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#111
04-05-2007, 02:08 PM
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Re: Rate The Dude\'s Fiction Bookshelf
Your top shelf is... top shelf! Oy.
It's very hard to make out your bottom shelf. I can't read about half of those titles. Is your Hemingway et. all residing on another shelf? 
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#112
04-05-2007, 02:18 PM
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Re: Rate The Dude\'s Fiction Bookshelf
soma (and others):
American Jihad Rebel Without a Crew Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Rebels on the Backlot Reefer Madness Fast Food Nation The Overspent American Nickled and Dimed May God Have Mercy The Other Side of the River Rachel and Her Children Random Family The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Conspiracy of Fools Shadow Divers Into Thin Air Under the Banner of Heaven The Tipping Point The Naked Olympics 24/7 Moneyball The Last Amateurs Friday Night Lights Word Freak The Professor and the Madman God of the Rodeo Devil in the White City Garlic and Sapphires Kitchen Confidential The Soul of a Chef The Emperor of Wine Girl, Interrupted never drank the kool-aid Killing Yourself to Live The Kite Runner The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Motherless Brooklyn Life of Pi Polaroids from the Dead Generation X Shampoo Planet Microserfs Life After God The Beach Fight Club Invisible Monsters Choke Stranger than Fiction Survivor Diary Less than Zero Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Me Talk Pretty One Day Holidays on Ice Pastoralia On Love Magical Thinking Running with Scissors Dry Long Way Down Fever Pitch High Fidelity Yes, plenty of other shelves and boxes. These shelves, while not all my favorites, were my overall favorite shelves.
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#114
04-05-2007, 02:30 PM
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Re: Rate The Dude\'s Fiction Bookshelf
What did you think of Alex Garland's "The Beach?" I thought "Tesseract" was better, but recently picked up "Coma" and that one was just... weird. Took me maybe two hours to read it.
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#115
04-05-2007, 02:51 PM
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RDH,
I thought it was OK, nothing special. Probably one of the weakest books on the shelf (along with a couple of the Coupland and Paluhniak), though it's a perfectly fine read and written just fine.
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#116
04-05-2007, 02:53 PM
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I swooned at Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon is good...so, so, so unfairly good. In fact, he may be god. [/ QUOTE ] He and Nell Freudenberger are the only living fiction writers I bother to keep track of. Scott
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#118
04-05-2007, 04:55 PM
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El D, What did you think of "Devil in the White City"? [/ QUOTE ] Obv I'm not El D, but I've tried to read this a couple times and never finished it. The author has the annoying habit of teasing the reader. He keeps hinting at gory details of the mass murderer, but doesn't pay off until much later. And he manipulates the reader in other ways too. For instance, there is some big contest to design something for the world exposition and he goes through all these submitted designs and describes some wild and crazy, yet ultimately successful, idea that turns out to be (you'll never guess) the FERRIS WHEEL. Obviously the reader is supposed to be in awe and think OMG how amazing that it is the ferris wheel! That bit is like a super drawn out Paul Harvey "the rest of the story." Anyway, I'd love to hear what others think about this book.
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#119
04-05-2007, 05:00 PM
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goof,
It's sorta weird in that it weaves two separate threads together. One is general history of the time and the other is this murder mystery. I think either one written alone would have made for a better book. I still liked it, but it wasn't great.
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