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on a Winter's Night a Traveler(Italo Calvino) Very different from anything! and possibly the only novel ever written in the 2nd person(?) (More...) |
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Post Office (Charles Bukowski) Lee loaned me this one... Hilarious, quick, and fun! |
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Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) A Christmas present from Cheryl, this was great! (Reminded me very much of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.) |
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Losing Season (Pat Conroy) Another Christmas present which I finally got around to! Huge Pat Conroy fan... A very interesting non-novel from him. |
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Baudolino (Umberto Eco) Christmas present; classic Eco. Enjoyed this although I believe Name of the Rose is still Eco's best. |
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Sahara (Clive Cussler) This is the kind of book I can read on an airplane—so I did. Great page-turner; analogous to watching James Bond (i.e. you roughly know what's going to happen but you can't wait to see how). |
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Positively Fifth Street (James McManus) Alright, more Vegas!! Non-fiction (and first-hand) look into the World Series of Poker; also covering the Ted Binion murder trial. |
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Henderson
the Rain King (Saul Bellow) Another great Saul Bellow novel. I gradually get around to the older ones one by one. |
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Pilate (Ann Wroe) More about the great hand-washer than you ever wanted to know! Actually, not much is known, but this book explores man and myth as far as humanly possible. |
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Man (Richard Russo) Another Christmas present from Cheryl. Also on deck is Nobody's Fool, also by Russo. |
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Invalids Home from Hot Climates (Tom Robbins) One of his better ones I think. Enjoyed it immensely after the not-so-great Half Asleep (see further down). |
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Pastoral (Philip Roth) Didn't enjoy it quite as much as Human Stain (see next). Gripping but darker and more tragic than Stain. Less likely to re-read, though... |
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Human Stain (Philip Roth) A really good read, which inspired me to immediately seek another Roth book (above; I liked Stain better, though). |
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Half
Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Tom Robbins) By far one of my least favorites of his. (Which is not to say it's a terrible book; talking a relative scale here.) |
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Tuesdays
with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Non-fiction book by a sportscaster. A Christmas gift from my parents which turned out to be a quick yet very moving read. |
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Die of Heartbreak (Saul Bellow) The latest Saul Bellow book at the time... I bought it on a whim in Borders and did enjoy it. |
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Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) The perennial classic. Had been on my list for years; finally got around to it. My intro to magical realism. |
...sometimes I'll read one sentence and fall asleep! Other times an in- progress book will simply sit untouched for weeks at a time. |
*Chronologic order (NOT order of preference) |
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