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author: Helen Nearing
name: Bob
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/15/08
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re-reading one of my most favorite books. scott and helen nearing--HEROES.
]]> 25523674 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:19:56 -0700
author: Karl Ernest Meyer
name: Bob
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/08/08
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i love me some central asian history books and this is a good 'un.
]]> 24802202 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:50:06 -0700
author: Michael Isikoff
name: Bob
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/24/08
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assholes. kinda repetitive. infuriatin' too. these fuckers got some 'splainin' to do when they get in fronta god.
]]> 23845140 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:41:40 -0700
author: Jamie James
name: Bob
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/16/08
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dude knew a lot about snakes. he got bitten by a hot snake. a real hot snake. he died.
]]> 24470427 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:41:17 -0700
author: Barack Obama
name: Bob
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/16/08
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obama in 08. fo sho'.
]]> 22861770 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:07:44 -0700
author: Rick Perlstein
name: Bob
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/05/08
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]]> 22672014 Wed, 28 May 2008 09:53:58 -0700
author: Steve Coll
name: Bob
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/28/08
shelves:
review:
very innerstin.
]]> 22539604 Mon, 19 May 2008 06:30:10 -0700
author: Elizabeth Royte
name: Bob
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/19/08
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review:
bottled water is evil. drink from the tap. you won't die.
]]> 22218904 Sat, 17 May 2008 05:01:13 -0700
author: Nick Heil
name: Bob
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/17/08
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next up. i have to read a mountaineerin' book every few months. this was a pretty good one.
]]> 21972418 Thu, 15 May 2008 05:52:12 -0700
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/15/08
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review:
!!
]]> 21705532 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:49:07 -0700
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1947
rating: 4
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/10/08
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hero. again. all about a white dude who finds he's got a little black in him and what happens. not good stuff happens.
]]> 21446968 Tue, 06 May 2008 10:18:07 -0700
it is why i sleep on a futon. among other things.]]>
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1922
rating: 5
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/06/08
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actually RE-readin' it. if there is one book that changed my life, it is "babbit". a high school teacher had me read it (maybe he thought i was on the road to babbitry).

it is why i sleep on a futon. among other things.
]]> 21235413 Thu, 01 May 2008 05:17:07 -0700
author: Elio Schaechter
name: Bob
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 05/01/08
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review:
very innerstin'. i dig 'shrooms--both magic and eatin'. this is a fun book. lot's o' fun facts.
]]> 20777296 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:34:27 -0700
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1935
rating: 4
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/29/08
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review:
it already has kinda. highly recommended.
]]> 19707950 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:40:27 -0700
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1925
rating: 4
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/18/08
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review:
hero. i like "babbit" better, but sinclair's my dude. like luda' is jigga's dude. jus' like dat!
]]> 19182380 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:40:25 -0700
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1927
rating: 5
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/08/08
shelves:
review:
i just rediscovered sinclair lewis. i'm only reading his books from here on out. natch.
]]> 19369957 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:29:48 -0700
author: Tom Wolfe
name: Bob
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1975
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 04/03/08
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review:

]]> 3513296 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:47:47 -0700 dang this book was good.]]>
author: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
name: Bob
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/01/08
shelves:
review:
i love me some thailand.
dang this book was good.
]]> 18351135 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:36:39 -0700
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Bob
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1920
rating: 4
read at: 03/08
date added: 03/30/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 18086358 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:37:20 -0700
hero. bigtime hero.]]>
author: Bill McKibben
name: Bob
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 03/08
date added: 03/21/08
shelves:
review:
everyone should read bill mckibben, everyone. now.

hero. bigtime hero.
]]> 17078970 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:25:29 -0700
author: Richard Price
name: Bob
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 02/08
date added: 03/19/08
shelves:
review:
richard price. hero. nyc as fuck.
]]> 17730864 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:24:50 -0700
author: Matthew Pearl
name: Bob
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 03/14/08
shelves:
review:
purty good. cambridge as fuck.
]]> 17298072 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:54:36 -0700
author: James Howard Kunstler
name: Bob
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 02/08
date added: 03/11/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 16889083 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:22:36 -0800
author: David Mendell
name: Bob
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 02/08
date added: 03/04/08
shelves:
review:
i really do hope the dude wins.
]]> 16494157 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:51:20 -0800 the koolaid is good. real good.
obama in '08.
word.]]>
author: Barack Obama
name: Bob
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 02/08
date added: 03/03/08
shelves:
review:
i'm drinkin' the koolaid.
the koolaid is good. real good.
obama in '08.
word.
]]> 2246064 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:54:27 -0800 always have. i had the mos' bitchin' treehouse EVER. me n' my bud chip. built it ourselves. way up. way way up. we were 9 and 10. swiis family robinson stylee. for real.]]>
author: Richard Preston
name: Bob
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 02/08
date added: 02/27/08
shelves:
review:
i. like. to. climb. trees.
always have. i had the mos' bitchin' treehouse EVER. me n' my bud chip. built it ourselves. way up. way way up. we were 9 and 10. swiis family robinson stylee. for real.
]]> 15878944 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:29:41 -0800
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Bob
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 02/08
date added: 02/22/08
shelves:
review:
had to cleanse the palate from jane austen. lehane is not jane austen. i've seen the movie, but i have no retention so the book is great. again, boston as fuck.
]]> 15406588 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:05:52 -0800
trademark "makin' everything ok ending" a little less convincing. darker. maybe cuz she was older when she wrote this one. i think 1812 or so.]]>
author: Jane Austen
name: Bob
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1814
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 02/19/08
shelves:
review:
that's right--ya gotta problem with that?

trademark "makin' everything ok ending" a little less convincing. darker. maybe cuz she was older when she wrote this one. i think 1812 or so.
]]> 2733239 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:29:53 -0800
author: David Crane
name: Bob
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 02/08
date added: 02/11/08
shelves:
review:
it's cold in antarctica. real real cold. if ya don't read the whole book, read the last chapter.
]]> 13917777 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:45:19 -0800
author: Jaed Coffin
name: Bob
average rating: 2.77
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 02/01/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 14049435 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:07:14 -0800
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Bob
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/31/08
shelves:
review:
crack, pure crack.
]]> 13916372 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:31:49 -0800
author: John le Carré
name: Bob
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/29/08
shelves:
review:
i gotta quit readin' mysteries. it's a lesser genre.
]]> 13604617 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:30:33 -0800
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Bob
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/29/08
shelves:
review:
lehane's books are like crack.
]]> 13528321 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:46:34 -0800
author: LECARRE
name: Bob
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1981
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/26/08
shelves:
review:
the one that introduces smiley. it was lecarre's first novel. he got better. but other lecarre novels refer back to this one. for the completist. natch.
]]> 13393591 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:11:34 -0800
author: John le Carré
name: Bob
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1964
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/24/08
shelves:
review:
a good 'un.
]]> 13158704 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:33:55 -0800
author: Wilfred Thesiger
name: Bob
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/24/08
shelves:
review:
i love me some wifred thesiger. the dude hated cars.
]]> 12564430 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:32:05 -0800
rocked. read it now.]]>
author: Upton Sinclair
name: Bob
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1927
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/22/08
shelves:
review:
whoa nelly!! this is a good 'un so far!!

rocked. read it now.
]]> 12560034 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:58:00 -0800
and the swiss army really do all carry swiss army knives. and drink wine.]]>
author: John McPhee
name: Bob
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/15/08
shelves:
review:
even if ya ain't innersted in whatever mcphee's writin' about it's still good. ya know what i mean?

and the swiss army really do all carry swiss army knives. and drink wine.
]]> 12470486 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:56:01 -0800
twisty!]]>
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Bob
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/15/08
shelves:
review:
another sicko book. insane asylum in boston harbor.

twisty!
]]> 12315144 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:09:41 -0800
makes "silence of the lambs" seem like a kid's bedtime story.

sick. but in a good way. ]]>
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Bob
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/14/08
shelves:
review:
whoa. sick. dennis lehane is the only thrilla dude i read. he's the best.

makes "silence of the lambs" seem like a kid's bedtime story.

sick. but in a good way.
]]> 11435571 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:53:06 -0800
author: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
name: Bob
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1970
rating: 4
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/11/08
shelves:
review:
vinegar joe! ya really learn a lot about china in the war and what a prick chiang kai-shek was.
]]> 12148845 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:10:42 -0800
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Bob
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 10/92
date added: 01/10/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 11074009 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:57:55 -0800
the last chapter'll make ya cry. really. like a li'l girl.]]>
author: Mark Jenkins
name: Bob
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 12/07
date added: 01/02/08
shelves:
review:
i love me some mark jenkins. da dude lives da fuckin' dream.

the last chapter'll make ya cry. really. like a li'l girl.
]]> 11138945 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:36:50 -0800
a good un.]]>
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Bob
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/29/07
shelves:
review:
ever' now n' agin' i like to read me a thrilla. and my boy dennis lehane is one of the best out there. boston as fuck.

a good un.
]]> 11150751 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:59:17 -0800
author: Nicholas Howe
name: Bob
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 02/05
date added: 12/28/07
shelves:
review:

]]> 10461781 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:01:23 -0800
ya learn a lotta cool stuff in this book. nature and stuff.]]>
author: Alan Weisman
name: Bob
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/27/07
shelves:
review:
this would be my dream.

ya learn a lotta cool stuff in this book. nature and stuff.
]]> 10627527 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:35:15 -0800
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Bob
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/19/07
shelves:
review:
maugham, hero. another masterpiece.
]]> 10360881 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:34:13 -0800
belichick. hero.]]>
author: David Halberstam
name: Bob
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/17/07
shelves:
review:
that whole cheatin' thing is bullshit, but even if it weren't he's a genius. so there all you haters. patriots--dynasty. and this in the age of salary caps and free agency. fuck the '72 cokehead dolphins.

belichick. hero.
]]> 10547452 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:33:19 -0800
author: Joan Didion
name: Bob
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1996
rating: 3
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/17/07
shelves:
review:
laconic.
]]> 9871237 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:35:50 -0800
a sad one!

dreiser. hero.]]>
author: Theodore Dreiser
name: Bob
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1925
rating: 4
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/15/07
shelves:
review:
whoa! saddy sad is this book! and i thought all dem khalid hussein was sad. boy o boy!!!! but a good 'un though!

a sad one!

dreiser. hero.
]]> 10260001 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:34:18 -0800
real good! i wanna see the movie!! somebody rent it and invite me over!]]>
author: Robert Traver
name: Bob
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/12/07
shelves:
review:
this is a good 'un. i can see 4 or 5 stars for this 'un!!!

real good! i wanna see the movie!! somebody rent it and invite me over!
]]> 9302865 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:31:26 -0800
4 stars only cause ol' norman ends it after 1200 or so pages with "to be continued". then he up and dies on us and apparently doesn't "continue". not unless they find some stuff in his desk drawers or somewhere.

this thing is frawkin' EPIC! not quite as good as "executioner's song", but dang close. very dang close.]]>
author: Norman Mailer
name: Bob
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/30/07
shelves:
review:
since we lost ol' norman, it reminded me to read this doorstopper (around 1100 pages)i've had on my shelves for years (a hardcover first edition natch!). "executioner's song" is one of my favorite all-timers. so far, this one is right up there. all sortsa (prolly justified) paranoiac stuff involvin' the cia. looks like it may be one of the greats from one of the greats.

4 stars only cause ol' norman ends it after 1200 or so pages with "to be continued". then he up and dies on us and apparently doesn't "continue". not unless they find some stuff in his desk drawers or somewhere.

this thing is frawkin' EPIC! not quite as good as "executioner's song", but dang close. very dang close.
]]> 9226179 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:17:28 -0800
mark jenkins is a hero. the last lines'll make ya weep.]]>
author: Mark Jenkins
name: Bob
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/19/07
shelves:
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hardest of da hardcore, mark jenkins is. man o man, i'd give my left nut and my front seat in church to take off an' bike across russia.

mark jenkins is a hero. the last lines'll make ya weep.
]]> 8916711 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:04:10 -0800
stop whatever yer doin' and read this NOW!!!!!!! i'd give it a lakh oe even a crore of stars if'n this here site'd let ya. IT'S THAT GREAT!!!!!!!!

i've said it til i'm blue in my frawkin' face--maugham. hero.]]>
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Bob
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1915
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/16/07
shelves:
review:
natch!

stop whatever yer doin' and read this NOW!!!!!!! i'd give it a lakh oe even a crore of stars if'n this here site'd let ya. IT'S THAT GREAT!!!!!!!!

i've said it til i'm blue in my frawkin' face--maugham. hero.
]]> 8877185 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:40:37 -0800
forget that hater lecarre (he supported--or at least didn't condemn--the fatwa against salman rushdie. so he's a frawkin' douche). maugham is way better anyway.

take the rest of the day off work and read this book.

thank me later!

finished last night. i'm only readin' my homey willie (dats what da dubya stands fo') form here on out. over and over and over!! he's dat good! yall bettah know dat!]]>
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Bob
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/10/07
shelves:
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maugham was hisself a british intel officer in dubya dubya 1 so he knows what he's writin' about. as he always does. natch.

forget that hater lecarre (he supported--or at least didn't condemn--the fatwa against salman rushdie. so he's a frawkin' douche). maugham is way better anyway.

take the rest of the day off work and read this book.

thank me later!

finished last night. i'm only readin' my homey willie (dats what da dubya stands fo') form here on out. over and over and over!! he's dat good! yall bettah know dat!
]]> 8738086 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:41:34 -0800
girl's book, but i enjoyed it.

jane austen.
hero(ine).]]>
author: Jane Austen
name: Bob
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1813
rating: 4
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/08/07
shelves:
review:
whatchu lookin' at? yeah. i'm readin' jane austen. ya gotta problem with that? huh? do ya?

girl's book, but i enjoyed it.

jane austen.
hero(ine).
]]> 8266737 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:08:25 -0800
author: Joseph Conrad
name: Bob
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 11/06/07
shelves:
review:
i love me some conrad. one of the top 3 or 4 writer's in the english language. i'm readin' the nice everyman's edition (natch!). i'm surprised i haven't read this before as i've rest almost all his other extant works. "extant"--ya like that?
]]> 8608306 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:09:02 -0700
maugham.
hero.]]>
author: W. Somerset Maugham
name: Bob
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 11/03/07
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one of the best i've ever read. maugham even gets the indian parts right.

maugham.
hero.
]]> 8377519 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:14:14 -0700
author: Mohsin Hamid
name: Bob
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 05/07
date added: 10/29/07
shelves:
review:

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