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Jack Murnighan

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Smalltown Hoosier by birth, central-Illinoisan till college, then some semiotics at Brown, an Orwellian stint in Paris, a Ph.D. in Medieval Lit from Duke, and finally New York's Chinatown. And now that i've hauled all my books to my 6th-floor walk-up, i'm staying put.

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	Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits 3.61 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals by Jack Murnighan (Goodreads Author), Maura Kelly 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Classic Nasty: More Naughty Bits: A Rollicking Guide to Hot Sex in Great Books, from the Iliad to the Corrections by Jack Murnighan (Goodreads Author), Sara E. Stemen (Designed by) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Full Frontal Fiction by Jack Murnighan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Genevieve Field (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals by Jack Murnighan (Goodreads Author), Maura Kelly 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve.com by Genevieve Field, Rufus Griscom (Editor), Jack Murnighan (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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Jack Murnighan said: "so far nowhere near as good as brothers K or crime and punishment "

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Jack Murnighan made a comment on Wayne Eury's review of One Hundred Years of Solitude "check back in when you're done. i wouldn't have wanted to lead you astray... "
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Jack Murnighan made a comment in the group Books on the Nightstand — Beowulf on the Beach Reading Challenge Folder Intro topic "well, i'm just glad you guys are persevering past Swann's Way, as i think the whole things gets considerably better. more power to you! "
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Jack Murnighan made a comment in the group Books on the Nightstand — Moby Dick topic "but michael, tell the truth: there's an incredible line on pretty much every page, right? my copy is almost more annotation than blank lines... "
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Jack Murnighan is currently reading: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky	My rating:
so far nowhere near as good as brothers K or crime and punishment
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Jack Murnighan made a comment in the group Books on the Nightstand — Beowulf on the Beach Reading Challenge and Giveaway! topic "in my not-so-humble, rereading isn't cheating -- reading a great book only one time is! "
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