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El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

by Robert E. Howard

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Jul 06, 2011 09:02pm

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Jeff is currently reading: El Borak and Other Desert Adventures by Robert E. Howard	My rating:
Jul 06, 2011 09:02pm
Jeff gave to: Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard read in September, 2010	My rating:
I read this a while ago now, and found it only so-so. I had been wanting to read Ballard for a while, but I don't know if this was a good choice. It was very '90s and reminded me a lot of Fight Club, only more European and less interesting, plot-wi...more
Jul 06, 2011 09:00pm · see review
Jeff gave to: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley read in October, 2010	My rating:
Last year around Halloween-time I read the two superstar novels of modern horror, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, each for the first time. But I would hesitate to call Frankenstein a novel at all. It was interesting, and even ...more
Jul 06, 2011 08:55pm · see review
Jeff gave to: Dracula by Bram Stoker read in November, 2010	My rating:
Last year around Halloween-time I read the two superstar novels of modern horror, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, each for the first time. Dracula was better. I am a sucker (ha!) for turn-of-the-20th-century British fiction, ...more
Jul 06, 2011 08:44pm · see review
Jeff gave to: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov read in January, 2011	My rating:
When I lived in Poland some years back, it seemed like practically everybody's favorite book was The Master and Margarita. Now that I finally read it, I am not sure why. Maybe it was the religious stuff, or maybe it was just the sexy naked witches....more
Jul 06, 2011 08:28pm · see review
Jeff gave to: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami read in February, 2011	My rating:
I really loved this book, in some ways more than the previous Murakami book I read (Kafka on the Shore). Murakami probably infuriates a lot of people. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle hardly makes any rational sense -- it is all about ambiguity and dre...more
Jul 06, 2011 08:19pm · see review
Jeff gave to: Rekenrijk by Fritz Leiber read in February, 2011	My rating:
This is a pretty fun book that is apparently an adaptation of a '60s movie that updated Tarzan for the James Bond era. This sounds awful but is actually pretty fun; Leiber at his worst is always enjoyable anyway. What's interesting is that the story ...more
Jul 06, 2011 08:06pm · see review
Jeff gave to: The Gods of Mars (Barsoom, #2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs read in April, 2011	My rating:
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Jul 06, 2011 07:55pm · see review
Jeff gave to: A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs read in March, 2011	My rating:
Super cheesy fun by E.R. Burroughs. I always wanted to read this series, and picked up the first two for a dollar each and devoured them. Talk about a hero! No ambiguities with John Carter, the manliest, most heroic, most pure, most naked Earthlin...more
Jul 06, 2011 07:51pm · see review
Jeff gave to: Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman read in April, 2011	My rating:
Kind of so-so Klosterman. This book starts out strong with an essay about interviewing other people. But most of the rest is just casually entertaining, though I loved the bit about Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines.
Jul 06, 2011 07:48pm · see review