‘The Book Of Ultimate Truths was Rune’s magnum opus. An encyclopedia of his accumulated wisdom. Within it, the Master explains, in terms understandable to the layman, exactly what life is really all about.’
Categorie: boeken
Boek Review: Lost in a Good Book (Jasper Fforde, 2002)
‘The hair bristled on my neck and I shivered. But it wasn’t a fearful feeling. It was the light tingle of apprehension; this book, I knew, would open. The name on the cover was my own. I had been expected. I opened the book.’
Boek Review: Guards! Guards!/ De Nachtwacht (Terry Pratchett,1989)
‘Dearest Mother [Carrot wrote] (…) I do not understand some of the Watch duties. I have a partner, his name is Nobby. He says I am too keen. He says I have got a lot to learn.’
Boek Review: John Dies at the End (David Wong, 2011)
‘My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you’ll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it’s too late. You touched the book. You’re in the game. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.’
Boek Review: The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde, 2001)
‘“Outside Styx’s apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, nor would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life.’”
Boek Review: Sleeping Murder/ Moord uit het verleden (Agatha Christie, 1976)
‘“Or else it’s the house. The house is haunted – or bewitched or something… I see things that have happened there – or else I see things that are going to happen there – and that would be worse. Perhaps a woman called Helen is going to be murdered there…”’
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