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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 31, 2011 02:20pm

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The Voices of Silence: Man and His Art. (Abridged from the Psychology of Art)

by André Malraux

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Jun 16, 2009 12:09pm

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Harry gave to: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville	My rating:
What a strange book this is! Half the book is digression, background, expansion, outside the tale. A grand adventure story that is built onto histories of whaling, minute descriptions of anatomy (Melville revels in describing the many kinds of blubbe...more
Feb 12, 2012 03:58am · see review
Harry added a quote "It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you." — Ian McEwan
Feb 01, 2012 06:13am · add quote added! · more quotes by Ian McEwan
Harry gave to: The Beautiful and Damned (Enriched Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald	My rating:
Tawdry funny and depressing. Fitzgerald's prose glistens.
Jan 28, 2012 05:36am · see review
Harry gave to: 11/22/63 by Stephen King read in January, 2012	My rating:
This is my first Stephen King book. He loves telling stories and knows how to do it really well. I was compelled to the end, but also felt a little icky along the way. I kept thinking about Charles Dickens while reading this. Like Charles Dickens, d...more
Jan 22, 2012 02:07am · see review
Harry gave to: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño read in January, 2012	My rating:
This book is ambitious. It reaches around the world and goes from the "civilized" heights of the most rarefied world of literary academics to the feral state of killers butchering women. This kind of span is key to Bolano's approach, which can seem k...more
Jan 22, 2012 01:51am · see review
Harry marked as to-read: As Painting: Division And Displacement by Philip Armstrong	My rating:
Jan 22, 2012 01:25am
Harry is currently reading: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Dec 31, 2011 02:20pm
Harry gave to: Letters on Cézanne by Rainer Maria Rilke read in December, 2011	My rating:
There's poetry to Rilke's thoughts on Cezanne - incredible phrasing and imagery. The thinking doesn't go any deeper but it gets finer and detailed. Written in the rapt aesthetic servitude of modernism, this can sometimes feel a bit over-ripe. But the...more
Dec 31, 2011 02:20pm · see review
Harry gave to: Rabbit Redux by John Updike read in December, 2011	My rating:
This book is overwhelmed by the upheavals of the late 60s. What is essentially a series about individual morality and conscience here drowns In social concerns and confrontations. Sometimes it seems like Updike is a reactionary illustrating the thr...more
Dec 22, 2011 05:46pm · see review
Harry gave to: Rabbit, Run by John Updike	My rating:
I always avoided Updike. His subject is the struggle of middle class white people to make life meaningful while dreaming big, being haunted by the past, and frustrated with the general humdrummery of their lives. Not interested, right? Updike manages...more
Dec 20, 2011 01:36am · see review

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“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

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