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The Electric Kool-Ai... 08/15 Rena is currently reading:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by Tom Wolfe
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Story of O 07/10 Rena is currently reading:
Story of O (Mass Market Paperback)
by Pauline Réage
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August 15
The Electric Kool-Ai... Rena is currently reading:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by Tom Wolfe
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July 30
Pnin Rena gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Pnin (Everyman's Library)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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read in July, 2008

Rena Rena said: "This has become one of my favorite Nabokov novels. What it lacks in climax, it completely made up for in character development. You can't help but fall in love with Pnin. "
July 21
Slowness Rena gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Slowness
by Milan Kundera
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read in July, 2008

Rena Rena said: "Another one of Kundera's more recent, shorter novels, Slowness was a delight to read. Like most of his other works, it layers intellectual characters with hopeless romantics. A lightning-fast read. "
July 10
The Hypocrisy of Dis... Rena gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Clane Hayward (Goodreads author!)
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Rena Rena said: "The synopsis on the book's cover leads you to believe that this is a memoir about growing up on hippy communes. No. This is a memoir of a girl who spent only part of her childhood with a hippy, macrobiotic, food-stamp-collecting mother, and who spe...more "
Sock Rena gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
Sock (Paperback)
by Penn Jillette
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Rena Rena said: "Written by Penn Jillette (the larger half of Penn & Teller), who I worship for his ideology, this book really fell flat as his first attempt at a novel. He ends every paragraph with a pop culture reference (usually a line from a song), which beg...more "
A Prayer for Owen Me... Rena gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by John Irving
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Story of O Rena is currently reading:
Story of O (Mass Market Paperback)
by Pauline Réage
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The Real Bettie Page... Rena gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups (Hardcover)
by Richard Foster
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Hardboiled Wonderlan... Rena gave 2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars to:
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by Haruki Murakami
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Rena Rena said: "Despite liking Murakami, I got about 1/3 of the way through this book and had to put it down. I think it was a bit too cyber-punk for me. I should have read the synopsis more carefully before buying the book. "
Identity Rena gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Identity
by Milan Kundera
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