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Why We Left Islam: F... 05/10 Alex is currently reading:
Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out (Hardcover)
by Susan Crimp, Joel Richardson
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by Tony Horwitz
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Five Weeks in a Ball... 04/10 Alex gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Five Weeks in a Balloon (Dodo Press)
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May 10
Why We Left Islam: F... Alex is currently reading:
Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out (Hardcover)
by Susan Crimp, Joel Richardson
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The Two Gentlemen of... Alex gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine
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May 01
Shazam!: Monster Soc... Alex gave 3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars to:
Shazam!: Monster Society of Evil (Hardcover)
by Jeff Smith
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After Dark (Vintage International)
by Haruki Murakami
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April 22
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World from Prehistory to Today (Hardcover)
by William J. Bernstein
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The Last Human: A Gu... Alex marked as to-read:
The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans (Hardcover)
by G.J. Sawyer , Viktor Deak
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April 17
The McSweeney's Joke... Alex gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage)
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read in April, 2008
April 15
83633 New comment on Alex's review of The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
595788 Alex wrote: "Thanks! "

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Five Weeks in a Ball... Alex gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Five Weeks in a Balloon (Dodo Press)
by Jules Verne
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21726 New comment on Alex's review of The Ruins
595788 Alex wrote: "See, I thought it would always work much better as a movie being more imagery-based, which is why it...more "

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from Fenixbird
02/24/2008 08:32PM

425836 Yeah for John Irving's Cidar House Rules! Thanks for adding me as a friend here.. Nice to meet you, Alex.

from Jeremy
01/24/2008 01:06AM

630905 I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy

from Monica
01/02/2008 06:03PM

347123 Hi Alex,

It took a minute for me to figure out how to email you back! Thanks for asking me to be your friend. How did you find me? Looking forward to going through your books and reading your comments. All the best.
Mon in Mich

from Alex
01/01/2008 08:53PM

595788 Now that's just cruel, and you know, I don't have an answer for you, because there simply isn't just one book that I have as a favorite over all others.

from Jeremy
01/01/2008 02:13PM

630905 Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

P.S.—I’m currently offering autographed/personally-inscribed copies of my novel, Vacation, with free shipping for those in the US. If there’s anything you could do to help me spread the word about this, I’d really appreciate it. Feel free to click here for details:
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from Jeremy
12/24/2007 12:14AM

630905 Hi Alex!

Thanks again for sharing! Some of my favorites are 1984, The God of Small Things, Slaughterhouse-Five, and A Clockwork Orange.

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)

from Alex
11/23/2007 11:09PM

595788 You know, I don't have a particular single favorite. Though one of my top ones is Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere," just made such an impression on me when I read it. Also John Irving's "The Cider House Rules" which I consider the American novel of say the last half of the century.

You?

from Jeremy
11/23/2007 04:20PM

630905 Hi Alex!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite book of all time?

Here’s wishing you a weekend filled with wacky whims, wonderful weirdness, and well-disposed werecats.

-Jeremy :)















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