Michael's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/640843 en-US Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:01:13 -0700 60 Michael's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 27472510 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:01:13 -0700 <![CDATA[Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)]]> These are typical Bellow questions I think. They concern the nature of truth,and the yearning of one's spirit, in search for this truth.
Yes Henderson can be loathsome, and well brutish, and hapless, this is in the same sense that Herzog can be, but he wants, and wants to search out the reasons for this.

Jesus if nothing else the sheer technical skill and craftsmanship of Bellow comes through again.]]> Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
author: Saul Bellow
name: Michael
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1958
rating: 4
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The fast paced 'frog/ cistern' scene is perhaps one of the funniest ever written. I saw it coming, yet it was tragic/ comedy of the highest order, yet underneath this comedy is a very serious book, with very serious questions.
These are typical Bellow questions I think. They concern the nature of truth,and the yearning of one's spirit, in search for this truth.
Yes Henderson can be loathsome, and well brutish, and hapless, this is in the same sense that Herzog can be, but he wants, and wants to search out the reasons for this.

Jesus if nothing else the sheer technical skill and craftsmanship of Bellow comes through again.
]]> 27591287 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:54:34 -0700 <![CDATA[The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court]]> Especially fascinating in illuminating the role that former Justice O'Connor and Justice Kennedy play in affecting all of our lives.]]> The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
author: Jeffrey Toobin
name: Michael
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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A great history of the SCOUS over the last 20 years, with a look at the influential forces that argue cases before it.
Especially fascinating in illuminating the role that former Justice O'Connor and Justice Kennedy play in affecting all of our lives.
]]> 27492397 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:59:22 -0700 <![CDATA[The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)]]> The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
author: Henry Fielding
name: Michael
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1948
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]]> 27492331 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:58:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)]]> Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Samuel Richardson
name: Michael
average rating: 2.65
book published: 1984
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Read for 18th century novel class.
]]> 9548317 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:58:48 -0700 <![CDATA[Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)]]> Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
author: Saul Bellow
name: Michael
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 23095033 Tue, 27 May 2008 20:33:16 -0700 <![CDATA[Jeeves And The Tie That Binds]]> Jeeves And The Tie That Binds
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Michael
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 23094951 Tue, 27 May 2008 20:32:41 -0700 <![CDATA[Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy]]> Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
author: Eric G. Wilson
name: Michael
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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]]> 22575292 Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:51 -0700 <![CDATA[How Right You Are, Jeeves]]> How Right You Are, Jeeves
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Michael
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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]]> 21516146 Mon, 19 May 2008 15:43:16 -0700 <![CDATA[Thank You, Jeeves (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.)]]> Thank You, Jeeves (Wodehouse, P. G. Collector's Wodehouse.)
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Michael
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 21516103 Sat, 03 May 2008 09:14:00 -0700 <![CDATA[The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories]]> The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Michael
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1991
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]]> 19936745 Sat, 03 May 2008 09:12:56 -0700 <![CDATA[The Inimitable Jeeves]]> The Inimitable Jeeves
author: P.G. Wodehouse
name: Michael
average rating: 4.83
book published: 1923
rating: 5
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]]> 9549392 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:53:20 -0700 <![CDATA[Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)]]> Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Michael
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1973
rating: 4
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]]> 20055973 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:51:28 -0700 <![CDATA[Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)]]> Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
author: Kingsley Amis
name: Michael
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 19937267 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:31:59 -0700 <![CDATA[White Teeth]]> White Teeth
author: Zadie Smith
name: Michael
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> 19937030 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:29:07 -0700 <![CDATA[Yellow Dog]]> Yellow Dog
author: Martin Amis
name: Michael
average rating: 2.86
book published: 2005
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]]> 19935341 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:09:31 -0700 <![CDATA[Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays]]> Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
author: David Sedaris
name: Michael
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1994
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]]> 9590838 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:35:45 -0800 <![CDATA[Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis]]> Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
author: Dan Kurzman
name: Michael
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2001
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]]> 9590804 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:32:07 -0800 <![CDATA[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close]]> Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
author: Jonathan Safran Foer
name: Michael
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> 9589550 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:23:56 -0800 <![CDATA[Motherless Brooklyn]]> Motherless Brooklyn
author: Jonathan Lethem
name: Michael
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1999
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]]> 9589162 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:54:09 -0800 <![CDATA[Farewell, My Lovely]]> Farewell, My Lovely
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Michael
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1940
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]]> 9589160 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:54:03 -0800 <![CDATA[The Long Goodbye (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)]]> The Long Goodbye (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Michael
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1953
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]]> 9589149 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:53:34 -0800 <![CDATA[The Big Sleep]]> The Big Sleep
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Michael
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1939
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]]> 9589040 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:47:19 -0800 <![CDATA[Dancing Bear]]> Dancing Bear
author: James Crumley
name: Michael
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1984
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]]> 9589038 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:47:12 -0800 <![CDATA[The Wrong Case]]> The Wrong Case
author: James Crumley
name: Michael
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1985
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]]> 9589034 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:47:04 -0800 <![CDATA[The Last Good Kiss]]> The Last Good Kiss
author: James Crumley
name: Michael
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1988
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]]> 9588996 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:45:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Despair]]> Despair
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Michael
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1989
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]]> 9588784 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:40:01 -0800 <![CDATA[Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books]]> Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
author: Azar Nafisi
name: Michael
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2007
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]]> 9588727 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:37:55 -0800 <![CDATA[Love in the Time of Cholera]]> Love in the Time of Cholera
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Michael
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1985
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]]> 9588666 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:35:31 -0800 <![CDATA[The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)]]> The Autumn of the Patriarch (P.S.)
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Michael
average rating: 3.66
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]]> 9588650 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:35:13 -0800 <![CDATA[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]> One Hundred Years of Solitude
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Michael
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1967
rating: 5
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]]> 9588618 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:34:24 -0800 <![CDATA[City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, Vol 1)]]> City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, Vol 1)
author: Paul Auster
name: Michael
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1987
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]]> 9588609 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:34:07 -0800 <![CDATA[The Book of Illusions: A Novel]]> The Book of Illusions: A Novel
author: Paul Auster
name: Michael
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2003
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]]> 9588599 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:33:38 -0800 <![CDATA[Timbuktu: A Novel]]> Timbuktu: A Novel
author: Paul Auster
name: Michael
average rating: 3.42
book published: 2000
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]]> 9588580 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:33:04 -0800 <![CDATA[Strong Motion: A Novel]]> Strong Motion: A Novel
author: Jonathan Franzen
name: Michael
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2001
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]]> 9588574 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:32:52 -0800 <![CDATA[The Corrections]]> The Corrections
author: Jonathan Franzen
name: Michael
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2001
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]]> 9588563 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:32:10 -0800 <![CDATA[The Fortress of Solitude]]> The Fortress of Solitude
author: Jonathan Lethem
name: Michael
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2005
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]]> 9588524 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:52 -0800 <![CDATA[Tender Is the Night]]> Tender Is the Night
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Michael
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1933
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]]> 9588521 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:44 -0800 <![CDATA[The Great Gatsby]]> The Great Gatsby
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Michael
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1925
rating: 5
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]]> 9588514 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:36 -0800 <![CDATA[This Side Of Paradise]]> This Side Of Paradise
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Michael
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1920
rating: 0
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]]> 9588479 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:29:06 -0800 <![CDATA[Amsterdam]]> Amsterdam
author: Ian McEwan
name: Michael
average rating: 3.35
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> 9588477 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:28:58 -0800 <![CDATA[On Chesil Beach]]> On Chesil Beach
author: Ian McEwan
name: Michael
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2007
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]]> 9588476 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:28:51 -0800 <![CDATA[Atonement: A Novel]]> Atonement: A Novel
author: Ian McEwan
name: Michael
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2001
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]]> 9588463 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:28:33 -0800 <![CDATA[The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice]]> The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
author: Christopher Hitchens
name: Michael
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1997
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]]> 9588458 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:28:26 -0800 <![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives)]]> Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives)
author: Christopher Hitchens
name: Michael
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2005
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]]> 9588453 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:28:18 -0800 <![CDATA[No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family]]> No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family
author: Christopher Hitchens
name: Michael
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> 9588434 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:27:58 -0800 <![CDATA[God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything]]> God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
author: Christopher Hitchens
name: Michael
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 9588393 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:27:29 -0800 <![CDATA[Geek Love: A Novel]]> Geek Love: A Novel
author: Katherine Dunn
name: Michael
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1989
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]]> 9588372 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:25:47 -0800 <![CDATA[A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories]]> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
author: Flannery O'Connor
name: Michael
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1955
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]]> 9588366 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:25:33 -0800 <![CDATA[Wise Blood: A Novel]]> Wise Blood: A Novel
author: Flannery O'Connor
name: Michael
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1949
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]]> 9588346 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:24:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Reflections in a Golden Eye]]> Reflections in a Golden Eye
author: Carson McCullers
name: Michael
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2000
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]]> 9588301 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:23:07 -0800 <![CDATA[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]> The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
author: Carson McCullers
name: Michael
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> 9588264 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:22:17 -0800 <![CDATA[Light in August]]> Light in August
author: William Faulkner
name: Michael
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1932
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]]> 9588259 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:22:08 -0800 <![CDATA[As I Lay Dying]]> As I Lay Dying
author: William Faulkner
name: Michael
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1930
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]]> 9588244 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:21:47 -0800 <![CDATA[The Sun Also Rises]]> The Sun Also Rises
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Michael
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1926
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]]> 9588238 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:21:41 -0800 <![CDATA[A Farewell to Arms]]> A Farewell to Arms
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Michael
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1929
rating: 0
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]]> 9588222 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:21:18 -0800 <![CDATA[Main Street]]> Main Street
author: Sinclair Lewis
name: Michael
average rating: 3.35
book published: 1920
rating: 1
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]]> 9588194 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:20:20 -0800 <![CDATA[The Confessions of Nat Turner]]> The Confessions of Nat Turner
author: William Styron
name: Michael
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> 9549393 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:41:36 -0800 <![CDATA[The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)]]> The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Michael
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1966
rating: 4
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]]> 9549391 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:41:23 -0800 <![CDATA[V.]]> V.
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Michael
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> 9549390 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:41:19 -0800 <![CDATA[Vineland]]> Vineland
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Michael
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> 9549388 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:41:16 -0800 <![CDATA[Mason & Dixon]]> Mason & Dixon
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Michael
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 9549386 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:41:09 -0800 <![CDATA[Against the Day]]> Against the Day
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Michael
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 9548778 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:14:21 -0800 <![CDATA[Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales]]> Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales
author: James Ellroy
name: Michael
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2004
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]]> 9548773 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:13:43 -0800 <![CDATA[Brown's Requiem]]> Brown's Requiem
author: James Ellroy
name: Michael
average rating: 3.31
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> 9548765 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:13:30 -0800 <![CDATA[Clandestine]]>