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  2. 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 ]

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

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    #12 Dive Into The Weird And Wonderful World Of Gravity Falls With "The Book Of Bill" That's A Journal, A Mystery, And A Portal To The Mind Of The Show's Lovably Bizarre Villain, Bill Cipher

  4. 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.

  5. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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

  8. The Historians' History of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Spectator, writing on 25 January 1908 and prior to the release of the second half of the series, notes a handful of shortcomings including a fleeting portrayal of Homer and a questioning of the historicity of Christ, but states that "the general reader...will find here a great treasury of knowledge" and that "they form an extremely interesting shelfful."

  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 ...