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08/17
will
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Nobody's Fool (Paperback) by Richard Russo bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Nobody's Fool (Paperback) by Richard Russo bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Razor's Edge (Paperback) by W. Somerset Maugham |
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recommended to will by:
a man in gotham books
recommended for: artists read in July, 2008 
will said:
"Maugham does the rare thing of combining exuberance and sensitivity, seriousness and flippancy. The book moves swiftly and pleasurably, and yet at the end leaves you feeling that somthing heavy and significant has been left in your hands. Then it lea...more
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will
read and liked
Tempest's
review of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel:
"I'm not sure if something got lost in translation, but the sentences didn't really hold their own as sentences, they weren't all that lyrical or stylized--they just were; hanging out within the paragraph, unable to be distinguished as anything other ...more " | |||
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
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Alex's
review of The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake:
"Occasionally one comes across a writer who seems to exist causa sui, not a product so much as an expression of circumstance. Breece Pancake is of this rare strain. His stories are gems without fissure, staggering glimpses of lives worn down ...more " | |||
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will
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The Corrections (Paperback) by Jonathan Franzen |
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read in April, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
will said:
"By allowing himself to appear shallow, Franzen created a book that goes pretty deep.
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (Paperback) by Breece D'J Pancake |
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recommended to will by:
Alex
read in October, 2007
will said:
"Stark and crushing, and more than anything beautiful. The best American short shories I've read (sorry, Salinger).
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