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#1 I grew up in Hong Kong, and was always an outsider because of my Chinese heritage. I was always the smallest and weakest kid in my Ping-Pong league, but I still won awards. I felt like an imposter, and when I moved to America, I had to practice fitting in.
#2 I have a four-character Chinese name and an English nickname, Jimmy. My family name is a rare two-character...
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Book Preview: #1 Daddy was a doctor who was extremely handsome as a young man. He had a high forehead, glossy black hair, a ravishing smile, and a little moustache. He looked rather like Charlie Chaplin. He was a very fine doctor, well-mannered, with a profound sense of right and wrong.
#2 My grandfather, Philip Margolyes, was a peddler who sold small gems and trinkets. He was a quiet,...
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#1 The biography should help the reader understand what a person was actually like, how he viewed life, and how he reacted to the challenges it presented. It should also explain why he did what he did.
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Book Preview: #1 I was born on a Monday in Chicago during the Great Blizzard of 1946. My mother took in ironing while I waited on the stoop of our rooming house for the iceman to give me slivers of ice wrapped in brown paper. I would slip one in my pocket for my baby sister.
#2 I was completely smitten by the book. I loved to read, and the things I read of produced new yearnings....
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#1 The first time you find a woman's vibrator is never forgotten. I learned this lesson when I was thirteen and rummaging around my friend Danny's tree house-like cottage with my brother Chad. We found a white, missile-shaped device that began to buzz and vibrate. We knew nothing about it, but we knew we didn't want to investigate any further.
#2 I was a misfit teen...
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#1 I grew up in a suburb of Chicago called Downers Grove. I had a happy childhood, but I was always into weird things. I spent my childhood watching infomercials and sleeping on the couch. I never got anything from those shows, but I did have a happy childhood.
#2 My parents were extremely open-minded, and they never pressured me to get married or have kids early. They...
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#1 I was supposed to die. I was a superpreemie, and I was allergic to everything. I couldn't eat anything without barfing it up. I was always scared growing up because I was so fragile.
#2 I was born in Michigan. My parents had the idea of moving to Arizona, because my dad wanted to cheat on my mom in a different state. My mom had to go out and get two jobs. I never...
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#1 I went to the House to speak to Gerry a few days after receiving his voicemail.
#2 I went to the House to speak to Gerry, and met a boy named Leon, who was Black. He was a bit shorter than me, but I didn't say anything.
#3 I went to visit Gerry and met a boy named Leon, who told me that people didn't cook. I decided that if Leon agreed to help, cooking could work....
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Get the Summary of Hugh Eakin's Picassos War in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Picassos War," Hugh Eakin chronicles the struggle to introduce and establish modern art in the United States, focusing on key figures like John Quinn, Alfred Stieglitz, and Alfred Barr. The narrative begins with the early 20th-century resistance to avant-garde art in America, as seen in the commercial failure of Picasso's first U.S....
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#1 I had two coping strategies after my split with Tommy Lee. I got high, and I got even. I looked in the mirror. Twenty-six years old. My peroxide mane was messy, my roots were showing. I was Courtney Love meets Malibu Barbie, with the gaunt yet chic figure of a runway model.
#2 I was seven years older than Leo, and I felt like his grandma. I'd never been someone's...
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#1 The Seligmans, Peggy's family, were a German-Jewish dynasty that had established themselves as a pillar of the community by the time of Peggy's birth in 1898. They were extremely philanthropic, and women were expected to devote themselves to pursuits of the most haut bourgeois.
#2 Joseph Seligman, the eldest brother, was a talented young man who wanted to make money....
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Book Preview: #1 The superintendent is the remote deity of the southern school system. He hires and fires, manipulates the board of education, and maintains the status quo.
#2 Yamacraw is an island off the South Carolina mainland not far from Savannah, Georgia. It is populated with black people who depend on the sea and their small farms for a living. Several white families live on...
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Book Preview: #1 I heard my mother singing along with the radio, and I was drawn to her road in the world. She was a Creek Indian woman, and her singing attracted me to her life. She had what seemed to be a perpetual longing in her heart.
#2 The song that my mother was singing when I saw her walking the floor at midnight was a heartbreak ballad. I saw her walk the floor after hearing...
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Book Preview: #1 I was tried for murder and acquitted. My lawyer, Raymond Hubert, was confident we would be acquitted. The trial was held in the Palais de Justice de la Seine in Paris.
#2 I was going to be judged for the murder of a pimp and stool pigeon who operated in Montmartre. There was no proof, but the cops were going to insist I was guilty. For lack of proof, they would say...
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Get the Summary of Alan Rickman's Madly Deeply in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Alan Rickman's diaries provide an intimate look into his life, capturing both the ordinary and the extraordinary. From June to September, he navigates a myriad of social and professional engagements, including garden parties, property discussions, and the adaptation of a complex novel. He reflects on the superficiality of phone conversations,...
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Book Preview: #1 I had a haircut at school, after which my father began teaching me basic chores, such as bringing wood and coal in for the fire, starting the fire, and setting the table. I felt a bit safer after that.
#2 I had to hide the fact that I was looking for my father. I didn't want him to know that I was afraid of him.
#3 I had to get away from him. His anger was terrifying....
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Book Preview: #1 I had been living in New York for a year in 2009 when I met a man at a bar. I had been using a method that kept my blood flowing, even when my hands were cold, and he stayed hard. But when we made first contact, his boner melted into a wet Cheeto.
#2 I was looking forward to having fun in New York City, but after five consecutive pudding penises, I began to want a...
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#1 I would like to thank my wife, Catherine, for her many careful readings of this book. I would also like to thank Rosemary Hutchins, Geoffrey Wolff, Gary Fisketjon, and Amanda Urban for their help and support.
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Book Preview: #1 The advertising industry is based on giving people false expectations. It's a perfect career for me because it's based on giving people false expectations.
#2 I am not used to rules and structure, and so I have a hard time keeping the phone connected and the electricity turned on. I place all my bills in a box, which I keep next to the stove.
#3 I was waltzing around...
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