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October 03
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Ian
marked as to-read:
Then We Came to the End (Hardcover)
by Joshua Ferris
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October 02
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Ian
marked as to-read:
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (Hardcover)
by Stacy Mitchell
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Ian
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Men and Cartoons (Paperback)
by Jonathan Lethem
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read in October, 2008
Ian said:
"I'm a little conflicted on this, because Lethem's obviously really talented, and has a voice of his own (even if he and Chabon seem to be cut from similar cloths), and I feel this was a good introduction to him for me, but I still wonder if I'm not m...more
I'm a little conflicted on this, because Lethem's obviously really talented, and has a voice of his own (even if he and Chabon seem to be cut from similar cloths), and I feel this was a good introduction to him for me, but I still wonder if I'm not missing something by reading one his sprawling novels. Also I feel a little scammed in that I got the hardcover at Skylight for 5 bucks and felt really cool, until I saw that the paperback version had two more stories added on, which is like when you buy a record and then it's rereleased with awesome bonus tracks and you wonder why you didn't just have the good sense to pirate the thing in the first place. Still, a pretty breezy short story collection, where he gets to play around with his influences (Marvel Comics, Philip K. Dick, Noah Baumbach) without anyone getting hurt....less
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Ian
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by Michael Chabon
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September 25
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Ian
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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (Paperback)
by Cory Doctorow
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read in September, 2008
Ian said:
"A 21st Century User's Guide. On the short list of Books That Have Changed My Life, if unintentionally.
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Ian
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Hell's Angels (Paperback)
by Hunter S. Thompson
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read in September, 2008
Ian said:
"The dark counterpart to Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. For all of Thompson's portraying them as outcasts and aberrations, it is only towards the end that Thompson hints at the real truth: that the Angels exemplified the American character (or a...more
The dark counterpart to Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. For all of Thompson's portraying them as outcasts and aberrations, it is only towards the end that Thompson hints at the real truth: that the Angels exemplified the American character (or at least the ugly parts), rather than defied it....less
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September 04
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Ian
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Back in the World: Stories (Paperback)
by Tobias Wolff
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Ian said:
"The Raymond Carver comparisons are understandable--they were best friends and contemporaries, after all--but not quite accurate: Wolff has a far more forgiving editor.
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Ian
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Microserfs (Paperback)
by Douglas Coupland
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read in August, 2008
Ian said:
"This is probably as close I've come to giving a book five stars without doing so. It's Coupland in his undisputed prime as a writer, and, to my surprise, the book succeeds not in spite of the dated references, but because of them. Even as we get to l...more
This is probably as close I've come to giving a book five stars without doing so. It's Coupland in his undisputed prime as a writer, and, to my surprise, the book succeeds not in spite of the dated references, but because of them. Even as we get to laugh at the way the names have shuffled (remember when we thought Apple would go out of business?) we can still laugh at the mistakes we're still making. Awesome....less
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August 15
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New comment on lola's review of
An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human
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August 08
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Ian
marked as to-read:
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. (Hardcover)
by David Carr
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