These selections include plenty of drama, and there’s an undercurrent of gentle comedy, even in novels with dark themes or plots. Some are from familiar names such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich others are by authors you may not have heard of at all. Here is a list of 15 fiction titles from the past two decades that you may have forgotten about in the years since. But many were popular or critically acclaimed for good reasons, and they’re worth revisiting. Even best sellers or novels by famous authors get lost in the deluge, and books that were beloved on release can fall off readers’ radar quickly. Hundreds of thousands of books are published in the United States each year, and this dramatic influx of titles largely runs the calendars of the publishing and media industries-usually to the detriment of any work that isn’t brand new.
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To watch that perilous scene, the one that immediately follows the one above, start at the 31:20 mark here. And the refrain I can feel it coming in the air tonight / oh Lord / I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life is something you could be thinking if you suspect you might be driving to your death. In that sense, the song is closer to Crockett’s mindset in Miami Vice, who’s going through a marital separation and who just discovered his close colleague is a corrupt cop. It’s the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. So what’s the original meaning of “In the Air Tonight”? Here’s Phil Collins: Somehow that song works exceptionally well juxtaposed with two very different themes: betrayal and imminent danger in Miami Vice, and sultry subway sex in Risky Business.