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"King could write a phone book and make it not only a best-seller but also gripping reading." Booklist reviewer Ray Olson, writing about "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King. "Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or it's taken away, it can be traumatic." Spencer Johnson, from his bestseller "Who Moved my Cheese? - An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life." "Things are not as pleasant in the tiny western Irish village of Cloontha as the scenery suggests." Time reviewer Paul Gray, writing about "Wild Decembers," a novel by Edna O'Brien. "There comes a time in almost every girl's life when she falls in love with horses." New York Times reviewer Richard Bernstein, writing about "Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, A Passion," by Melissa Holbrook Pierson. "Mr. Kanfer does a nimble job of tracing the outlines of Groucho's life and the evolution of his antic art." New York Times reviewer Michiko Kakutani, writing about "Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx" — a biography about Groucho Marx by Stefan Kanfer. "Cultural history, in short, is a matter of human consciousness and desires; and individuals who are able to express perennial human wishes in new ways are the agents of change, the shapers of styles and the molders of culture." William H. McNeill, writing in the Los Angeles Times about "From Dawn to Decadence - 500 Years of Western Cultural Life" — a book by Jacques Barzun. "The caricature of a cigar-grubbing back-room dealer, surrounded by his cronies, hardly captures the uniqueness of Daley's time, place and circumstance." Los Angeles Times reviewer Nicholas Von Hoffman, writing about "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation," a biography by Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor.
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