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06/28
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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover) by David Maraniss (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: baseball, currently-reading |
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The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jack Kerouac bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero (Hardcover) by David Maraniss (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: baseball, currently-reading |
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Paperback) by Erik Larson bookshelves: steampunk |
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recommended for: steampunks, architectural and real crime fans
read in June, 2007 
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"Larson blends two of my favorite subjects - real crime and the progress of the late 19th century in his own signature dazzling fashion. His voice in notable in that he mixes fact with his own vision of what cannot be known - but in a manner that add...more
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The Giving Tree (Hardcover) by Shel Silverstein |
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The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder (Paperback) by Sally Denton bookshelves: neverfinished |
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recommended to Ben by:
Mom, Holly
read in July, 2007
Ben said:
"Picked up and put down a few times - sub-par writing on a fascinating topic close to my Bluegrass Roots. My mother claims to have met some of the particulars back in the 80s. Small town, high crime - what's not to love? Oh yeah, the dreadful writi...more
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Heart of Darkness, Fourth Edition (Norton Critical Edition) by Joseph Conrad |
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read in March, 2008
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New comment on Hunter's review of
The Mantis and the Moth
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
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Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics) by Walt Whitman bookshelves: neverfinished, to-read |
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President Clinton gave this as a present to Monica Lewinsky
recommended for: democrats, republicans, flag-shitters read in December, 2007
Ben said:
"Leaves of Grass is like reading every single instant message that I and a friend of mine ever wrote to one another over the course of the last ten years. Likely way too long, too self-serving and would have shocked the general public if they cared t...more
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