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- Thomas Mann
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- Thomas Mann (1)
- Eros & Literature
- By Anthony Heilbut
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- Don Quixote (358)
- By Edith Grossman, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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- The Western Canon (71)
- The Books and School of the Ages
- By Harold Bloom
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Finished in Sep 2007
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- Bleak House (317)
- (Modern Library Classics)
- By Gaitskill Mary, Charles Dickens
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Finished in Aug 2007
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- M (12)
- By Peter Robb
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Finished on Jul 30, 2007
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- Dickens (4)
- A Biography
- By Fred Kaplan
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Finished on Jul 16, 2007
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Encompassing Introduction to Dickens
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I found this biography excellent with a huge amount of facile detail about the great Victorian author. Reading this book has made me a bit Dickens crazy and I'll be tackling some of the novels soon, an idea I never found that appealing until I read this bio. I would highly recommend it.
- — Jul 17, 2007 | Add your feedback
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- Landscape and Memory (23)
- By Simon Schama
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Finished on Mar 30, 2007
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Fantastic and Thoughtful Read
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This is a very wide ranging and creative survey of how humanity has created culture, art, and literature out of our relationships (both symbiotic and destructive) with nature. From the plight of the Lithuanian Bison to the heights of Mont Blanc, Schama takes the reader on an absolutely unique and e ... (continue)
- — May 15, 2007 | Add your feedback
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- A History of Venice (11)
- By John Julius Norwich
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Finished in Feb 2007
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- Italian Cinema (8)
- From Neorealism to the Present
- By Peter Bondanella
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Finished in Feb 2007
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- Against the Day (100)
- By Thomas Pynchon
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Finished in Feb 2007
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- The Book of the Courtier (10)
- (Penguin Classics)
- By George Bull, Baldesar Castiglione
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Finished in 2006
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- The Decameron (108)
- (Signet Classics)
- By Thomas G. Bergin, Giovanni Boccaccio
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Finished in 2006
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- Genius (21)
- A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
- By Harold Bloom
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Finished in 2006
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- The Tale of Genji (125)
- By Murasaki Shikibu
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Finished in 2006
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- The Prince (419)
- (Oxford World's Classics)
- By Niccolò Machiavelli
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Finished in Nov 2006
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Overall, the author is very interesting and comprehensive about the subject of Caravaggio. This book was extremely frustrating to read. Here is what happens over and over again: the author painstakingly describes in 10 to 20 pages an individual painting of Caravaggio from the light sources down t ... (continue)
Overall, the author is very interesting and comprehensive about the subject of Caravaggio. This book was extremely frustrating to read. Here is what happens over and over again: the author painstakingly describes in 10 to 20 pages an individual painting of Caravaggio from the light sources down to the mixture of the pigments, then the reader frantically flips around the book to find said painting to no avail. The illustrations make no sense and do not correspond at all to the text. About 90% of the paintings discussed in the book are not represented by photographs of the paintings! My head almost exploded while reading! You might as well read a book in braille about the works of Caravaggio or listen to Beethoven in sign language.
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