 | Electric Flesh: A Novel by Claro
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $0.01 Postmodern classic from France, a great prelude to my next read...
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 | Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Buy used from: $18.80 This took over 2 months, rife with turn of the century enthusiasm and the horrors of Balkan politics... as if he wrote it just for me!
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 | The Second World War by John Keegan
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $13.00 A dry millitary history which is useful to gain a general understanding.
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 | Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.48 A bleak despairing account...
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 | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $4.49 The best account I have read detailing the events that lead up to 9/11
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 | Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.19 Interesting account of early days in South Africa
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 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics) by Muriel Spark
Buy used from: $0.15 This is one of those I am supposed to read. I can't say I really liked it.
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 | Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J. M. Coetzee
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.68 Great! Becoming a serious fan of Coetzee
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 | Demian (Bantam Modern Classics)
Buy used from: $1.24 An existential billdungsroman in early 20th century Germany.
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 | Twenty Prose Poems (French Edition) by Charles Baudelaire
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.04 Baudelaire brillianty shows you how to move through levels of discourse and the ether of the spiritual.
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 | Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $3.85 Disturbing portrait of contemporary Russia, gang run totalitarianism... She was gunned down for her efforts
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 | Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
Buy used from: $3.07 Interesting text in which the main protaganist struggles to piece together his identity.
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 | Baudelaire by enid starkie
Buy used from: $3.50 Great bio! I loved her bio on Rimbaud as well. Rimbaud stole so much from Baudelaire.
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 | Timbuktu: A Novel by Paul Auster
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $0.01 Much better than I thought it would be, one of the better late Auster novels.
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 | Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
Buy used from: $2.48 Depressing but a quality novel
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 | Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Buy used from: $18.27 Kureishi seems relatively unknow; i cannot understand why! He is quite brilliant the way he ties a particular to a general history or discourse, creating a digressive fracture in the narrative tying a particular to the universal.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 The cutsey routine was tiring after awhile; it reminded me of how dependent Froer was on the quirky slavic-english routine in Everything Is Illuminated.
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 | The Story of Lucy Gault: A Novel by William Trevor
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.45 I had a hard time really getting into this one.
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 | Ignorance: A Novel by Milan Kundera
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $1.99 I think The Unbearable Lightness of Being sapped him of his creative energy.
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 | Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 This is a great novel! A farcical tragedy foregrounding the hypocrisy of academia.
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 | The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles) by Jean Cocteau
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $3.88 Wildly overrated!
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 | S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $3.35 Extremely depressing story of a woman imprisoned in a rape room in a detention center in the Bosnian War.
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 | After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $3.07 Why don't I read more Murakami?
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 | The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.00 A cursory outline of the 3rd World War. I found it to be an enjoyable and informative read.
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 | Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business by David Mamet
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.19 Mamet is a bitter bitter man...
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 | Koba the Dread by Martin Amis
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.86 An approachable and readerly characterization of the Stalin years; I understand many have a problem with this book.
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 | Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.00 An excellent primary narrative describing a young man's experience in Soviet WW2 and his time in the Siberian forced labor camps.
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 | The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA by Evan Thomas
Buy new: $12.48 / Used from: $0.34 Not a great book, but a worthwhile read
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 | Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
Buy used from: $2.95 Fabulous memoir by Grass detailing his years in the Wermacht.
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 | At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
Buy new: $22.80 / Used from: $0.01 This is not very objective; it is more a preoccupation with clearing one's name in the annals of history.
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 | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Arendt
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.99 Disarming... your instinct is to build the Nazi SS into unimaginable monsters; Arendt lets you know just how similar they are to you and me.
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 | The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J.Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
Buy used from: $19.46 One of the better Coover novels I have read, obsessive mania and ontological preoccupations
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 | Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.90 Amazing!
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 | The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.41 Borges could have written this! fabulously inventive and made up...
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 | Targeting Iran (City Lights Open Media) by David Barsamian
Buy new: $11.35 / Used from: $2.98 Ephemeral projections
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 | Dispatches by Michael Herr
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Great journalism! I sense a tone informing the script for Apocalypse Now.
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 | Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $1.35 Muddy and convoluted... what I took from this was what a hawk Bobby Kennedy was about Communism and how JFK ramped up this splendid colonial adventure
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 | The Stranger (Everyman's Library) by Albert Camus
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $9.53 Fourth time I have read this...
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 | The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.75 Fans of Jim Thompson circa "The Killer Inside" will love this
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