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Moira Burke
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Entertaining vacation read; recommended for Oregon expats living near San Francisco (or vice-versa) for the geographical tidbits. Not especially recommended for anyone else, although it's reasonably fun and enjoyably gruesome. Some favorite lines:[On...more |
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Moira Burke
rated a book 3 of 5 stars
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| Like Drown, This is How You Lose Her begins strong with Diaz's witty and slightly alienating argot, but gradually each short story melts into the previous ones, leaving a collection with a few poignant quotes and characters, and far more forgettable...more | |
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Moira Burke
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| A delightful book within a book within a book within a book. The narrators' lives span hundreds of years, and each voice is refreshing and clever. Early chapters feature Shakespearean wordplay, while middle chapters feel vaguely Neal Stephenson-esque...more | |
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Moira Burke
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| Easy summer reading (with some mental stumbling over the Portuguese names), and a nice follow-up to Ender. Much less violent than the first book. The protagonist is a little too effortlessly Jesus-y, but overall it's an entertaining anthropology stor...more | |
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Moira Burke
rated a book 2 of 5 stars
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| After twenty pages I actively disliked this book, a feeling that grew to loathing around page 100. Unlike David Foster Wallace's work, where the convoluted writing is worth the effort to parse, and you're rewarded with enjoyably colorful characters,...more | |
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Moira Burke
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| I'm guilty of judging books by their covers, and this one, with spaceships and eighties fonts, repelled me. But I figured my nerd cred would be incomplete without it, and now I'm thrilled to have read it. As a coming-of-age story (as much as you can...more | |
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Moira Burke
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| Highly recommended as a day-by-day account of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. I'd talked to a lot of people living in New Orleans at the time of the storm and had a good sense of the timing of the disasters and responses, and Eggers's account re...more | |
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