Iris Murdoch The Bell (1958) |
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Stephen King Breathing Method (1982) |
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Jo Nesbø Rødstrupe (2000) |
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Peter Shaffer Equus (1973) |
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Frédéric Beigbeder Dernier inventaire avant liquidation (2001) |
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Jo Nesbø Kakerlakkene (1998) |
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Martin McDonagh The Lonesome West (1997) |
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Thomas M. Disch On SF (2005) |
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In the quintessentially sophisticated world of Proust's novels there are no moments of embarrassment: his artists are first-rate, his aristocrats know better than to do anything, and everyone else is a provincial. A provincial is any person who would be embarrassing if he were a friend or a member of the same club.
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In youth the most awkward agethe one that gives us the most to blush foris the one we have just quitted. College students have a horror of being mistaken for high-schoolers; those in their mid-twenties wince at the gaucheries of college years. Thereafter, embarrassment is not so much a matter of maturity as of social class.
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There is nothing that so militates against the sense of one's own vast ignorance as adopting some such Big Idea, and the young, whose ignorance is largest and rawest and most exasperating, have a natural predilection for Big Ideas. Marxists, Ayn Randers, Scientologists, and deconstructionists have one thing in common: they tend to have been recruited young. Once in the fold, they may remain there indefinitely and turn into fossils, but twigs are bent in the teens and twenties.
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If there is one key to prejudging books and consigning them, half-read, to the holocaust, it must be Style, and "Style" is the single word most likely to provoke hack writers and hack readers to postures of defense. Storytelling and yarn-spinning are simple, wholesome crafts, they would aver, to which questions of Style are irrelevant. Style is to be left to stylists, like Hemingway or Faulkner or Joyce, the writers you have to read in school.
Nonsense. Style is simply a way of handling yourself in prose so as to signal to an attentive reader that she is in the presence of someone possessed of honesty, wit, sophistication, irony, compassion, or whatever other attributes one looks for in a person to whom one is about to give over n-many hours of one's mental life. People who insist otherwise usually have mental halitosis.
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These days nothing short of the author's death can keep a commercially successful work of sf from being cloned into sequels as long as the product moves from the shelves.
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Jo Nesbø Flaggermusmannen (1997) |
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Åsa Larsson Svart stig (2006) |
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Stephen King Guns (2013) |
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Johan Theorin Nattfåk (2008) |
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Åsa Larsson Det blod som spillts (2004) |
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David Wong John Dies at the End (2007) |
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Bernard Beckett Genesis (2005) |
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Albert Camus Caligula (1944) |
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Åsa Larsson Solstorm (2003) |
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Neil Gaiman The Case of Death and Honey (2011) |
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Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (1999) |
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Arthur Miller Broken Glass (1994) |
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