false 2 416 394 true 5691755 read 9 true 2823525 currently-reading 13 true 2823524 to-read 145 false 2832026 novels 53 false 2832033 biography 39 false 2832030 so-bad-i-stopped 28 false 2832154 comic-books 20 false 2832015 random-non-fiction 18 false 2832027 short-stories 17 false 3744678 criticism-observation 17 false 3150552 art-books 13 false 3892051 nature-science 13 false 4580728 interviews 12 false 3345792 plays 8 false 3783390 mythology-religion 5 false 3744693 kid-stuff 5 false 3413710 poetry http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58151565 to: Essential Moon Knight Volume 2 TPB (Paperback) by Doug Moench
bookshelves: comic-books
astounding, classic art by Bill Sienkiewicz, but mediocre stories. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76447729 to: Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature's Most Intriguing Dedications (Hardcover) by Marlene Wagman-Geller
bookshelves: random-non-fiction
Certainly a book I would not have bought if I flipped through it first (ah, the joys of the internet). I've always feared when Wikipedia would become a source of real "research", as I knew a product like *this* would be the outcome.
Not much to do with unearthing interesting behind the scenes to dedications...moreso just short biographies.
And after a few of the classic writers are one over random crap (i.e. hardly "literature") like Stephen King, JK Rowling, Dean Koontz and Ken Follett are brought into the mix.
Most unpleasant. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62304391 to: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Paperback) by Samuel Beckett
bookshelves: plays
The two long works (Waiting For Godot and Endgame) are excellent. But the shorter works are...bizarre. Maybe they are more interesting to perform, or to watch...but reading them is not a treat.
It's interesting to see how Beckett had things planned right down to the second, and every stage direction notated...but it just doesn't work on the page. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77183462 to: Old School (Paperback) by Tobias Wolff
bookshelves: novels
It starts out pretty good, with Robert Frost, Ayn Rand and Hemingway as characters, but when that section is over the remaining characters are not strong enough or interesting enough to carry on the already very thin story.
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bookshelves: plays
The Unseen Hand ***oo
The Rock Garden ****o
Chicago **000
Icarus's Mother **ooo
4-H Club ***oo
Fourteen Hundred Thousand **000
Red Cross ***oo
Cowboys #2 **000
Forensic & The Navigators ***oo
The Holy Ghostly ***oo
Operation Sidewinder ***oo
The Mad Dog Blues **ooo
Back Bog Beast Bait **ooo
Killer's Head **ooo


Some early signs of great plays to come. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75981625 to: Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip (Hardcover) by Nevin Martell
bookshelves: biography
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75101343 Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career (Hardcover) by Edmund G. Bansak
bookshelves: currently-reading
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bookshelves: art-books
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