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March 03
	richard gave to: Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut	my rating:
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January 23
	richard gave to: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback) by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin	my rating:
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January 16
	richard gave to: The Prestige (Paperback) by Christopher Priest	my rating:
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December 26
	richard gave to: The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback) by Franz Kafka	my rating:
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December 14
	richard gave to: No Country for Old Men (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy	my rating:
	richard said: "I had trouble choosing between a 2 and a 3 on this one. The story is interesting - told through three intertwining plot lines. The scenes are exciting - motel parking lot shootouts and empty desert roadside action. And the characters are cool - es...more " add a comment
	richard gave to: The Secret History of Moscow (Paperback) by Ekaterina Sedia	my rating:
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	richard gave to: Measuring the World: A Novel (Hardcover) by Daniel Kehlmann	my rating:
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November 21
	richard read and liked Matthew's review of No Country for Old Men: "No Country For Old Men may be Cormac McCarthy's most accessible and fun book yet, but that doesn't mean there's nothing more to it. Ostensibly the story of a drug deal gone bad, it's also an elegy for simpler (or at least, less horrible) times...more " 3 comments
September 22
	richard gave to: Great Depression (Mass Market Paperback) by Robert Goldston	my rating:
	read in August, 2007 richard said: "This was a really interesting account of the Great Depression in the United States, including, I think, the prefect balance of economics, politics and history. Two things really struck me. The first is the similarity between the national attitude o...more " add a comment

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