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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-11 11:19:30 for Orlando (Wordsworth Classics).
(Language: English)
  
Orlando is quite a good book. It's sort of a modernist take on the Walter Scott, Historical epic genre (think Rob Roy and El Cid with lighter prose and more wit). Definitely one of Woolf's more accessible pieces.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-09 09:27:48 for Existentialism and Human Emotions.
(Language: English)
Far more coherent than some of his denser works
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-09 09:18:01 for To the Lighthouse (Annotated).
(Language: English)
The spiritual successor to Mrs. Dalloway. Woolf's most autobiographic and in general her most critically esteemed work. Honestly, it seems to lack the sheer dynamism of Mrs. Dalloway. However it does offer a fascinating examination of the trails and tribulations of family life and of marriage. Also, throws in some notions about being true to ones artistic vision just for kicks.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-09 09:15:49 for Mrs. Dalloway.
(Language: English)
One of the quintessential works of high modernism. Still reads as fresh today as it did almost 80 years ago.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-27 10:39:05 for A Room of One's Own.
(Language: English)
A masterful examination of the ways in which inequalities in gender effect the creation and quality or written work. Woolf is truly a master essayist. and she can wax between wrathful indignation, wit and philosophical speculation with the ease of a child playing hop-scotch. She never boxes herself in with pedantic proselytizing. A room of one's own still manages to feel fresh even 80 years after the fact.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-26 11:35:09 for Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories (Dover Thrift Editions).
(Language: English)
One of Woolf's first collections of short prose. The work she presents herein would go on to serve as the foundation for many of her explorations on the nature of writing and consciousness. If nothing else, it makes for a fast read
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-14 04:27:35 for The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays (Vintage International).
(Language: English)
This book alone proves why Camus is the greatest of the the french existentialists. His control of language is masterful and his examination of suicide is not only subtly nuanced, but in the end, powerfully provides for a framework in which life can be meaningful. Unlike Sartre and DeBeauvoir, Camus is always highly pragmatic, his work has its place in the hands of average people, not merely cafe intellectuals.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-14 04:20:58 for The Plague (Vintage International).
(Language: English)
C'est magnifique. This painfully rendered allegory of a town and the plague which descends upon its inhabitants offers a potent examination of the human condition stripped bare. Reading the book is simultaneously soul draining and life affirming. You can't not be effected by it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-06 06:12:19 for The Ethics Of Ambiguity.
(Language: English)
Much more clear and concise than her lover's works.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-02 06:53:27 for Child of God (Vintage International).
(Language: English)
McCarthy further establishes his debased image of humanity in this series of vignettes revolving around a necrophiliac murderer cum outlaw hermit. A fascinating look at a total outsider and his depraved sexual proclivities.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-02 06:45:27 for Nausea (New Directions Paperbook).
(Language: English)
Along with Dostoyevsky's notes from underground, probably one of the seminal literary works of existential thought. Well, its very...um...French
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-28 03:08:23 for Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth.
(Language: English)
Well Researched and well written account of one of the most important and innovative musical groups of the last 30 years, full of fascinating characters creating their art and supporting each other at the outer peripheries of cultural awareness. A fascinating look into how a group of like-minded people can stick together for over a quarter of a century in the face of overwhelming societal and creative pressures to conventionalize themselves.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-09 04:58:19 for Howl (Pocket Poets).
(Language: English)
Do you honestly need me to tell you about howl?
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-09 04:55:26 for Anathem.
(Language: English)
Much like Frank Herbert, Stephenson finally got tired of writing within the limitations of our planet's history. So naturally, he creates his own, complete with its own vocabulary and richly detailed history. Of course what he is really writing about is our own world, just through a totally artificial lens. If you like Stephenson, you won't be disappointed, it's a book of big ideas and grandiose set pieces, getting lost in the details of someone else's world has never felt so real and so beautifully crafted.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 01:19:54 for Fight Club: A Novel.
(Language: English)
Better than the film
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 01:19:00 for Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr.
(Language: English)
I really like her artwork, too bad her journals just aren't as good.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 01:18:01.
(Language: English)
blah blah blah empowering nature writing for women. Whatever
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-30 07:27:38 for The Overcoat (Dover Thrift).
(Language: English)
Gogol is the most consistently unique voice in russian literature.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-30 07:26:04 for Moscow - 2042.
(Language: English)
A comical dystopian novel from the early 80's before Glasnost and Perestroika
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-30 07:25:02 for The Foundation Pit (European Classics).
(Language: English)
Surreal, and Melancholic, but also rather repetitive. Would have made a better short story. Platanov never saw it (or any of his other works for that matter) published in his liftetime
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-30 07:23:10 for The Meadow.
(Language: English)
A beautiful meditation about time, space, and a hard way of life in the mythic west
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-30 07:22:17 for The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
(Language: English)
I can not recommend this book too highly. Klein offers a compelling and well researched case for the hideous human costs of neo-liberal free-market economics. If the chapters on Iraq don't fill you with outrage and disgust, nothing will. Blistering, Incredible
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-08 08:05:21 for Foe (King Penguin).
(Language: English)
Fascinating, highly original examination of the nature of stories, writing, language and identity. The language especially is sparse and beautiful.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-03 08:26:57 for Under the Banner of Heaven A Story of Violent Faith.
(Language: English)
As Usual Krakauer excels at taking us inside the minds and lives of Amiercnas living at the outermost extremes of thought. This book is a fascinating examination of fanatical faith as well as a richly detailed history of the LDS movement. I found this book to be far more coherent and moving than Into the Wild.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-02-29 06:01:38 for No Country for Old Men (Vintage International).
(Language: English)
Mccarthy injects his tense thriller with the moral dilemmas of trying to do good in a world gone bad. Anton Chigurh is probably Mcarthy's second best villain, next to the Judge from blood meridian
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