and many of her closest friends in the mid-1980s/early 1990s. The two stories seem wildly divergent (except for some overlap in characters), but as Makkai knits up her novel, they begin to inform one another more and more, both in terms of characters and thematically. The other takes Fiona (who was a very young woman affiliated with Yale’s world in the mid-‘80s) to Paris in search of her missing adult daughter, Claire, in the year 2015. One storyline begins with Yale Tishman in Boystown, Chicago circa the mid-1980s as AIDS lays waste to the gay community. Rebecca Makkai’s 2018 novel, The Great Believers, explores themes of trauma, lost generations, parenting, death, emotional inheritance, and the repetition of generational struggles as its weaves two stories throughout. ![]() ![]() ![]() His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are also here, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Published by Barnes & Nobles Books (1992) ISBN 10: 1566196035 ISBN 13: 9781566196031 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains (Pflugerville, TX, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: new. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernal realm. ![]() Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have a degree in psychology and worked as a counselor. ![]() Basically, I like to write what I like to read: a little bit of everything! I reside in Floyds Knobs, Indiana with my husband, three children, and massive collection of books. My first and second books were released by Sarah Book Publishing: This Is Not About Love and Grayson’s Ridge. It turned out to be harder than I thought, but from that point on I was hooked. Several years ago, I didn’t have a book to read so I decided on a whim to write my own story, something I’d like to read. My love affair with writing started early, but it mostly involved journaling and writing silly poems. I received a five dollar allowance each week, and I always - always - spent it on books. ![]() I’ve always loved to read, and some of my earliest childhood memories are me, tucked away in my room, lost in a good book. Reading them, writing them, holding them, smelling them…well, you get the idea. Besides my family, my greatest love in life is books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Happy-Go-Lucky is made up of 18 short essays, several of them set in the very recent past, others reminiscing about earlier times: a late-90s sojourn in Normandy amusing exchanges with taxi drivers in eastern Europe a visit to a shooting range in his native North Carolina with his sister, Amy. He recalls how the pandemic prompted an outbreak of competitive piety – a “new spirit of one-downmanship” – among ordinary Americans: “It was a golden era … for the self-righteous.” In this new memoir, Sedaris recounts his lockdown experience with his customary blend of wry self-deprecation and affable misanthropy. Of the live audiences he misses, he writes: “It’s not just their laughter I pay attention to but also the quality of their silence” – and you can’t replicate that over Zoom. ![]() As a self-confessed attention junkie, the enforced hiatus hit him hard. D avid Sedaris lives in West Sussex – where he has attained local treasure status thanks to his proclivity for late-night litter-picking – but spent the Covid lockdowns in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I mean I was supposed to be angry, anyone would with the terrible events and characters in Gild. I was debating over my rating for awhile but then I realized that while I was angry understatement over a lot of things that happened in here, I didn't completely hate this. Anyone who plans to read this-make sure to look at the trigger warnings and prepare yourself. I knew this was going to be dark, but ahaha I wasn't expecting this□ This is definitely adult. ![]() Literally so many times I had to put the book down and stop reading because of the disturbing scenes like wow does this have all the trigger warnings out there. it's mine.Īll these disgusting sexist pig-headed men can go to hell :) Suddenly, I'm sent to travel between kingdoms to a future I no longer understand and my spirit becomes truly tested.īut perhaps that is no longer the case. ![]() My love for Midas challenged, my trust broken.īecause everything I know about this man is wrong. I promised to love him forever.īut when war comes to the kingdom, a deal is struck - and I am at the heart of the bargain.Įverything I know starts to change. Away from the dangers of the world below. Upon the snowy mountains in the Sixth Kingdom of Orea, I'm locked away in Highbell Castle. The Golden King with his palace of riches and me, the girl he turned to gold. 'It's the arrogance of men to think so little of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His first novel Casino Royale was published in 1953 and Fleming went on to write another thirteen Bond books, as well as the children's classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is based on the bedtime stories he made up for his son Caspar. Fleming (Author) Ian Fleming was born in London in 1908. He won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize with Cats Ahoy!. King Jack and the Dragon, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and was among the American Library Association's Notable Children's Books of the year. He is the author of the hilarious and bestselling The Great Bottom Swap, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Peter Bently (Author) Peter studied languages at Oxford and lives in Devon, England. ![]() ![]() And with every day since, it’s just become a raging fire of wanting to share all of this with the world. She says, Something inside of me had me turn the pages one by one, and I can still remember my tears hitting the pages as I was reading it,… It gave me a glimpse of The Secret. Byrne, back in 2004, when her life was falling apart, her daughter gave her a copy of The Science of Getting Rich, a book written in 1910 by Wallace D. The Secret is the name of a book and a DVD released by Australian author Rhonda Byrne. Even WebMD weighed in with an article entitled “The Secret: Is it the Real Deal?” It would be difficult to name a recent talk show that has not explored some topic related to The Secret. ![]() ![]() Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, Larry King, Montel Williams…. ![]() |