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| I LOVELOVELOVELOVED this book up until maybe like two thirds of the way through, at which point I just became very busy with other things and managed never to pick it up again. It's a good book, though, and someone with any motivation would remain en...more | |
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Much of this book just isn't very good, indeed, it's quite bad. Much of this book is also great, not in the sense of 'very good,' but in the sense of Great American Novel. A more tech-savvy reviewer could insert a Venn diagram here, but I'm limite...
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Magnificent. No stunning poetic allegory like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato. Nothing like the hallucinatory brilliance of Dispatches. Just a straightforward slog that drops you into the bush with Bravo Company and propels you along until you...
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“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
― Isaiah Berlin
― Isaiah Berlin
“Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.”
― Charles Baudelaire
― Charles Baudelaire
“She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.”
― Marcel Proust
― Marcel Proust
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake
― William Blake
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (sans guitar) (Professional & Technical)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:33pm
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let's get a few things clear here....
A Million Little Book Reports (Health, Mind & Body)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32pm
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It's an addiction memoir. I haven't actually written it yet, because I'm still gathering my material by living through the agony and despair.
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