Tag: books
member name: Paul M.
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . .
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December 02, 2008 02:38 PM EST --
Hogfather
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
In the fictional Discworld, which is carried by four elephants atop a giant turtle floating through space, what we would consider . . .
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September 17, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
1984
by George Orwell
(5/5 stars)
"1984"--or "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in the Oldspeak--is one of those books prophecizing doom that has remained relevant enough to generate a famous . . .
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October 10, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
(3/5 stars)
This is the kind of book I finish reading and have to begin a search of my own. I look for Cliff Notes, Wikkipedia entries, Amazon reviews, anything . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
(4/5 stars)
For someone whose only real exposure to Jewish culture growing up was watching "Seinfeld" on TV, "Portnoy's Complaint" seems . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
(3/5 stars)
In honor of the new movie adaptation of the novel--and me scoring a free copy of the book because of it--I'm posting the review I wrote of the book when . . .
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September 26, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
(2/5 stars)
I think I might have liked this book a lot more if I hadn't listened to the audiobook version. 22 hours of stereotyped Indian and Jamaican accents was . . .
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October 01, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
(5/5 stars)
Salman Rushdie is the third author I've read recently that I'd put off reading for many years out of a misplaced fear I'd find . . .
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
(3/5 stars)
The farther I got, the more obvious the conclusion that I read this too late in life. Had I read this as a teenager or in college I could have romanticized . . .
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November 02, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
(3/5 stars)
The next edition the publisher prints could use the tag line: If you loved "The Road" you'll love "The Painted Bird!" . . .
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June 23, 2008 10:28 PM EDT --
Well, more or less. My YA book "Forever Young" has just been "published" on Public Bookshelf.com (under my cousin's name because he has a Paypal account and his name sounds . . .
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September 18, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
These are a couple more items I've read recently that didn't make much of an impression on me and so I'm just going to toss off a couple one-paragraph reviews. For the obligatory plot . . .
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October 15, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
(4/5 stars)
There are two ways of perceiving Cervantes's "Don Quixote." In the modern interpretation Don Quixote is an idealistic dreamer, . . .
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October 23, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
(5/5 stars)
There are two words to describe this book: weird and wonderful. You could substitute "quirky" for weird if you want, because . . .
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October 29, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
(4/5 stars)
This is one of those books that may be a challenge for some readers because the narrative is like . . .
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December 03, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
This is another one of those books I'd long heard about and meant to get around to reading at some point. Finally . . .
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January 29, 2008 09:39 AM EST --
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #4)
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
I just spent a long weekend catching up on this series by reading books 2-4. . . .
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June 10, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
(4/5 stars)
I first read this book about five years ago when I was just exploring the works of John Irving, who has since become my favorite writer. . . .
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April 07, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
A Gather friend suggested after I reviewed Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books that I should give "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett a try. . . .
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