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Laura and Eric edited the books that influenced this book of The Wild Things Fur-covered Edition 7 days ago.

Added a quotation: “In their slumber, the giant creatures were infant-like, almost cute, and at the same time pathetic, tragic, burdened by all they carried with them, far more than Max or Alexander could know. "With all they've done, all they've devoured, all they've said and -" Alexander laughed. "What?" Max said. "What do you mean?" "Well, it's amazing they sleep at all," Alexander said. - p.267”

Matching Stumpy pant for pant, Max chased his cloud-white dog through the upstairs hallway, down the wooden stairs, and into the cold open foyer.

Next he tried combining the wing flapping with short hops, which made him career <sic> into everything in his path." p. 45 - should be "careen"

On a rainy Valentine's Day morning in 1985, I fell in love with a four-day old barn owl.

Laura and Eric edited the quotations of Them 9 days ago.

Added a quotation: “"It was clear that the Texans' interpretation of the ceremony differed from my own. My lasting impression was of an all-pervading sense of immaturity: the Elvis impersonators, the pseudo-pagan spooky rituals, the heavy drinking. These people might have reached the apex of their professions but emotionally they seemed to be trapped in their college years. I wondered whether the bohemians shrouded themselves in secrecy for reasons no more sinister than that they thought it was cool." p. 321”
Added a quotation: “"Let's face it, "my Deep Throat had said to me, "nobody rules the world anymore. The markets rule the world. Maybe that's why your conspiracy theorists make up all those crazy things. Because the truth is much more frightening. Nobody rules the world. Nobody controls anything." p. 321”

Laura and Eric edited the quotations of Them 12 days ago.

Added a quotation: “One thing you quickly learn about them is that they really don't like being called extremists. In fact they often tell me that we are the real extremists. They say that the Western liberal cosmopolitan establishment is itself a fanatical, depraved belief system. I like it when they say this because it makes me feel as if I have a belief system. - p. 13”

Added a quotation: “I'd forgotten the best part about working: how it feels when you finish working. The relief. Relief is the closest thing to happiness I know. I miss that feeling. In its own twisted way, it's the best argument yet for going back to work. p. 188”
Added a quotation: “Before I tried retirement I might have expected old men like to respect my romantic idyll. I bet that Morrie from "Tuesdays with Morrie" would have. But now I know that most old men won't rest until penises are filling every void on earth. It's a fact of life. The idyll must end; the boning must begin. - p. 221”

Added a quotation: “I don't think retirement has made me soft. In fact, I think it was working that made me soft. It's not like I did all that much when I had a seventy-hour-a-week job. I was "at work." I wasn't working. If anything, I was just making compulsive lists of things that I needed to do so that I would run out of time to do them. I'm still confused about that: How can you be overworked and underemployed at the same time? - p.42”

"But when the customs agent aks <sic> what's in your bag, for heaven's sake don't say 'Coke.'" p.27 - Typo, should be "asks."
"Heat energy will travel automatically from a warmer substance into an adjecent <sic>, cooler one, because the faster molecules in the warmer one can bang against the molecule of the cooler one, making them move faster." p. 202 - Misspelling, should be "adjacent."

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