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author: Wallace Stegner
name: Chris
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1992
rating: 0
read at: 01/08
date added: 01/30/08
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]]> 6744924 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:46:13 -0700
author: Scott Chantler
name: Chris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 10/07
date added: 09/26/07
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]]> 6744774 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:41:12 -0700
author: Chester Brown
name: Chris
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/24/07
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]]> 6696126 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:46:23 -0700
So why three stars? I wanted more about the people who died, more in other people's voices, and less straight narration of events. (Or perhaps just a mix of the two.) I do understand the simple ordering of what happened was necessary, even cathartic for Krakauer (or perhaps it gave him no resolution), but I wanted something more like a testament to the individuals up there, like he did for McCandless in Into the Wild.

Also, as always, I'm torn between thinking that this kind of exploration is wonderful and that it's just another code-driven bloodsport inflicted by the wealthy upon the world (and its sherpas), and which folks like Krakauer end up making a lot of money from.

Still, it's a fast read, sharply told, and a good meditation on disaster and guilt. And it has a scary and sad epigraph worth sharing, on how one explains any sort of disaster:

"I shall be inevitably be asked for a word of mature judgement on the expedition of a kind that was impossible when we were all up close to it... On the one hand, Amundsen going straight there, getting there first, and returning without the loss of a single man, and without having put any greater strain on himself and his men than was all in the day's work of polar exploration. On the other hand, our expedition, running appalling risks, performing prodigies of superhuman endurance, achieving immortal renown, commemorated in august cathedral sermons and by public statue, yet reaching the Pole only to find our terrible journey superfluous, and leaving our best men dead on the ice. To ignore such a contrast would be ridiculous: to write a book without accounting for it a waste of time." -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard, "The Worst Journey in the World," an account of Robert Falcon Scott's doomed 1912 expedition to the South Pole]]>
author: Jon Krakauer
name: Chris
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/24/07
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I don't know how I feel about this book, an account of an expedition to Everest that killed several people. It made me angry when I suspected it would just end up being disaster porn, but Krakauer manages to pull through in the final pages and evoke the wrenching guilt of the survivors, the loss and unanswered questions. That hit me pretty hard.

So why three stars? I wanted more about the people who died, more in other people's voices, and less straight narration of events. (Or perhaps just a mix of the two.) I do understand the simple ordering of what happened was necessary, even cathartic for Krakauer (or perhaps it gave him no resolution), but I wanted something more like a testament to the individuals up there, like he did for McCandless in Into the Wild.

Also, as always, I'm torn between thinking that this kind of exploration is wonderful and that it's just another code-driven bloodsport inflicted by the wealthy upon the world (and its sherpas), and which folks like Krakauer end up making a lot of money from.

Still, it's a fast read, sharply told, and a good meditation on disaster and guilt. And it has a scary and sad epigraph worth sharing, on how one explains any sort of disaster:

"I shall be inevitably be asked for a word of mature judgement on the expedition of a kind that was impossible when we were all up close to it... On the one hand, Amundsen going straight there, getting there first, and returning without the loss of a single man, and without having put any greater strain on himself and his men than was all in the day's work of polar exploration. On the other hand, our expedition, running appalling risks, performing prodigies of superhuman endurance, achieving immortal renown, commemorated in august cathedral sermons and by public statue, yet reaching the Pole only to find our terrible journey superfluous, and leaving our best men dead on the ice. To ignore such a contrast would be ridiculous: to write a book without accounting for it a waste of time." -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard, "The Worst Journey in the World," an account of Robert Falcon Scott's doomed 1912 expedition to the South Pole
]]> 3996614 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:23:36 -0700
author: Kevin Huizenga
name: Chris
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 09/14/07
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]]> 6199391 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:21:49 -0700
author: Herman Melville
name: Chris
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 10/03
date added: 09/14/07
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I love Queequeg.
]]> 3996854 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:52:08 -0700
That's not to say this is a gory comic or that there's no surrealism; rather, it has sudden flashes of violence that are truly scary, mostly because they happen to characters you've watched grow before your eyes; its sudden flights into the unreal, in dreams and hallucinations, are the more effective for that. I can't remember being afraid that any of Garcia Marquez's characters might die, but I did here. By the time I was through, and had seen characters move away, return, marry, die, mess up, get a little redemption, I felt like I had a whole new set of friends in my head. Is it too much to note that I only ever normally say that about Tolstoy?

(One last thing: the majority of the characters are women, which is one of the greatest recommendations I can make for any of the Los Bros. Hernandez's work. Their women are the engines of their art, and not in a distant, idealizing, muse-like way. They age, their bodies change with time as they have children, have accidents, begin to worry. Some cry, others never do. They breathe!)]]>
author: Gilbert Hernandez
name: Chris
average rating: 4.68
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/13/07
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This is a wonderful and huge collection of a series of comic book stories set in a fictional Mexican small town named Palomar, written/drawn from the early eighties through the late nineties by a Mexican-American artist named Gilbert Hernandez. To answer the inevitable eye-raise -- this is a comic for adults -- and to address the obvious comparison -- Garcia Marquez's Macondo has nothing on Hernandez's Palomar. The latter is beautiful, I remember, but so baroque and unreal. Macondo, however, bleeds, drinks, screws, cheats, loves, fights without anyone growing a pig-tail or anything. It's funny, and grotesque. In this town, no one is carried way by butterflies -- instead eyes are plucked out by crows.

That's not to say this is a gory comic or that there's no surrealism; rather, it has sudden flashes of violence that are truly scary, mostly because they happen to characters you've watched grow before your eyes; its sudden flights into the unreal, in dreams and hallucinations, are the more effective for that. I can't remember being afraid that any of Garcia Marquez's characters might die, but I did here. By the time I was through, and had seen characters move away, return, marry, die, mess up, get a little redemption, I felt like I had a whole new set of friends in my head. Is it too much to note that I only ever normally say that about Tolstoy?

(One last thing: the majority of the characters are women, which is one of the greatest recommendations I can make for any of the Los Bros. Hernandez's work. Their women are the engines of their art, and not in a distant, idealizing, muse-like way. They age, their bodies change with time as they have children, have accidents, begin to worry. Some cry, others never do. They breathe!)
]]> 5766580 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:21:09 -0700
author: Italo Calvino
name: Chris
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1982
rating: 5
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/11/07
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]]> 5585261 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:46:50 -0700
It's tremendous:

"That Sounds Wonderful"

Good poetry
Makes a beautiful naked woman
Materialize from
Words,

Who then says
With a sword precariously waving
In her hands,

"If you look at my loins
I will cut off your head,

And reach down and grab your spirit
By its private parts,

And carry you off to heaven
Squealing in joy."

Hafiz says,
"That sounds wonderful, just
Wonderful.

Someone please--start writing
Some great
Lines." ]]>
author: شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez
name: Chris
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 09/07
date added: 09/09/07
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It's very spiritual, but it's also very earthy. Tremendous. It also has a lot of poems that are all about being an art-star -- think Talib Kweli as a 13th century(?) Sufi mystic. One of my favorites:

It's tremendous:

"That Sounds Wonderful"

Good poetry
Makes a beautiful naked woman
Materialize from
Words,

Who then says
With a sword precariously waving
In her hands,

"If you look at my loins
I will cut off your head,

And reach down and grab your spirit
By its private parts,

And carry you off to heaven
Squealing in joy."

Hafiz says,
"That sounds wonderful, just
Wonderful.

Someone please--start writing
Some great
Lines."
]]> 5864838 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:53:00 -0700
Oh, John Kennedy Toole, I'm sorry the world crushed you.

There is enough humor in this one book for five years worth of newspaper comic strips. More even.]]>
author: John Kennedy Toole
name: Chris
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1980
rating: 5
read at: 08/99
date added: 09/07/07
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Oh, Ignatius, I think you got in my DNA!

Oh, John Kennedy Toole, I'm sorry the world crushed you.

There is enough humor in this one book for five years worth of newspaper comic strips. More even.
]]> 1577166 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:20:37 -0700
author: Michael Chabon
name: Chris
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/30/07
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]]> 5393879 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:14:36 -0700
author: Jon Krakauer
name: Chris
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/30/07
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]]> 5393534 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:11:27 -0700
author: Anne Fadiman
name: Chris
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/30/07
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They should send you this book when you sign up for Goodreads. And you should read it with someone close.
]]> 5012222 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:22:51 -0700
author: Katherine Hepburn
name: Chris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1979
rating: 3
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/23/07
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]]> 5012063 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:22:14 -0700
author: Kahlil Gibran
name: Chris
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1923
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/23/07
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]]> 5011986 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:21:45 -0700
author: Rainer Maria Rilke
name: Chris
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/23/07
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]]> 1577447 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:21:09 -0700
author: Saul Bellow
name: Chris
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/23/07
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]]> 3746750 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:26:06 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Chris
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 08/12/07
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]]> 1439930 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:23:49 -0700
author: Joann Sfar
name: Chris
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/12/07
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]]> 2573235 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:51:21 -0700
author: Adam Hochschild
name: Chris
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 08/07
date added: 08/12/07
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]]> 4225449 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:09:17 -0700
author: Shel Silverstein
name: Chris
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1385
rating: 5
read at: 05/85
date added: 08/07/07
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]]> 3996671 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:55:12 -0700
author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
name: Chris
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 05/06
date added: 08/02/07
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]]> 3996641 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:54:04 -0700
author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
name: Chris
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 07/05
date added: 08/02/07
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]]> 3996624 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:53:16 -0700
author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
name: Chris
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 07/04
date added: 08/02/07
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]]> 3902349 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:47:58 -0700
author: Warren Ellis
name: Chris
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 07/07
date added: 08/01/07
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Very funny. A weird detective's mission to recover a secret American Constitution (bound in the hide of an Alien who plagued Ben Franklin's ass for five nights in France until Franklin killed it with one punch) becomes a short, dark and dirty trip into the flipside of American culture. A little bit of sci-fi, a lot of sexual perversion, and -- no surprise to anyone who's read Ellis's work in comics -- a wickedly funny narrative voice. The plot's a little kinky, though, and not always in the good way; sometimes it just feels like a vehicle for Ellis's ideas on alt-sex culture and the revolutionary power of DIY media in America. That's hardly a strike, though -- the same might be said of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, etc. If you've never sipped Ellis's particular strange-kiss-brew, or are a fan of detective fiction mashed-up with weird sex, death, and even a little romance, maybe give this a shot. Or borrow it. The book's a little expensive for such a quick read. I have a copy to lend...
]]> 2573290 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:34:55 -0700
author: Roberto Bolaño
name: Chris
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/22/07
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]]> 3147634 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:24:51 -0700
author: Italo Calvino
name: Chris
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/21/07
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As long as you live, you are the only constant. This book is a small wonder.
]]> 2984590 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:01:15 -0700
author: Rainer Maria Rilke
name: Chris
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/12/07
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This is some of the most beautiful, heart-breaking, comforting poetry I've ever read. Rilke is a gift.
]]> 2573217 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:35:40 -0700
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Chris
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1929
rating: 5
read at: 07/07
date added: 07/09/07
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If you love private dicks mucking about in the fog of San Francisco, chasing down leads, disarming hired guns, and cynically bedding red-headed femme fatales, then this is required reading, a classic of the genre. But it's also a must if you have any interest in writing, whatsoever. It is one of the most perfectly plotted works of fiction I've ever read, and as such is useful to fabulists and writers of non-fiction both. Hammett poured into his book perfect pacing, razor-sharp description, and an ear for dialogue that makes it all fly. Highly, highly recommended.
]]> 2573269 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:04:17 -0700
author: Adam Hochschild
name: Chris
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 10/05
date added: 06/30/07
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]]> 1214455 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:59:55 -0700
author: Roberto Bolaño
name: Chris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 06/07
date added: 06/30/07
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]]> 2166528 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:25:58 -0700
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Chris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 06/07
date added: 06/20/07
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This was a pleasure. Gaiman, originally famous for his hyper-literary comic book series The Sandman and now a cross-over genre fic darling, takes on the old story of a young, spunky adolescent girl's trip into a fantasy world and makes it ever-so-creepy. Like Dorothy, Alice, and Jennifer Connolly, the eponymous heroine Coraline, on the cusp of adulthood but still with a mildly innocent view of the world, opens a mysterious door in her apartment and enters a twisted version of her house, and life. Everything's a little more plastic, magical, etc., but her parents in this world have no eyes, just black buttons sewn into sockets. Is it fun, or is it scary? Just wait until the dog bats...Really, this is a great book for middle-schoolers, but can be enjoyed by anyone with a taste for the fantastic. And dark.
]]> 1941289 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:09:26 -0700
author: Federal Writers Project
name: Chris
average rating: 0.00
book published: 0
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 06/13/07
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]]> 1252045 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:39:54 -0700
author: Thomas Hoving
name: Chris
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1978
rating: 3
read at: 06/07
date added: 06/08/07
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]]> 1252064 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:12:07 -0700
author: Miranda July
name: Chris
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 05/07
date added: 06/02/07
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]]> 1445877 Thu, 31 May 2007 21:38:54 -0700
author: Alison Bechdel
name: Chris
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 05/07
date added: 05/31/07
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]]> 1272033 Thu, 24 May 2007 14:27:57 -0700
author: Daniel Kehlmann
name: Chris
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 05/07
date added: 05/24/07
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]]> 1250489 Thu, 17 May 2007 09:47:05 -0700
author: Michael Chabon
name: Chris
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 12/01
date added: 05/17/07
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]]> 1214467 Wed, 16 May 2007 07:55:30 -0700
author: Joan Didion
name: Chris
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 05/07
date added: 05/16/07
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]]> 1007689 Mon, 14 May 2007 19:23:10 -0700
author: Michael Chabon
name: Chris
average rating: 3.18
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 05/07
date added: 05/14/07
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]]> 1002019 Thu, 10 May 2007 15:14:09 -0700
author: Cormac McCarthy
name: Chris
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at: 08/06
date added: 05/10/07
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]]> 1004454 Thu, 10 May 2007 15:13:35 -0700
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Chris
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 01/07
date added: 05/10/07
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]]> 1007695 Thu, 10 May 2007 15:13:05 -0700
author: George Saunders
name: Chris
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 05/07
date added: 05/10/07
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]]> 1002035 Sun, 06 May 2007 12:50:46 -0700
author: Javier Marías
name: Chris
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 05/07
date added: 05/06/07
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A little Borges, a little Conrad, a little Conan Doyle swirled together to make an interesting intellectual game. The Conradesque embedded story in the middle is terrific, because it's the passage in which things really happen (or not?), but the rest just kind of taught me a lesson -- never go on an expedition to the Antarctic with a boat full of foppish artists. You'll be bored to tears or murdered by the trip's end.
]]> 1007909 Fri, 04 May 2007 19:52:04 -0700
author: Jared Diamond
name: Chris
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1997
rating: 2
read at: 09/04
date added: 05/04/07
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]]> 1007875 Thu, 03 May 2007 09:34:22 -0700
author: Sarah Vowell
name: Chris
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 05/05
date added: 05/03/07
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]]> 1007768 Thu, 03 May 2007 09:31:29 -0700 http://www.fishousepoems.org/a...]]>
author: Sarah Messer
name: Chris
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 03/07
date added: 05/03/07
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http://www.fishousepoems.org/a...
]]> 1007423 Thu, 03 May 2007 09:16:00 -0700
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Chris
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 10/06
date added: 05/03/07
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A series of odd, sad shaggy dog (cat?) short stories, with an aesthetic that turns on a dime from McDonald's pop culture to misty Japanese maple forests. Sometimes menacing and good, sometimes touchy-feely and bad. A little overrated, but still a good read in transit, after midnight, and hungover, and it has two of my favorite short stories of all time "The Kidney Shaped Stone that Moves Everyday," and "A Shinagawa Monkey."
]]> 1007246 Thu, 03 May 2007 09:03:14 -0700
author: David Dodge
name: Chris
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 05/03/07
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]]> 1007221 Thu, 03 May 2007 09:00:48 -0700
author: Saul Bellow
name: Chris
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 08/06
date added: 05/03/07
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]]> 1007195 Thu, 03 May 2007 08:58:29 -0700
author: Nick Hornby
name: Chris
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 04/04
date added: 05/03/07
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]]> 1001510 Thu, 03 May 2007 04:29:02 -0700
That said, this is not an approachable book, and I understand why some people might not like it. It has a lot of characters, and it does some weird things with time that are parsable today, given our experiences with disjointed story-telling, but likely helped contribute to its bad rap as "lesser Conrad" back in the day. Maybe I would kind of call it a Polish-born Anglophile's shot at Tolstoy in Latin America. And while it's no War & Peace (it's got more in common with Les Mis, actually), it hits some other weird sweet spot, the epic, multi-character political and psychological Russian potboiler ground up in a pirated-from-the-future post-modern pseudo Latin American meat-grinder. You know, THAT genre.

It's endearing but it wears its flaws proudly. Nostromo is like that friend of yours from college, whom you spent hours talking to late at night about art, politics and the entire world, but whom you don't talk to anymore because they "failed to launch" or they piss you off sometimes, with their currently extreme arch-conservative/anarchist politics. But they're terrific people, idealistic and jaded, utterly thrilling and densely plotted and plotting. You really should give them a call. Maybe you can read Nostromo together.]]>
author: Joseph Conrad
name: Chris
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 09/05
date added: 05/03/07
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Nostromo is a weird, recursive baggy monster of a novel, but it's also brilliant. The plot, quickly, is the following: An American-backed silver mining company attempts to overthrow the government of an unstable Latin American country, and all hell breaks loose; the most honorable man in town, Nostromo, is caught in the middle. As in other novels, Conrad perfectly captures the ugly interior lives of white westerners dangerously out of their element. Here, however, that's thrown in alongside a scathing sketch of a multinational corporation, and an equal dose of sarcasm towards local revolutionaries (here, the fictonal Costa Guana, or Coast of Bird-sh**). Conrad's great trick is that Nostromo feels as on point today -- about economic and miliary interventionism, political opportunism, nativism -- as it probably did back then, but for different reasons. I underlined the hell out of my copy, hundreds of little graphite lines standing in for poor literary epihanies, and I was amazed that when I picked a first edition of the book (1906, I think) off the bookshelf of an early 20th century public figure, he had made check-marks besides some of the same points, and some points that were downright scary.

That said, this is not an approachable book, and I understand why some people might not like it. It has a lot of characters, and it does some weird things with time that are parsable today, given our experiences with disjointed story-telling, but likely helped contribute to its bad rap as "lesser Conrad" back in the day. Maybe I would kind of call it a Polish-born Anglophile's shot at Tolstoy in Latin America. And while it's no War & Peace (it's got more in common with Les Mis, actually), it hits some other weird sweet spot, the epic, multi-character political and psychological Russian potboiler ground up in a pirated-from-the-future post-modern pseudo Latin American meat-grinder. You know, THAT genre.

It's endearing but it wears its flaws proudly. Nostromo is like that friend of yours from college, whom you spent hours talking to late at night about art, politics and the entire world, but whom you don't talk to anymore because they "failed to launch" or they piss you off sometimes, with their currently extreme arch-conservative/anarchist politics. But they're terrific people, idealistic and jaded, utterly thrilling and densely plotted and plotting. You really should give them a call. Maybe you can read Nostromo together.
]]> 1004446 Thu, 03 May 2007 04:22:54 -0700
author: Thomas Pynchon
name: Chris
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at: 06/06
date added: 05/03/07
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