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08/27
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Ulysses (Paperback) by James Joyce bookshelves: currently-reading |
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nicebutnubbly said:
"Reading this AGAIN, because I got fuckall out of it the first time around. I mean, not that it wasn't fascinating, but I didn't know there were companion guides. Now I have two of them, to help me understand everything Joyce is pulling in and exactly...more
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06/10
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Paperback) by Vine Deloria bookshelves: currently-reading |
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nicebutnubbly said:
"All my NDN and ally friends are recommending this, so I thought I'd give it a go.
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06/05
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Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (Paperback) by Judith Levine bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, parenthood |
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nicebutnubbly said:
"Still halfway through this, after two years. Which is not to say it's not excellent. I am totally on board with Levine's pragmatism and general take on the subject, and she writes well. But you know how sometimes reading something you agree with is v...more
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Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel (Detective Inspector Chen Novels) by Liz Williams bookshelves: to-read |
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Ulysses (Paperback) by James Joyce bookshelves: currently-reading |
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nicebutnubbly said:
"Reading this AGAIN, because I got fuckall out of it the first time around. I mean, not that it wasn't fascinating, but I didn't know there were companion guides. Now I have two of them, to help me understand everything Joyce is pulling in and exactly...more
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The Little Book of Plagiarism (Hardcover) by Richard A. Posner bookshelves: non-fiction |
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read in August, 2007
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"Nothing a smart, thoughtful, well-read person couldn't figure out on their own. He devoted a whole sentence - one! - to the issue of "appropriation," which is my intellectual property interest. The rest of it was a boring hodgepdoge of the ...more
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Invisible Cities (Paperback) by Italo Calvino bookshelves: fiction |
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read in January, 1994
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"I love this book a lot. It's been ages since I read it, but the cities Marco Polo describes are so rich and wonderful in their fantastic impossibility that I can remember some of them still. This is a good book to read all the way through and also on...more
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The River Why (Paperback) by David James Duncan bookshelves: fiction |
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read in January, 1995
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"I have a deeply unironic love for this book. It is a little new-agey and simple, but it reminds me of Peter Carey's Bliss that way. I have a deep, deep love for books about found or created community/family, and this is definitely one of those. The m...more
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Infinite Jest (Hardcover) by David Foster Wallace bookshelves: fiction |
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read in January, 1997
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"Okay, so, it's gorgeously, gorgeously written. I was addicted to this book the whole way through - the characters, the turns of phrase, everything - even the parts that turned my stomach (there are some really vile scenes in here, particularly toward...more
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Moby-Dick, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville bookshelves: fiction |
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nicebutnubbly said:
"I read the unabridged edition. And oh my god, the tedium. The only character I was interested in (Queequeg) was practically absent form the book after the first 18 chapters, and I just...I couldn't bring myself to CARE about Ahab or his stupid whale....more
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V. (Paperback) by Thomas Pynchon bookshelves: fiction |
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Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Paperback) by Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin bookshelves: non-fiction |
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