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author: Sarah Hall
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: worth-it
review:
Very, very cool book!!! She's such a young lass...and so good at description...part of the book takes place in Ireland; I could see and smell and taste everything she writes about!! Love it!! Read it!!
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author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: written-by-divine-beings
review:
When I want to feel that I grew up in a place and time consequence and validity I read Singer. He. Rocks. The. House.
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author: Jon Krakauer
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
What I want to read is the memoirs of all the people who had to tolerate this dude's ego while he was doing his modern-day white guy explorer routine. I learned more from watching South Park last night than reading this bunk.
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author: Elizabeth Bishop
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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date added: 05/16/08
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I just don't know how I feel about this book...she did NOT WANT us to see all this stuff. And yet, she's my GIRL. I just couldn't resist it.
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author: Elizabeth Bishop
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1979
rating: 5
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: desert-island
review:
Bubbies, now THIS is writing. She will change your fricking DNA.
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Read Ginsberg instead...]]>
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1957
rating: 1
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
Sit down with a pint of Jack, a crack pipe, works and some junk. Now read this. Otherwise this is just not a valid piece of literature.

Read Ginsberg instead...
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Billie Jean is not my lover...she's just a girl who claims that I am the one. ]]>
author: Dan Brown
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2003
rating: 1
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
Once upon a time there was an oppressed and miserable, violently mistreated prostitute. She had sex with this guy who started a cult. She had a baby. Then she was killed when she told the cult-leader he had a kid. The kid grew up and lived in poverty and violence in the cult-obsessed world. Sure, she had a family...and they had families...and they all knew about their lineage, but s#$t, who cares?

Billie Jean is not my lover...she's just a girl who claims that I am the one.
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author: James Baldwin
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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date added: 05/16/08
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review:
I can't urge you to read this with greater fervor. This is one of the most incredible novellas you will have the chance to read - ever.
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author: James Baldwin
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: written-by-divine-beings
review:
read it, now. Amazing.
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Oh, and this is a great and heartbreaking story.]]>
author: James Baldwin
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: written-by-divine-beings
review:
Baldwin is just simply the most important writer to have lived through all the s#%t African Americans have been subjected to...the only problem is how sadly relevant his essays are about the state of racism in the US still...

Oh, and this is a great and heartbreaking story.
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author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: worth-it
review:
She's pretty cool, Jhumpa. I don't know how she tolerates Amerika.
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author: Rhonda Byrne
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
Fascist plot to drain everyone of a brain. Please beware, this book is really bad for your mental health. The usual new age escapist, "those people dying of AIDS in Africa chose their destiny". You'd do better dropping acid and watching the 700 club.
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author: Eckhart Tolle
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
This schlock has been recommended to me by many a new-ager. When they smile their haunted, cult flushed faces at me I tell them my favorite thing about this dude is that he is actually a character from The Lord of the Rings...no lie, kids, he's a gnome. His writing? Well, let's say he's powering his now all the way to bank.
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author: Milan Kundera
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
Oh yeah, loved this book. Deep. Really, really deep. We all have deep thoughts when we're getting laid by fine women, right? The question is, can we follow up the deep thoughts with good writing? In this case, uh, NO!
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author: Arthur Golden
name: Twinkiedefense
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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date added: 05/16/08
shelves: whipping-boys
review:
I learned that indeed, bad writing is alive and well. This guy couldn't have fit more bad metaphors into a book if he were held at gunpoint by a bunch of geishas who object to being offensively oversimplified by a typical misogynist white male author with ANOTHER Asian lady fantasy.
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