false 34 893 760 true 5643435 read 5 true 925350 currently-reading 128 true 925349 to-read 143 false 1079326 scifi-fantasy-misc 125 false 1079323 literature 48 false 1079340 recommended 41 false 1377824 to-acquire 26 false 1801175 short-stories 24 false 1883447 philosophy-spirituality 24 false 1079324 poemetry 23 false 1339289 to-reread 15 false 1801111 sux0r 13 false 1881510 to-finish-later 11 false 1801040 tech-science-math 10 false 1883271 illustrated-graphicnovel 9 false 4668333 will-reread-till-death 3 false 2683613 loaned-out 1 false 1087809 re-reading 1 false 8342986 bio <![CDATA[Robert added 'Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77600187 to: Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward (Hardcover) by Bob Halloran
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I'm a huge Micky Ward fan - he grew up in a pretty trashy environment and rose above it to become a champion. He embodied some of the best aspects of boxing. Looking forward to the movie coming out about his life.

The writing style in this book is pretty halting and unpolished but it's not really about that for me (or other Ward fans). ]]> <![CDATA[Robert added 'Fifty Great Short Stories']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75799941 Fifty Great Short Stories (Mass Market Paperback) by Milton Crane
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Picked up on lunch break. So far I would rename it '3 mediocre representations of stereotypical American modern classic authors, Not Their Best Work'. ;) ]]> <![CDATA[Robert added 'Coraline']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75391376 Coraline (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman
bookshelves: to-acquire, to-read
]]> <![CDATA[Robert added 'Stories']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71578753 to: Stories (Everyman's Library) by Doris Lessing
bookshelves: literature, short-stories
]]> <![CDATA[Robert added 'Interpreter of Maladies']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73119645 Interpreter of Maladies (Paperback) by Jhumpa Lahiri
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I picked this up while on the lam from work today, got about halfway though it. Really great short stories - Pulitzer prize winning, no less. ]]> <![CDATA[Robert Finch added a quote]]> http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/1339 Quote_tiny
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"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." — Mark Twain
]]> <![CDATA[Robert added 'Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71674459 Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction (Paperback) by Geoff Ryman
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]]> <![CDATA[Robert made a comment on Colin's recommendation of Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction to Robert]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/537206 Robert made a comment on Colin's recommendation of Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction to Robert: Somehow I missed this recommendation (first one I've gotten). Thanks Colin! I love your reviews and stuff. Right now I'm reading Doris Lessing's collection "Stories" - I'll pick this up. ]]> <![CDATA[New Update::UpdateArray update]]>