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Tempest
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Black Swan Green: A Novel (Paperback) by David Mitchell bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Anna Karenina (Paperback) by Leo Tolstoy |
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (Paperback) by Breece D'J Pancake |
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (Paperback) by Jorge Amado |
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recommended to Tempest by:
Dawn and Kyle, via exhuberant GoodReads ratings
read in August, 2008 
Tempest said:
"This novel is about a town organized almost exclusively around sex and violence, but through a growing prosperity is suddenly having to reconsider this fundamental structure and become 'civilized'. The plot teeters back and forth between the town's u...more
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| August 22, 2008 | ||||
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Tempest made a comment on Kyle's review of
His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
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| August 03, 2008 | ||||
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Tempest
read and liked
will's
review of The Razor's Edge:
"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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Tempest
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will's
review of The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake:
"Stark and crushing, and more than anything beautiful. The best American short shories I've read (sorry, Salinger). " | |||
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