Tom Coffeen's Profile

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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles

In The Time Of The Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

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Tom Coffeen is currently reading:

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

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Jan 24, 2012 04:23pm

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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust

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Jan 24, 2012 04:22pm

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Tom Coffeen gave to: Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 01, 2012 12:56pm
Tom Coffeen gave to: The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy by Charles Fourier read in February, 2012	My rating:
Feb 01, 2012 12:55pm
Tom Coffeen is currently reading: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami	My rating:
Jan 24, 2012 04:23pm
Tom Coffeen is currently reading: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust	My rating:
Jan 24, 2012 04:22pm
Tom Coffeen marked as to-read: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt	My rating:
Jan 24, 2012 04:22pm
Tom Coffeen marked as to-read: Fault-Tolerant IP and Mpls Networks by Iftekhar Hussain	My rating:
Jan 24, 2012 04:21pm
Tom Coffeen marked as to-read: High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears	My rating:
Jan 24, 2012 04:21pm
Tom Coffeen marked as to-read: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Jan 23, 2012 01:55pm
Tom Coffeen gave to: The Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles read in August, 2008	My rating:
Bowles' prose is cold and elegant. His themes are disculturation and dislingual anxiety. "A Distant Episode" and "The Scorpion" stand as antitheses to the presumption of the necessity of Western modes of socialization and communication. Horrifying an...more
Dec 13, 2011 09:44am · see review
Tom Coffeen marked as to-read: The Conformist by Alberto Moravia	My rating:
Jul 11, 2011 01:22am