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i loved the novels. this book was just so so. the way the characters looked didn't live up to what i had pictured in my head even remotely
  
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Kayla (5 KP) rated The Funhouse in Books

Jun 21, 2018  
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The Funhouse
Owen West | 1980
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6.7 (3 Ratings)
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I didn't like this nearly as well as most Koontz novels I've read, but it was interesting, definitely. And it had some things I thought were pretty genius.
  
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Jay McInerney recommended A Handful of Dust in Books (curated)

 
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh, Robert Murray Davis | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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"This novel shows all of Waugh’s gifts for satire and farce, but unlike his earlier novels, it has a three-dimensional, tragic protagonist in aristocratic cuckold Tony Last."

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Alison Bechdel recommended Possession in Books (curated)

 
Possession
Possession
A.S. Byatt | 2013 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"I am a sucker for campus novels, and this is one of the best, even though it has some pretty scathing things to say about feminist literary criticism."

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Jeff Bezos recommended The Remains of the Day in Books (curated)

 
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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"Jeff Bezos’s favorite novel, about a butler who wistfully recalls his career in service during wartime Great Britain. Bezos has said he learns more from novels than nonfiction."

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