Sign in with Facebook
2,068 books
—
2,079 voters
“A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.
("Three O'Clock")”
― The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness
("Three O'Clock")”
― The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness
“Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears”
―
―
“A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.”
― Beyond the Black River
― Beyond the Black River
“It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.
("New York Blues")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
("New York Blues")”
― Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
― The Best American Noir of the Century
― The Best American Noir of the Century
Man’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Man’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
275 books
|
170 friends
264 books
|
949 friends
50 books
|
100 friends
0 books
|
38 friends
0 books
|
1 friend
0 books
|
1 friend
Polls voted on by Man
Lists liked by Man
