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06/21
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Hardcover) by David Sedaris bookshelves: currently-reading |
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06/22
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Fast Food Nation (Paperback) by Eric Schlosser bookshelves: currently-reading |
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06/22
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The Regulators (Paperback) by Stephen King, Richard Bachman |
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recommended to Russell by:
Someone who likes Stephen King
recommended for: People who like Stephen King 
Russell said:
"An old lady stands on her door step and squeezes her nipple until it's bruised because a demonically possessed little boy tells her to. The little boy also attempts to go down on a plastic doll at one point. Who knew that possession could be so sexy?
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Geek Love: A Novel (Paperback) by Katherine Dunn |
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recommended for: People who are scared of midgets.
Russell said:
"This is not a feel good book. Thank god. I went into it expecting to be bombarded with 'genetic freaks are people too' bullshit. I don't want to think of them as peers. I want to point and laugh and feel like a big man.
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| March 06 | ||||
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Russell
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LooseLips's
review of The Great Gatsby:
"The eh Gatsby Classic. Yes. THE great American novel. Hmph, so I heard. I suppose it should make one more interested, or at least feel more compelled to read something (or re-read as is the case he" ...read more » | |||
| March 05 | ||||
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Russell joined the
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| March 04 | ||||
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New comment on Lara's review of
The Children of Men
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| March 03 | ||||
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Russell
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| March 02 | ||||
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Interpreter of Maladies (Paperback) by Jhumpa Lahiri |
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recommended for: People wanting to read the interesting, but un-original thoughts of an Indian-American woman.
read in March, 2008
Russell said:
"This book was good. Several of the stories were very touching. Lahiri's very talented. Yadda yadda yadda. How in the hell did it win a Pulitzer? I read plenty of good books and this was one of them, and it was good enough and vanilla enough to recomm...more
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Russell
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (Paperback) by Hunter S. Thompson |
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recommended for: Anyone with a brain.
read in March, 2008
Russell said:
"The relevance of this story, thirty-six years later, is remarkable. George McGovern's campaign for president hinged entirely on youth, minority and 'new' voters in 1972. It also focussed on a message of changing the country's political expectations.....more
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| February 19 | ||||
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The View From Nowhere (Paperback) by Thomas Nagel bookshelves: to-read |
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| February 18 | ||||
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel (Hardcover) by Diane Setterfield |
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recommended for: Vapid idiots who enjoy romance novels but hate sex
Russell said:
"Dear god. I listened to this abortion of a story in the car last weekend. It was so awful that words cannot adequately describe how mind-bendingly idiotic it was. Contrived doesn't begin to describe it. Melodrama on top of melodrama. Secret family me...more
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