false 17 75 49 true 5661240 read 8 true 433003 currently-reading 18 true 433002 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76989486 Gary's review of Going Rogue: An American Life
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Thanks, Gary. I went & listened to Sarah Palin's book-promotion interview with Oprah yesterday. Harpo Productions was having the YouTube postings deleted as I was watching them, but I saw most of it. Sounds interesting. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77262233 to: Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Paperback) by Harold Brodkey
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76716694 to: The God Makers: A Shocking Expose of What the Mormon Church Really Believes (Paperback) by Ed Decker
What is funniest about this book is the writers, portraying themselves as Christians and Mormons as non-Christians, blasting Mormons for believing wacky stories about Jesus Christ coming to North America and burying gold plates for Joseph Smith to find. Like that's less plausible than the Red Sea parting. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76716588 The Flame Bearers: A Novel (Paperback) by Kim Chernin
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Who loaned me this book? Let me know if it was you, because I need to replace it. It's absolutely falling apart. I'm enjoying it, though. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76716436 Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by D.H. Lawrence
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Thanks to my friend Trisha, who gave me the first American edition of this book. Can't say I agree with Lawrence entirely on his understanding of women, but he's trying. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76716386 The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, ... Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside) by L.M. Montgomery
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76716236 to: An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
This is the book that turned me onto Dreiser. I had to read it after I saw the film based on it, A Place in the Sun. I recommend the film as well. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76715769 to: Sister Carrie (Enriched Classics) by Theodore Dreiser
I'm a huge Dreiser fan. I know he's not for everyone, but he reminds me a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald in his bald portrayal of people's ambitions and shortcomings. He also looks at poverty and what it is, and perhaps in Dreiser's world poverty is not the same as being poor, since some of his wealthy characters are impoverished in their own ways--faddish, jaded, useless people, some of them, who contribute little or nothing to the society they seem happy to slash and crush in their petty, desperate crawl for the top. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76715733 to: Divine Comedy (Hardcover) by Dante Alighieri
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