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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon |
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read in January, 1976
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| April 26 | ||||
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette) by Erik Larson |
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian) by Walter Kaufmann |
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| March 25 | ||||
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Robert made a comment in the group Movies We've Just Watched—Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story topic:
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| September 09 | ||||
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My Friend Leonard (Hardcover) by James Frey |
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read in November, 2005
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"In many ways an even richer book than Frey's first. A wonderful story about a very unusual friendship.
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A Million Little Pieces (Paperback) by James Frey |
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read in November, 2005
Robert said:
"Forget the Oprah controversy - this is a fine, painful memoir about addiction.. (And anyone reading it should have been able to tell that the author was taking liberties - it's too goo to all be true...)
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Godard on Godard: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard (Da Capo Paperback) by Jean-Luc Godard, Translated and Edited by Tom Milne |
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recommended for: anyone who takes movies seriously
read in January, 1973
Robert said:
"Excellent, typically contrary collection of all of Godard's writings up to the late 60s. A revised and extended version was published in France several years ago but has never been translated into English.
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| September 08 | ||||
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Ragtime (Paperback) by Edgar Lawrence Doctorow |
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Welcome to Hard Times (Paperback) by Edgar Lawrence Doctorow |
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read in January, 1979
Robert said:
"Bleak and deliberately anti-generic, but probably one of the greatest western novels ever..
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Robert
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Like Water for Chocolate (Paperback) by Laura Esquivel |
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