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author: Neil Gaiman
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
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]]> 25895396 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:50:27 -0700
author: George Monbiot
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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date added: 06/30/08
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]]> 25895262 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:49:35 -0700
author: John van de Ruit
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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south africa's adrian mole.
]]> 23916062 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:20:29 -0700
author: Ndumiso Ngcobo
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
rating: 2
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]]> 23326699 Fri, 30 May 2008 13:36:57 -0700
author: Doris May Lessing
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> 19853558 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:10:41 -0700
author: Junot Díaz
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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Despite my limited familiarity with Hispanic slang, I loved this book. Of course, as a bildungsroman set in an interesting socio-political context, it's my kind of book anyway.
]]> 17573393 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:02:59 -0700
author: Orhan Pamuk
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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...especially the pieces on writing, authrs, his own books, others' books.
]]> 17573448 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:33:27 -0700
author: Ha Jin
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1998
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 03/11/08
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]]> 17573425 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:32:12 -0700
author: Bernard Imhasly
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 16233233 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:31:01 -0800
author: Christopher Brookmyre
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 12644751 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:47:22 -0800
author: Dave Eggers
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> 14429990 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:46:57 -0800
author: Paul Auster
name: Ingrid
average rating: 2.98
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 13609925 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:35:51 -0800
author: Tim Harford
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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not as entertaining or as well-structured as 'the undercover economist'. does, however, deal with the often perverse economic rationality of the more significant issues of our time - globalisation, race, voter apathy, interest groups etc.
]]> 14429864 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:28:58 -0800
author: John Boyne
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> 13609826 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:22:40 -0800
author: Denis Johnson
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1992
rating: 2
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]]> 12726178 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:29:33 -0800
author: Sigmund Freud
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1955
rating: 3
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date added: 01/16/08
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]]> 12644720 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:17:29 -0800
author: John McCabe
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2004
rating: 2
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]]> 3119505 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:55:21 -0800
author: Franz Kafka
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1915
rating: 5
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date added: 12/26/07
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]]> 10862077 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:55:37 -0800
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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delightfully evil in parts, predictably so in others - a nice counterpoint to the sentimentality of the season.
]]> 10861927 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:47:28 -0800
author: Ben Elton
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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Didn't live up to its early promise for me despite its farcical depiction of a not-too-distant dystopia of technology-religion-media-sex-unreason gone wild.
]]> 10544162 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:27:10 -0800
author: Mark Edmundson
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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Interesting inter-weaving of Freud's last years, including his escape from Vienna in the aftermath of the Nazi take-over with his views on the human need for 'strong' leaders/gods. Reading this with Steven Pinker's 'The Blank Slate', which also posits the view that violence and religiosity are innate to human nature, provided a grim, but fascinating, psychological angle to Pinker's genetic picture. Tangentially, the book also includes one of the best paeans to smoking I've ever come across.
]]> 10544169 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:18:03 -0800
author: Steven Pinker
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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Controversial conclusions on the innateness of gender and racial disparities and human propensities to violence and religion made this a fascinating, if somewhat depressing, read. The arguments Pinker presents are largely, though not entirely, persuasive. His belief that they need not necessarily translate to discriminatory practices are less so.
]]> 9692820 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:57:23 -0800
author: Alyque Padamsee
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> 9140720 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:31:39 -0800
author: Nathan Englander
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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took me a while to get into this one. was worth the persistence for its dark wit in the face of absurd reality.
]]> 8550719 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:26:12 -0700
author: George Smith
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 8550688 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:25:28 -0700
author: Woody Allen
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.15
book published: 2007
rating: 2
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]]> 7868108 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:12:35 -0700
author: Alice Munro
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 11/07
date added: 10/17/07
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]]> 7867993 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:11:34 -0700
author: M.J. Hyland
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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my favourite theme - blighted childhood. i liked hyland's unsentimental portrait of a disturbed exchange student battling her demons.
]]> 3173011 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:42:44 -0700
author: Richard Powers
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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consciousness, self, neuro-science, conservation as the backdrop to a mystery. nice!
]]> 6311482 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:06:42 -0700
author: Jon Stewart
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 6311480 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:06:27 -0700
author: Jon Stewart
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 09/17/07
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]]> 5047732 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:05:47 -0700
author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> 6133447 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:21:36 -0700
author: Kunal Basu
name: Ingrid
average rating: 2.75
book published: 2007
rating: 2
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]]> 5047706 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:56:35 -0700
author: Tom Perrotta
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 08/24/07
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]]> 3172600 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:55:30 -0700
author: Ingmar Bergman
name: Ingrid
average rating: 2.50
book published: 1994
rating: 3
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]]> 4136025 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:54:33 -0700
author: Stephen Leacock
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> 4190805 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:26:43 -0700
author: Marisha Pessl
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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]]> 4190801 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:26:00 -0700
author: Alexandra Ripley
name: Ingrid
average rating: 2.87
book published: 1991
rating: 1
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]]> 4136103 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:49:51 -0700
author: Zadie Smith
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.10
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> 4136069 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:48:23 -0700
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 4136068 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:48:15 -0700
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 4136067 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:48:13 -0700
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 4136066 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:48:12 -0700
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 4136064 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:48:10 -0700
author: Eoin Colfer
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 4136059 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:47:51 -0700
author: Nick Hornby
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1995
rating: 2
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]]> 4136054 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:47:29 -0700
author: Stephen King
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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]]> 4136042 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:46:38 -0700
author: Jane Austen
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1811
rating: 4
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]]> 4136038 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:46:33 -0700
author: Jane Austen
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1814
rating: 3
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]]> 4136035 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:46:25 -0700
author: Mark Twain
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> 4136031 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:46:03 -0700
author: Arundhati Roy
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 3445455 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:17:42 -0700
author: Daniel Handler
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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A 'tragic magic' realistic view of love in all its dimensions by a verbal virtuoso.
]]> 4072431 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:07:37 -0700
author: David A. Aaker
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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]]> 4072422 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:07:30 -0700
author: Jeffrey Archer
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 4072382 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:06:21 -0700
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1999
rating: 2
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]]> 3834165 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:42:09 -0700
author: Orhan Pamuk
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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date added: 07/30/07
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]]> 3834159 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:41:50 -0700
author: Vikram Seth
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 3834152 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:41:37 -0700
author: Roald Dahl
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2001
rating: 2
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]]> 3834111 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:40:13 -0700
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1963
rating: 5
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]]> 3834073 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:38:09 -0700
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> 3834066 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:37:47 -0700
author: Naomi Klein
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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]]> 3834063 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:37:39 -0700
author: Jerome K. Jerome
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1889
rating: 4
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]]> 3834059 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:37:34 -0700
author: John Banville
name: Ingrid
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> 3834018 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:35:36 -0700
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Ingrid
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1950
rating: 2
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]]> 3511899 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:09:22 -0700