false 7 180 147 true 5693367 read 1 true 3342156 currently-reading 32 true 3342155 to-read 49 false 3487821 2008 34 false 4320695 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76408549 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback) by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74439872 Paul's review of The Manual of Detection
by Jedediah Berry

It's definitely high quality so far. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74439872 The Manual of Detection (Hardcover) by Jedediah Berry
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32595807 to: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time: Book 2)(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust
bookshelves: 2009
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72069213 God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History (Hardcover) by Stephen W. Hawking
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70670263 to: Rose Mellie Rose (European Women Writers) by Marie Redonnet
bookshelves: 2009
Wow. That's one heck of a book. Short. So elegant and piercing. To be read in one sitting for sure.

What is it about the story that's so great? Because it's so great but I don't know why. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70522448 to: Nog (Paperback) by Rudolph Wurlitzer
bookshelves: 2009
Whoa. Truly nutso in so many ways. But really, what Pynchon says is true. Ain't no bullcrap here. Just pure hallucination. But more of the honest kind than the "whoa, far out man" kind. It's like the gritty, hyper-real (non-baudrillard) mystery novels that have become so popular recently but instead of distilling anger, child molestation and waterways in Boston, it's like the things that the psyche fears the most. Including being locked in a pantry with lots of potatoes. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70280430 to: Catch-22 (Paperback) by Joseph Heller
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70280360 to: Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback) by Ray Bradbury
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70279466 to: Ray of the Star (Paperback) by Laird Hunt
bookshelves: 2009
Another book from Laird is a real treat. This one seems especially so. I like good old-fashioned ghost stories, but new-fashioned ones are good too. Which is what this is. And it hurtles with those long sentences, really long sentences, into a warped Catalonian street with more than just living statues, but stories that could possibly go forever. But they all only get one sentence. That is sad. But pretty sweet too. Like lychee sweet, more than peach sweet. ]]>