The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
By: Steven Sherrill
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen years have passed since Steven Sherrill first introduced us to “M,” the selfsame Minotaur f…
Want to Read $ 9.49"The sign says that the Scald Mt. Rod & Gun Club has adopted the highway, but the Minotaur knows an orphan when he sees it."-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
"The sign says that the Scald Mt. Rod & Gun Club has adopted the highway, but the Minotaur knows an orphan when he sees it."-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
"It is Tuesday, near dusk. Night creeps in and strips colors from the scene. Everything is purplish. There have been many Tuesdays in the Minotaur‘s life. He wonders how this one will end."-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
"It is Tuesday, near dusk. Night creeps in and strips colors from the scene. Everything is purplish. There have been many Tuesdays in the Minotaur‘s life. He wonders how this one will end."-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
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1. Geek Love
By: Katherine Dunn
3.95
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more
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"You must have wished a million times to be normal."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
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"It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me."-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
2. Kraken
By: China Miéville
3.62
Format: 509 pages, Hardcover
With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat… read more
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"My Google-fu is strong."-China Miéville, Kraken
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3. Dirty Snow
By: Georges Simenon , William T. Vollmann , Marc Romano
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get… read more
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4. Undermajordomo Minor
By: Patrick deWitt
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Lucy Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. He is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakli… read more
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5. The Go-Between
By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley
3.99
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more
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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between
6. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more
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7. The Sisters Brothers
By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more
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8. Doppler (Doppler, #1)
By: Erlend Loe , Jozef Zelizňák
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Otec dvoch detí jedného dňa spadne v lese z bicykla a zrazu zacíti pokoj a harmóniu. Už ho neotravu… read more
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"Orman hem veriyor hem alıyor. Ona gelenleri de kendine benzetiyor."-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
"We're born alone and we die alone. It's just a question of getting used to both of them."-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
"Люди вообще обладают одним поразительным свойством: как только они заполняют собой пространство, ты начинаешь видеть исключительно их, а не это самое пространство."-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
"Год за годом меня вела по жизни бескомпромиссная первоклассность. В ней я просыпался, в ней я засыпал. Я дышал безупречностью. И как-то постепенно, незаметно упустил саму жизнь. Господи, не приведи д…"-Erlend Loe, Doppler (Doppler, #1)
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10. The Intuitionist
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3.52
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Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more
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The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more
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After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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13. Chivalry
By: Neil Gaiman
4.21
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"Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."-Neil Gaiman, Chivalry
14. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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21. The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
By: Steven Sherrill
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen years have passed since Steven Sherrill first introduced us to “M,” the selfsame Minotaur f… read more
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- romance
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"The sign says that the Scald Mt. Rod & Gun Club has adopted the highway, but the Minotaur knows an orphan when he sees it."-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
"It is Tuesday, near dusk. Night creeps in and strips colors from the scene. Everything is purplish. There have been many Tuesdays in the Minotaur‘s life. He wonders how this one will end."-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
"If asked the Minotaur might say that he thinks gravity pulls harder at night. That the whole earth, on its wobbly axis, whips quicker through a sunless sky. It sure feels that way. But nobody is goin…"-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
"Unngh,' the Minotaur says. What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he h…"-Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
