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384
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avg rating 3.58
num ratings 960
date pub Feb 24, 2012
date pub edition Feb 28, 2012
Austin's rating my rating review At the risk of sounding like a philistine, I thought it was about 100 pages too long—I got really bogged down in the middle. But Ullman’s a really gre...more
At the risk of sounding like a philistine, I thought it was about 100 pages too long—I got really bogged down in the middle. But Ullman’s a really great writer — I highly recommend Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents .(less)
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isbn13 9780679450146
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num pages
110
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avg rating 4.14
num ratings 80
date pub Dec 09, 1996
date pub edition Aug 31, 1999
Austin's rating my rating review Great photographs of writers at their desks accompanied by a few paragraphs about their process.
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isbn13 9781451633153
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num pages
352
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avg rating 4.14
num ratings 223
date pub Sep 11, 2012
date pub edition Sep 11, 2012
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isbn13 9781570611063
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num pages
128
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avg rating 4.34
num ratings 489
date pub 1999
date pub edition Jan 09, 2002
Austin's rating my rating review I love this book — I first read it in the 1999 paperback edition put out by Sasquatch Books, but now Drawn and Quarterly has re-issued it in hardcover...more
I love this book — I first read it in the 1999 paperback edition put out by Sasquatch Books, but now Drawn and Quarterly has re-issued it in hardcover with new artwork, a new afterword by Lynda, and about 50 extra strips. More here: http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/45... (less)
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isbn13 9780822207634
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num pages
80
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avg rating 3.82
num ratings 402
date pub 1933
date pub edition Dec 31, 1998
Austin's rating my rating review Re-read this the other night. Still nightmarish and hilarious. Every author who has a book in the self-help section should have to read this. West ori...more
Re-read this the other night. Still nightmarish and hilarious. Every author who has a book in the self-help section should have to read this. West originally conceived it as “a novel in the form of a comic strip”:The chapters to be squares in which many things happen through one action. The speeches contained in the conventional balloons. I abandoned this idea, but retained some of the comic strip technique: Each chapter instead of going forward in time, also goes backward, forward, up and down in space like a picture. Violent images are used to illustrate commonplace events. Violent acts are left almost bald. http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/45... (less)
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isbn13 9780834800793
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num pages
132
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avg rating 4.23
num ratings 10,903
date pub 1970
date pub edition Apr 01, 1973
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cover title author isbn 0062041266
isbn13 9780062041265
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num pages
328
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avg rating 3.82
num ratings 26,628
date pub Apr 26, 2011
date pub edition Apr 26, 2011
Austin's rating my rating review I love Westerns. I love a good story. I love 300-page books with super-short chapters. I love funny dialogue. I love narrators who digress. I loved thi...more
I love Westerns. I love a good story. I love 300-page books with super-short chapters. I love funny dialogue. I love narrators who digress. I loved this book. My wife got it for me for Valentine’s Day. I’d never heard of it. 100 pages in, I started reading it really slowly because I didn’t want it to end. After I finished, I read some interviews with DeWitt, and found out that the novel was sort of an accident. After his first novel, he’d been thrown off the scent of story, and was more concerned with “voice,” but he got really bored with his reading habits, and started re-reading some older favorites of his, rediscovering story as a kind of constraint. (He says now of his reading habits, “The moment it begins to feel like homework, I head for something more welcoming.”) Then one day he scribbled “sensitive cowboys” on a piece of paper. He started thinking about how the neurotic is rarely featured in Westerns, instead, the hero is usually a “near mute man in black who kicks the devil in the dick before breakfast.” So he wrote “a testy exchange between two men riding side-by-side on horseback. One of them was self-doubting and vulnerable, while the other was confident to a fault.” He didn’t know what to do with it, so he set it aside. Later, he found a book about the Gold Rush at a yard sale, and he remembered the two men. He wrote about forty pages before he discovered they were brothers. He says writing the dialogue “at times I felt I was eavesdropping.” In the book, the brothers head out to kill a man named “Hermann Kermit Warm.” This character came about after DeWitt cut a photo of a prospector out of the yard sale book and tacked it up on his wall. The name however, “I didn’t make it up. I stole it. I was watching Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and a Hermann Warm was credited as the art director. He’s got a Wikipedia page and everything. I added the Kermit, because I like the musicality of the added syllables, but really, I just lifted it.” Another fun tidbit: at some point he realized he was spending too much time on the internet, and that he’d actually never gotten a good idea from there, so he had his wife change the wifi password. Anyways, this is the best book I’ve read so far this year. Highly recommended.http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/43... (less)
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isbn13 9780674535817
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num pages
512
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avg rating 3.98
num ratings 1,848
date pub Apr 05, 1989
date pub edition Sep 01, 1990
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cover title author isbn 0679435743
isbn13 9780679435747
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num pages
358
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avg rating 4.08
num ratings 40
date pub Sep 26, 1995
date pub edition Sep 26, 1995
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isbn13 9781934429112
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num pages
432
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avg rating 4.76
num ratings 21
date pub May 01, 2009
date pub edition Jun 01, 2009
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isbn13 9780571258147
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num pages
400
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avg rating 4.11
num ratings 122
date pub Apr 05, 2012
date pub edition Apr 05, 2012
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isbn13 9780679735250
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num pages
260
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avg rating 4.23
num ratings 4,654
date pub 1977
date pub edition Aug 06, 1991
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isbn13 9780679756606
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num pages
240
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avg rating 4.12
num ratings 1,264
date pub Mar 14, 1995
date pub edition Mar 19, 1996
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isbn13 9781451617962
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num pages
235
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avg rating 3.32
num ratings 1,460
date pub Jul 12, 2011
date pub edition Jul 12, 2011
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isbn13 9780061859410
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num pages
165
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avg rating 3.71
num ratings 638
date pub 2009
date pub edition Sep 29, 2009
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isbn13 9780691133805
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num pages
233
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avg rating 3.76
num ratings 34
date pub 2005
date pub edition Nov 12, 2007
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isbn13 9781936365531
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num pages
352
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avg rating 4.06
num ratings 1,069
date pub Jan 01, 2012
date pub edition Sep 12, 2012
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isbn13 9780965618397
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num pages
270
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avg rating 4.20
num ratings 187
date pub Jul 24, 2006
date pub edition Jul 24, 2006
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isbn13 9781594201349
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num pages
336
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avg rating 4.13
num ratings 3,082
date pub Oct 18, 2007
date pub edition Oct 18, 2007
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isbn13 9780761169253
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num pages
160
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avg rating 3.99
num ratings 8,457
date pub Jan 01, 2012
date pub edition Feb 28, 2012
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isbn13 9781584230700
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num pages
160
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avg rating 3.93
num ratings 3,616
date pub 1967
date pub edition Aug 01, 2001
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isbn13 9780671683900
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num pages
945
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avg rating 4.41
num ratings 59,007
date pub 1985
date pub edition Dec 15, 1988
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isbn13 9780066211312
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num pages
304
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avg rating 4.14
num ratings 38,855
date pub 2010
date pub edition Jan 19, 2010
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isbn13 9781600610868
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num pages
266
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avg rating 3.82
num ratings 3,846
date pub Dec 08, 2008
date pub edition Dec 01, 2008
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isbn13 9781568987637
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num pages
272
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avg rating 4.00
num ratings 65
date pub Mar 03, 2010
date pub edition Mar 03, 2010
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isbn13 9780307275172
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num pages
238
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avg rating 3.82
num ratings 5,934
date pub 2008
date pub edition May 05, 2009
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isbn13 9780674030589
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num pages
288
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avg rating 3.75
num ratings 316
date pub Mar 31, 2007
date pub edition Oct 01, 2008
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isbn13 9780375704239
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num pages
96
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avg rating 3.91
num ratings 528
date pub 1998
date pub edition Jun 13, 2000
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isbn13 9780307463746
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num pages
279
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avg rating 4.02
num ratings 16,377
date pub 2010
date pub edition Mar 09, 2010
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isbn13 9781568988825
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num pages
224
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avg rating 3.92
num ratings 24
date pub Sep 01, 2010
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