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member name: Paul M.
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November 30, 2009 10:54 AM EST --
I hope that you did your patriotic duty this Black Friday and this Cyber Monday by spending money to stimulate the economy. As you know, retailers depend on these pseudoholidays for 90% of their . . .
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October 10, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
(3/5 stars)
This is the kind of book I finish reading and have to begin a search of my own. I look for Cliff Notes, Wikkipedia entries, Amazon reviews, anything . . .
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . .
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January 29, 2008 09:39 AM EST --
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #4)
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
I just spent a long weekend catching up on this series by reading books 2-4. . . .
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February 07, 2009 07:49 PM EST --
I’ve seen three of the Best Picture nominees for the Oscars: “Benjamin Button”, “Milk”, and “Slumdog Millionaire”. I probably won’t have time to see the others in time. At any rate, so far I . . .
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March 02, 2009 10:12 AM EST --
Strange But True: March 2, 2009
Nut Sees Virgin Mary in Nut?
People have claimed to see an image of the Virgin Mary in tortillas, toast, and potato chips. Now a man in Little Mesa, . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
(4/5 stars)
For someone whose only real exposure to Jewish culture growing up was watching "Seinfeld" on TV, "Portnoy's Complaint" seems . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
(3/5 stars)
In honor of the new movie adaptation of the novel--and me scoring a free copy of the book because of it--I'm posting the review I wrote of the book when . . .
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September 26, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
(2/5 stars)
I think I might have liked this book a lot more if I hadn't listened to the audiobook version. 22 hours of stereotyped Indian and Jamaican accents was . . .
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October 01, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
(5/5 stars)
Salman Rushdie is the third author I've read recently that I'd put off reading for many years out of a misplaced fear I'd find . . .
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . .
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October 23, 2007 12:36 PM EDT --
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
(5/5 stars)
There are two words to describe this book: weird and wonderful. You could substitute "quirky" for weird if you want, because . . .
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October 29, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
(4/5 stars)
This is one of those books that may be a challenge for some readers because the narrative is like . . .
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November 01, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
(3/5 stars)
The farther I got, the more obvious the conclusion that I read this too late in life. Had I read this as a teenager or in college I could have romanticized . . .
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November 02, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
(3/5 stars)
The next edition the publisher prints could use the tag line: If you loved "The Road" you'll love "The Painted Bird!" . . .
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December 03, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
This is another one of those books I'd long heard about and meant to get around to reading at some point. Finally . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:47 AM EST --
If you're buying XMas music from Amazon, sometimes patience is a virtue. The Boxmasters XMas album I bought last week for $8.91 is now on sale for $7.99. Also, the Tori Amos XMas album priced . . .
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December 16, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
Since it is the time of "best of" lists I've been doing a couple "best of" lists of my own. (And let's face it, it's an easy way to pick up a few points for doing very little.) Since it's . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
So here are the biggest trends according to Google:
1 obama copenhagen
2 chris henry
3 research in motion
4 champions league
5 weather forecast
6 avatar movie
7 rim
8 twitter . . .
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February 11, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
(3/5 stars)
In all honesty I didn't really want to read this book. I was looking for one of Hornby's better known books like "High Fidelity" . . .
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