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  #377

  The Phantom Tollbooth

  by Norton Juster

  (14 Reviews)

  55 Points

  "There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always."

  

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  #188

  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  (11 Reviews)

  102 Points

  "By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."

  

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  #503

  Écrits

  by Jacques Lacan

  (1 Review)

  25 Points

  

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  #523

  Cloud Atlas

  by David Mitchell

  (4 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints."

  

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  #250

  Wise Blood

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (3 Reviews)

  84 Points

  "Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."

  

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  #471

  Cold Sassy Tree

  by Olive Ann Burns

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, "Will Tweedy? Go find your mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma's..."

  

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  #447

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

  by Raymond Carver

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "(From Why Don't You Dance?) In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard."

  

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  #479

  You Shall Know Our Velocity

  by Dave Eggers

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  "I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave."

  

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  #300

  Shadow of the Torturer

  by Gene Wolfe

  (4 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors - too numerous to name here -..."

  

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  #386

  Blood Meridian

  by Cormac McCarthy

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "See the child."

  

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