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Memoirs Of A Geisha (Paperback) by Arthur Golden |
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Empire Falls (Paperback) by Richard Russo |
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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (Paperback) by Thomas Frank |
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recommended to Al by:
Rosemary Camozzi
Al said:
"This book makes a lot of the nonsense coming from the right wing clear, if that's a good word to describe nonsense. The use of ignorant, working class people to advance the agendas of wealthy elites is remarkably cynical in it's details. The Christia...more
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| June 06 | ||
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Grey Gardens: The Complete Book And Lyrics Of The Broadway Musical (Paperback) by Doug Wright |
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Unwrap Your Candy: An Evening of One-Act Plays (Paperback) by Doug Wright |
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recommended to Al by:
Doug Wright
recommended for: Mothers to be read in June, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Al said:
"This group of short plays is brilliant. Especially sharp is the one about a mother whose baby begins talking in the womb. It is represented on stage by a cigarette smoking, whisky guzzling man who begins speaking in simple consonants and moves up to ...more
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Al
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I Am My Own Wife: A Play (Paperback) by Doug Wright |
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recommended to Al by:
Doug Wright himself
recommended for: George Bush read in June, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Al said:
"Doug won the Pulitzer for this one, so as he says, he'll always have an obituary and it will begin with PPW. It's a tour de force for one actor, and as Wright is wont, deals with the eccentrics that define the life artists take in opposition to the h...more
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Al
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Quills (Paperback) by Doug Wright |
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recommended to Al by:
Doug Wright himself
recommended for: they who would be sentient read in June, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Al said:
"The play is so much more wild than the movie! Wright cuts away at the poor Marquis and shows how the Catholic mind operates on anybody with an artistic temperament.
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| May 09 | ||
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Al
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The Professional (Paperback) by W. C. Heinz |
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read in May, 2008
Al said:
"This book is something like discovering a great old cafe in a town time forgot, only it's a view of boxing as seen by an old time reporter who embeds himself in training camp with a favorite contender.
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| April 01 | ||
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Al
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Man Killed by Pheasant: And Other Kinships (Hardcover) by John Price |
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Al
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories (Paperback) by Ben Katchor, Michael Chabon |
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Al's favorite quotes
"Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt
and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt
and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
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wisdom
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare
— William Shakespeare
tags:
wisdom
1253 people liked it
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
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