December 2011
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“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (2011)
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Video Games: Origins
Baten Kaitos Origins, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Dracula: Origin, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Ball: Origins, Dragon Ball: Origins 2, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Final Fantasy Origins, God of War: Origins Collection, KrabbitWorld Origins, Lethal Judgment: Origins, Origin - Powered by EA, Phantom Mansion Origins, Pirates of Black Cove: Origins, Rayman Origins,...
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The Vault
Having never before read one of Ruth Rendell’s Inspector Wexford novels, my only context for The Vault was as a sequel to the excellent non-Wexford novel A Sight for Sore Eyes. That novel, while billed as crime fiction, was a gripping psychological examination of generations of British families spanning class boundaries, threaded together with a series of meticulously plotted crimes. I would...
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“A difficult thing, being a cop. You never know whose stomach it’s safe to jump...”
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
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“There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our...”
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
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“In an age of disbelief, or in a time that is largely humanistic, it is for the...”
– Wallace Stevens, “Two or Three Ideas”