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Michael Rubens
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There’s a small gym where I work — two treadmills, a stationary bike, an ellipse machine, some free weights — and I pop in there a few times a week and grimly endeavor to stave off the ravages of time.*
The gym has a little locker room with two showers and a bank of eight standard-issue gray lockers: tall, thin, with the requisite eye-level shelf. Yesterday, after my ravage-staving-off, I opened...
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The Sheriff of Yrnameer
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2009
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Sons of the 613
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2012
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This book is like a giant one man show where every character is played by zaphod beeblebrox, the good british zaphod with the one head that is always napping not the disney one, that well honestly I turned the movie off before he showed up so who...
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"I liked the green, too -- I'm a bit worried the grey cover sort of gets lost on the bookshelves.
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Yrnameer is the last of the “Your Name Heres”--planets that haven’t gotten corporate sponsors yet. It’s pretty rare, so rare it’s become a myth. Mentioning Yrnameer is a sure way to earn a laugh because it’s a well known probability that Yrnameer,...
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A silly, silly space adventure. Really reminded me of an old Star Trek novel (yes, I've read a few) called "How Much for Just the Planet" by John M. Ford, where anything and everything crazy happened. Only they didn't break out in song at wacky mo...
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Brilliant, stunning, hilarious -- at least in terms of the cover design, which is by the unbelievably talented Peter Mendelsund. The actual contents of the book are my fault. www.michaelrubens.com |
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