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The Recognitions 07/15 Eric is currently reading:
The Recognitions (Paperback)
by William Gaddis
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Notes from the Air: ... 05/18 Eric is currently reading:
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (Hardcover)
by John Ashbery (Goodreads author!)
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August 14
In Defense of Lost C... Eric marked as to-read:
In Defense of Lost Causes (Hardcover)
by Slavoj Zizek
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Eric Eric said: "waiting for this in paperback. I'm really intrigued because I'm starting to think that eco-totalitarianism has surpassed communism as my favorite form of government, and it looks like Zizek is thinking the same thing. "
Crash: A Novel Eric gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Crash: A Novel (Paperback)
by J.G. Ballard
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read in April, 2008

Eric Eric said: "excellent imagery, great mechanical/geometrical terminology, but grows repetitive quickly. Basically, the first chapter expresses all the major ideas/symbols and the rest of the book just dilutes their effectiveness. "
Molloy, Malone Dies,... Eric gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
by Samuel Beckett
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recommended for: people who question traditional novel structures
read in August, 2008

Eric Eric said: "I really didn't enjoy this book for reasons similar to why I hate Tender Buttons: the author tries to justify their extreme (and extremely annoying) form with a legitimate philosophical point, but just becuz a book has an interesting theory behind it...more "
June 03
For They Know Not Wh... Eric gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor (Radical Thinkers)
by Slavoj Zizek
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read in June, 2008

Eric Eric said: "probably should've stopped short instead of wasting so much time on this (reading Zizek half-awake on the subway is not a good place to be), but at least the last 3 pages are radically divergent from the rest in that there's some irrational rhetoric ...more "
April 28
A Thousand Years of ... Eric marked as to-read:
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Paperback)
by Manuel DeLanda
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April 23
The Broom of the Sys... Eric gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The Broom of the System (Paperback)
by David Foster Wallace
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read in February, 2008

Eric Eric said: "very humorous and an interesting variety of forms (pure dialogue, pure narration with indirect discourse, transcripts, scraps of stories being written by a character) but it doesn't have the sort of depth or social insight of DFW's later works. Also,...more "
April 01
The Complete Poems Eric marked as to-read:
The Complete Poems (Paperback)
by Anne Sexton
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In the Shadow of You... Eric marked as to-read:
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Marcel Proust
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Discipline & Punish:... Eric marked as to-read:
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by Michel Foucault
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The Years Eric marked as to-read:
The Years (Paperback)
by Virginia Woolf
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