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Daniel’s 2024 Year in Books
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Daniel Polansky
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A City Dreaming Out Now
Friends! Would you believe it or not, I have a new book out. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... It's called A City Dreaming, and it's a ramble through an impossible New York, courtesy of a fast talking lush who prefers quiet beer bars to world saving. It's strange, it's funny, you could do a lot worse. Take a look!
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Low Town (Low Town, #1)
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2011
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The Builders
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2015
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Tomorrow, the Killing (Low Town, #2)
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2012
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18 editions
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She Who Waits (Low Town, #3)
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2013
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Those Above (The Empty Throne, #1)
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2015
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A City Dreaming
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2016
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Those Below (The Empty Throne #2)
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2016
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The Seventh Perfection
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2020
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A Drink Before We Die
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2014
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Tomorrow's Children
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2024
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3 editions
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| A consigliere of dubious morality tries to navigate a gang war in an unnamed city. If you've seen Miller's Crossing you've got most of the plot down. The plots mechanics are a little fidgety, but Hammet's prose remains a joy. ...more | |
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| The death of a turbulent painter is investigated by her daughter, mother, and an ex-detective. Engaging if pat. | |
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| Usually there’s a point in Freud’s essays where he’ll fiat some flatly incorrect premise, and then rush past in hopes you won’t notice. Here it comes in identifying a ‘leader’ as an essential pre-condition of the ‘group/herd’, which brings us back to ...more | |
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| A Punjabi lawyer enters the intelligence service at the start of the Obama administration, loses his soul in a bid for power. High literature with a genre bent, a paranoid thriller made real as much by its attention to practical detail as by the life ...more | |
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| ‘I don’t mind seeing a young lad take up philosophy; it seems perfectly appropriate. It shows an open mind, I think, whereas neglect of philosophy at this age signifies pettiness and condemns a man to a low estimation of his worth and potential. On t ...more | |
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| Another classic I hadn’t looked at for a long time, and still an absolute banger. Hammet’s economy of style is masterful, re-reading it I was struck by how closely he keeps his hand, you really don’t have any idea of Spade’s motivations until the fin ...more | |
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| The autobiography of Quentin Crisp, a famed member of the homosexual London underworld for much of the 20th century, recollections of his misadventures and thoughts about life and society. I am in rough awe of this book. I was impressed with it in a ...more | |
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| 'Supposing truth were a woman—what then?' Something else I haven't read in about 20 years, though I can't say what it was that brought me back. Lately I suppose I've just had more of a yen to test the works of my youth against the internal aesthetic ...more | |
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| An upright inspector investigates a murder in a fictionalized country, in the course of which he’s forced to confront the omnipresent corruption of his and, let’s be blunt, human society. Somewhere between Hammet and Kafka, this is Sciascia at his pu ...more | |
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| 'Go and stand on the mountain before the LORD, and, look the LORD is about to pass over, with a great and strong wind tearing apart mountains and smashing rocks before the LORD. Not in the wind is the LORD. And after the wind is an earthquake. Not in ...more | |
“It’s a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn’t proud to be it.”
― Tomorrow, the Killing
― Tomorrow, the Killing
“I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is fun, because there's something in the human breast that trills at the thought, although perhaps not the reality, of murdering its fellows in vast numbers. Fighting a war ain't fun - fighting a war is pretty miserable. But starting a war? Hell, starting a war is better than a night floating on daeva's honey.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
“The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
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| Beyond Reality: Nominations for December 2011 | 43 | 112 | Sep 21, 2011 09:32AM | |
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| The Sword and Laser: What books would you recommend to someone scared of the Genre? | 79 | 421 | May 19, 2012 10:23AM | |
| Beyond Reality: Nominations for September 2012! | 19 | 46 | Jun 25, 2012 08:20AM | |
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Tracey the Lizard Queen
Dec 05, 2014 11:34AM
Thanks for accepting! Very excited for Those Above!
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Tabitha wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!"
Wonderful to hear! I'm getting my brother in law who is dep..."
That's all great news...thanks!
Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!
Tabitha wrote: "Daniel! I won - I won! I will be reading it as soon as it arrives. Glad you decided to join Goodreads! Now add more books mister so we can cyber stalk your shelves - that is what its all about!"Ha - I'll do my best! Hope you like the book!
When did Nikola Tesla become the person that really stoned people want to ramble about at parties?
Shellie (Layers of Thought) wrote: "Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!"Thanks! Happy to be here!
Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!
