false 119 136 100 true 5698644 read 2 true 1329391 currently-reading 34 true 1329390 to-read 39 false 4017139 poetry 29 false 4416400 modern-fiction 18 false 4060506 theory-criticism-and-philosophy 13 false 8387548 comics 3 false 4327000 non-fiction 1 false 8041962 classics http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78273864 to: Paul Celan: Selections (Poets for the Millennium) by Paul Celan
bookshelves: poetry
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78273798 to: Du Fu: A Life in Poetry (Paperback) by Du Fu
bookshelves: poetry
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78062896 to: Selected Poems (Paperback) by Eugenio Montale
bookshelves: poetry
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77699969 to: Batman: Cacophony (Hardcover) by Kevin Smith
bookshelves: comics
Pretty bad stuff, and without the excuse of being dated. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77398724 Wolf Totem (Hardcover) by Jiang Rong
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76975428 to: The Anatomy Lesson (Paperback) by Philip Roth
bookshelves: modern-fiction
Do you pinch your arm to try to distract yourself from the pain of a stubbed toe?

Warning: you may start to feel sympathetic pain if you set this book down midstream. It's as if Nathan Zuckerman will leave you alone only so long as you keep on with his narrative. Otherwise, he'll start to project his suffering on you, until you've finished the novel.

My father says, "Roth can be an acquired taste." I believe everything my father says, but especially in this case. So, if you don't like Roth, fine. The dilemmas of masculinity presented are interesting to me. If you do like Roth, I don't think this is amazing work from him, but maybe a comfortable bed to lie in when you want a book about good ol' detestable Zuck. "I'm not such a villain, right? I'm not Zuck."

All the time I'm hearing someone rave about Hunter S Thompson. Kids mostly. But anyway, I'll read Roth and consider it samesies. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76975389 The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
bookshelves: classics, currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76915831 Take It (Paperback) by Joshua Beckman
bookshelves: poetry
Still considering... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76774345 to: Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse (Hardcover) by Darcie Dennigan
bookshelves: poetry
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58517293 Jeremy's review of It Is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
by Arda Collins

Honestly, it hasn't grabbed me. Thus the fact that I still haven't finished it. I'm thinking about just starting over, though, as if for the first time. Maybe a fresh beginning will reveal more to hook me. ]]>