Dan's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/136201 en-US Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:45:50 -0700 60 Dan's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 17628171 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:45:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Runaways, Vol. 3]]> Runaways works because it deals with shades of gray, but also because even in the midst of their trials, the kids never give up the hope that they can triumph over the evil generation that preceded them.

Also, I didn't see the twist coming. It hit me like a freight train.]]> Runaways, Vol. 3
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Dan
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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I can't seem to come up with anything to say about Brian K. Vaughan's work that hasn't already been said by me or someone else: It's engaging, suspenseful, and heartbreaking all at once. These later arcs from the series are darker than ever, and Vaughan doesn't flinch from showing the hell that is growing up, especially when it means betraying your friends. Runaways works because it deals with shades of gray, but also because even in the midst of their trials, the kids never give up the hope that they can triumph over the evil generation that preceded them.

Also, I didn't see the twist coming. It hit me like a freight train.
]]> 14081807 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:09:42 -0700 <![CDATA[Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure]]> Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
author: Michael Chabon
name: Dan
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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Nobody does oversubordination and poignancy like Chabon.
]]> 18623933 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:08:55 -0700 <![CDATA[Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness]]> Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
name: Dan
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> 18623926 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:08:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World]]> Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
name: Dan
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 18623924 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:08:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life]]> Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
name: Dan
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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]]> 14956502 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:13:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Runaways, Vol. 2]]> Runaways, Vol. 2
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Dan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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As consistently entertaining and exciting as you'd expect from Brian K. Vaughan. The characterizations are honest, the stakes are raised, and Vaughan never lets the kids take the easy way out. The Cloak & Dagger arc is fantastic in the way Vaughan roots his series firmly in the Marvel universe while making sure the Runaways stand out as distinctive heroes in their own right. Really, even attempting to write coherently about it is a waste of time; just read it.
]]> 17395942 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:08:48 -0700 <![CDATA[Runaways, Vol. 1]]> Runaways, Vol. 1
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Dan
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 14064868 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:30:06 -0800 <![CDATA[Pride of Baghdad]]> Pride of Baghdad
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Dan
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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Another absolutely wonderful and heartbreaking story from Brian K. Vaughan, who's easily among the best writers in the medium working today. It's less than 150 pages, and you can read it in one sitting, but the images and story and characters and the ending have a stunning amount of staying power.
]]> 16751138 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:43:19 -0800 <![CDATA[Escapists, The]]> Escapists, The
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Dan
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 16289235 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:49:19 -0800 <![CDATA[The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, Book 1)]]> The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, Book 1)
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Dan
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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It's a nice idea, but it starts to groan under the weight of its own cuteness by the halfway point. It reads a little like Rowling, in that it's really simple and a lot of the character names are puns, which isn't really a compliment. The alternative history angle is nice, as is the time travel idea and the way that fictional characters can enter the real world and vice versa. But the first-person narration is spotty and occasionally breaks down into third-person when Fforde can't figure out how else to structure the story. It's mediocre, but forgettable.
]]> 16289220 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:45:13 -0800 <![CDATA[Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me]]> Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me
author: Ben Karlin
name: Dan
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> 15446875 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:17:10 -0800 <![CDATA[The Thief of Always: A Fable]]> The Thief of Always: A Fable
author: Clive Barker
name: Dan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> 15117447 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:50:33 -0800 <![CDATA[Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham]]> Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Dan
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1949
rating: 0
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]]> 15033493 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:42:33 -0800 <![CDATA[The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts]]> The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts
author: Xenophon
name: Dan
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 15033473 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:41:48 -0800 <![CDATA[All the President's Men]]> All the President's Men
author: Carl Bernstein
name: Dan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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]]> 15033465 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:41:30 -0800 <![CDATA[Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)]]> Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)
author: Ken Kesey
name: Dan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1964
rating: 0
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]]> 15033454 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:41:17 -0800 <![CDATA[The Big Sleep]]> The Big Sleep
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Dan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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]]> 15033448 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:40:54 -0800 <![CDATA[An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us]]> An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
author: James Carroll
name: Dan
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 15033442 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:40:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Tender Is the Night]]> Tender Is the Night
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Dan
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1933
rating: 0
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]]> 15033432 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:40:17 -0800 <![CDATA[A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture (Engaging Culture)]]> A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture (Engaging Culture)
author: Craig Detweiler
name: Dan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 15033390 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:39:14 -0800 <![CDATA[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial Classics)]]> The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Perennial Classics)
author: Milan Kundera
name: Dan
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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]]> 15033382 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:38:59 -0800 <![CDATA[Grendel]]> Grendel
author: John Champlin Gardner
name: Dan
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> 15033365 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:38:20 -0800 <![CDATA[The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction]]> The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction
author: Paul K. Moser
name: Dan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 15033346 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:37:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451]]> Fahrenheit 451
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Dan
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1953
rating: 0
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]]> 15033331 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:37:25 -0800 <![CDATA[A Clockwork Orange]]> A Clockwork Orange
author: Anthony Burgess
name: Dan
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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]]> 15033319 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:36:59 -0800 <![CDATA[Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles]]> Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
author: Anthony Swofford
name: Dan
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 15033309 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:36:37 -0800 <![CDATA[The Sun Also Rises]]> The Sun Also Rises
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Dan
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1926
rating: 0
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]]> 15033295 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:36:14 -0800 <![CDATA[Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton Literary Series)]]> Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton Literary Series)
author: Madeleine L'Engle
name: Dan
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> 15033247 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:34:26 -0800 <![CDATA[Through a Screen Darkly]]> Through a Screen Darkly
author: Jeffrey Overstreet
name: Dan
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 15033235 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:34:10 -0800 <![CDATA[The Gates of the Alamo]]> The Gates of the Alamo
author: Stephen Harrigan
name: Dan
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 15033215 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:33:44 -0800 <![CDATA[Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts]]> Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts
author: David Thomson
name: Dan
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> 15033193 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:33:02 -0800 <![CDATA[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]> The Bonfire of the Vanities
author: Tom Wolfe
name: Dan
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> 15033188 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:32:50 -0800 <![CDATA[And Then There Were None]]> And Then There Were None
author: Agatha Christie
name: Dan
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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]]> 15033168 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:32:04 -0800 <![CDATA[The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel]]> The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel
author: Stephen Dobyns
name: Dan
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> 15033165 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:31:54 -0800 <![CDATA[Youth in Revolt]]> Youth in Revolt
author: C.D. Payne
name: Dan
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 15033148 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:31:18 -0800 <![CDATA[A Separate Peace]]> A Separate Peace
author: John Knowles
name: Dan
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> 15033136 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:30:41 -0800 <![CDATA[Radio On: A Listener's Diary]]> Radio On: A Listener's Diary
author: Sarah Vowell
name: Dan
average rating: 3.39
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> 15033073 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:27:53 -0800 <![CDATA[The West Wing Seasons 3 & 4: The Shooting Scripts: Eight Teleplays by Aaron Sorkin (Newmarket Shooting Script)]]> The West Wing Seasons 3 & 4: The Shooting Scripts: Eight Teleplays by Aaron Sorkin (Newmarket Shooting Script)
author: Aaron Sorkin
name: Dan
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 15033023 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:26:18 -0800 <![CDATA[Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (Modern Classics S.)]]> Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid (Modern Classics S.)
author: Malcolm Lowry
name: Dan
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1972
rating: 0
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]]> 14993021 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:25:07 -0800 <![CDATA[Marvels]]> Marvels
author: Kurt Busiek
name: Dan
average rating: 4.83
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 14862510 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:25:58 -0800 <![CDATA[Duma Key]]> Duma Key
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2008
rating: 2
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]]> 14669092 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:49:20 -0800 <![CDATA[Life of Pi]]> Life of Pi
author: Yann Martel
name: Dan
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 14536312 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:26:22 -0800 <![CDATA[The Shining]]> The Shining
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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]]> 14485154 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:21:41 -0800 <![CDATA[Insomnia]]> Insomnia
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1994
rating: 1
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This was just one long slog to get to the paragraph about Roland and learn about the kid who would later be pretty disappointingly involved in The Dark Tower.
]]> 14485238 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:14 -0800 <![CDATA[Nightmares and Dreamscapes]]> Nightmares and Dreamscapes
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> 14485231 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:10 -0800 <![CDATA[Desperation]]> Desperation
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 14485225 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:06 -0800 <![CDATA[Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales]]> Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> 14485213 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:01 -0800 <![CDATA[Cell]]> Cell
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 14485165 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:19:34 -0800 <![CDATA[The Eyes of the Dragon]]> The Eyes of the Dragon
author: Stephen King
name: Dan
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> 14479701 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:52 -0800 <![CDATA[Woody Allen: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)]]> Woody Allen: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
author: Kathie Coblentz
name: Dan
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 14479661 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:17 -0800 <![CDATA[The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)]]> The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
author: Ellen Raskin
name: Dan
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> 14479636 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:06 -0800 <![CDATA[Watership Down]]> Watership Down
author: Richard Adams
name: Dan
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1972
rating: 5
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]]> 14479612 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:07:48 -0800 <![CDATA[Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir]]> Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
author: John T. Irwin
name: Dan
average rating: 0.00
book published: 2006
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]]> 14479579 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:07:31 -0800 <![CDATA[The Thin Red Line]]> The Thin Red Line
author: James Jones
name: Dan
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1998
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]]> 14479562 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:07:18 -0800 <![CDATA[Theories of Deviance]]> Theories of Deviance
author: Stuart H. Traub
name: Dan
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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]]> 14479522 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:06:56 -0800 <![CDATA[Silver City and Other Screenplays (Nation Books)]]> Silver City and Other Screenplays (Nation Books)
author: John Sayles
name: Dan
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2004
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]]> 14479478 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:06:31 -0800 <![CDATA[Red Harvest]]> Red Harvest
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Dan
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1972
rating: 4
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]]> 14479460 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:06:20 -0800 <![CDATA[Projections 10: Hollywood Film-Makers on Film-Making (Projections)]]> Projections 10: Hollywood Film-Makers on Film-Making (Projections)
author: Walter Donohue
name: Dan
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> 14479428 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:06:01 -0800 <![CDATA[The Plague]]> The Plague
author: Albert Camus
name: Dan
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1947
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]]> 14479402 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:05:46 -0800 <![CDATA[Night]]> Night
author: Elie Wiesel
name: Dan
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1958
rating: 4
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]]> 14479384 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:05:30 -0800 <![CDATA[Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)]]> Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
author: Herman Melville
name: Dan
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1851
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]]> 14479349 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:05:13 -0800 <![CDATA[Men Without Women]]> Men Without Women
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Dan
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1997
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]]> 14479325 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:04:55 -0800 <![CDATA[Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)]]> Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
author: Walt Whitman
name: Dan
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1855
rating: 0
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]]> 14479315 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:04:47 -0800 <![CDATA[I Have Heard You Calling in the Night]]>