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378
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avg rating 3.83
num ratings 284,736
date pub 1955
date pub edition Feb 03, 2000
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cover title author isbn 0679734465
isbn13 9780679734468
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num pages
242
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avg rating 3.98
num ratings 9,565
date pub 1981
date pub edition Aug 03, 2004
Matthew's rating my rating review There's a fine line between genius and completely bonkers.
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cover title author isbn 0679723277
isbn13 9780679723271
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num pages
208
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avg rating 3.96
num ratings 2,507
date pub 1988
date pub edition May 14, 1989
Matthew's rating my rating review This is a superb set of short stories. Original, quirky, kinky, mature, and sophisticated.
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cover title author isbn 0142437638
isbn13 9780142437636
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num pages
128
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avg rating 3.76
num ratings 475
date pub 2002
date pub edition Sep 30, 2003
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num pages
240
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avg rating 3.59
num ratings 4,049
date pub 2007
date pub edition Jul 24, 2007
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cover title author isbn 1594202249
isbn13 9781594202247
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num pages
369
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avg rating 3.63
num ratings 4,921
date pub unknown
date pub edition Aug 04, 2009
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cover title author isbn 0140189440
isbn13 9780140189445
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num pages
487
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avg rating 3.84
num ratings 3,437
date pub 1975
date pub edition Jun 01, 1996
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cover title author isbn 0141181877
isbn13 9780141181875
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num pages
604
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avg rating 4.18
num ratings 4,138
date pub 1969
date pub edition May 01, 2010
Matthew's rating my rating review "The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again," as Morrissey more succinctly put it. Ada is occasionally delightful, often annoyin...more
"The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again," as Morrissey more succinctly put it. Ada is occasionally delightful, often annoying, and sometimes highly unlikeable, in desperate need of editorial control. For such a repetitive novel, it does leave a strangely powerful impression, leaving the reader to reflect on the nature of beauty, appearance, and desire, the fragile relationship between reality and fantasy and what lies between, and the consequences, intended and unintended, of our actions on others. But there are so many puns and such an excessive amount of wordplay that it becomes an unnecessarily exhausting work that doesn't quite convince.(less)
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cover title author isbn 0099533219
isbn13 9780099533214
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num pages
902
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avg rating 4.03
num ratings 14,749
date pub 1973
date pub edition Jul 20, 1995
Matthew's rating my rating review At times, Gravity's Rainbow does seem a little dated with its jazzy hep-talk and druggy references, but overall it is an astonishing series of images,...more
At times, Gravity's Rainbow does seem a little dated with its jazzy hep-talk and druggy references, but overall it is an astonishing series of images, ideas, and incidents that connect like most things connect - abritarily and randomly, rather than through any God-given order. It's best thinking about it as a sequel not only to V but to The Waste Land - an apocalyptic and threatening world where everyone seeks but fails to find meaning. If, as a reader, you expect to find order and meaning rather than exciting, endless chaos, then you'll be disappointed.(less)
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cover title author isbn 0141184485
isbn13 9780141184487
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num pages
368
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avg rating 3.72
num ratings 1,649
date pub 1925
date pub edition Dec 01, 2008
Matthew's rating my rating review Seems quite dated now Dos Passos's subJoycean Marxistinflected modernism
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cover title author isbn 0375421459
isbn13 9780375421457
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num pages
240
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avg rating 3.30
num ratings 2,818
date pub Oct 11, 2005
date pub edition Oct 11, 2005
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cover title author isbn 0307377040
isbn13 9780307377043
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num pages
256
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avg rating 3.39
num ratings 10,395
date pub 2008
date pub edition May 20, 2008
Matthew's rating my rating review This book is excellent; interesting, thoughtful, reflective, meandering. It's not really that much of a book about cricket, more about using sport or...more
This book is excellent; interesting, thoughtful, reflective, meandering. It's not really that much of a book about cricket, more about using sport or culture as a way of trying to stabilize one's identity, especially when it's so easy to lose one's identity in a shapeless, changing, migratory world.(less)
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cover title author isbn 0141027630
isbn13 9780141027630
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num pages
385
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avg rating 3.42
num ratings 18,146
date pub Jan 01, 2007
date pub edition Sep 01, 2008
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cover title author isbn 1594489580
isbn13 9781594489587
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num pages
335
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avg rating 3.82
num ratings 91,847
date pub Jan 09, 2001
date pub edition Sep 06, 2007
Matthew's rating my rating review No way near as good as it thinks it is; very predictable and one-dimensional.
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cover title author isbn 0141185996
isbn13 9780141185996
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num pages
181
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avg rating 3.95
num ratings 2,038
date pub 1941
date pub edition Mar 29, 2007
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cover title author isbn 0141188235
isbn13 9780141188232
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num pages
384
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avg rating 3.44
num ratings 1,956
date pub 1971
date pub edition Jul 01, 2006
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cover title author isbn 0330426451
isbn13 9780330426459
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num pages
200
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avg rating 3.61
num ratings 1,274
date pub Jan 01, 1972
date pub edition 1972
Matthew's rating my rating review Many great sentences: "I've never seen a great football player who wanted to learn a foreign language"; "Much of the appeal of sport derives from its...more
Many great sentences: "I've never seen a great football player who wanted to learn a foreign language"; "Much of the appeal of sport derives from its dependence on elegant gibberish" - the latter at the beginning of one of the best and funniest descriptions of a sports game I've read. A very funny and a very memorable book.(less)
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cover title author isbn 0099533316
isbn13 9780099533313
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num pages
496
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avg rating 3.95
num ratings 8,917
date pub 1963
date pub edition Feb 16, 1995
Matthew's rating my rating review Strangely makes me want to visit Malta.
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cover title author isbn 1862079722
isbn13 9781862079724
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num pages unknown
avg rating 3.26
num ratings 8,017
date pub May 02, 2006
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cover title author isbn 0679756450
isbn13 9780679756453
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num pages
289
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avg rating 3.66
num ratings 20,290
date pub 1969
date pub edition Sep 20, 1994
Matthew's rating my rating review Reading this one-joke novel put me off reading Roth for years. Start with The Human Stain instead.
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cover title author isbn 0140156046
isbn13 9780140156041
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num pages
480
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avg rating 3.94
num ratings 5,806
date pub 1988
date pub edition May 01, 1991
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cover title author isbn 0099422131
isbn13 9780099422136
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num pages
361
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avg rating 3.77
num ratings 14,318
date pub 2000
date pub edition Apr 05, 2001
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cover title author isbn 0375701427
isbn13 9780375701429
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num pages
423
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avg rating 3.89
num ratings 20,657
date pub 1997
date pub edition Feb 03, 1998
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cover title author isbn 006091307X
isbn13 9780060913076
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num pages
152
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avg rating 3.71
num ratings 27,061
date pub Jan 01, 1965
date pub edition Jan 22, 1986
Matthew's rating my rating review Bizarre and a little slight.
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isbn13 9780140187083
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976
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avg rating 4.26
num ratings 1,614
date pub 1955
date pub edition May 01, 1993
Matthew's rating my rating review A magnificent folly; that is to say, a postmodern masterpiece.
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cover title author isbn 0679732764
isbn13 9780679732761
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num pages
581
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avg rating 3.78
num ratings 62,319
date pub 1952
date pub edition Mar 14, 1995
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avg rating 4.05
num ratings 13,978
date pub 1988
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cover title author isbn 0425198685
isbn13 9780425198681
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num pages
367
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avg rating 3.83
num ratings 20,581
date pub 2003
date pub edition Feb 2005
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cover title author isbn 0385721358
isbn13 9780385721356
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num pages
544
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avg rating 3.39
num ratings 4,634
date pub Sep 18, 2001
date pub edition Oct 08, 2002
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cover title author isbn 0099477564
isbn13 9780099477563
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num pages
240
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avg rating 3.81
num ratings 1,621
date pub Jan 01, 1981
date pub edition Jun 30, 2011
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