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04/07
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Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback) by Haruki Murakami bookshelves: currently-reading |
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03/30
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Arcana: Musicians on Music (Paperback) by John Zorn bookshelves: to-read |
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The Complete Roderick (Paperback) by John Sladek |
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recommended for: People who like Vonnegut or Robots
read in April, 2008 
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"This book reminded me of two other novels: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Sladek has a lot of the same sensibilities as Vonnegut as a writer. They're both great at dark/black humor and they both see...more
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Lyrical Ballads (Paperback) by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge bookshelves: poetry |
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback) by David Sedaris bookshelves: to-read |
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Collected Poems 1947-1980 (Paperback) by Allen Ginsberg bookshelves: poetry |
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My Brother Sam Is Dead (Apple Signature) by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier |
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The Moviegoer (Paperback) by Walker Percy |
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Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Malcolm Lowry bookshelves: to-read |
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Midnight's Children (Paperback) by Salman Rushdie bookshelves: to-read |
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The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Graham Greene bookshelves: to-read |
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Sam's favorite quotes
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. "
— Philip K. Dick
— Philip K. Dick
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"I am at this moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."
— John Kennedy Toole
— John Kennedy Toole
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