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John rated a book 3 of 5 stars Freedom by Jonathan Franzen	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John rated a book 4 of 5 stars Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John rated a book 3 of 5 stars Border Songs by Jim Lynch (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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John rated a book 5 of 5 stars Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu read in July, 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A surreal trip through socialist, apartment-block Bucharest, largely through the eyes of children or teens who experience the fantastic or even meta-realities with precisely the same mix of curiosity and grievance as the everyday. The "novel" is five...more
Aug 26, 2010 02:52am · see review
John rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai read in August, 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A surreal tale, compared by reviews to Kafka and Dostoevsky, but with echoes too of Beckett and Ionesco. A circus advertising "The World's Largest Whale" comes to a small Hungarian town (perhaps, but not obviously, during the period of late socialism...more
Aug 26, 2010 02:45am · see review
John rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson read in August, 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An entire book of wrapping up loose ends, with the main character locked up in a hospital throughout most of the action. And yet it manages to be consistently engaging, even nail-biting. A series well finished.
Aug 26, 2010 02:35am · see review
John added: Eine Frau in Berlin by Anonymous read in August, 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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