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Eric's favorite books

The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn by Paul Blackburn

The Everyday Life Reader by Ben Highmore

A Secret Location on the Lower East Side by Steven Clay

Instant City Issue 6 by Gravity Goldberg

Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

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Eric's Bookshelves

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Eric is Currently Reading

Eric is currently reading:

The Road to Darkness

by Paul Leppin

bookshelves: currently-reading, european-decadence

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Dec 26, 2011 01:54am

Eric is currently reading:

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day [With CDROM]

by Avinash Kaushik

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May 08, 2011 04:45pm

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Eric is currently reading: Web Analytics: An Hour a Day [With CDROM] by Avinash Kaushik	My rating:
May 08, 2011 04:45pm
Eric gave to: Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 by Kevin Starr read in August, 2011	My rating:
May 08, 2011 04:40pm
Eric gave to: Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham	My rating:
Gresham's classic novel of a carnival sleight-of-hand artist's rise (and fall) as an a-list conman is one of the best I've read -- a precursor to the gritty street fiction of Nelson Algren or Mickey Spillane, but without the stilted dialog or literar...more
May 08, 2011 04:29pm · see review
Eric gave to: Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky	My rating:
Forever the optimist of social media, Shirky ignores or quickly dismisses most of the downsides of the rapid spread of social media and the prospect of ever less privacy and ever more connectivity. A good book to read if you want to be inspired towar...more
Apr 09, 2011 12:44pm · see review
Eric gave to: The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth	My rating:
If you can get past some of the overburdened language and the massive cast of characters, this is a great book for tying together the personalities and sects of the radical left after fall of the Paris commune to the rise of Soviet communism. From Ru...more
Mar 05, 2011 05:15pm · see review
Eric gave to: You Can't Win by Jack Black read in December, 2010	My rating:
Dec 04, 2010 06:02pm
Eric gave to: A Bright and Guilty Place by Richard Rayner read in July, 2010	My rating:
The writing starts off a little dead in a kind of attempt to mimic the voice of gumshoe crime writers and newspapers of the era it describes. But as you get into it, you find Rayner has dug deep into Los Angeles' history to discover the half-understo...more
Jul 17, 2010 02:49pm · see review
Eric gave to: Ask the Dust by John Fante read in June, 2010	My rating:
Wow. Fascinating look at prewar LA streetlife from one of the quintessential Angelino novelists. Fante takes a lot of risks in ths gritty exploration of relationships, writing and the city. After Fante, I don't feel I need Bukowski much anymore.
Jun 12, 2010 03:58pm · see review
Eric marked as to-read: The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse by Kirsten Lodge	My rating:
Jun 12, 2010 03:51pm
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