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thoughts of civil and class rights. interesting so far, idea of rural farmers having just as much right to life and liberty as aristocrats and hypocritical churchy folks. but excruciatingly slow and old fashioned prose. author does treat human rights, gender rights, rural rights though. but gah, tough slog to read and keep going. kinda a not-funny mark twain style. :(

thoughts of civil and class rights. interesting so far, idea of rural farmers having just as much right to life and liberty as aristocrats and hypocritical churchy folks.

im on page 139 and um page 300 and page 400 or so. hah, have 3 books marks workings at once. i like the bicycles

now i'm gonna find out what this word means

juniper award winner 2012

is this cannibalism? ......"Here is the man," the Providential Guide smiled innocuously and then plunged his table knife into him, the one he used tohack off a big piece of meat bought at the Four Seasons, the largest store in the capital, reserved for members of the government. The rag-father raised his eyebrows as the iron blade slowly disappeared in his throat. The Providential Guide withdrew the knife and turn

i read your piece on fracking in the tulsa "this land". is this a nonfiction here ginger?....ginger?.....ging...

this made linus's blanket best of 2011 list http://www.linussblanket.com/best-of-...

i'm reading #17, fall 2011, has nice music cd with it :)

gr librarians, this isbn is incorrect. should be 978-0300179842

from james franco: "I realized that i couldn't go to the book as a source because the books have been eclipsed by the films..." ha

i'm not reading this yet, but wanted to do one of thoses good reads challegences or goal thingys. my goal, read the NOBBIES 2011 list, soon http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/bl...

speaking of Jai Singh's observatory "....the immovable cogs of crouching stone await the astral material to grind it in an operation of hot falconry."

..."It didn't take us long to realize that the restaurants were also run like banks; dining out is treated like a gold bullion transaction. Every dish on the menu is calibrated by weight--200 grams of cheese fondue, `125 grams of salmon--all of exquisite quality, but all rapaciously expensive. You could imagine the chefs measuring each ingredient with calipers. Les was mortified. "There is no love of cooking here!"

complete with ghost nets, bottle caps, plastic sand, nurdles, and dead Laysan albatrosses

with maps!!

from blurb: "brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and the elderly cower in their apartments in fear of being whisked off to state-mandated “convalescent” homes, never to return"

this is a little known gem, library of congress has it. they loaned it to me

any keith moon fans out there? this is a parody of "goodbye moon"

not near as good as Batuman's , but i'm gonna stick with it. She's getting into the whole rock n roll thing now http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...

a new imprint from AKASHIC, Open Lens. this is their first book!! "...[for] minds that love literature in Technicolor"

oohhh, i got this via interlibrary loan. it's even got a map!

oh my god ll, your one liners just keep coming hard and fast, it's cracking me up: about having kids....""I've been burdened with this weird phobia that I'll unintentionally torture mine the way my family tortured and continues to torture me, simply out of bitterness and/or resentment. It sounds like some schoolyard massacre waiting to happen, and I;m worried that a lot of innocent people could go down,...."

is murdering movies such a bad thing? i say no!

Sherman Oaks, spotty prepubescent English midget, or spotty super-sprawled califa so-called town?

split that is.

the south cape baboons make a cameo and threaten a documentarian with death if he doesn't spilt. a weird scene but i suppose it goes with the story?

this a powerful and well written novel. perhaps the best ww i novel you will ever read:)

i got this in, it seems very hard core. i like it so far.