Ian's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/61284 en-US Wed, 07 May 2008 14:20:58 -0700 60 Ian's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 11416741 Wed, 07 May 2008 14:20:58 -0700 <![CDATA[Green Man]]> Green Man
author: Kingsley Amis
name: Ian
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 05/08
date added: 05/07/08
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]]> 20908499 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:23:18 -0700 <![CDATA[Short Cuts: Selected Stories]]> Short Cuts: Selected Stories
author: Raymond Carver
name: Ian
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1993
rating: 2
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/24/08
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]]> 11416603 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:29:20 -0700 <![CDATA[Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)]]> Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
author: Kingsley Amis
name: Ian
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1993
rating: 5
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/23/08
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]]> 20812117 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:28:42 -0700 <![CDATA[The City: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles)]]> The City: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles)
author: Joel Kotkin
name: Ian
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/23/08
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]]> 20812028 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:28:14 -0700 <![CDATA[The Russian Revolution]]> The Russian Revolution
author: Alan Moorehead
name: Ian
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1987
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/23/08
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]]> 20218140 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:45:55 -0700 <![CDATA[The History of Medieval Europe (Penguin History)]]> The History of Medieval Europe (Penguin History)
author: Maurice Keen
name: Ian
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1991
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/15/08
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]]> 20218093 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:45:15 -0700 <![CDATA[A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People]]> A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
author: Steven Ozment
name: Ian
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/15/08
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]]> 19820732 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:24:41 -0700 <![CDATA[Explorers of the New Century]]> Explorers of the New Century
author: Magnus Mills
name: Ian
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/09/08
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]]> 19820584 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:14 -0700 <![CDATA[Britain & Europe 1789-2005 (Britain and Europe)]]> Britain & Europe 1789-2005 (Britain and Europe)
author: Keith Robbins
name: Ian
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/09/08
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]]> 19820534 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:21:41 -0700 <![CDATA[Renaissance Florence, Updated edition]]> Renaissance Florence, Updated edition
author: Gene A. Brucker
name: Ian
average rating: 3.25
book published: 1983
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/09/08
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]]> 19820455 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:21:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Florence and the Medici]]> Florence and the Medici
author: John Rigby Hale
name: Ian
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/09/08
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]]> 19820401 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:20:10 -0700 <![CDATA[The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall]]> The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
author: Christopher Hibbert
name: Ian
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/09/08
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]]> 747475 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:18:58 -0700 <![CDATA[The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)]]> The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
author: Jonathan Franzen
name: Ian
average rating: 3.21
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 04/09/08
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The first 475 pages a little slow; the last 35 are totally worth it.
]]> 16314802 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:28:38 -0800 <![CDATA[Beautiful Children: A Novel]]> Beautiful Children: A Novel
author: Charles Bock
name: Ian
average rating: 2.89
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 03/08
date added: 03/04/08
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]]> 16234469 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:09:38 -0800 <![CDATA[The Restraint of Beasts]]> The Restraint of Beasts
author: Magnus Mills
name: Ian
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 02/08
date added: 02/24/08
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]]> 11417267 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:08:45 -0800 <![CDATA[Yellow Dog]]> Yellow Dog
author: Martin Amis
name: Ian
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 02/08
date added: 02/24/08
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]]> 12432726 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:21:45 -0800 <![CDATA[What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories]]> What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
author: Raymond Carver
name: Ian
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/13/08
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]]> 11870958 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:45:27 -0800 <![CDATA[Tom Bedlam]]> Tom Bedlam
author: George Hagen
name: Ian
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/07/08
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Not quite as good as The Laments, but an entertaining epic following a similar family centric arch.
]]> 11870856 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:43:37 -0800 <![CDATA[Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany]]> Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
author: Bill Buford
name: Ian
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/07/08
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]]> 11418411 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:59:32 -0800 <![CDATA[The Stranger]]> The Stranger
author: Albert Camus
name: Ian
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1949
rating: 4
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]]> 11418058 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:53:31 -0800 <![CDATA[Checkpoint: A Novel]]> Checkpoint: A Novel
author: Nicholson Baker
name: Ian
average rating: 2.65
book published: 2004
rating: 1
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date added: 01/01/08
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]]> 11359691 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:14:50 -0800 <![CDATA[The Abstinence Teacher]]> The Abstinence Teacher
author: Tom Perrotta
name: Ian
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 12/07
date added: 12/31/07
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]]> 3068013 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:42:52 -0700 <![CDATA[New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye: Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self]]> New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye: Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self
author: Ronen Kauffman
name: Ian
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2007
rating: 1
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/26/07
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]]> 4587562 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:35:55 -0700 <![CDATA[The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics)]]> The History of Tom Jones (Penguin Classics)
author: Henry Fielding
name: Ian
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1749
rating: 3
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/26/07
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]]> 3411483 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:49:06 -0700 <![CDATA[Among the Thugs]]> Among the Thugs
author: Bill Buford
name: Ian
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/07/07
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]]> 3498687 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:07:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)]]> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Ian
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/25/07
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]]> 3411461 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:28:47 -0700 <![CDATA[Flight: A Novel]]> Flight: A Novel
author: Sherman Alexie
name: Ian
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/23/07
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]]> 2282678 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:44:45 -0700 <![CDATA[The Fortress of Solitude]]> The Fortress of Solitude
author: Jonathan Lethem
name: Ian
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/13/07
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]]> 795279 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:51:31 -0700 <![CDATA[You Shall Know Our Velocity]]> You Shall Know Our Velocity
author: Dave Eggers
name: Ian
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 06/07
date added: 06/24/07
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Overrated, and not nearly as impressive as the quotes on the back promise, but otherwise not awful.
]]> 2282162 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:58:26 -0700 <![CDATA[The Virgin Suicides]]> The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Ian
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1994
rating: 4
read at: 06/07
date added: 06/22/07
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]]> 1512878 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:57:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Skinny Legs and All]]> Skinny Legs and All
author: Tom Robbins
name: Ian
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1990
rating: 3
read at: 06/07
date added: 06/22/07
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Not as good as Still Life With Woodpecker. Mixes mythology and religion with realism.
]]> 924511 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:15:28 -0700 <![CDATA[Video: Stories]]> Video: Stories
author: Meera Nair
name: Ian
average rating: 3.19
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/28/07
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]]> 924507 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:14:13 -0700 <![CDATA[The Laments: A Novel]]> The Laments: A Novel
author: George Hagen
name: Ian
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 08/06
date added: 04/28/07
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]]> 921485 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:10:24 -0700 <![CDATA[The Scheme for Full Employment]]> The Scheme for Full Employment
author: Magnus Mills
name: Ian
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/27/07
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]]> 869237 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:27:46 -0700 <![CDATA[My Happy Life]]> My Happy Life
author: Lydia Millet
name: Ian
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2007
rating: 1
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/24/07
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]]> 869204 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:25:10 -0700 <![CDATA[Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)]]> Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
author: E.M. Forster
name: Ian
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1910
rating: 4
read at: 01/05
date added: 04/24/07
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]]> 869167 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:22:52 -0700 <![CDATA[The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel]]> The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel
author: Irvine Welsh
name: Ian
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 02/07
date added: 04/24/07
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]]> 869062 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:13:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Oracle Night: A Novel (Auster, Paul)]]> Oracle Night: A Novel (Auster, Paul)
author: Paul Auster
name: Ian
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/24/07
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]]> 869056 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:12:19 -0700 <![CDATA[The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel]]> The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
author: Paul Auster
name: Ian
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 06/06
date added: 04/24/07
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]]> 861169 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:40:32 -0700 <![CDATA[Perv--a Love Story]]> Perv--a Love Story
author: Jerry Stahl
name: Ian
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/24/07
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]]> 795518 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:51:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Happy Death]]> Happy Death
author: Albert Camus
name: Ian
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 01/99
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 795317 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:43:54 -0700 <![CDATA[The Plague]]> The Plague
author: Albert Camus
name: Ian
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1948
rating: 3
read at: 01/99
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 795207 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:39:59 -0700 <![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ]]> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
author: Mark Haddon
name: Ian
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 795145 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:37:36 -0700 <![CDATA[Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]> Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
author: Steven D. Levitt
name: Ian
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791174 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:00:19 -0700 <![CDATA[The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages]]> The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
author: Harold Bloom
name: Ian
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1995
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 04/19/07
shelves: reference
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]]> 791156 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:59:09 -0700 <![CDATA[Office Haiku: Poems Inspired by the Daily Grind]]> Office Haiku: Poems Inspired by the Daily Grind
author: James Rogauskas
name: Ian
average rating: 2.50
book published: 2006
rating: 1
read at: 05/06
date added: 04/19/07
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This is a shit collection of Office Haiku. Most lack creativity and are repetitive. He has ruined the genre of office haiku.
]]> 791146 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:57:18 -0700 <![CDATA[The Good Soldier]]> The Good Soldier
author: Ford Madox Ford
name: Ian
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 01/05
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791138 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:56:30 -0700 <![CDATA[Tender Is the Night]]> Tender Is the Night
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Ian
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791136 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:56:06 -0700 <![CDATA[Great Expectations]]> Great Expectations
author: Charles Dickens
name: Ian
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791126 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:54:53 -0700 <![CDATA[Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)]]> Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
author: Joseph Conrad
name: Ian
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1899
rating: 3
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791121 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:54:34 -0700 <![CDATA[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]> The Island of Doctor Moreau
author: H.G. Wells
name: Ian
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1896
rating: 4
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791104 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:52:31 -0700 <![CDATA[The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thrift Edition)]]> The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thrift Edition)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Ian
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1886
rating: 4
read at: 01/05
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791093 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:52:03 -0700 <![CDATA[The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)]]> The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Ian
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1878
rating: 3
read at: 01/98
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791072 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:51:18 -0700 <![CDATA[1984]]> 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Ian
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 01/99
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791067 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:50:19 -0700 <![CDATA[The Sirens of Titan]]> The Sirens of Titan
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Ian
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 01/02
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791063 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:49:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Bluebeard (Delta Fiction)]]> Bluebeard (Delta Fiction)
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Ian
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1998
rating: 4
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791060 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:49:25 -0700 <![CDATA[Good Faith]]> Good Faith
author: Jane Smiley
name: Ian
average rating: 3.05
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 791052 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:48:13 -0700 <![CDATA[The Latest Bombshell]]> The Latest Bombshell
author: Michele Mitchell
name: Ian
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 790950 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:39:31 -0700 <![CDATA[A Place For Us]]> A Place For Us
author: Benjamin R. Barber
name: Ian
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/19/07
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A fairly interesting perspective discussing the end of civil society. I especially enjoyed the bits about gated communities and suburbs killing people's souls.
]]> 790910 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:36:57 -0700 <![CDATA[Venus on the Half-Shell]]> Venus on the Half-Shell
author: Kilgore Trout
name: Ian
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1992
rating: 3
read at: 01/03
date added: 04/19/07
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Venice on a Half Sheel is a novel by one of Kurt Vonnegut's fictional characters, Kilgore Trout. While the novel follows a similar structure and style to many of Vonnegut's novels, its clearly an imitation, albeit a good imitation. Worth reading if you've exhausted your Vonnegut collection and want so more.
]]> 790844 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:34:14 -0700 <![CDATA[Since the Layoffs]]> Since the Layoffs
author: Iain Levison
name: Ian
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 08/03
date added: 04/19/07
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I initially bought Levison's other book A Working Stiff's Manifesto: Confessions of a Wage Slave because we shared a name. But that book was so sharp and well written I actually went and sought out Since the Layoffs immediately after reading A Working Stiff's Manifesto.
]]> 790820 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:32:05 -0700 <![CDATA[A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember]]> A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember
author: Iain Levison
name: Ian
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 07/03
date added: 04/19/07
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Brilliant.
]]> 790796 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:30:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Old School]]> Old School
author: Tobias Wolff
name: Ian
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/19/07
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The book was good certainly, but the subject matter seemed a bit tired, and done before.
]]> 790786 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:29:40 -0700 <![CDATA[The Bug]]> The Bug
author: Ellen Ullman
name: Ian
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 08/03
date added: 04/19/07
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]]> 790730 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:27:43 -0700 <![CDATA[The Love of the Last Tycoon]]> The Love of the Last Tycoon
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Ian
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 01/02
date added: 04/19/07
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Even though the novel went unfinished, the story is solid. I believe had Fitzgerald had the opportunity to finish the book, it could rival The Great Gatsby.
]]> 790702 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:26:09 -0700 <![CDATA[Player Piano]]> Player Piano
author: Kurt Vonnegut
name: Ian
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/19/07
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This is most definitely unlike any other Vonnegut novel. Despite that Player Piano is one of Vonnegut's less critically acclaimed works, I still enjoyed it. Don't read it expecting anything along the lines of his other works.
]]> 790687 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:24:23 -0700 <![CDATA[Jailbird]]>