false 5 8 4 true 5679962 read 3 true 367985 currently-reading 1 true 367984 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2823511 to: Searching for God Knows What (Paperback) by Donald Miller
I wish I could give this more like 3 1/2 stars, but that apparently is not an option. Some parts were really great, some parts were just ok. I'm really glad I read it and I'd recommend it to others, especially if they liked Blue Like Jazz... I'm just trying not to be too liberal with my stars. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7870638 The Sound and the Fury (Paperback) by William Faulkner
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I would've given parts of this book a 5 and parts of this book a 3... you can understand, then, why I settled on 4. I couldn't quite get behind the bull fights and clearly Hemingway has a problem with women, but the dialogue was really great. I read this back to back with the Great Gatsby to compare them and my opinion is thus: I liked Fitzgerald's writing style better, but I connected with Hemingway's characters more. Next up: Faulkner. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2823446 Writing Down the Bones (Paperback) by Natalie Goldberg
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4140514 to: The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (Paperback) by C.S. Lewis
What's interesting is that Lewis is addressing many of the same issues as Donald Miller in the other book I'm reading (Searching For God Knows What) -- but I gotta tell you, as much as I enjoy Miller's wit and fresh perspective, it's taking him a whole book to say what Lewis says in about 10 pages. A few favorite quotes, if I may:

"We are half-hearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased."

"If our religion is something objective, then we must never avert our eyes from those elements in it which seem puzzling or repellent; for it will be precisely the puzzling or the repellent which conceals what we do not yet know and need to know."

"Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning."

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2823499 Crime and Punishment (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2823365 A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback) by John Kennedy Toole
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