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February 13
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Jared
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Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case (Hardcover)
by Stuart Taylor
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Jared said:
"This book sheds blinding light on the sad, disgraceful state of journalism, academia and the media in America today. If you do not think this country is really becoming cripples by the poisons of political correctness, please read this book and thin...more
This book sheds blinding light on the sad, disgraceful state of journalism, academia and the media in America today. If you do not think this country is really becoming cripples by the poisons of political correctness, please read this book and think deeply about it. Never have I been so angry while reading a book. ...less
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Jared
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The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway : The Finca Vigia Edition (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Jared
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The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway
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Jared
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway
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February 11
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Jared
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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 (Paperback)
by Joseph Frank
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Jared
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Montana (Second Edition): High, Wide, and Handsome
by Joseph Kinsey Howard
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Jared
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Sometimes a Great Notion (Paperback)
by Ken Kesey
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Jared said:
"Kesey's second novel tells the story of the Stamper family, a logging clan in the fictional Wakonda, Oregon continuing their logging work while the rest of the local industry strikes. Kesey focuses on Lee Stamper, the prodigal son who turned away fr...more
Kesey's second novel tells the story of the Stamper family, a logging clan in the fictional Wakonda, Oregon continuing their logging work while the rest of the local industry strikes. Kesey focuses on Lee Stamper, the prodigal son who turned away from the family and their uproarious PNW boarishness to pursue Eastern intellectualism at an Ivy League university, but returns to his family with the hidden motivation of exacting revenge on his half brother Hank for engaging in forbidden congress with his mother.
The characters are larger than life, yet nuanced and complex, but the greatest strength of this novel is the brilliantly crafted stream of consciousness style, with mid-sentence changes of narrator and the like. It's a bit tough to get into, but well worth it if you stick it out. ...less
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Jared
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The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Jared said:
"A semi-fictional account of Dostoevsky's four-year term in a Siberian prison camp. 'Twas written before he reached his creative peak, but in this book you can feel him ready to break out and unleash his genius upon the world.
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Jared
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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Jared said:
"A murder mystery, love triangle, family saga, psychological treatise, philosophical musing and an exploration of God and the Devil and heaven and hell all at once, with a beautiful little side-story of a dying boy and his dog; this is of course one o...more
A murder mystery, love triangle, family saga, psychological treatise, philosophical musing and an exploration of God and the Devil and heaven and hell all at once, with a beautiful little side-story of a dying boy and his dog; this is of course one of the greatest novels ever written, and one would be doing himself a disservice to not at least make a whole-hearted effort at it. ...less
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Jared
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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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