false 153518 31 male Brooklyn, NY 06/2007 12/2009 41 206 155 true 5641201 read 3 true 315629 currently-reading 48 true 315628 to-read 20 false 315694 maps-and-guidebooks 17 false 2600168 book-club 13 false 2600179 favorites 8 false 4823155 borrowing 7 false 349108 comics 6 false 3972045 library 6 false 3615951 urban-studies 5 false 3075106 one-a-day 4 false 349091 writing-reference 3 false 349081 cooking-and-entertaining 2 false 315695 music-reference 1 false 4132246 trivia 1 false 315706 to-re-read Road Fever (Paperback) by Tim Cahill]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3301785 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175145717s/485671.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:37:35 -0800 Raymond Carver: Collected Stories (Hardcover) by Raymond Carver]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81330996 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255953239s/6285955.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:36:18 -0800 Foreskin's Lament (Hardcover) by Shalom Auslander]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54485180 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RobjrK1IL._SL75_.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:35:26 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29164773 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170614503s/63033.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:46:43 -0800 Joseph wrote: "I was commenting on the one star grade. I couldn't see the review yet.

But ouch for that, too."

I'm willing to say that I might be wrong on this.]]> The Savage Detectives (Hardcover) by Roberto Bolaño]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29164773 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170614503s/63033.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:26:35 -0800
Maybe this has to do with my translated books problem (I always find them lifeless), or maybe it's a hype problem—the jacket copy promises a "dazzling" book that is "funny".

I should hav...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56537485 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186904049s/1687351.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:30:12 -0700 mickiegoc wrote: "Man, this seems like an idea that can be similarly mined for the ongoing demise of the publishing industry."

Who'd publish it?]]> Rock On: An Office Power Ballad (Paperback) by Dan Kennedy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56537485 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186904049s/1687351.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:48:30 -0700 more...]]> Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback) by Chuck Klosterman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54485261 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157059726s/599.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:37:08 -0700
His o...more...]]> Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1) by George MacDonald Fraser]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52511938 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664927s/401880.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:52:37 -0700
The most frustrating thing about Flashman is that there is so much to recommend it. It's historical fiction of the 19th century as satire, it's fun to read, and the protagonist is a coward who finds himself accidentally ...more...]]> The World Without Us (Perfect Paperback) by Alan Weisman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54485116 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255841344s/2082562.jpg 153518 Shek http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1209742755p2/153518.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/153518-shek Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:40:25 -0700 more...]]>