false 18 166 105 true 5641194 read 2 true 4283090 currently-reading 49 true 4283089 to-read 10 true 5179830 abandoned-sigh- 47 false 4283363 50-book-challenge-2008 43 false 4361255 literature 33 false 4283657 50-book-challenge-2009 24 false 4361256 evolution 15 false 4361341 religion-and-atheism 15 false 4361269 sci-fi 15 false 4361257 general-science 14 false 4375927 young-adult 12 false 4383282 poetry 11 false 4361266 graphic-novels 10 false 4389108 sex 10 false 4375925 avant-garde 10 false 4383324 read-it-in-2007 9 false 4375926 drama 9 false 4361273 politics 7 false 4598375 the-classics 7 false 4391842 pseudoscience 7 false 5446777 judaica 6 false 4383279 biography 6 false 4383329 music 5 false 4383304 feminism-and-glbt 5 false 4383276 war 5 false 4474189 fantasy 4 false 4426992 lit-theory 4 false 4383308 horror 4 false 4392540 linguistics 3 false 4500136 medieval 3 false 4361258 astronomy 3 false 4383310 dystopia 3 false 4536803 education 2 false 4391844 history 2 false 4383290 mythology 2 false 4420113 art 1 false 4401093 cyberpunk 1 false 4587288 humour 1 false 4473925 misc- 0 false 5208798 travel <![CDATA[Max is on page 139 of Jewish Worship ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76738406 Max is on page 139 of 700 of Jewish Worship

Max "Excellent explanation of the Siddur and how it came to be" ]]> <![CDATA[Max added 'Jewish Worship']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76738406 Jewish Worship (Hardcover) by Abraham E. Millgram
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]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Max]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55770474 Blake's review of The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

This book actually sent my wife into a bout of depression... she was very afraid of death and dying for a year or so. I felt bad or giving it to her. Me, it was depressing, but it blew me away as well... the closing passage about the brook trout just about ended me. ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Max]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74966579 Jill's review of The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
by Robert Crumb

I am SO, SO, SO psyched for that one.
I love Genesis, I love graphic novels, I love R. Crumb.
I love nice big hardcover books. ]]> <![CDATA[Max is on page 120 of The Greatest Show on... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73069490 Max is on page 120 of 470 of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution ]]> <![CDATA[Max added 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73069490 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover) by Richard Dawkins
bookshelves: currently-reading, evolution
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bookshelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Max]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2629803 AJ's review of Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Anonymous

I just get a kick out of the guy cos he gave five stars to Infinite Jest... I'm like, ugh, how is it that you like the one and not the other? Are they not key points in the same tradition? I don't get people who can't appreciate all good English literature.

Oh, and BTW, the movie version sucks and is not representative of the quality of the poem. Read the Heaney translation. ]]> <![CDATA[Max added 'Beowulf: A New Verse Translation']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72013142 to: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Paperback) by Anonymous
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