false 2148598 male Bensalem, PA 03/2009 12/2009 6 93 72 true 5705098 read 2 true 4664010 currently-reading 12 true 4664009 to-read 7 true 5413745 half-read The Great Gatsby (Paperback) by F. Scott Fitzgerald]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49970703 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218672960s/4671.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:59:54 -0800 Songmaster (Paperback) by Orson Scott Card]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73509230 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175638027s/540471.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:27:28 -0700 On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language (Hardcover) by Giambattista Vico]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73465719 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174090697s/361004.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:43:33 -0700 The House of the Spirits (Hardcover) by Isabel Allende]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70364139 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170348695s/47831.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:42:44 -0700 The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71704277 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1201718740s/23754.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:13:11 -0700
The editor's introduction and the author's afterword both admit there's pretty much nothing of worth in this volume which collects the first eight issues of the series. Apparently, the brilliant work that made Gaiman famous comes la...more...]]> Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Paperback) by Lynne Truss]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71703671 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165672357s/8600.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:33:12 -0700 The Dispossessed (Sf Masterworks 16) by Ursula K. Le Guin]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49970763 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178086670s/756970.jpg 2148598 Brent Franklin http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245857034p2/2148598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2148598-brent-franklin Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:18:19 -0700
This is a difficult one to review. I enjoyed it, but not quite as much as I would have liked to, and yet I was impressed by it in other ways. It was an unusual presentation for a utopia-related novel, which I think was the source of both its s...more...]]>