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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

2008-06-24T22:03:49Z

This was my first Pynchon book. I have always heard lots of great things about this author, so I was eager to read it. Now, I just don't know what to say about it. A story about covert postmen? They were organized and stealthy...like a cross bet...

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Book Mining in Portland

2008-06-05T21:18:40Z

While on our trip to Portland, Oregon last week we stopped in at Powell's four out of five days. We took advantage of their handy-dandy mailing service. So what if I haven't read all the books I bought there a year and a half ago. Here's what I fo...

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

2008-06-03T19:26:52Z

This book was not on my list. And I've never read anything by Balzac. So why did I read it? Besides the fact that I'm easily distracted I had heard that it mentions Madame Bovary in the end and it's a very short book. First off, the title is aw...

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Madame Bovary

2008-06-03T19:13:23Z

The fascinating thing about Madame Bovary is, well, Madame Bovary. Is she a sympathetic but flawed character, or is she a cruel and selfish woman? Emma Bovary's main problem is that she believes money will end all her problems. But then most peo...

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More books

2008-05-05T15:02:39Z

I haven't yet finished my 2008 list of books to read. In fact, this is the first year I've ever made a list of books to read. I was always sort of against the idea because I thought it made reading too stringent and boring. I believed the list wou...

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The Road

2008-04-28T15:27:11Z

In college I was taking a philosophy class and happened to watch the movie Trigger Effect. It's not a memorable movie but it stunned me because I was absorbed in trying to understand Hobbes's State of Nature. Suddenly it all made sense. I wonder ...

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Thursbitch

2008-04-20T01:59:37Z

Saying this book was pretentious would be easy. In fact, it probably is the most pretentious thing I've ever read. But leaving it at that is not the whole story. Why is it pretentious? There is little description of place or people. Time switche...

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Story of the Eye

2008-04-14T04:03:03Z

Instead of reading the next book on my list I read Story of the Eye. It's on the 1001 book list and only a hundred pages. My main impetus was to read something quick. I can definitely see why people were shocked back in 1928. One thing struck m...

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Early Reviewing

2008-04-11T14:18:39Z

LibraryThing just notified me that I am receiving my first Early Reviewer book. I am so excited! The website has this cool idea of sending people free books even before they hit the bookstores. The only thing you have to do is read it and write a...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

2008-04-10T20:17:03Z

It seems most people read this book in high school. After I finished it, I could not decide if it would have been better to read it fifteen years ago or not. Part of me would have gotten more out of it at the age of eighteen. Now, it's hard to b...

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