Sirk on Sirk
By: Douglas Sirk
4.18
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Douglas Sirk is one of the unsung heroes of American cinema. From 1942 to 1958 he directed some 30 …
Want to ReadIf you liked the biography plot in Sirk on Sirk by Douglas Sirk , here is a list of 7 books like this:
1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
2. L'Avversario
By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris
3.99
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Emmanuel Carrère's L'Avversario book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario
3. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
Want to Read $ 0.99Similar categories in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
4. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
By: Charles R. Cross
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Charles R. Cross's Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
5. A Kiss Before Dying
By: Ira Levin , Otto Penzler
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her first year o… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
6. The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
7. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Charles Portis's True Grit book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
Similar categories in Emmanuel Carrère's Limonov book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
9. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
11. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"He fairly glittered in the gloom."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
12. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
14. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
15. Hitchcock
By: Alfred Hitchcock , François Truffaut
4.29
Format: 144 pages,
Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's int… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Alfred Hitchcock's Hitchcock book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
16. The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton , Nina Bawden
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, p… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
17. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's A Man's Place book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- biography
- nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
18. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- film
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
19. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
20. Tutto chiede salvezza
By: Daniele Mencarelli
4.17
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Ha vent'anni Daniele quando, in seguito a una violenta esplosione di rabbia, viene sottoposto a un … read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Daniele Mencarelli's Tutto chiede salvezza book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"I think I might be a bit mentally disabled."-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza
"Le mie sono le farneticazioni di un maestro di scuola elementare messo a riposo. Una cosa però tienila sempre a mente. Curati. Chiedi aiuto quando serve. Ma lascia il tuo sguardo libero, non farti ra…"-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza
21. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
22. La ricreazione è finita
By: Dario Ferrari
4.24
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Dario Ferrari's La ricreazione è finita book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
23. Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
By: Frank Herbert
3.89
Format: 609 pages, Paperback
Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adv… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6) book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"What does a mirror look at?"-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
"I am not the river I am the net."-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
"Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded."-Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
24. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
Want to Read $ 9.62Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
25. Vox
By: Christina Dalcher
3.54
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Christina Dalcher's Vox book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"<>"-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"you can't protest what you don't see coming."-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"Everything lately seems to be a choice between degrees of hate."-Christina Dalcher, Vox
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?"-Christina Dalcher, Vox
26. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
27. Nevada
By: Imogen Binnie
3.97
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
28. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Werner Herzog's The Twilight World book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
29. La riada (Blackwater, #1)
By: Michael McDowell
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La riada (Blackwater, #1) book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
30. Sirk on Sirk
By: Douglas Sirk
4.18
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Douglas Sirk is one of the unsung heroes of American cinema. From 1942 to 1958 he directed some 30 … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk book and Douglas Sirk's Sirk on Sirk
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- film
