Rabih Alameddine Quotes
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.Rabih Alameddine
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I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
Rabih Alameddine