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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover) by Barbara Kingsolver bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in July, 2008
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"Chapter 1-- smug pontificating about how we're all going to hell in a petroleum fueled agribusiness handbasket but BK has an ARTISANAL FAIR TRADE ORGANIC REED BASKET.
Chapters 2-10-- the book so far is thin on experience, flavor and emotion. ...more " |
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover) by Max Brooks bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover) by Barbara Kingsolver bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in July, 2008
Annapiranha said:
"Chapter 1-- smug pontificating about how we're all going to hell in a petroleum fueled agribusiness handbasket but BK has an ARTISANAL FAIR TRADE ORGANIC REED BASKET.
Chapters 2-10-- the book so far is thin on experience, flavor and emotion. ...more " |
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Cold Hand in Mine (Hardcover) by Robert Aickman |
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Pinocchio (Paperback) by Carlo Collodi bookshelves: kiddie-lit |
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Annapiranha said:
"I read this in the original Italian years ago, and recently read the translation on Project Gutenberg. Like most fairy tales that have been animated by Disney, this one has been extensively sanitized. I don't want to post any spoilers, but if you a...more
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Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) by Bhikkhu Bodhi bookshelves: to-read |
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The Great Gatsby (Paperback) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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read in September, 1985
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"To this day, Daisy remains insufferable. And Gatsby remains romantically tragic. I keep thinking it might be different. Something is rather fluid about this book, maybe mercurial. I expect it to change.
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Paperback) by Vladimir Nabokov |
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Pnin (Everyman's Library) by Vladimir Nabokov |
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Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov |
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read in November, 1992
Annapiranha said:
"It is rather daunting to think that this was written in VN's 3rd (or 4th?) language. Really beautiful prose for a really ugly story. Poor kid. Filthy old beast.
Not the best by this author, but most famous. After I read this for the first ti...more " |
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Atonement: A Novel (Paperback) by Ian McEwan |
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Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results (Hardcover) by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen |
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read in January, 2005
Annapiranha said:
"Could have been a pamphlet. I was conscripted to read this for work some time ago. Essentially, the 'author' advises that if you hate your job, well you should just stop doing that. O RLY? Be present, play, something something. I never thought a...more
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Annapiranha's favorite quotes
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
— Groucho Marx
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
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