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  2. Portal:Speculative fiction/Selected quote - Wikipedia

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    We hope it will not be long before we may have other works of Science-Fiction [like Richard Henry Horne’s ‘‘The Poor Artist’’], as we believe such books likely to fulfil a good purpose, and create an interest, where, unhappily, science alone might fail.

  3. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Wikipedia

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    He complimented the style of writing, stating that "even reading this world bummer with a grain of salt, you can't resist White's witty prose or put the damned thing down". [3] Bill Blakemore of ABC News praised the elegant use of humor in the book, adding that it is a "fascinating, new, big and easy-to-read reference book". [ 4 ]

  4. These 25 Books Are Actually Unhinged And We Need To ... - AOL

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    Buy Now: amazon.com #2 Make Your Bookshelf Great Again With The Addition Of " Beautiful Poetry By Donald Trump ". Review: "Very funny stuff, they take lines from Trumps speeches and turn them into ...

  5. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters - Wikipedia

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    Influenced to varying degrees by such 20th-century presences as the inevitable Borges, Calvino and Nabokov, as well as by Roland Barthes and perhaps Michel Tournier among others, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters is most usefully described as a gathering of prose pieces, some fiction, others rather like essays". She found his "concerns ...

  6. Waldo (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The key to this is that magic is loose in the world, but in a logical and scientific way. Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones was born a weakling, unable even to lift his head up to drink or to hold a spoon. Far from destroying him, this channeled his intellect, and his family's money, into the development of the device patented as "Waldo F. Jones ...

  7. The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written - Wikipedia

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    The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...

  8. List of books with anti-war themes - Wikipedia

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    A Fable – William Faulkner, 1954, World War I; The Empty Drum - Leo Tolstoy, 1887; A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway, 1929; For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway, 1940; The Forever War – Joe Haldeman science fiction novel; From Here to Eternity – James Jones novel; Generals Die in Bed – Charles Yale Harrison novel

  9. Scroll through to find out what Trump and ten more of the world's most powerful people have to say about ambition, command, and leadership. Melissa Stanger contributed to an earlier version of ...