false 10 4 3 true 5740670 read 1 true 153081 currently-reading 0 true 153080 to-read 2 false 1700675 read-for-class 0 false 1700670 currently-reading-for-class http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15984519 to: The Bell Jar (Paperback) by Sylvia Plath
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13703290 to: The Big Clock (New York Review Books Classics) by Kenneth Fearing
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I didn't dislike this book the way most of my fellow classmates seemed to. I think I have an easier time reading books and appreciating them for what they are, rather than what I want them to be. The ending was a bit rushed, but I think that was on purpose. The book was written to make a point about attempting to maintain your individuality and keep your head above water in the face of an emergingly powerful force - corporate america - and its takeover of the media. What I think it did, rather successfully, was the show us that while some folks might be able to avoid the grind of this (Louise Patterson to some extent), most of us are deluded in thinking we can change (our main narrator, George Stroud). I found it fascinating - not the best book of the century, but at least one of the important ones. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13703194 to: The Long Goodbye (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Raymond Chandler
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13703001 to: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback) by Haruki Murakami
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