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Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
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Steven Millhauser
“I thought of myself, in those days, as someone in disguise—beneath the obedient son, beneath the straight-A student, the agreeable well-brought-up boy with his friends and his ping-pong and his semiofficial girlfriend, there was another being, restless, elusive, mocking, disruptive, imperious, and this shadowy underself had nothing to do with that other one who laughed with his friends and went to school dances and spent summer afternoons at the beach.”
Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter


Reading Progress

March 17, 2009 – Shelved
March 18, 2009 –
page 18
7.38% ""Cat 'n' Mouse" is a nice little deconstruction. 4*"
March 19, 2009 –
page 36
14.75% "Ending to "The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman" was a little drawn out for me. Could've ended 2 pgs earlier. Still, 4*"
March 23, 2009 –
page 45
18.44% "On the first 1/3 of the story "The Room in the Attic.""
March 31, 2009 –
page 59
24.18% "2/3 done w/novellette "The Room in the Attic." Creepy stuff going on."
April 1, 2009 –
page 75
30.74% ""The Room in the Attic" gets 4* The ending, as a literary convention, was appropriate. Doesn't necessarily make it likeable."
April 5, 2009 –
page 95
38.93% ""Dangerous Laughter" had an great hook but the themes were a bit too similar to "The Room in the Attic" 3.5*"
May 22, 2009 –
page 113
46.31% ""History of a Disturbance" read exactly like a long history. 2*"

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