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07/11
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Export & Airside Only) by Suketu Mehta bookshelves: currently-reading |
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03/19
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book (Paperback) by Adobe Creative Team bookshelves: currently-reading |
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03/19
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Photoshop CS2 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Elaine Weinmann bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Paperback) by Michael Chabon bookshelves: fiction |
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recommended for: insomniacs
read in June, 2008 
Nick said:
"TAAOKAC is, in my mind, lumped in with Eugenide's Middlesex, in that they were both hugely hyped and awarded books that were published at the beginning of this century, and in that they were both middling affairs at best and undeserving of acc...more
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Beautiful Evidence (Hardcover) by Edward R. Tufte bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Actual Air (Paperback) by David Berman bookshelves: poetry |
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recommended for: blond jewish people
read in April, 2007
Nick said:
"You might find an interview with Berman somewhere on the web, as I did, in which he states that in assembling Actual Air he collected all his interesting ones and frontloaded the thing with all his best work.
This is pretty much true, excep...more " |
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The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien bookshelves: fiction |
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recommended for: the races of men, dwarves, and hobbits, and elves. Sorry, no orcs served here.
read in November, 2000
Nick said:
"My defining memory of this book is sitting in my room alone at the volunteer place at which I didn't fit in, reading and reading and listening to Terrapin Station. When I read, I love it, but I only read when I have no alternatives.
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Watchmen (Paperback) by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons bookshelves: fiction |
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recommended for: interventionists, transcendentalists
read in May, 2004
Nick said:
"A comic book about the sad lives and desperate nostalgia of a former band of superheroes who aren't so super in a sad alternate history 1980's NYC, with a big mystery, interweaving plot lines, horizontal thinking, and a pirate graphic novel counterpo...more
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A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles (The World's Best Reading) by Arthur Conan Doyle bookshelves: fiction |
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recommended for: the overstimulated
read in September, 2006
Nick said:
"I borrowed this rich old tome from a high bookshelf in the back room of my friends' house. Baskervilles and Scarlet are two great stories, and I believe two of the first ones Doyle put out there.
I always forget how these mysteries a...more " |
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Holes (Paperback) by Louis Sachar bookshelves: fiction |
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recommended for: diggers, delinquents
read in May, 2006
Nick said:
"I'm giving this one 4 stars, not because I loved it particularly much, but because I really liked it and I read it in one night, and that kind of whirlwind romance doesn't happen to me much anymore. I'm tired and old; I'm 26.
Do I need to r...more " |
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Paperback) by Marco Polo bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Paperback) by Raymond Carver bookshelves: currently-reading |
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