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10 Famous Book Characters and Their Real-Life Inspirations

Posted 11.15.2011

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From Flavorwire We all know truth is stranger than fiction, and some things (and people) are just too good to have been made up. We’ve already sh...

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The Art of Not Finishing a Famous Book

Dave Astor | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Marcel Proust, Famous Books, Erich Maria Remarque, Classic Novels, J.M.G. Le Clezio, Charles Dickens, Holocaust, Isbn, George Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
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I realize that continuing to slog through a novel that says "stop reading me" after 100 pages may pay dividends when I reach the end of the book. Dense can turn into sophisticated, confusing into illuminating.

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Authors Who Are Famous For The Wrong Book

guardian.co.uk | John Self | Posted 09.18.2011

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Why is it that the book for which an author is best known is rarely their best? If history is the final judge of literary achievement, why has a title...

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'If Light Of My Life Fire My Line'

Brews and Books | Josh Christie | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a public service, here's the famous opening lines of a bunch of novels, transcribed by Google Voice. The better-read of you might be able to figure...

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13 Books Nobody's Read But Says They Have (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Books are a funny thing. For hundreds of years, reading has been considered one of the highest forms of enlightenment. Because of the meaning and valu...

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50 Famous Books That Were Posthumously Published

Online Colleges | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even after an author dies, his or her work can live on to educate and inspire. Many famous authors have had their works published after their death, s...

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