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And this still amuses me. However, the ending is super depressing. ]]>
author: Nick Hornby
name: Abby
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 01/05
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Okay, so this book is about a woman married to a man who literally makes a living by hating everything (and writing about it). Then one day he completely changes and is happy all the time, and she starts reminiscing about when he hated everything. At one point she lists everything he and his friend had ever criticized as being talentless and overrated (which goes on for 2 pages and includes everything from John Lennon to "all the Brontes" to Homer) and then the people who met his approval: Bob Dylan, Graham Greene, Quentin Tarantino, and Tony Hancock.

And this still amuses me. However, the ending is super depressing.
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author: Inc. Let's Go
name: Abby
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 01/06
date added: 05/09/08
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This was my backpacking bible. Let's Go is really good for college or post college kids who want to stay in hostels, eat cheap food and drink heavily. But I have no sense of direction and it helped me navigate 5 countries. HOWEVER, I think the Let's Go kids spend a lot more time in the bar than anywhere else. Stupid Harvard snobs.
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author: Ken Follett
name: Abby
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 05/09/08
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Read this book while backpacking. It's 1000 pages so even the paperback is like a brick. It's really interesting, but some of the dialogue is outright silly. Ken Follett is a peculiar man.
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author: Laura Sessions Stepp
name: Abby
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 01/07
date added: 05/09/08
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Tell me something I don't already know.
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author: Marisha Pessl
name: Abby
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 01/07
date added: 05/09/08
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I like the illustrations. And the girl is so awkward.
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author: Chuck Klosterman
name: Abby
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 01/07
date added: 05/09/08
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I actually laughed out loud reading this in public. When he talks about the difference between relationship and non-relationship people in the first chapter, I couldn't believe it!
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author: Iris Bahr
name: Abby
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 01/07
date added: 05/09/08
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Funny, but Iris is super annoying and kind of an idiot. And obsessed with her own poop.
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author: Irving Stone
name: Abby
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1981
rating: 4
read at: 01/05
date added: 05/09/08
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I read this while I was studying in Florence. Michelangelo lived in our neighborhood and the street he took to his apprenticeship was the street where we went grocery shopping (Standa, anyone?)
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author: Steven D. Levitt
name: Abby
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 05/09/08
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The part about baby names reminds me of a 3 hour conversation EFreak, D'Nell and I had in a crappy hostel in Venice while hungover from Tennant's Super.
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author: Jon Krakauer
name: Abby
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 01/06
date added: 05/09/08
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This is an amazing book. Mormon polygamists are endlessly fascinating, and everyone I've recommended it to has loved it.
]]> 21928539 Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:52 -0700
author: Sidney W. Mintz
name: Abby
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1986
rating: 1
read at: 01/04
date added: 05/09/08
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Wow. Read this in the Anthropology: Food and Culture class Carly and I took because we thought there would be free meals. It turned out to be more of a study of how humans and monkeys trade meat for sex. BTW, Carly did not read this.
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author: Barbara Kingsolver
name: Abby
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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author: Harper Lee
name: Abby
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Abby
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Abby
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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author: Philippa Gregory
name: Abby
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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author: Erik Larson
name: Abby
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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author: Philip Roth
name: Abby
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1959
rating: 3
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author: Adam Langer
name: Abby
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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author: Curtis Sittenfeld
name: Abby
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> 21801860 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:50:51 -0700
author: Isabel Allende
name: Abby
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 21801707 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:48:49 -0700
author: Michael Shaara
name: Abby
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1974
rating: 4
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]]> 21801162 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:42:48 -0700
author: Melissa Bank
name: Abby
average rating: 3.27
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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author: Margaret George
name: Abby
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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author: Antonia Fraser
name: Abby
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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]]> 21800281 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:09 -0700
author: John Steinbeck
name: Abby
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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]]> 21800261 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:30:58 -0700
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Abby
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1926
rating: 5
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While traveling, I like to carry this book around. It is portable and makes me look smart. Oh and it's pretty good. Full of aimless cynical drunks hanging out in Spain and France.
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author: John Edward Williams
name: Abby
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 01/04
date added: 05/07/08
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Read this book for school. Way better than I, Claudius.
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author: Robert Penn Warren
name: Abby
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1946
rating: 5
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]]> 21799196 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:17:19 -0700
author: Publius Vergilius Maro
name: Abby
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1
rating: 5
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My favorite part is when Aeneas goes down to Hell and sees Dido, and she's all scary and has matted blood in her hair, and she still won't forgive him or even talk to him. Pretty sweet.
]]> 21799098 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:16:13 -0700
author: Tom Perrotta
name: Abby
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> 21799033 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:15:19 -0700
author: Ian McEwan
name: Abby
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 21799013 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:15:01 -0700
author: Evelyn Waugh
name: Abby
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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author: Evelyn Waugh
name: Abby
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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This book is hilarious. Every single word of dialogue is so understated and sarcastic and ridiculous. They made a movie from the book, and it wasn't funny at all.
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author: Evelyn Waugh
name: Abby
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1945
rating: 5
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There's a scene in this book that Ashley hates but that I think is hilarious (in an otherwise very serious book). Charles sees his wife Celia, whom he pretty much hates, for the first time in 2 years. They are in their room on the ship getting ready for bed. She is trying to, ahem, get romantic with him, and he's like, ok - then don't take your make up off yet. Ha.
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author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Abby
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1925
rating: 5
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author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Abby
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1920
rating: 5
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]]> 21798854 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:00 -0700
author: Jon Krakauer
name: Abby
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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author: Jon Krakauer
name: Abby
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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author: Jon Krakauer
name: Abby
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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author: Edith Wharton
name: Abby
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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author: Edith Wharton
name: Abby
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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author: Edith Wharton
name: Abby
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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author: Edith Wharton
name: Abby
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1920
rating: 5
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]]> 21798776 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:12:01 -0700
author: Edith Wharton
name: Abby
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 01/07
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Haha . . . Vince from Entourage almost takes the role of Nick in a film version of this book, as something "different" from his usual work, but Ari convinces him not to because "Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, boy never gets laid." Ha.
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author: Mary Doria Russell
name: Abby
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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