false 807377 male The United States 01/2008 12/2009 49 330 324 true 5972741 read 3 true 1635426 currently-reading 3 true 1635425 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38110677 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203179283s/4934.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:00:49 -0800 ]]> The Sound and the Fury (Paperback) by William Faulkner]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82111287 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394563s/10975.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:31:59 -0800 How Fiction Works (Hardcover) by James Wood]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81886045 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255569283s/1355465.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:15:36 -0800 On Writing, and since Wood's book and King's book are, in essence, about how to write good fiction, I can't help but make comparisons.

King's is the better book: more gripping, more memorable, more useful. But Wood is unquestionably better wi...more...]]> Madame Bovary (World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81867167 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1160691449s/2175.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:07:58 -0800 Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81106675 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168080018s/30659.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:27:22 -0800
Wisdom from a moral Roman leader!:

"Display those virtues which are wholly in your own power: integrity, dignity, hard work, se...more...]]> Reading the Right Books (Paperback) by Lee Edwards]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81106593 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51r1Z0s1dbL._SL75_.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:19:46 -0800 Four Plays: Lysistrata/The Frogs/A Parliament of Women/Plutus (Paperback) by Aristophanes]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81013847 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167874097s/27181.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:00:15 -0800
]]> On Writing (Mass Market Paperback) by Stephen King]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79701226 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166254200s/10569.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:35:49 -0800 On Writing I had swallowed the snubs he'd been getting from literary snobs over the years. I'd written King off as a careerist, a cheapskate only interested in writing another dirty slasher book to make a buck.

So I admit that I was wowed by this book in ...more...]]> Rhetoric (The New Critical Idiom) by Jenni Richards]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79235319 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ttwtiVQxL._SL75_.jpg 807377 Jon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1245705288p2/807377.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/807377-jon Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:01:55 -0800