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author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Corey
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1973
rating: 2
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]]> 1773237 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:54:40 -0700
author: Derrick Bell
name: Corey
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1989
rating: 4
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date added: 06/07/07
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]]> 1773228 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:54:11 -0700
author: Henry Louis Gates Jr
name: Corey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 1773218 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:53:47 -0700
author: Roberto Mangabeira Unger
name: Corey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> 1773184 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:51:47 -0700
author: Cornel West
name: Corey
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> 1773166 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:51:10 -0700
author: Edward W. Said
name: Corey
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 1773160 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:50:33 -0700
author: Søren Kierkegaard
name: Corey
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> 1773151 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:49:48 -0700
author: Noam Chomsky
name: Corey
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> 1773147 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:49:31 -0700
author: Noam Chomsky
name: Corey
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 1773126 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:46:57 -0700
author: Noam Chomsky
name: Corey
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 1773059 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:42:14 -0700
author: Noam Chomsky
name: Corey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 1773054 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:42:06 -0700
author: Noam Chomsky
name: Corey
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> 1773035 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:41:05 -0700
author: Howard Zinn
name: Corey
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1980
rating: 5
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]]> 1721480 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:34:55 -0700
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Corey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1869
rating: 5
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The story contained in the introduction, about Dostoevsky being immobilized into near seizure in front of Hans Holbein's painting of the "Dead Christ," explains why this novel, while devastating, is ultimately not despairing. Something which has the potential to destroy faith... an evocative painting, the tribulations of Job, the absurd demand that Abraham kill Isaac, or in this case the world's destructive treatment of a perfectly sympathetic man... can actually innoculate faith against future doubt, provided one initially survives the test.
]]> 1721980 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:06:51 -0700 was fated to love. It is a great book though.]]>
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Corey
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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I went from fifth grade through college with a completely secret and unrequited crush on one girl. Later, after learning to actually interact with real women, I realized that she was to me just an objectification of the crazed romantic notion of a tragic fate-driven life-long love story -- as found in this book. Ultimately it is a dangerous ideal, having nearly caused me to miss the amazing woman who I actually was fated to love. It is a great book though.
]]> 1722236 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:46:51 -0700
author: Franz Kafka
name: Corey
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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This is the other book (besides Bleak House) that I would force all law students to read if I could. At least one Supreme Court Justice has said so as well. Kafka was a lawyer. If more lawyers had the empathy and understanding he writes with... well that would be wonderful.
]]> 1770318 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:25:50 -0700
author: Charles Dickens
name: Corey
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1853
rating: 5
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If I were Dean of a law school, I would require all of the students to read this book. Not primarily because it ironically points up technocracy, but because it portrays social class, love, and generosity -- in a way that can inspire a humility of spirit that the Socratic method has otherwise banished.
]]> 1770593 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:18:10 -0700
author: Charles Baudelaire
name: Corey
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1857
rating: 4
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]]> 1770407 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:10:21 -0700
author: Anonymous
name: Corey
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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]]> 1770401 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:10:03 -0700
author: Homer
name: Corey
average rating: 3.94
book published: 600
rating: 3
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]]> 1722356 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:36:02 -0700
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Corey
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1957
rating: 5
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So most everyone goes through a beatnik phase even if they never heard of Kerouac and that is ultimately a grand thing because people generally take life too seriously otherwise. Whatever you are doing you are only ever going to be in this position once so you may as well try and suck the marrow out of every bone you come across. Everyone ends at the same dead place so its got to be the journey that matters.
]]> 1722246 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:17:19 -0700
author: Franz Kafka
name: Corey
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1922
rating: 5
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No book has influenced my philosophy more than this one. Non-specific allegory has a special ability to be universally applicable to each personalized quest for truth and faith. I have never found a better presentation of the inate absurdity of the human condition. Kafka is more subtle than Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky about the necessary response, but anyone who hasn't been trained to despise faith will see the abyss to leap across.
]]> 1721460 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:59:07 -0700
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Corey
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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One can have a crisis of faith that both begins and ends entirely within the pages of this book. If you have become intolerably cynical about faith and altruism after having read Sartre or Neitzsche, and would once more like to have real friends and speak of truth and happiness, and would like to believe in something again just once... then you should try reading Dostoevsky. Worked for me, your mileage may vary.
]]> 1726797 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:42:11 -0700
author: Charles Bukowski
name: Corey
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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Reading Bukowski is like hanging around drunk in the broke-down, decrepit, sun-drenched underworld of Los Angeles; listening to Mahler and betting your last five dollars on a horse named after a stripper you used to know. But you don't get dirty or hung-over, and the only ill-effect is a new-found empathy for the damned.
]]> 1727131 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:32:01 -0700
author: Arthur Rimbaud
name: Corey
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 1727125 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:31:32 -0700
author: Kahlil Gibran
name: Corey
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1946
rating: 4
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]]> 1727103 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:30:16 -0700
author: Kahlil Gibran
name: Corey
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1923
rating: 4
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]]> 1727089 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:29:40 -0700
author: Dylan Thomas
name: Corey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1971
rating: 3
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]]> 1727078 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:29:09 -0700
author: Robert Bly
name: Corey
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 1727030 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:26:33 -0700
author: Pablo Neruda
name: Corey
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1924
rating: 4
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]]> 1727026 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:26:07 -0700
author: Pablo Neruda
name: Corey
average rating: 4.49
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> 1727005 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:24:50 -0700
author: Adrienne Rich
name: Corey
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> 1726970 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:23:04 -0700
author: E.E. Cummings
name: Corey
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1959
rating: 5
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]]> 1726939 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:20:53 -0700
author: W.H. Auden
name: Corey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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]]> 1726932 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:20:25 -0700
author: W.H. Auden
name: Corey
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> 1726922 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:20:06 -0700
author: William Butler Yeats
name: Corey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 1726917 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:19:55 -0700
author: William Butler Yeats
name: Corey
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1989
rating: 5
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]]> 1726839 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:17:49 -0700
author: Dante Alighieri
name: Corey
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1308
rating: 4
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]]> 1726825 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:17:01 -0700
author: Walt Whitman
name: Corey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1855
rating: 4
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]]> 1726807 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:15:57 -0700
author: Stephen Crane
name: Corey
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> 1726749 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:11:48 -0700
author: Katherine Paterson
name: Corey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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]]> 1726729 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:10:33 -0700
author: Tom Stoppard
name: Corey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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]]> 1726723 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:10:05 -0700
author: Samuel Beckett
name: Corey
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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]]> 1726661 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:06:25 -0700
author: Jorge Luis Borges
name: Corey
average rating: 4.66
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> 1726643 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:05:52 -0700
author: J.M. Coetzee
name: Corey
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> 1726633 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:05:30 -0700
author: Don DeLillo
name: Corey
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> 1726626 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:59 -0700
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Corey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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]]> 1726619 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:36 -0700
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Corey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1971
rating: 5
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]]> 1726617 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:33 -0700
author: Hunter S. Thompson
name: Corey
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> 1726607 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:05 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Corey
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1969
rating: 5
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]]> 1726606 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:04:03 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Corey
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> 1726577 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:03:14 -0700
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Corey
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> 1726571 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:02:52 -0700
author: James Baldwin
name: Corey
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> 1726508 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:00:38 -0700
author: Henry Miller
name: Corey
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> 1726455 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:53 -0700
author: Henry Miller
name: Corey
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1987
rating: 3
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]]> 1726449 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:38 -0700
author: Henry Miller
name: Corey
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> 1726447 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:36 -0700
author: Henry Miller
name: Corey
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> 1726431 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:00 -0700
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Corey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> 1726414 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:57:39 -0700
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Corey
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> 1726411 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:57:35 -0700
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Corey
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> 1726375 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:56:38 -0700
author: Joseph Heller
name: Corey
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1961
rating: 5
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]]> 1726364 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:56:10 -0700