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cover title author isbn 0525560459
isbn13 9780525560456
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num pages
416
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avg rating 3.36
num ratings 53
date pub Aug 27, 2019
date pub edition Aug 27, 2019
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This novel is many types of novels--satire, Occupy novel, gay experience novel, legal/cyber thriller, new adult, Henry James tribute, a novel about
This novel is many types of novels--satire, Occupy novel, gay experience novel, legal/cyber thriller, new adult, Henry James tribute, a novel about writing--but it all coheres and ends up in a place that if not quite science fiction is at least William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy adjacent. In other words, it's about state (and private contractor) surveillance but approaches that topic in a variety of different yet apt ways.
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position 209
cover title author isbn 0349010005
isbn13 9780349010007
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num pages
256
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avg rating 3.83
num ratings 206
date pub May 01, 1950
date pub edition Apr 10, 2018
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This book is stunning and funny and sad.
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cover title author isbn 0811212912
isbn13 9780811212915
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num pages
148
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avg rating 3.68
num ratings 25
date pub Feb 01, 1993
date pub edition May 17, 1995
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position 206
cover title author isbn 0060897236
isbn13 9780060897239
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num pages
208
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avg rating 3.74
num ratings 92
date pub Nov 28, 2002
date pub edition Feb 27, 2007
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Unfolds in a way that isn't too precious about it's inter/meta-textuality with a structure that is not too neat and an overall effect that is not too
Unfolds in a way that isn't too precious about it's inter/meta-textuality with a structure that is not too neat and an overall effect that is not too strange. That is, it neatly avoids some of the issues with fiction that is about storytelling/writers/itself.
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position 205
cover title author isbn 1455563935
isbn13 9781455563937
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num pages
489
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avg rating 4.26
num ratings 145,301
date pub Feb 07, 2017
date pub edition Feb 07, 2017
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I like that this book works on multiple layers: the basic plot and characterization; the sweeping scope that captures the immigrant experience; and
I like that this book works on multiple layers: the basic plot and characterization; the sweeping scope that captures the immigrant experience; and finally in the symbolic resonance and character and scene parallelism.
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position 204
cover title author isbn 0880013273
isbn13 9780880013277
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num pages
172
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avg rating 3.74
num ratings 7,927
date pub Oct 1947
date pub edition Jun 01, 1993
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The novel itself is not that interesting, but its' existence in relation to Calvino's later work and both of those in relation to the foreword he
The novel itself is not that interesting, but its' existence in relation to Calvino's later work and both of those in relation to the foreword he writes for the book is fascinating.
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position 211
cover title author isbn 0374175411
isbn13 9780374175412
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num pages
384
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avg rating 3.79
num ratings 637
date pub Mar 05, 2019
date pub edition Mar 05, 2019
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cover title author isbn 0811225992
isbn13 9780811225991
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num pages
128
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avg rating 3.60
num ratings 472
date pub Oct 2014
date pub edition Jul 25, 2017
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Haunting and vicious but there was too little for me to really grasp onto.
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cover title author isbn 076533805X
isbn13 9780765338051
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num pages
381
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avg rating 3.25
num ratings 1,718
date pub Aug 16, 2016
date pub edition Sep 06, 2016
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The structure of this book both helps and hurts it. The worldbuilding mainly happens in the background (which for the most part is a good thing). The
The structure of this book both helps and hurts it. The worldbuilding mainly happens in the background (which for the most part is a good thing). The characters are not always likable but are interesting and real.
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cover title author isbn
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num pages
15
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avg rating 3.85
num ratings 265,484
date pub Jul 01, 1814
date pub edition Apr 30, 2011
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The novel is great (complicated, messy, interesting, subtle, seething), and the narrator's vocal performance is quite good.
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position 198
cover title author isbn 0804008655
isbn13 9780804008655
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num pages
301
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avg rating 4.00
num ratings 4
date pub Oct 28, 1985
date pub edition Dec 31, 1985
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position 197
cover title author isbn 0140019111
isbn13 9780140019117
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num pages
149
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avg rating 3.67
num ratings 1,019
date pub 1957
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position 195
cover title author isbn 1409901475
isbn13 9781409901471
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num pages
172
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avg rating 3.56
num ratings 34
date pub unknown
date pub edition Apr 01, 2008
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position 194
cover title author isbn 0140186913
isbn13 9780140186918
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num pages
528
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avg rating 3.69
num ratings 587
date pub Feb 10, 1978
date pub edition Feb 01, 1993
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position 193
cover title author isbn 159420120X
isbn13 9781594201202
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num pages
1,085
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avg rating 4.13
num ratings 6,132
date pub Nov 21, 2006
date pub edition Nov 21, 2006
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position 192
cover title author isbn 1594634238
isbn13 9781594634239
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num pages
339
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avg rating 3.30
num ratings 7,292
date pub Sep 29, 2015
date pub edition Sep 29, 2015
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position 191
cover title author isbn
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asin B01CBLM8FA
num pages
514
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avg rating 4.30
num ratings 3,047
date pub 1828
date pub edition Nov 22, 2016
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position 190
cover title author isbn 0300179944
isbn13 9780300179941
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num pages
336
pp
avg rating 3.48
num ratings 23
date pub 2009
date pub edition Apr 24, 2012
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cover title author isbn
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num pages
704
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avg rating 3.78
num ratings 231,633
date pub Jun 14, 2005
date pub edition Jun 01, 2005
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position 189
cover title author isbn 0151009988
isbn13 9780151009985
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num pages
194
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avg rating 3.79
num ratings 202,284
date pub May 14, 1925
date pub edition Oct 28, 2002
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position 188
cover title author isbn 0156949601
isbn13 9780156949606
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num pages
297
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avg rating 4.14
num ratings 24,789
date pub Oct 08, 1931
date pub edition Jun 01, 1978
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position 187
cover title author isbn 0140104704
isbn13 9780140104707
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num pages
624
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avg rating 3.96
num ratings 812
date pub 1987
date pub edition Jan 01, 1989
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position 186
cover title author isbn 0307593959
isbn13 9780307593955
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num pages
192
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avg rating 3.23
num ratings 4,691
date pub Feb 17, 2015
date pub edition Feb 17, 2015
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Hits a lot of what it should, but the ending ending didn't quite land (although the pre-ending to the ending is right on and fitting).
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position 185
cover title author isbn 0856357162
isbn13 9780856357169
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num pages
220
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avg rating 4.38
num ratings 8
date pub Dec 1987
date pub edition Nov 01, 1987
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Best approached by reading slowly, or rather, by not reading more than 2 or 3 stories in a row because doing so collapses the particular effects of
Best approached by reading slowly, or rather, by not reading more than 2 or 3 stories in a row because doing so collapses the particular effects of each story so that the narrative tricks (esp. the use of repetition) come to the fore rather than the experience of a particular story.
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position 184
cover title author isbn 0860683532
isbn13 9780860683537
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num pages
223
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avg rating 3.89
num ratings 1,829
date pub 1950
date pub edition Apr 21, 1983
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cover title author isbn 1843431939
isbn13 9781843431930
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num pages
262
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avg rating 4.06
num ratings 14,075
date pub 1987
date pub edition Oct 20, 2005
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position 182
cover title author isbn 1590172620
isbn13 9781590172629
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num pages
257
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avg rating 4.03
num ratings 4,212
date pub 1982
date pub edition Apr 15, 2008
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cover title author isbn 1590171969
isbn13 9781590171967
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num pages
299
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avg rating 3.81
num ratings 3,462
date pub 2000
date pub edition Apr 17, 2007
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position 180
cover title author isbn 1566632722
isbn13 9781566632720
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num pages
256
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avg rating 3.75
num ratings 16
date pub Jan 01, 1999
date pub edition Aug 10, 1999
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position 179
cover title author isbn 1590171780
isbn13 9781590171783
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num pages
320
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avg rating 3.87
num ratings 2,161
date pub Sep 1943
date pub edition Oct 10, 2006
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