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That's kind of how I feel about this site. For me its a way to have a record for all the hours I've spent pouring over quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore instead of going outside and playing baseball or making friends at the Sock-Hop or going gleefully hand in hand to the soda fountain with Betty-Loo to share a milkshake with two straws......]]> 28 male Newtonville, MA 04/2007 12/2009 25847 Lester Bangs 73675 Delmore Schwartz 1511533 Ginnetta Correli 4173 Edmund Wilson 3535 William Faulkner 4339 David Foster Wallace 68 601 532 true 5629655 read 2 true 1831294 currently-reading 67 true 1831293 to-read 215 false 1831583 fictions-of-the-big-it 142 false 1831579 social-crit 135 false 2218369 america--f-k-yeah- 77 false 2206592 worldly-lit 57 false 1831580 poetic-rapture 57 false 3142736 literary-crit 55 false 1870608 satire 52 false 1877111 top-shelf 52 false 1831570 political-badassery 47 false 1870595 won-t-read-again 41 false 1869974 wisdom--philosophical-investigatons 41 false 3198818 biography 36 false 3293436 underrated 35 false 1877024 miniature 34 false 3264576 shattering 33 false 1919483 theatrepieces 28 false 3727955 historyonics-american 26 false 1982290 peeked-inside 22 false 3727958 historyonics-world 22 false 4065214 red-menace 21 false 3148965 existentialism 19 false 3293451 shaggy-monsters 19 false 3359666 put-aside 18 false 3148833 beat-stuff 18 false 3293411 historical-fiction 17 false 3198877 musicalities 12 false 3559077 anthologies 11 false 3148899 romanticism 11 false 3149007 hitch 11 false 4001161 mailer 9 false 3142687 iraq-war 2666: A Novel (Paperback) by Roberto Bolaño]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75749424 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239908959s/6372225.jpg 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:59:38 -0800 "What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the...more...]]> A Fan's Notes (Paperback) by Frederick Exley]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77182190 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178231994s/774032.jpg 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:11:08 -0800 The Sportswriter (Paperback) by Richard Ford]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45153969 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wL4yYUVOL._SL75_.gif 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:58:53 -0700 I'm not finished, but I'm really enjoying it.

I don't know what it is, but I think I could read sad, slightly maudlin, slightly angst-ridden tales like this for years.
Particularly when they're written by somebody like Richard Ford.

I loved Independence Day and I...more...]]> Partners (Mass Market Paperback) by Veronica Geng]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73713086 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:03:33 -0700
This is a rare gem, a brilliant recommendation from a friend. Like most people I'd never even heard of her. She wrote amazingly witty, wise and pungently sarcastic (as well as somehow generous and healthi...more...]]> Some Prefer Nettles (Paperback) by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73279860 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172590881s/194642.jpg 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:17:11 -0700 Pride and Prejudice (Paperback) by Jane Austen]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15464288 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158963071s/1885.jpg 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:13:14 -0700 Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (Paperback) by Edmund Wilson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67041739 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173983267s/350271.jpg 54697 matt http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203328083p2/54697.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/54697-matt Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:42:25 -0700