 | The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Was reading the Narnia series at the beginning of the year...stopped with this one however, maybe I will return. 241ppg.
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 | The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) by Michael Chabon
Buy new: $9.22 / Used from: $0.22 Chabon is a genius. Picked this up while stranded in an airport, was finished before the flight landed. Such an engaging story told in beautiful prose. Long live the novelette! 139ppg.
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 | Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Buy used from: $0.87 ok, I personally discovered Chris Moore last thanksgiving (2005) so you are going to see his name a lot here. Needless to say I had a good time reading his books. Saw him at a book signing too...lots of fun to see. 30ppg.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 ok, i read this because my wife did and when she finished she handed this to me and said, "read this, I wanna bitch about the ending." We had the same complaints, and then went and saw the movie and realized some of the finer parts of the book. I wonder what Golden's editor cut out, there was so much character development! Sometimes the plot didnt match up. 500ppg.
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 | Hey Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky? by Baxter F. Black
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 what a fantastic find, was a gift from my step-mom who brought Mr. Black to her university for a talk. Wonderful writing and a fun story. 223ppg.
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 | Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $2.94 Another uproarious Moore romp. 325ppg
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 | Foop! by Chris Genoa
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $4.25 ok, I picked this one from an Amazon recommends, and I wouldnt recommend it. Started out with an interesting idea...but paranoia and weirdness got the better of Mr. Genoa. By the end, and yes i made it, I wasnt laughing and I didnt care at all. 293ppg
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 | Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
Buy used from: $0.18 two words: Minty Fresh! 303ppg.
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 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $5.00 heard about this becomming a movie on NRP, and was so intruiged I had to dare myself to read it (especially with this resolution still in mind). I will admit there were times I was slogging through it out of sheer will, but then there were other times when I was laughing out loud, at 300 year old jokes~! 792ppg.
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 | The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $4.93 what can I say, the guy is fun to read?!!!! 304ppg
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 | The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $1.85 bought this several years back, and had just not gotten around to it. Finally got around to it. I hadnt read Greene before, but I really enjoyed. Besides, it lead to a really nice conversation with a bar tender who's father is a lit teacher at a local college. It isnt often that a married man like me get chatted up by the cute bar tender over a graham greene novel...222ppg
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 | The Cave by Jose Saramago
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $0.47 I really like Saramago too. I have to be disappointed with anything Ive read of his. While this was not what one would call a fast-moving story, it was artfully crafted and I really appreciated it's many literary merits. 307ppg.
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 | Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 ok, so after the saramago I needed something a little lighter. hiassen could do it if anyone could! 481ppg.
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 | A Dirty Job: A Novel by Christopher Moore
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.59 this new Chirs Moore came out this year, and I waited to buy it until he came around on book tour! This may be one of his finest (up there with Lamb) as far as writing and creativity goes. He didnt let himself lapse too far into the bizarre, but kept it very imaginative and fun...light hearted with some deep stuff in there as well. It was nice getting a glimpse inside the authors life. 387ppg.
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 | Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $10.00 / Used from: $0.01 read Steinbeck at Chris Moore's suggestion at his book talk! And, well, he was right, if I had read this in high school I would have a completely different outlook on steinbeck! now time to go check out some others! 181ppg
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 | The Bear Comes Home: A Novel by Rafi Zabor
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $0.16 another book Ive had for years and hadnt read. Well, I shoulda read it sooner! Fantastic book about Jazz and jazz musicians. If you know anyone who loves Jazz this is a must-own! 482ppg
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 | Gravity's Rainbow (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Thomas Pynchon
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $2.89 Like Tristram Shandy, this was a bit of a dare to myself. I did enjoy it, and some of the post-modern stuff you just have to take like a magic eye poster...keep reading, blur your focus, and let IT come into focus for you. 760ppg
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 | The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $1.62 well, after pynchon, anything would have been light...but with this I just needed a little (short) novelette to cleanse my palate, and figured I should keep going back to Steinbeck. He did not disappoint. 115ppg
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 | The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 this was just plain silly. fun, but silly. I give Hodgman a lot of credit though. He did, in fact, tell everyone that he was just going to make stuff up for as long as he could sustain it....and he did...and it was hysterical! 255ppg
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 | The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.01 ok, so this was a bit of pop-fiction that I usually avoid...but was pleasantly surprised by. I enjoyed this in that it was well researched and written with a sense of erudition, without cramming it down the readers throat. 676ppg.
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 | Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Buy used from: $10.95 I figured, Im Jewish, Im a reader, I should really read some IB Singer. So I did. I really enjoyed this, but it was one of his early novels, I think I will have to go back to see how he developed and read some more. Good read though, I would like to see the movie, but it is hard to find. 288ppg
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 | The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.79 wow, picked this up randomly because the movie trailers looked intruiging and I needed a book. What a sleeper hit...i LOVE IT! 360ppg
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 | How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.96 While Bruce impresses me as a performer, a writer, and a life in general, I found this book to be overly self-serving and lacking any real depth. Maybe I expected a little more than a humorous re-telling of his life to that point. I guess I had wanted more insight into his commentary and how he really sees the world in his own words. oh well. 188 ppg.
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 | The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $5.59 so it is the last Moore book I have to read in order to complete the set (until January when his new book is published at least).
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