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	02/25 Shawn is currently reading: New York 1960 (Hardcover) by Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, David Fishman bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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February 25
	Shawn gave to: A Clockwork Orange (Paperback) by Anthony Burgess	my rating:
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	Shawn gave to: The Great Gatsby (Paperback) by F. Scott Fitzgerald	my rating:
	recommended for: 10th graders read in November, 1991 Shawn said: "Important high school must-read. " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: Hitchcock (Hardcover) by François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock	my rating:
	recommended for: Film Students read in August, 2000 Shawn said: "This book will teach you more about the art of film making than 4 years (and $200,000) at NYU will. " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: Notes from Underground (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky	my rating:
	read in September, 1999 Shawn said: "Dostoevsky can be so hit-or-miss. It all depends on the translation. I was in Powell Books in Portland and read the 1st chapter of two different editions and it was a totally different story. This, Vintage edition, had the humor and outlandishness an...more " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: The Stranger (Paperback) by Albert Camus bookshelves: top-shelf	my rating:
	read in August, 1999 Shawn said: "I'm alive - I'm dead I am the stranger - Killing an Arab " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback (Paperback) by George Plimpton bookshelves: top-shelf	my rating:
	read in December, 2005 Shawn said: "Plimpton's command of the language would be intimidating if it weren't so side-splittingly funny. " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback) by Carl Sagan	my rating:
	recommended to Shawn by: Tony Capps recommended for: People who aren't afraid of hard truths. read in December, 1997 Shawn said: "Carl Sagan's utterly beautiful swan-song. Not so-much about the mysteries of the cosmos, but a firm stand against those who would rather not see mankind advance (and there are plenty like that). This book will strengthen your bullshit detector. Gu...more " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover) by Charles MacKay	my rating:
	read in October, 1995 Shawn said: "Some much world history has been hysteria-based. Continues today. " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Paperback) by T. E. Lawrence bookshelves: top-shelf	my rating:
	read in November, 1992 Shawn said: "T.E. Lawrence is "Lawrence of Arabia" and passages of this book were made into the David Lean film. Along with Star Wars & G.I. Joe, this was a boyhood obsession of mine. " add a comment
	Shawn gave to: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death (25th Anniversary) by Kurt Vonnegut bookshelves: top-shelf	my rating:
	read in April, 1999 Shawn said: ""Among the things that Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future." " add a comment