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About Texas · James Michener
John Jakes, 1982
Also curiosity. West Point friends from North and South watch a country divide, and their families pay the price.
They had taken no more than a dozen steps away from the cottages when a musket barrel came smashing through an unbroken window in one of the cottages ahead. The door flew open, three more muskets poked out. The muskets boomed, killing two of the surprised soldiers a yard to Orry’s left. Umberto Eco, 1980
Also curiosity and faith. A murder mystery inside a labyrinthine medieval library, where a novice and his detective-monk argue theology, read forbidden books, and count the dead.
The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came. Dan Brown, 2009
Also curiosity and power. A symbologist is summoned to Washington for a lecture and pulled into one night of Masonic codes, hidden monuments and a missing mentor.
Chapter 1The Otis elevator climbing the south pillar of the Eiffel Tower was overflowing with tourists. Inside the cramped lift, an austere businessman in a pressed suit gazed down at the boy beside him. “You look pale, son. You should have stayed on the ground.”“I’m okay . . .” the boy answered, struggling to control his anxiety. “I’ll get out on the next level.” I can’t breathe.The man leaned closer. “I thought by now you would have gotten over this.” He brushed the child’s cheek affectionately.The boy felt ashamed to disappoint his father, but he could barely hear through the ringing in his ears. I can’t breathe. I’ve got to get out of this box!The elevator operator was saying something reassuring about the lift’s articulated pistons and puddled-iron construction. John le Carré, 1963
Also curiosity and wonder. The spy novel that made betrayal a literary subject: a burned-out agent, a divided Berlin, and no clean hands.
What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? I’d have killed Mundt if I could, I hate his guts; but not now. It so happens that they need him. They need him so that the great moronic mass that you admire can sleep soundly in their beds at night. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me. Zane Grey, 1912
Also awe and faith. A Utah rancher, a gunman with a hidden grief, and a valley of purple sage: the Western that taught the genre how to feel like a myth.
Always it brought softly to him strange, sweet tidings of far-off things. It blew from a place that was old and whispered of youth. It blew down the grooves of time. It brought a story of the passing hours. It breathed low of fighting men and praying women. It sang clearly the song of love. That ever was the burden of its tidings—youth in the shady woods, waders through the wet meadows, boy and girl at the hedgerow stile, bathers in the booming surf, sweet, idle hours on grassy, windy hills, long strolls down moonlit lanes—everywhere in far-off lands, fingers locked and bursting hearts and longing lips—from all the world tidings of unquenchable love. Sarah J. Maas, 2015
Also awe and power. A human huntress is taken into a faerie court as payment for a kill, and finds desire, danger and old bargains waiting there.
Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him."Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all. Frank Herbert, 1965
Also awe and power. A desert planet, a spice that lets navigators fold space, and a boy being trained into a messiah he never asked to be.
Salman Rushdie, 1988
Also faith and curiosity. A hijacked plane, a metamorphosis, and two men falling through the sky into a London of migrants, visions and doubt.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2017
Also identity. A reclusive screen legend picks an unknown journalist to write her life story, and starts with the seven husbands.
Michael Crichton, 1990
Also curiosity and power. A billionaire builds a private zoo of extinct animals and flies experts in to approve it. The experts keep finding reasons to say no.
Graham Greene, 1973
Also faith and power. A kidnapping gone wrong in a dusty Argentine river town, and the odd, decent, badly married men caught up in it.
Christopher Paolini, 2001
Also wonder and identity. A teenage hunter in a hard mountain valley finds a polished blue stone that pulls him into a world of Riders, magic and empire.
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