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Um. This trilogy (the three novels are, respectively, Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago) is some seriously weird stuff. (Duh. Sci-fi is weird.) But Butler is a helluva story teller. This is another instance in which I'm pimping an author I read for cla
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I'm loving these essays. I don't know shit about Latin American politics, but that doesn't make these essays any less powerful for me (more so, really). From Evita to Fidel to the Zappatistas (sheesh I hope I spelled that right) there's plenty of tan
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Because you loved it, I hate not loving this book. And although the adolescent dialogue is completely brilliant and the story is suspenseful, I seem t
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Leslie, you have perhaps the most eclectic bookshelf of anyone I know. I just finished Gilda and really couldn't put it down. Not perfect, but definit
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What stays with w/ me from Didion's opus of "post-60s melancholia" is the TODDLERS TAKING ACID TRIPS in Slouching Toward Bethlehem. Anyone? . . . Anyo
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Everything about this exchange is wonderful to me and completely cracks me up. I would KILL to be in this book club. And I imagine it how Ann does, ex
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Can I get ah Amen?! Read Secret History if you haven't already, but I bet you have. xoxo
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