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	11/14 Matt gave to: The Gary Snyder Reader (Paperback) by Gary Snyder bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	11/14 Matt gave to: Wilderness and the American Mind, Fourth Edition (Paperback) by Roderick Nash bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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November 15
	Matt gave to: The Dharma Bums (Paperback) by Jack Kerouac	my rating:
	Matt said: "I cant take the middle. Drunk poets speak sloppy jabberjook. but its bookended by uninhibited exultory encounters with nature, complete with Jack's trademark ability to turn holy phrases over and over again. " add a comment
	Matt gave to: The Writing Life (Paperback) by Annie Dillard	my rating:
	Matt said: "When you read dillard you know, always, that she is writing. she works hard, too hard for fiction, but perfect for this at times tortured at times trancendent look at her job. " add a comment
	Matt gave to: Heart Songs and Other Stories (Paperback) by E. Annie Proulx	my rating:
	Matt said: "Upon reading it i lamented for everyone else's lack of imagination. fully realized fiction, driven by stunning description. " add a comment
	Matt gave to: Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback) by Edward Abbey	my rating:
	Matt said: "provokes suspiscion with its self celebratory borderline gimmickry. but i think this book is the second edition of walden. Abbey far preceded his apers and mimickers, and embodies a new wilderness attitude. This book will only get more important w...more " add a comment
	Matt gave to: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover) by Gabriel García Márquez	my rating:
	Matt said: "The Great American Novel. Latin America counts, especially when it wieghs in like this. " add a comment
	Matt gave to: King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare	my rating:
	Matt said: "lear is crazy. over the top. everything about humanness revealed through a ridiculously wacked situation. " add a comment
	Matt gave to: Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau	my rating:
	Matt said: "bible " add a comment
November 14
	Matt gave to: The Last American Man (Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert	my rating:
	Matt said: "Kicks kraukaur in the crotch: "spin" on her resume she proves that even modern magazine journalism can make a contribution. a relievingly fresh perspective on an old subject, recluse mountain dude as frontiersman residue and his juxtaposit...more " add a comment
	Matt gave to: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (Paperback) by Gary Snyder	my rating:
	Matt said: "the translations of Han Shan are the gem here. Perfect concise evocations of mountain aestheticism. Snyders own are contrived, hit or miss, youll like them only if you want to, you know you think hes sexy or like ed abbey alot or something. " add a comment
	Matt gave to: Tristessa (Paperback) by Jack Kerouac	my rating:
	Matt said: "Take this haters. Jack is king. Sentances from god. " add a comment