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by Thomas Pynchon

yah, i'm just not smart enough for it. I spent a whole summer trying to read it and not a lot of it sunk in. ]]> 23435557 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:53:10 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7787184 to: Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
]]> 19156502 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:09:55 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17755738 to: One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies (Hardcover)
by Sarah Manguso
I read the Deb Olin Unferth 1/3 of it, Minor Robberies, and enjoyed it immenseley. I responded to it here:
http://5cense.com/Minor_Robber... ]]> 18884936 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:10:18 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17539292 to: Bear Stories (pamphlet)
by J'Lyn Chapman
]]> 18620061 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:39:33 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17326135 to: Tortoise (Perfect Paperback)
by James Lewelling
]]> 11915659 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:22:36 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11926963 to: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell
I read this in jury duty today, a fascinating study on how things become popular (in epidemic proportions). It tries to be scientific, though a lot of times with these things it's hard to distinguish between cause and effect. Do cigarettes or hush-puppies make people cool, or are already cool people attracted to cigarettes and hush-puppies? Human behavior is incredibly complex (as are the viruses which he often compares them to), and I kept thinking about chaos theory. Sometimes it seems truly random to me that something becomes hip and there is no justifiable reason for it. Strange that Gladwell doesn't go into chaos theory, or for that matter ever utters the word "meme" which is really what he's talking about here is how memes spread non-linearly. ]]> 12132300 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:20:50 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/739299 Chuy made a comment on Zohreh Amin's profile:

hi there, thanks for befriending. ]]> 11069328 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:12:55 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11225766 Phos (eBook)
by Matina Stamatakis
]]> 10862871 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:56:17 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8447467 to: The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by Franz Kafka
]]> 9427993 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:55:40 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9884903 to: Stars of the New Curfew (King Penguin)
by Ben Okri
great stuff, full review here
http://www.5cense.com/Africa/E... ]]>