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author: David Benioff
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/11/08
shelves: fiction
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this book chugs right along as a 'ripping good yarn' right up to about the half way point, then it takes off like a roller coaster after the 1st big hill, & becomes a GREAT story. David Benioff is 1st & foremost a screenwriter & that shows through here. He knows all about plot, characterization & pacing & gets it all right in this story. I can't honestly say that certain aspects of the story weren't predictable, because they were. That didn't take away from the overall enjoyment of reading this book, & enjoy it I did, more so than many books I've read recently. For those of you who are suckers for WWII intrigue (I include myself firmly in this category) then this is the perfect summer read for you.
]]> 26550360 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:55:08 -0700
author: Emma Wilson
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> 24933999 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:12:21 -0700
author: Stanley Cavell
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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date added: 07/05/08
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]]> 24910949 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:11:35 -0700
author: Xiaoming Wang
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> 17407170 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:26:16 -0700
author: Glenn Greenwald
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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date added: 06/15/08
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]]> 20999027 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:43:25 -0700
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1971
rating: 4
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date added: 04/25/08
shelves: fiction
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]]> 17938805 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:46:08 -0700
author: Henry Darger
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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date added: 03/17/08
shelves: art-design
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]]> 16097391 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:30:17 -0700
author: Craig Childs
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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date added: 03/15/08
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]]> 7394832 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:34:37 -0700
author: Mike Mignola
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 17454436 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:52:35 -0700
author: James Hogg
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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date added: 03/10/08
shelves: film
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]]> 16974948 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:10:01 -0800
author: James Stokoe
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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date added: 03/06/08
shelves: graphicnovels
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]]> 16974853 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:09:26 -0800
author: Vasilis Lolos
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 16520622 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:37:07 -0800
author: Erik Larsen
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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date added: 02/29/08
shelves: graphicnovels
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]]> 16642897 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:14:15 -0800
author: Mike Allred
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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date added: 02/28/08
shelves: graphicnovels
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]]> 16384279 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:09:23 -0800
author: Haruki Murakami
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 04/08
date added: 02/25/08
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]]> 12972792 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:43:23 -0800 A great read all the way through.]]>
author: Roddy Doyle
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 02/08
date added: 02/15/08
shelves: fiction
review:
Brilliant. I've been a fan of Roddy Doyle since Paddy Clarke was first published, but he kind of fell off my radar after A Star Called Henry. This collection puts him back in top form.
A great read all the way through.
]]> 11651148 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:42:52 -0800
author: Zadie Smith
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 15281134 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:40:36 -0800
author: Phil Amara
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 02/12/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 15281123 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:40:28 -0800
author: Phil Amara
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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date added: 02/12/08
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]]> 15153654 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:57:02 -0800
author: Richard Russo
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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date added: 02/11/08
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]]> 15153584 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:56:35 -0800
author: Richard Russo
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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date added: 02/11/08
shelves: fiction
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]]> 5446293 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:48:25 -0800
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author: Michael Bierut
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 02/11/08
shelves: art-design
review:
Don't let the title fool you. This book could just as easily be called 'Seventy-nine Short Essays on Life'. Michael Bierut is a designer & co-founder of the blog Design Observer, where the majority of these essays were culled. Like that blog, this book touches on just as many non-design aspects of life. That is until the reader realizes how much design we actually do come in contact with on a daily basis. The lead essay, 'Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content' sets you up for what is in store. The following seventy-eight wonderfully written & engaging pieces cover such a dizzying array of topics (simply peruse the table of contents on the cover to wet your appetite), that you might just forget you are reading a book on design.


]]> 15005166 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:14:37 -0800
author: Neil Gaiman
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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date added: 02/09/08
shelves: graphicnovels
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]]> 14672100 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:24:13 -0800
author: Raymond Chandler
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1953
rating: 3
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date added: 02/05/08
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]]> 14672078 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:24:01 -0800
author: Raymond Chandler
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1939
rating: 4
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date added: 02/05/08
shelves: fiction
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]]> 14671979 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:23:12 -0800
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1929
rating: 4
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date added: 02/05/08
shelves: film
review:

]]> 12983467 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:12:28 -0800
author: Brian Azzarello
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 12983441 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:12:16 -0800
author: Brian Azzarello
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 12983425 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:12:07 -0800
author: Brian Azzarello
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 12983385 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:11:54 -0800
author: Brian Azzarello
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 12983353 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:11:39 -0800
author: Brian Azzarello
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 12983301 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:11:19 -0800
author: Brian Azzarello
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 12973194 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:36:20 -0800
author: Stephen Colbert
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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date added: 01/20/08
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]]> 12972834 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:30:32 -0800
author: Roddy Doyle
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/20/08
shelves: fiction
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]]> 12716453 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:07:16 -0800
author: Keith Olbermann
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/16/08
shelves: politics
review:

]]> 12118973 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:11:45 -0800
author: Alex Garland
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 01/09/08
shelves: film
review:

]]> 11929921 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:01:03 -0800 that's why the short chapter format, which also makes it quite a breezy read. As a bonus, the book is also illustrated throughout with amazing drawings by Akira Yamaguchi.

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author: Donald Keene
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/09/08
shelves: biography
review:
this is a wonderfully heartfelt & humble memoir from the pre-eminent Japanese Scholar. Keene recounts how he fell into his love for the Japanese culture & language quite by accident, but how those early events would shape the rest of his life. The reader gets a vivid picture of the often solitary life of a working scholar, as well as glimpses into Keene's friendships with leading Japanese writers of the day. Writers like Mishima, Kenzaburo Oë, & Kobo Abe. The book was originally written for serialization in the Japanese newspaper the Daily Yomiuri,
that's why the short chapter format, which also makes it quite a breezy read. As a bonus, the book is also illustrated throughout with amazing drawings by Akira Yamaguchi.


]]> 11926473 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:43:26 -0800
author: Roberto Casati
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 11840161 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:13:28 -0800
author: Joe Kelly
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/06/08
shelves: graphicnovels
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]]> 11837641 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:44:49 -0800
author: Edward Abbey
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/06/08
shelves: fiction
review:

]]> 5811548 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:14:57 -0800
author: William Gibson
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.26
book published: 1990
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/05/08
shelves: fiction
review:

]]> 11675364 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:27:01 -0800
author: Mike Carey
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/04/08
shelves: graphicnovels
review:

]]> 9234339 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:21:09 -0800
author: Dave Eggers
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 01/04/08
shelves: fiction
review:

]]> 11278560 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:01:46 -0800
author: Nick James
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/30/07
shelves: film
review:

]]> 11278549 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:01:28 -0800
author: Mike Hodges
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/30/07
shelves: film
review:

]]> 11278476 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:00:08 -0800
author: Marek Haltof
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/30/07
shelves: film
review:

]]> 11278440 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:59:32 -0800
author: Brad Prager
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/30/07
shelves: film
review:

]]> 11277431 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:46:20 -0800
author: Sun Tzu
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 11277304 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:44:53 -0800
author: Sidney Perkowitz
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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date added: 12/30/07
shelves: film
review:

]]> 11199526 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:30:33 -0800
author: Naomi Klein
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 11135223 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:23:37 -0800
author: John M. MacGregor
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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date added: 12/28/07
shelves: art-design
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]]> 11122017 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:28:24 -0800
author: James Jean
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/27/07
shelves: art-design
review:

]]> 10982923 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:42:40 -0800
author: Donald Keene
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/24/07
shelves: history
review:

]]> 10895564 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:47:37 -0800
author: Geeta Dayal
name: kkurtz
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/22/07
shelves: music
review:

]]> 10895552 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:47:12 -0800
author: Dai Griffiths
name: kkurtz
average rating: 2.56
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 12/22/07
shelves: music
review:

]]> 10895538 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:46:56 -0800
author: David Barker
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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date added: 12/22/07
shelves: music
review:

]]> 10880204 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:40:59 -0800
author: Lorrie Moore
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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date added: 12/22/07
shelves: fiction
review:

]]> 10879913 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:36:05 -0800
author: William Faulkner
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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date added: 12/22/07
shelves: fiction
review:

]]> 10879868 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:34:57 -0800
author: Lao Tzu
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1972
rating: 5
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date added: 12/22/07
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]]> 10879810 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:33:10 -0800
author: Kathy Acker
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1989
rating: 1
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date added: 12/22/07
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]]> 10879788 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:32:19 -0800
author: A.M. Homes
name: kkurtz
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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date added: 12/22/07
shelves: fiction
review:

]]> 10879040 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:17:14 -0800
author: Warren Ellis
name: kkurtz
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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date added: 12/22/07
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