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- Ani Difranco
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- By Ani Difranco
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Finished on Dec 17, 2008
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- The World of Odysseus (1)
- (New York Review Books Classics)
- By Bernard Knox, M.I. Finley
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Finished on Feb 9, 2009
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- The Quiet American (14)
- (Vintage Classics)
- By Graham Greene
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Finished in Mar 2003
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- In Search of Lost Time (1)
- Time Regained AND a Guide to Proust v. 6 (Vintage Classics)
- By Marcel Proust
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Finished in Aug 1999
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- The Great Gatsby (247)
- By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Finished in Aug 2002
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- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (57)
- By Jonathan Safran Foer
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Finished in Jun 2007
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- Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban (435)
- Book 3
- By J. K. Rowling
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Finished in Jan 2003
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- True Tales of American Life
- By Judith Hermann
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Finished in Sep 2004
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- Emergence
- By Johnson, Steven
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Finished in Jan 2005
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- The Dice Man
- By Luke Rhinehart
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Finished in Mar 2005
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- The Mirror of Ink
- By Jorge Luis Borges
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Finished in Jul 2005
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- The New York Trilogy (16)
- City of Glass', 'Ghosts' and 'Locked Room
- By Paul Auster
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Finished in Nov 2005
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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"I thought life, about my life, the embarassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I've seen destroyed, I'd swum through mink coats on my parents' bed while they hosted downstairs, I'd lost the only person I co ... (continue)
"I thought life, about my life, the embarassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I've seen destroyed, I'd swum through mink coats on my parents' bed while they hosted downstairs, I'd lost the only person I could have spent my only life with, I'd left behind a thousand tons of marble, I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless".
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