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- High Lonesome (9)
- Stories 1966-2006
- By Joyce Carol Oates
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Reading since Jan 30, 2012
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- John Steinbeck (2)
- Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubio…
- By John Steinbeck
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Reading since Feb 5, 2012
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- Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy (1)
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Reading since Jan 19, 2012
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- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (50)
- (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
- By Christine M. Korsgaard, Immanuel Kant
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- Machiavelli (419)
- The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
- By Niccolò Machiavelli
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Reading since Nov 14, 2011
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- Breaking the Sound Barrier (1)
- By Amy Goodman
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Reading since Oct 22, 2011
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- The Daring Book for Girls
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- The Daring Book for Girls (1)
- By Andrea J., Peskowitz, Miriam Buchanan
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Reading since Jun 12, 2011
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- Death in Venice (75)
- And Seven Other Stories
- By Thomas Mann
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Reading since Jan 1, 2011
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- The Grail (1)
- A Secret History
- By John Matthews
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Reading since 2010
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- The History of Jazz (17)
- By Ted Gioia
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Reading since Jun 27, 2010
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- Coming To Light (1)
- Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
- By Brian Swann
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Reading since 2009
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Ethnologically sensitive and academic
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From an anthropological point of view, it is stellar. The folklorists and ethnographers who recorded the stories have written concise, clear introductions to each story, giving when and where it was told, the narrator, the cultural significance and a key to interpreting the typography. It is an Amer ... (continue)
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- Discipline & Punish (163)
- The Birth of the Prison (Vintage)
- By Michel Foucault
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Reading since Jan 9, 2012
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- Under the Volcano (68)
- (Penguin Modern Classics)
- By Michael Schmidt, Malcolm Lowry
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Finished on Jan 12, 2012
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- La Chanson de Roland (3)
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- By Moignet
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Finished on Jan 4, 2012
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- Victory (59)
- By Joseph Conrad
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Finished on Dec 13, 2011
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High Lonesome
She is a master but I found some of her themes and characters arising too often. The repetition actually undermines her brilliant style because it gives the reader the impression she has run out of ideas
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