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Walking in Holden's Footsteps - Interactive Map →
samchase: Trace Holden Caulfield’s perambulations around Manhattan in “The Catcher in the Rye” to places like the Edmont Hotel, where Holden had an awkward encounter with Sunny the hooker; the lake in Central Park, where he wondered about the ducks in winter; and the clock at the Biltmore, where he waited for his date. Roll your mouse over each point and read about Holden’s experience there in...
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“when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an...”
– Paul Auster (via suzywire)
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“One way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via flickflickflicker)
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“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”
– Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (via expose) (via merricat) (via fairphantom) (via dreamawaymydear)
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“Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever....”
– Susan Sontag (via sabino)
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“A house without books is like a room without windows.”
– Horace Mann (via artpixie) (via grizabella)
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“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
– Terry Pratchett (via artpixie)
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100 Best First Lines of Novels As chosen by the... →
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nyankee asked: Someone asked what your favourite last line was -- now I'm curious! What is your favourite opening/first line of a novel?
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neblina asked: So I noticed someone talking about Enders Game and wanted to put my two cents in. I LOVE Orson Scott Card, I think he is a phenomenal author. His books have always got me to think beyond my normal world and the universe that he has created is very intricate and detailed that just amazes me. I love how his characters are so emotional, developed, detailed. It's like they literally exist....
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toynbeeconvector asked: Hi! I hope you feel better. Just wanted to know if you ever suffered from book fatigue (you know that feeling you get after reading a book that's either very good or very bad?) and if you do, how do you choose what to read next?

Also, do you plan what to read in advance?
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keremmermutlu asked: What's your favourite last line in a novel?
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731fast-deactivated20100315 asked: One of my favorite stories by JD Salinger is "For Esme--With Love and Squalor" which was in Nine Stories. Did you ever read 'Esme' and what did you think of it?
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yndca asked: what is your favorite book? and who is your favorite author
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awkwardplum-deactivated20100706 asked: where is your favorite place to read?
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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...”
– Edward P. Morgan (via libraryland)
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“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”
– Jim Morrison (via twigthewonderkid) (via rockandroses) (via sohereiam)
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“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God...”
– J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey) (via idealisting)
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“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and...”
– ~ John Berger (via libraryland)
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“That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful,...”
– J D Salinger. I’d say RIP but that makes the quote redundant. Then again, I can’t not. (via distantheartbeats)
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faintingfancies asked: Do you ever judge a book by it's cover? :-)
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“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
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“The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can...”
– Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (via nihilnoetia)
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RIP SALINGER
letusreadandletusdance: It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way. - Franny and Zooey (1961) My favorite quote from the book. Rest In...
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