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If You Liked School,... 01/04 Joel is currently reading:
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work (Paperback)
by Irvine Welsh
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Bradbury Stories: 10... 01/04 Joel is currently reading:
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Paperback)
by Ray Bradbury
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A Supposedly Fun Thi... 10/09 Joel is currently reading:
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by David Foster Wallace
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The Oathbound Wizard Joel gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The Oathbound Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme, #2)
by Christopher Stasheff
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Her Majesty's Wizard Joel gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Her Majesty's Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme, #1)
by Christopher Stasheff
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May 22
The Hitchhiker's Gui... Joel gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Book 1)
by Douglas Adams
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read in May, 2009
May 04
The New Kings of Non... Joel gave 4 of 5 stars to:
The New Kings of Nonfiction (Paperback)
by Ira Glass
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recommended to Joel by: Boing Boing
recommended for: Fans of This American Life
read in May, 2009, has a copy to sell/swap

Joel Joel said:
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The Yiddish Policeme... Joel marked as to-read:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover)
by Michael Chabon
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McSweeney's Enchante... Joel gave 3 of 5 stars to:
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (Paperback)
by Michael Chabon
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read in February, 2009, has a copy to sell/swap

Joel Joel said: "While there were a few good stories, overall, the collection didn't do much for me and if McSweeney's does another volume, I'm not sure I'll bother with it. "
Jhegaala Joel marked as to-read:
Jhegaala (Vlad Taltos, #11)
by Steven Brust
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"The thing that is most hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most wind up in parentheses."
John Irving


Oscar Wilde
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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Anthony Bourdain
"I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it."
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Just Now (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 02/23/2008 11:11PM
description: A cinquain.
Under Glass, Sepia (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 10/28/2007 07:44AM
description: An attempt at a sonnet.
Oranges (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 10/28/2007 07:43AM
description: A sestina about life in a rural town, back in the day.
Sunday (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 10/28/2007 07:41AM
description: A cinquain.
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For those attempting the crazy feat of reading all 1001 books!

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