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Martin
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Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the Merchant Service (Penguin English Library)
by Herman Melville
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Martin
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The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by Jack Kerouac
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Martin
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Paperback)
by Herman Melville
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Martin
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Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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July 30, 2007
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Martin
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Kafka on the Shore (Hardcover)
by Haruki Murakami
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read in January, 2008
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Martin
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Big Sur (Paperback)
by Jack Kerouac
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read in January, 2008
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Martin
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Daddy was a Number Runner (Contemporary Classics by Women)
by Louise Meriwether
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read in September, 2005
Martin said:
"Well written story of a girl growing up in a big city. Can't remember details as it has been a while since reading, but certain scenes still stick in my mind like, so it must be good!
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Martin
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Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
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read in January, 2008
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Martin
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After the Quake (Perfect Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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read in July, 2007
Martin said:
"All that I can say is that it after I finished it I leant back in my chair with that ‘I’ve just read a good book’ feeling, which is rare these days it seems. I wanted to re-read it immediately. This is the second Murakami book I have read, Sp...more
All that I can say is that it after I finished it I leant back in my chair with that ‘I’ve just read a good book’ feeling, which is rare these days it seems. I wanted to re-read it immediately. This is the second Murakami book I have read, Sputnik Sweatheart being the first, and I will definitely read some more. Soon.
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Martin
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Millennium People (Paperback)
by J.G. Ballard
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read in July, 2007
Martin said:
"Primary-school-teacher similes; ‘…she wore her insecurities like a collection of favourite costume jewellery.’
Meaningless and cheesy sentences; ‘Looking into her eyes, I sensed that I could see my whole future.’
No mystery in the cha...more
Primary-school-teacher similes; ‘…she wore her insecurities like a collection of favourite costume jewellery.’
Meaningless and cheesy sentences; ‘Looking into her eyes, I sensed that I could see my whole future.’
No mystery in the characters, they are laid bare within two pages. All their curious traits, failures and successes are listed. This however lets the real reason for reading race on, namely the story. Which is gripping, amusing and thought provoking. A more complicated prose would slow the pace.
I guessed that Laura was herself the bomber this making Davids’ whole search meaningless and taking the middle class activists to the next level of terror; the suicide bomber. But I was wrong and felt that the build up fizzled out when the truth came out.
I also thought that the whole thing was a frame up for David, making him the scapegoat and someone the papers could blame; a lone mad-man so crazy he kills his ex-wife. But I was wrong again and have to admit that I was kind of disappointed when he went back to work like nothing happened, but then that’s the whole message; middle class people are too comfortable to do anything that might actually change the world and subsequently their lives.
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