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Audrey Niffenegger Video games may have killed my movie times, lately. I am sure it is merely a phase that will soon give way to the rituals of old, where I was avaraging three movies per week. Thankfully, however, my literature time has not suffered. Having read the bulk of this book while in Rocky [...]
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Patrick Suskind This is the fist book I have picked up from the thread of recommended reading at Eat Poo, and what a fantastic pick it was. Already I had heard from numerous pooers that the book was a good one, so I really had little debating to do. In fact the hardest decision was [...]
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David Blaine This book came to my attention entirely on accident. I had gone in to the book store to buy my next bits of reading when I saw this at the SALE table. I picked it up and dropped off one of my other books. The book serves as an autobiography of sorts, along [...]
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez One of the very first serious novels I read on my own, outside of the required academic reading which most of us go through (Uncle Tom, The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, etc.) was “Cien Años de Soledad” which was, coincidentally, the first book my father handed down [...]
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Bret Easton Ellis The first thing I thought when I read this book was: this could have been Patrick Bateman’s childhood. Having read American Psycho not too long ago, I certainly could see the parallel. Clay is a freshman in college coming back to L.A for Christmas, returning to the life of drugs, sex and [...]
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Ayn Rand What amazes me about this book, is that a lot of people are under the impression that this is a book about architecture. I remember back in ’96, when I was in architecture school and people found out about it, they would ask me if I had read The Fountainhead. I would tell [...]
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Bret Easton Ellis If you watched the movie, then you have an idea of the direction this book went. And as much as I like Christian Bale, this movie simply did not do the book justice. Set in the world of the superficial, where the greatest concerns are your nightly reservations and the latest workout [...]
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Stanley Weintraub Given that the Christmas Truce happened only once, under unfavorable conditions and never again was repeated during the duration of the first World War, the story told in this book is pretty amazing. That numerous countries in different parts along the front line all had the same idea to put down their weapons [...]
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Alex Garland There is two ways one can look at this book, in perspective with the works of its author and in perspective with everything else. One example I may give is watching “The Village” and saying it is not Shyamalan’s best work…in fact probably his worst, but then, compared to most of the hollywood [...]
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C.S. Lewis The third installment in the Chronicles of Narnia, and one I had not read before. As with the previous books and the rest of the Chronicles, this is a children’s book, so it is necessary to keep that in mind when reading, because its simplicity is often…frustrating if one is not familiar with [...]