This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century
By: David Bowman
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A fascinating glimpse behind the big suitsand deadpan looks to the heart and soul of a bandthat mad…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
By: Lee Child
4.07
Format: 567 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his off… read more
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"Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think."-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
"I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to sa…"-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
"People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever the…"-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
3. Imperial Bedrooms
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.19
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more
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"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
4. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
"Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso … read more
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5. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
6. Fear of Music
By: Jonathan Lethem
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like eac… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
7. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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8. Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan Universe, #6)
By: Tom Clancy
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At what point does crimanal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as… read more
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9. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
10. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
11. George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door
By: Graeme Thomson
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Vynikajici obsahla biografie Graema Thomsona nas provede celym Harrisonovym zivotem po ceste od skr… read more
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12. Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
By: Elvis Costello , Geoff Emerick , Howard Massey
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
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13. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin & the Great Depression
By: Alan Brinkley
3.00
Format: 18 pages, Paperback
The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. This… read more
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14. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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- history
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
15. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
16. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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17. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
By: Chris Frantz
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
18. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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19. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
By: Mick Herron
4.11
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more
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"It’s a phrase, black swan,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"We don’t like being out of the loop."-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)
20. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
By: Mick Herron
4.28
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more
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"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)
21. This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century
By: David Bowman
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A fascinating glimpse behind the big suitsand deadpan looks to the heart and soul of a bandthat mad… read more
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- history
- biography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
