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06/29
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Hardcover) by Sarah Chayes bookshelves: currently-reading |
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05/26
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2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Hardcover) by Daniel Pinchbeck bookshelves: currently-reading |
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05/26
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The Areas of My Expertise (Paperback) by John Hodgman bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Wolfgang Tillmans: Portraits (Hardcover) by Wolfgang Tillmans |
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The Stranger (Paperback) by Albert Camus |
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recommended for: anyone and everyone
read in January, 1986 
Gina said:
"One of my all time favorite writers.
If you have never read this, you must. It can be read in a day but it takes much longer to digest. I don't recall how many times I've devoured it. " |
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills (Paperback) by Charles Bukowski |
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recommended for: anyone
read in January, 1988
Gina said:
"I think I've read everything of Bukowski, even his drunken picture book of his trip to Poland to discover that his birth home is a brothel.
This is the soft side of Charles. These poems are just so sweet and beautiful. There is a piece of public a...more " |
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (Paperback) by Henry Miller |
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read in January, 1989
Gina said:
"If you have never been before, go to the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. It's like a weird little cabin in the woods.
Make sure you bring a friend that you really, really like, then read this book. You will never forget it. " |
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The Town and the City (Paperback) by Jack Kerouac |
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recommended for: anyone
read in January, 1986
Gina said:
"On the Road is so overrated.
I was a huge beat fanatic in high school. I even had an embarrassing poetry slam and all that teenage stuff. I think I even tried to iron my hair! I never understood what the big deal was about Kerouac though. He seemed ...more " |
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir (Paperback) by Augusten Burroughs |
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recommended for: messed up kids
read in January, 2006
Gina said:
"I love this book like I loved Virgin Suicide. I had enough screwball childhood memories to make this seem perfectly plausible and frankly, I related to the characters. This is clearly not a book for everyone but for those of you who have seen some me...more
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Paperback) by James Agee |
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