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  & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: JT LeRoy

2006-06-01

  & 12 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Tags: drugs family america suburbs terrible abandoned

Description: Deeply self-indulgent

2006-06-01

  & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Paul Auster

Tags: fiction family america newyork masculinity aging

Description: Ace. Didn't expect to like it after having previously tried to read New York Trilogy. FunnyAce. Didn't expect to like it after having previously tried to read New York Trilogy. Funny and the twists didn't seem too contrived....

2006-06-01

  & 23 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: William Faulkner

2006-03-13

  & 4 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Elfriede Jelinek

Tags: art mother daughter abandoned

Description: abandoned after 20 pages. Contrived rubbish. Has a similar tone to <em>Youth</em>abandoned after 20 pages. Contrived rubbish. Has a similar tone to <em>Youth</em> by J.M. Coatzee...

2006-03-13

  & 43 users

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Chinua Achebe

Tags: africa nigeria masculinity

2006-03-13

  & 6 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Ali Smith

Tags: holiday suicide teenager norfolk

Description: One of those books that you only encounter onceOne of those books that you only encounter once a year where you say, "God I love this"....

2006-02-20

  & 28 users

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: David Mitchell

Tags: apocalypse capitalism morality fragmented

2006-01-11

  & 9 users

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Authors: John Kennedy Toole Kennedy Toole

Tags: fiction humor work laziness

2006-01-11

  & 11 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Haruki Murakami

Tags: japanese shortstories subconscious

Description: Great stuff! Really enjoyed reading it, and not just because it was a birthday presnt fromGreat stuff! Really enjoyed reading it, and not just because it was a birthday presnt from my wife....

2005-12-14