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07/17
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Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 2: Endgame (Paperback) by Dan Harrington bookshelves: currently-reading |
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04/29
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Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI (Loeb Classical Library) by Virgil bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 2: Endgame (Paperback) by Dan Harrington bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play (Paperback) by Dan Harrington |
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Elective Affinities (Oxford World's Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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recommended to Mike by:
Kora Battig, by way of the filmic version
recommended for: Germanists, fans of modern lit, Shakespeare read in April, 2008 
Mike said:
"Goethe's big works have left a strong imprint on modern literary field: Faust's endless ambition, Werther's primal despondency, and the Roman elegies' outright eroticism all set the stage for later authors to flesh out the Romantic worldview. Goethe'...more
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Italian Journey: 1786-1788 (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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recommended for: Travelers, those interested in how a proto Romantic thought of antiquity
read in March, 2008
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"A few preliminaries:
This was my first experience with Goethe. I picked it up because I'd just finished Crime and Punishment and wanted something lighter to read on a trip I took in March. I'd remembered his quote about Sicily: "To have...more " |
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Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I-VI (Loeb Classical Library) by Virgil bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Crime and Punishment (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky |
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read in February, 2008
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| February 12 | ||
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The Baron in the Trees (Paperback) by Italo Calvino |
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recommended to Mike by:
Ann Kim, Stefano Rastelli
recommended for: Calvino fans, fairy tale read in January, 2008
Mike said:
"Originally I had read sections of this book in Italian for a class I took while studying abroad. Calvino's sentences and vocabulary can be a bear to translate, especially given the nature of the book; the protagonist, Cosimo, spends most of the novel...more
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| November 15 | ||
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After Dark (Hardcover) by Haruki Murakami |
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read in May, 2007
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The Gambler (Modern Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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La vita nuova (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri bookshelves: to-read |
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read in January, 2007
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