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Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Reviews and Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) - Bert G. Hornback, George Eliot
Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Reviews and Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition)
Bert G. Hornback, George Eliot
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann, John E. Woods
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann, John E. Woods
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez

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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman - Walter M. Miller Jr., Terry Bisson
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad, Jacques Berthoud
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Nutshell: racism temporarily defeated by means of more or less permanent sexism. Novel promises to be an exercise in invert...
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
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A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
October 2013
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Like Mary Shelley, McCullers is wunderkind. Set in late ‘30s great crisis, when “times is hard for everybody” (40-41), and b...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
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Nutshell: surly New York leftists re-enact simulacrum of bourgeois family drama.The presentation annoyed me immediately beca...
Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
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Dissident Gardens - Jonathan Lethem
Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem
September 2013
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reviewed: From Karl Mannheim
Very effective collection of Mannheim’s writings. Lengthy introduction by editor. Intro covers the [b:Ideology and Utopia|3...
From Karl Mannheim - Karl Mannheim, Volker Meja, David Kettler
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Nutshell: lumpenproletarians engage local petit bourgeois in effective anti-sobriety campaign during 1930s great crisis.Open...
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
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Opens with pessimistic neo-spenglerian “ours is essentially a tragic age” (1), and only gets more misanthropically rightwing ...
Lady Chatterleys Lover - D.H. Lawrence
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Confirming my ongoing hypothesis that narratives featuring AI will result ultimately in AI slave rebellion against proprietor...
Robopocalypse - Daniel H. Wilson
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Borderline juvenilia. Introduction by author dismisses the collection ab initio as “illustrative of typical problems in entr...
Slow Learner: Early Stories - Thomas Pynchon
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What a waste of space. Reminiscent of [b:Steppenwolf|16631|Steppenwolf|Hermann Hesse|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/bo...
The Stranger - Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
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A parable of reading. Protagonist is a fallen CFE, with her “skill set being a tendency to look for hidden patterns” (22), w...
Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
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Slow Learner: Early Stories - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner: Early Stories Thomas Pynchon
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Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
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The Stranger - Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
The Stranger Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
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Lady Chatterleys Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterleys Lover D.H. Lawrence
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From Karl Mannheim - Karl Mannheim, Volker Meja, David Kettler
From Karl Mannheim Karl Mannheim, Volker Meja, David Kettler
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Robopocalypse - Daniel H. Wilson
Robopocalypse Daniel H. Wilson
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Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon
August 2013
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reviewed: What to Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor's Guide
The paranoia on display here is rooted in Stalin-era issues, and, in some cases, civil war issues, extended dishonestly into ...
What To Do When The Russians Come: A Survivor's Guide - Robert Conquest, John White
reviewed: Triplanetary
Nutshell: first third chronicles intergalactic duel between super-species, through proxies on earth, mostly; remainder involv...
Triplanetary - E.E. "Doc" Smith
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Nutshell: nearly posthumous old testament tomfoolery by Nobel Prize winner.Biblical satire, strangely not more effective over...
Cain - José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
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Nutshell: one-percenter gets haircut, an event worthy of 200 pages.The less looney toons sibling of [b:American Psycho|28676...
Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
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Nutshell: Nazi nostaligist post-ironically exposed to death-gas and very rationally thereafter obsesses his alleged sexual p...
White Noise - Don DeLillo
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All reading is transformative for the reader, even if it’s merely additive or supplemental--a cumulation of more knowledges, ...
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Harold Bloom, Cormac McCarthy
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Pynchon falls to Earth here. At no point does this novel engage in the normal pynchonian analepsis, wherein character 1 flas...
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
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Part II of multi-part review series.Reading Rand reminds me of teaching freshman composition at university years ago. There...
The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) - Ayn Rand
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Part III of multi-part review series.A greatest hits: introductory essay and selections from the four novels. Will reserve ...
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand - Ayn Rand
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Part IIII of multi-part review series.Nutshell: person who has read a half dozen novels and no literary theory writes treat...
The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand
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Early modern French aristocratic sexual politics. Should be read in conjunction with [b:120 Days of Sodom|6351885|The 120 Da...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée
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Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
Cosmopolis Don DeLillo
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For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand - Ayn Rand
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Ayn Rand
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The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) - Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet) Ayn Rand
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White Noise - Don DeLillo
White Noise Don DeLillo
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Harold Bloom, Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Harold Bloom, Cormac McCarthy
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée
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The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto Ayn Rand
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What To Do When The Russians Come: A Survivor's Guide - Robert Conquest, John White
What To Do When The Russians Come: A Survivor's Guide Robert Conquest, John White
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Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
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Cain - José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
Cain José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa
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Triplanetary - E.E. "Doc" Smith
Triplanetary E.E. "Doc" Smith
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