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January 10
	Allen gave to: One Monster After Another (Hardcover) by Mercer Mayer	my rating:
	read in March, 1974 Allen said: "I still own my original copy of this, from when I was a kid. I intend to read it to my child, in the hope that it expands his vision of the world, like it did me. Love this book!!! " add a comment
	Allen gave to: Tape Delay: Confessions from the Eighties Underground (Paperback) by Charles Neal	my rating:
	read in January, 1995 Allen said: "A pretty good primer for the burgeoning no-wave scene coming out of the industrial movement in the late 70s. Any book that includes SWANS and Neubauten is always going to get points! On the other hand the lenghty interviews with Steve-O (founder of '...more " add a comment
	Allen added: Proxy: Peter Sotos Pornography 1991-2000 (Paperback) by Peter Sotos	my rating:
	read in March, 1993 Allen said: "I'm not rating this book because it's simply impossible. The first three 'sections' are the part I own, apparently now out of print. It's true, Sotos' greatest crime is verisimilitude, and therefore the words in this book accomplish what many authors...more " add a comment
	Allen gave to: Dream & the Underworld (Paperback) by James Hillman	my rating:
	read in January, 2007 Allen said: "James Hillman is winding up being one of my favorite post-Jungian 'philosophers', for lack of a better term, a definition which I fully believe the man himself would chafe under. His reworking of dream therapy invokes the classical underworld of ...more " add a comment
January 09
	Allen gave to: The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by D.A.F. Marquis de Sade	my rating:
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	Allen gave to: Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making (Hardcover) by James Peterson	my rating:
	read in August, 1993 Allen said: "This book, quite simply, changed the way I cook. Absolutely VITAL for any serious cook. James Peterson is responsible for all the bizarre experiments I first subjected my longsuffering friends to years ago, and remains a near-daily source of referenc...more " add a comment
	Allen gave to: Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover) by Larousse Gastronomique	my rating:
	read in June, 1992 Allen said: "Absolutely indespensible as a historical guide to classic cuisine, as well as a byzantine collection of oddities, rare recipes, and general foodie goodness. Some of the recipes are indeed quite dated, from ingredients (crow stuffed with juniper, anyo...more " add a comment

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from Melissa

01/07/2008 04:50PM

Thanks for fueling my habit of compulsive list making...

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from Caroline

01/07/2008 09:42AM

Thanks for the invite. Interesting site.

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