false 32 354 319 true 5891075 read 2 true 2838556 currently-reading 33 true 2838555 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/492452 H L recommended the book A Spinoza Reader to Stephanie

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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64276100 to: A Spinoza Reader (Paperback) by Benedictus de Spinoza
Simply brilliant. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41377071 My Search for the Seventh Mole, A Story with Recipes from Oaxaca, Mexico (Paperback) by Susana Trilling
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41071830 The Tracker (Paperback) by Tom Brown Jr.
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27669473 Nik's review of Daily Life in Holland in the Year 1566
by Rien Poortvliet

Lending a book to El Chupacabra is just another way of saying you never want to see it again. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40413393 The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way: Poems (Hardcover) by Ethan Coen
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33495132 H L's review of Gates of Eden
by Ethan Coen

I haven't...I do like poetry from time to time, but am decidedly fickle. I can imagine EC's work would be fun, though. Another for the to-read list, I reckon - thanks for the heads-up! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29186085 to: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback) by Michael Chabon
An odd thing about Chabon - when I'm immersed in the middle of one of his books, I'm as fully engaged as with just about any work by anyone else I've ever read. But, inevitably, as I near the end of his novels, I sense a growing distance, and somehow, upon reaching the end, I'm disengaged, and no longer have that compelling urge and desire to want to know more, as you might in a book you don't wish to end; nor do I find the sense of completion that works its way into being at the completion of other novels. I feel, rather ... lost, or adrift in some odd limbo that is ultimately unsatisfying.

I guess some might say this is indicative of his power as a writer, in that he doesn't feel it necessary to appease his readers with tidy endings or the like, but for me, I feel like, as well-written and entertaining are his works, that he has yet to write a complete novel. This won't stop me from recommending his works to others, nor will it stop me from reading his future works, but I'll read those next books in the hopes that he gives me more than he has to this point. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40361678 No Country for Old Men (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy
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