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05/03
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Hamlet (Paperback) by William Shakespeare bookshelves: currently-reading |
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04/02
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Stalin: Breaker of Nations (Paperback) by Robert Conquest bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Gerald's Game (Paperback) by Stephen King |
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When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home (Audio Cassette) by Erma Bombeck |
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recommended to John by:
Mom
recommended for: Good-natured humor readers, travel readers read in May, 2008 
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"Erma Bombeck had a way of complaining from every angle, against her husband, her children, her house, her country, her culture, her species, and herself – without ever getting annoying. Hers was a good-natured complaining if such a thing is possibl...more
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Areas Of My Expertise Cumbersome Audiobook Version (Audio CD) by John Hodgman bookshelves: to-read |
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Cassettes) by Carl Gustav Jung bookshelves: to-read |
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Matt's
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" Themes of supernatural witches have circulated since humans developed the ability of story telling. Paulo Coehlo’s recent novel ‘The Witch of Portobello’ carries on the tradition of a female en" ...read more » | |
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Conan the Warrior (Conan Series) by Robert E. Howard bookshelves: to-read |
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Conan the Usurper (Conan Series) by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague De Camp bookshelves: to-read |
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No Country for Old Men (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy bookshelves: to-read |
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| May 09 | ||
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Paperback) by Mark, Twain |
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recommended for: Classics readers, history readers, people interested in Joan of Arc, Twain fans
read in July, 2002
John said:
"This novel should have dispelled a lot of insipid stigmas about Twain’s writing, but nobody read it. The Europeans didn’t read it because it was an American tampering with their history (and a very unflattering bit of their history, too). The Ame...more
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The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare |
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recommended to John by:
Ted Hoagland, Wayne Hoffman-Ogier
recommended for: Classics readers, love story readers, fantasy readers, playwrights read in May, 2008
John said:
"Less named The Tempest for the storm at the outset of the play than the hurricane of plots whirling thereafter, this is my favorite of the Shakespearian plays I've seen so far. It's all so far-fetched in a wonderful way for once: one plot is a...more
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