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"I feel like this happens to me a lot, but I found this book (which I've been wanting to read forever) in a box on the curb near my apartment, which box was otherwise full of computer coding manuals and broken picture frames and ugly shoes. I think so...more
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"I had pretty much dismissed this guy as a doofus after the idiotic Go the Fuck to Sleep took off like goddamn wildfire. But OMG how good does this book sound?? Plus check out this terrific & heartbreaking piece he wrote for the Awl about New York...more
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Here is a short list that should tell you everything I think about this book: 1. I got it at BEA. 2. I carried it around during like the wettest two weeks ever, even in a derecho, and it is pretty well destroyed. 3. I finished it at the park, lying in...more |
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Aurorarama (The Mysteries of New Venice, #1)
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
recommended for:
McNally Jackson
read in June, 2013
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before reading I would like to submit this as Exhibit A for the failure of traditional publishing to redress issues of sexism, not to mention shooting itself in its stupid foot and being appallingly condescending to one of its strongest demographics....more |
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"Cool! It's good so far (about halfway through). Not at all the kind of book I usually read, but I'm into it."
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