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Cat’s Cradle
“Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”(*Harmless untruths) Chapter 1-10: Introducing Jonah and the Hoenikker Legacy The narrator, John (or Jonah), […]
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The Rachel Papers
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London Fields
“Murder considered as one of the fine arts.” London Fields follows the intertwined lives of three central characters in a decaying, pre-millennial London. The narrator, Samson Young, is […]
English literature
Money
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.” Part One […]