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May 10
	Daniel gave to: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Twentieth Century Classics) by Georges Perec	my rating:
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	Daniel gave to: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Paperback) by Vladimir Nabokov	my rating:
	Daniel said: "Language birthing language, forging time games and impossible palpability. Freakishly delicious, almost too much. " add a comment
	Daniel gave to: Portnoy's Complaint (Paperback) by Philip Roth	my rating:
	Daniel said: "One of the very few books that consistently makes me laugh out loud. A strange thing about Roth, and about this book, is that his prose is not great per se. He is no Nabokov, no Nicholson Baker, not even a TC Boyle. But what makes him great, among...more " add a comment
	Daniel gave to: Poetical Dictionary (Paperback) by Lohren Green	my rating:
	Daniel said: "Words that endlessly perform themselves: this is a recipe for delight. And Dr. Green is a master chef, his prose so delicate and sure, so refined and keen. The Preface is one of the great contributions to literature -- and certainly one of the best...more " add a comment
	Daniel added: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber (Paperback) by Nicholson Baker	my rating:
	Daniel said: "Baker is a master essayist with prose so purple and eloquent it makes me want to weep. His taste for the overlooked and his ability to bring minutia to life is phenomenal, a delight through and through and through. " add a comment
	Daniel gave to: Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (Paperback) by Paul Virilio	my rating:
	Daniel said: "My most recent fixation. Virilio does such a nice job of performing tight, phenomenological readings of the effects of speed. Look at his essay, Dromoscopy, where he carefully considers the car as a cinema engine. It is so smart, surprising, and t...more " add a comment
May 09
	Daniel added: A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Paperback) by Manuel DeLanda	my rating:
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	Daniel gave to: The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure (Vintage) Vol. 2 by Michel Foucault	my rating:
	Daniel said: "The title says it all: the use of pleasure. That phrase alone is worth the price of admission. " add a comment
	Daniel gave to: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo (Paperback) by Friedrich Nietzsche	my rating:
	Daniel said: "Nietzsche at his funniest and most generous -- you get dietary tips (never drink coffee: coffee spreads darkness) and the answer to the universe: amor fati, love fate. And this version comes w/ The Genealogy -- so you get his two best books in one. " add a comment