Word: books
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAIRING OFF, by Julian Moynahan. The book masquerades as a novel but is more like having a nonstop non sequitur Irish storyteller around-which may, on occasion, be more welcome than well-made fiction...
...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
...realization of the coming end of the world has a disruptive effect on one's thinking, it is only because his values have been previously misaligned. For example, if you had been writing a book, you might think the book would be meaningless after the end of the world. However, you can't really write a book because you think people will read it and then think something of you, you have to write it because you enjoy doing...
...cream in my coffee, and I take a lot of butter for my blueberry muffin. A beautiful brunch. I sit down by myself, take a sip of my coffee, and turn to the article about Namath. It's by a woman, and she starts off talking about the new book by Jerry Kramer. What do women know about football...
...pretty fucked up guy," I say. I turn back to the Book Review section, but I can't concentrate. I look back at the guy. We stare at each other for about 30 seconds. "Are you happy...