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author: Joseph Conrad
name: Funk
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1902
rating: 5
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]]> 19594380 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:12:13 -0700
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Funk
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1997
rating: 0
read at: 03/05
date added: 04/06/08
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]]> 19594360 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:11:56 -0700
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Funk
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at: 07/05
date added: 04/06/08
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]]> 19570093 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:10:23 -0700
author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
name: Funk
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1977
rating: 0
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/06/08
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]]> 19570007 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:07:58 -0700
author: D.H. Lawrence
name: Funk
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1928
rating: 0
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/06/08
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]]> 19569757 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:59:51 -0700
author: Roberto Bolaño
name: Funk
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1998
rating: 0
read at: 01/08
date added: 04/06/08
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]]> 15003791 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:50:57 -0800
author: Nikolai V. Gogol
name: Funk
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1992
rating: 0
read at: 01/08
date added: 02/09/08
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]]> 7330261 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:51:13 -0800
author: Nikolai V. Gogol
name: Funk
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1842
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 12/30/07
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Dead Souls is an unfinished lifetime work of Gogol. The first volume flows well and the later volume leaves you wondering where Gogol is going with it all, however Gogol's character sketches are insightful and still relevent today.
]]> 7721184 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:50:30 -0800
author: Albert Camus
name: Funk
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1942
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 12/30/07
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Just re-read. january 2001.
]]> 11306929 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:45:10 -0800
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Funk
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1986
rating: 5
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]]> 11306709 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:41:38 -0800
author: Franz Kafka
name: Funk
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1915
rating: 5
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]]> 11306465 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:37:42 -0800
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Funk
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1963
rating: 4
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]]> 11306460 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:37:35 -0800
author: Mark Haddon
name: Funk
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> 11306269 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:34:34 -0800
author: Toni Morrison
name: Funk
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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]]> 11306249 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:34:15 -0800
author: Dorothy Parker
name: Funk
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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]]> 11306155 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:33:04 -0800
author: John Irving
name: Funk
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 06/05
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 11306016 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:31:03 -0800
author: Henry Miller
name: Funk
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> 11305946 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:30:18 -0800
author: Zadie Smith
name: Funk
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 10/06
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 11305782 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:27:49 -0800
author: Milan Kundera
name: Funk
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1982
rating: 3
read at: 10/05
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 11305635 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:25:15 -0800
author: Jhumpa Lahiri
name: Funk
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 09/06
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 11304999 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:15:33 -0800
author: Joseph Conrad
name: Funk
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1902
rating: 0
read at: 07/95
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 11304791 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:14:39 -0800
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: Funk
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at: 02/08
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 11304680 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:09:45 -0800
author: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
name: Funk
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 9988700 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:08:04 -0800
author: Siegfried Lenz
name: Funk
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/30/07
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]]> 7720705 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:49:59 -0800

"In the early days when they thought this epidemic much like other epidemics, religion held its ground. But once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure. And all their hideous fears that stamp their face in the daytime are transformed in the fiery dusty nightfall into a sort of hectic exaltation, an unkempt freedom fevering their blood". - Tarrou

"Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishoners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its excellence" - Rieux



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author: Albert Camus
name: Funk
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1947
rating: 5
read at: 02/07
date added: 12/05/07
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Insightful character sketches of citizens in a town called Oran beleaguered by the plague.


"In the early days when they thought this epidemic much like other epidemics, religion held its ground. But once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure. And all their hideous fears that stamp their face in the daytime are transformed in the fiery dusty nightfall into a sort of hectic exaltation, an unkempt freedom fevering their blood". - Tarrou

"Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishoners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its excellence" - Rieux




]]> 9989300 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:48:24 -0800 After leaving her husband for good reasons, a mother fleeing on a greyhound joins paths with an alcoholic ex-navy petty thief who takes her to party in Pittsburg. She and her two babies follow him to Chicago after he splits having burned through his money and his fingers. After arriving at the Chicago bus station without any resources, the mother toting the two babies is taken in by a random hoodlum who proceeds to drug and gang rape her.]]>
author: Denis Johnson
name: Funk
average rating: 2.50
book published: 1977
rating: 1
read at: 03/07
date added: 12/05/07
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angels is a plain language and pedestrian story with gratuitous violence, the rambling 'already dead: a california gothic' is a much better read.
After leaving her husband for good reasons, a mother fleeing on a greyhound joins paths with an alcoholic ex-navy petty thief who takes her to party in Pittsburg. She and her two babies follow him to Chicago after he splits having burned through his money and his fingers. After arriving at the Chicago bus station without any resources, the mother toting the two babies is taken in by a random hoodlum who proceeds to drug and gang rape her.
]]> 9989236 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:47:17 -0800
author: Dan Brown
name: Funk
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2005
rating: 2
read at: 01/05
date added: 12/05/07
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not so good. that other one that made him famous is much better. must of had a ghost writer for the da vinci code.
]]> 9989180 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:45:50 -0800
author: Ashley Warlick
name: Funk
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 03/07
date added: 12/05/07
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Sweet thoughtful coming-of-age first novel by Ashley Warlick. I prefer a more narrative style, but Warlick carries through with her Southern retrospective.
]]> 9989062 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:45:17 -0800 ]]>
author: Gary Shteyngart
name: Funk
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 03/07
date added: 12/05/07
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Eastern Europeans and liberals are fodder for Shteyngart's forray into the Russian Mafia.

]]> 8345559 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:34:12 -0700
author: Charles Dickens
name: Funk
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at: 01/90
date added: 10/28/07
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]]> 7721881 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:03:31 -0700
author: Aldous Huxley
name: Funk
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1932
rating: 0
read at: 01/99
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721593 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:56:42 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1990
rating: 0
read at: 01/00
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721580 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:56:25 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1959
rating: 0
read at: 01/97
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721560 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:56:06 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1961
rating: 0
read at: 01/00
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721543 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:55:44 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1998
rating: 0
read at: 01/98
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721534 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:55:30 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1968
rating: 0
read at: 01/98
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721525 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:55:20 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1963
rating: 0
read at: 01/98
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721520 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:55:10 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1973
rating: 0
read at: 01/94
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7721511 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:54:57 -0700
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Funk
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1969
rating: 0
read at: 01/98
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720981 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:44:07 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 01/07
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720966 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:43:47 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 01/05
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720948 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:43:24 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 01/04
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720904 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:42:38 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at: 01/02
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720882 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:41:59 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1999
rating: 0
read at: 01/00
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720839 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:40:28 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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]]> 7720805 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:39:56 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Funk
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1997
rating: 0
read at: 01/03
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720781 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:38:33 -0700
author: Rose Macaulay
name: Funk
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720743 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:37:11 -0700
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Funk
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 01/07
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720735 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:36:55 -0700
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Funk
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2004
rating: 0
read at: 01/04
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720722 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:36:40 -0700
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Funk
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1866
rating: 5
read at: 01/00
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720652 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:34:30 -0700
author: George MacDonald Fraser
name: Funk
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1984
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720555 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:30:51 -0700
author: David Foster Wallace
name: Funk
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 01/04
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720548 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:30:35 -0700
author: David Foster Wallace
name: Funk
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 01/05
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720521 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:29:55 -0700
author: Simon Winchester
name: Funk
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1998
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720495 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:29:18 -0700
author: Dana Spiotta
name: Funk
average rating: 3.05
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 01/07
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720481 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:28:55 -0700
author: Dana Spiotta
name: Funk
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720391 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:26:29 -0700
author: Paul Beatty
name: Funk
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 01/05
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720348 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:25:38 -0700
author: Kim Addonizio
name: Funk
average rating: 3.14
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720284 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:24:18 -0700
author: Judy Blume
name: Funk
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1980
rating: 0
read at: 01/83
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]]> 7720162 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:21:33 -0700
author: Marilynne Robinson
name: Funk
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1980
rating: 5
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7720118 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:20:48 -0700
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Funk
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 01/03
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7719973 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:17:44 -0700
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Funk
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1952
rating: 5
read at: 01/04
date added: 10/14/07
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]]> 7719919 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:16:07 -0700
author: David Michaelis
name: Funk
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 01/06
date added: 10/14/07
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