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similar to Dan Brown or maybe even an inspiration for him, I read this when i was laid up. Reads just like a script. actually even reviewing these two fast food knock offs is a waste of time. Another movie for a Tom. Snore.
]]> 3874 The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.]]> 223 Ernest Hemingway 0684830515 Jreimer 5 3.73 1926
author: Ernest Hemingway
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average rating: 3.73
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I'm a little leery of that 5 star it was amazing rating but it's not going to shock anyone that I did love this book. Years after even considering reading more Hemingway than was required in school I finally got around to this one. It kind of reminded me not to waste time on books that are sub-par. It also has the best closing line of any book in recent memory.
]]> 5485 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> 288 Aldous Huxley 0060850523 Jreimer 4 3.86 1932
author: Aldous Huxley
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average rating: 3.86
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Eerily current in the naomi klein "no logo" hangover of the 90's that seems to be lurching toward the accurate portrayal in "Children of Men"... (oh that's cheap- to use other media to review media.) nonetheless, it could've been written two years ago and still been effective. Some of the language is a little dated although most likely shocking in its time, but you still get the point. Strangely I didn't leave the book really getting which side of the fence Huxley was on though.
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As he travels on his own mission to the Northlands of Norway, a reindeer named Caesar is joined by unlikely companions; a mother sparrow searching with her two chicks for her lost mate. With Caesar's permission, the birds make a nest in his antlers and travel with him through athe fall and into winter. Little do they know that the object of their search, after being rescued from an accident by a well-meaning schoolgirl, has been taken miles away, across the sea, and that he is desperately seeking them as well. Both searches seem hopeless, but in this unique adventure, devotion, perseverance, and self-sacrifice - with the help of a little magic - are richly rewarded.]]> 224 Brooks Hansen 0374310246 Jreimer 0 to-read 3.91 1997
author: Brooks Hansen
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]]> 106133 Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’s quintessential novel of a disaffectedÌýhomeless youth living on the edge of society “redefines the young modern anti-hero.Ìý.Ìý.Ìý.ÌýRule of the Bone has its own culture and language, and Bone is sure to become a beloved character for generationsâ€� (San Francisco Chronicle). With a compelling, off-beat protagonist evocative of Holden Caulfield and Quentin Coldwater, and a narrative voice that masterfully and naturally captures the nuances of a modern vernacular, Banks’s haunting and powerful novel is an indisputable—and unforgettable—modern classic.]]> 390 Russell Banks 0060927240 Jreimer 4 3.88 1995
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]]> 16171291
Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. HE is a committed cheater. SHE lives and breathes denial. HE exists in dual worlds. SHE likes to settle scores. HE decides to play for keeps. SHE has nothing left to lose. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any moment, Jodie knows she stands to lose everything. It's only now she will discover just how much she's truly capable of...]]> 326 A.S.A. Harrison 0143123238 Jreimer 3 3.24 2013
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average rating: 3.24
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]]> 117885 A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity.

]]> 239 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0451523768 Jreimer 4 4.26 1864
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> 1420716 291 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 0835607291 Jreimer 2 3.98 1877
author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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I'll give her credit for giving it a shot, but this is probably the most confusing book I ever read. Unlike HST she had trouble drinking the Kool Aid and coming back to write about it.
]]> 37449 here .

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.]]> 376 Harper Lee 1439550417 Jreimer 4 4.30 1960
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]]> 85266 This item does not meet our catalog guidelines and can no longer be rated or reviewed.
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The da Vinci Code]]> 454 Dan Brown Jreimer 2 3.81 2003
author: Dan Brown
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because of my scarred catholic upbringing I really wanted to like this. The layout of "ooh lookout, cliffhanger!" truly got on my nerves. I ended up hoping the movie might be better. Nope. Why you gotta mess with Amelie, Tom? hands off pal.
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'Big Sky' contains some of the most beautiful, thunderous music The Kinks ever recorded, aligned to a vulnerability and warmth no other group - and I mean no other group - could ever hope to equal. It is a perfectly balanced production. On the one hand, the mesh of clattering drums and electric guitar never threatens to overwhelm the melody; on the other, the gossamer-light harmonies, Ray and Dave's vocal line traced by Rasa Davies' wordless falsetto, are bursting with emotion. When most of the instruments drop away at 1.20, the effect is effortlessly vivid - two lines where Davies' performance is both nonchalant and impassioned. The result is wonderfully, enchantingly sad, made more so perhaps by the knowledge that The Kinks will never again sound so refined or so right.]]> 160 Andy Miller 0826414982 Jreimer 4 3.76 2003
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]]> 1209117
The 1970s were a landmark era in American film, during which a cadre of young directors emerged who would effectively slay the old Hollywood and become royalty in the new. It Don’t Worry Me celebrates the enduring genius of the time by scrutinizing the work of ten directors who were prominent—or promising—in that uniquely creative decade and their contributions to this cinematic uprising. While Francis Ford Coppola was taking Hollywood by the horns, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were fashioning the first blockbusters, and Martin Scorsese was marrying old-school movie glamour to a savvy street edginess; Woody Allen forged an irreverent vocabulary for film comedy; Brian De Palma shot delirious horror comedies that trapped audiences between laughter and terror; Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick labored over austere dramas that challenged viewers� expectations; and Robert Altman rattled off fourteen movies in the space of ten years, several of them masterpieces, most of them a miniature revolution in their own right. Meanwhile, on the sidelines, a young buck named Jonathan Demme kick started his career with a series of snappy comedies and thrillers.
More than just a tribute to past glory, though, It Don’t Worry Me takes a close look at the work of these filmmakers with a contemporary eye, discovering an urgency and innovation still resonant today.]]> 272 Ryan Gilbey 0571211240 Jreimer 3 currently-reading 3.44 2003
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]]> 120540 268 Luis Buñuel 0816643873 Jreimer 5 4.34 1982
author: Luis Buñuel
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> 6793 512 Peter Biskind 0684857081 Jreimer 5 4.15 1998
author: Peter Biskind
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average rating: 4.15
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would recommend to anyone that's a movie dork like myself. Focuses on the 60's-70's film makers and revelas alot about most of the biggest heavy hitters of the day. It might not be totally fair to some, but it's a really fun read.
]]> 147636 1044 Anonymous 0840726848 Jreimer 5 4.24 1611
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]]> 105701
Sharon Waxman of the New York Times spent the decade covering these young filmmakers, and in Rebels on the Backlot she weaves together the lives and careers of Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction; Steven Soderbergh, Traffic; David Fincher, Fight Club; Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights; David O. Russell, Three Kings; and Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich.]]> 386 Sharon Waxman 0060540184 Jreimer 4 3.79 2005
author: Sharon Waxman
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]]> 9673436 534 Brian Selznick Jreimer 0 to-read 4.22 2007
author: Brian Selznick
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]]> 392563 The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of alienated teenagers across the land, twentieth-century classical music still sends ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, its influence can be felt everywhere. Atonal chords crop up in jazz. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalism has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward.

The Rest Is Noise shows why twentieth-century composers felt compelled to create a famously bewildering variety of sounds, from the purest beauty to the purest noise. It tells of a remarkable array of maverick personalities who resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators. Whether they have charmed audiences with sweet sounds or battered them with dissonance, composers have always been exuberantly of the present, defying the stereotype of classical music as a dying art. The narrative goes from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of dramatic new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.]]> 640 Alex Ross 0374249393 Jreimer 0 currently-reading 4.08 2007
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]]> 113429 205 Miranda July 0743299396 Jreimer 0 currently-reading 3.83 2007
author: Miranda July
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]]> 1044355 When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense.

Or how about...

when set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game.

Oh, all right...

David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo.

Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire.
(front flap)]]> 323 David Sedaris 0316143472 Jreimer 0 currently-reading 4.08 2005
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]]> 248167 98 1557833451 Jreimer 0 currently-reading 4.41 1994
author: Alan Zweibel Original Saturday Night Live writer and Thurber Prize winner for his novel
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]]> 149881 114 Saul Bellow 0606310924 Jreimer 3 3.32 1957
author: Saul Bellow
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average rating: 3.32
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I read something quick and easy by Bellows for two reasons: first was Dave Eggers sites him as a large influence and secondly he's a Chicago satirist. I really did enjoy his writing style. I only gave it three stars because it was just an ok little book. It didn't blow me away but it wasn't time badly spent.
]]> 2671 112 Tom Wolfe 0553380656 Jreimer 4 3.84 1975
author: Tom Wolfe
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Pretty witty Mr. Wolfe, but it's not like you don't know that already what with all the latin phrases peppering your prose for effect I suppose. Well you can't help it if you've got the New England smarts just oozing out of you. Still pretty interesting point by point history of the last 70 odd years of modern art "isms" barring the smaller less popular ones and how art became literature and theorized itself to death. Short book- quick read. I like.
]]> 11494 487 Saul Bellow 0140189440 Jreimer 0 to-read 3.86 1975
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]]> 6551 371 Saul Bellow 0142437298 Jreimer 0 to-read 3.77 1964
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]]> 44968
Bob Marley left an indelible mark on modern music, both as a reggae pioneer and as an enduring cultural icon. Catch a Fire , now a classic of rock biography, delves into the life of the leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that continues today.

Under the supervision of the author's widow and with the collaboration of a Marley expert, this fourth edition contains a wealth of new material on the Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician , including many revisions made by the author before his untimely death. An appendix to the new edition chronicles Marley's legacy in recent years, as well as the ongoing controversy over the possibility that Marley's remains might be exhumed from Nine Mile, Jamaica, and reburied in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where hundreds of Rastafarians live. The new edition also contains an expanded discography and is factually updated throughout.

"Probably the finest biography ever written about a popular musician." � San Francisco Chronicle

"As close as rock journalism comes to transcendent literature."
―P±ô²¹²â²ú´Ç²â±Õ±Õ> 576 Timothy White 0805080864 Jreimer 3
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Pretty terribly written and super heavy handed in favor of marley's need to create illegitimate children everywhere he goes, but simultaneously entertaining.


]]> 7437 Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted a significant influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs’s notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.]]> 289 William S. Burroughs 0802140181 Jreimer 3 3.48 1959
author: William S. Burroughs
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I've always struggled with how much I liked burroughs. I love his essays and critical work but his fiction although important in a progressive way, wasn't all that rewarding to read. It always seems like he wrote because everyone that surrounded him wanted him to. Much more interesting in life than on paper.
]]> 23940 Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940's was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media. For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Here as well, for the first time, are Burroughs' own unpublished introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages, as well as auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others.]]> 166 William S. Burroughs 0142003166 Jreimer 3 3.87 1953
author: William S. Burroughs
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]]> 600506 217 William S. Burroughs 0802151507 Jreimer 1 3.63 1962
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]]> 23930 The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.]]> 193 William S. Burroughs 0802133312 Jreimer 2 3.56 1971
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]]> 77531 202 J.D. Salinger Jreimer 5 3.97 1957
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]]> 1691240 240 Dimitri Ehrlich 1570622736 Jreimer 4 3.64 1997
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]]> 193588 576 Alexander Roob 3822850381 Jreimer 5 4.15 1996
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]]> 154235 240 Roselee Goldberg 0500282196 Jreimer 4 4.05 2004
author: Roselee Goldberg
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I only give it less than 5 stars because i want more info on everyone in this book. Otherwise this a perfect compendium to the live insanity of performance art over the years. One of the few books I've picked up that has a section on the Viennese Aktionists.
]]> 347535 118 Jay Ryan 1888451939 Jreimer 5 art-books
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when i first started seeing Jay Ryan's posters at Reckless in Chicago they looked like someone just dropped of a sketch and moved on. I loved it and still do. This book is affordable and filled with the cutest damned animals you ever did see.


]]> 986751 255 Craig Anderton 0825615003 Jreimer 4 3.72 1978
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This and a four track got the "lo-fi" dream goin.
]]> 626251 448 Phaidon Press 0714843113 Jreimer 4 4.23 2003
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]]> 2337969 0 Carlos Basualdo 8575034618 Jreimer 5 art-books 4.79 2007
author: Carlos Basualdo
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bought this at the MCA in Chicago when they were showing the exhibit. For anyone who thinks tropicalia is just the "the girl from impanema" and other one off hits for republicans. Within a few pages you will find how very wrong that assessment is. Filled with the entire cultural background of why a whole country was for a brief moment terrified of powerful artists and musicians.
]]> 680989 128 Andrea Bowers 0916365689 Jreimer 4 4.12 2004
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]]> 88269 Get in the Van . Rollins's observations range from the wry to the raucous in this blistering account of a six-year career with the band - a time marked by crazed fans, vicious cops, near-starvation, substance abuse, and mind numbing all-night drives. Rollins decided to revise this edition by adding a wealth of new photographs, a new foreword, and an afterword to include some "where-are-they-now" information on the people featured in the book. This new edition includes 40 previously unpublished black-and-white photographs from Rollins's private collection and show flyers by artist Raymond Pettibon. Called "a soul-frying experience not to be undertaken by lightweights" by Wired magazine, Get in the Van perfectly embodies what one critic called the "secular gospel" of one of punk and post-punk's most respected and controversial figures.]]> 303 Henry Rollins 1880985764 Jreimer 4
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hit it at the right time in your life and you just might follow this lead. for whatever you think about rollins the transition to hardcore God from ice cream clerk is terribly interesting. it actually made me like rollins and join the ranks in saying, "well he *was* in black flag so that counts for something."


]]> 1064951 Handmade Electronic Music introduces the basic of practical circuitry while instructing the student in basic electronic principles, always from the practical point of view of an artist. It teaches a style of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been lost in this day of prefabricated electronic musical instruments whose inner workings are not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to transcend their fear of electronic technology to launch themselves into the pleasure of working creatively with all kinds of analog circuitry.]]> 264 Nicolas Collins 0415975921 Jreimer 5
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This book is not only fascinating but immediately useful. you can be making refrigerator sounds by dusk.


]]> 348604 224 Anderton 0825695023 Jreimer 4 4.14 1975
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yep i've read it. but as far as building these things...I'm getting to it----
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In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.]]> 607 Haruki Murakami 0965341984 Jreimer 0 to-read 4.16 1994
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]]> 288529 368 Nick Kent 0306806460 Jreimer 0 to-read 4.02 1994
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]]> 631901
Perhaps the artist's best-known work is the Venice Rent Collection Courtyard (1999), which reconstructed a little-known clay tableau produced in China during the cultural revolution ( The Rent Collection Courtyard , c.1965). The original work, which aimed to show the benefits of the new system over feudalism, toured China during the 1960s and 70s and depicted heroic rice farmers tyrannized by rapacious landlords. In Cai's version the clay was left unfired so that it gradually disintegrated during the course of the 1999 Venice Biennale, where it was first shown.

In the Survey, curator and critic Dana Friis-Hansen traces the development of the artist's work from the early oil paintings, produced while he was living in China, to the complex and ambitious projects he now conducts worldwide. New York-based curator Octavio Zaya discusses with the artist his working practices and the continuity of his attitude towards his work. In the Focus, curator Seriwaja Takashi analyses a single work from the artist's Projects for Extraterrestrials series, Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters (1993). For the Artist's Choice, Cai has selected the contents page from Warfare Beyond Rules: Judgement of War and Methods of War in the Era of Globalization (1999) by Qiao Liang and Wang Xianhui. The book's exploration of diverse strategies reflects the eclectic nature of the artist's work. Cai Guo-Qiang's writings range from project notes, which detail the methods and thinking behind his works, to a new text on his unrealized projects and the role of chance in the creative process.]]> 160 Dana Hansen 0714840750 Jreimer 5 art-books 3.62 2002
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let it be known...I will always support an artist who paints with explosives.
]]> 40137
Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain, host of the celebrated TV shows Parts Unknown and No Reservations, spent years serving some of the best French brasserie food in New York. With its no-nonsense, down-to-earth atmosphere, Les Halles matched Bourdain's style a restaurant where you can dress down, talk loudly, drink a little too much wine, and have a good time with friends. Now, Bourdain brings you his Les Halles Cookbook , a cookbook like no candid, funny, audacious, full of his signature charm and bravado.

Bourdain teaches you everything you need to know to prepare classic French bistro fare. While you're being guided, in simple steps, through recipes like roasted veal short ribs and steak frites, escargots aux noix and foie gras au pruneaux, you'll feel like he's in the kitchen beside you-reeling off a few insults when you've scorched the sauce, and then patting you on the back for finally getting the steak tartare right.

As practical as it is entertaining, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook is a can't-miss treat for cookbook lovers, aspiring chefs, and Bourdain fans everywhere.]]> 304 Anthony Bourdain 158234180X Jreimer 4 4.14 2004
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]]> 158463 336 Rick Bayless 039306154X Jreimer 5 4.16 2005
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Even though it takes a long time to get used to the way h e speaks in his TV show, the guy can really cook. Weirdly enough he's from Chicago and many of these recipes are from the Chicago based TV show, but I've used this one A LOT.
]]> 34072 Guardian First Book Award 2001.]]> 384 Chris Ware 0224063979 Jreimer 5 4.08 2000
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I wasn't ever one of those folks who got emotional over "graphic novels" even when I was steeped in them at 13 but this one is so damned perfect.
]]> 2300046
Elaine Yoon, a tattooed, pierced, Chinese-Californian lesbian, obsessively seduces straight women, and films video shorts of her sexual conquests. Jo Richards, an intellectually challenged installation artist grappling with the idea of peripheral vision, knows the whereabouts of Mondrian's last painting. Art Spindle, a cravat-wearing, reptilian art dealer, desperately wants to sell the Mondrian, when he isn't sleeping with Jean Maclestone, collector and art-hag, the vain wife of stuttering über-collector Bob Maclestone.

This cast of characters dance through incestuous working relationships, run-ins with incompetent gallery owners, and the lure of manipulative art dealers. Danny Moynihan's deliciously satirical sexual deviants, attention seekers, and would-be murderers ring true in this sophisticated, sharply observed, darkly humorous novel.]]> 256 Danny Moynihan 0312288514 Jreimer 3 3.36 2001
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If you saw movies like Basquiat and wanted a little more this might fit your bill. It's not terribly well written but still very entertaining.
]]> 7613
The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animals � inspired by his philosophy of Animalism � plot a rebellion against Jones.

Two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, prove themselves important figures and planners of this dangerous enterprise. When Jones forgets to feed the animals, the revolution occurs, and Jones and his men are chased off the farm. Manor Farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the Seven Commandments of Animalism are painted on the barn wall...]]> 129 George Orwell Jreimer 5
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I have the Ralph Steadman edition that lends a little blood gore and ink to the whole situation. Most people read this in school, I went for the adult drunken madman version.


]]> 600666 578 Andrew Bailey 3822856363 Jreimer 3
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not enough of what is a really nice thing. the DVD extra by the way is only kind of worth it.


]]> 3873 496 Karen Armstrong 0517223120 Jreimer 4 3.89 1993
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]]> 179101 352 Emma Dexter 0714845450 Jreimer 3 3.96 2005
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]]> 149267 For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are listening to The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.]]> 1152 Stephen King Jreimer 4 4.35 1978
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]]> 11597 #1, #2, #3

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it-and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?]]> 460 Stephen King 045052468X Jreimer 2 3.81 1989
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]]> 10614 #1, #2, #3, #4

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.]]> 370 Stephen King 0450417395 Jreimer 3 4.22 1987
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]]> 19543 38 Maurice Sendak 0099408392 Jreimer 5 4.25 1963
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]]> 1845 Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.]]> 207 Jon Krakauer 0385486804 Jreimer 4 4.01 1996
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]]> 471385
If Stanley Kubrick had made only 2001: A Space Odyssey or Dr. Strangelove , his cinematic legacy would have been assured. But from his first feature film, Fear and Desire , to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut , Kubrick created an accomplished body of work unique in its scope, diversity, and artistry, and by turns both lauded and controversial.
In this newly revised and definitive edition of his now classic study, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick's thirteen films--including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange , and Full Metal Jacket- -alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay. Rounding out this unique work are a short biography of Kubrick; interviews with the director, as well as cast and crew members, including Malcolm McDowell, Shelley Duvall, and Jack Nicholson; and a detailed filmography and bibliography.
Meshed with masterful integrity, the book's text and illustrations pay homage to one of the most visionary, original, and demanding filmmakers of our time.]]> 352 Michel Ciment 0571211089 Jreimer 4 4.35 1980
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]]> 455424
Pursuing the theme of its predecessor, with 10 new world-class contemporary curators each choosing ten emerging artists, the book presents in its entirety the works of 100 artists and an up-to-the-minute global overview of the contemporary art world, not only for now but also for the future. These artists have risen to intense international acclaim since the 1990s or, in the opinion of the curators who have selected them, are about to emerge internationally in the near future.

Fresh Cream contains the enormous breadth of ideas and forms that exist in contemporary art. The artists' spreads are arranged in an A-Z order, featuring numerous examples of each artist's work alongside a concise text from the selecting curator and vital biographical information about the artist.

A conversation between the 10 curators and the commissioning editor gives a penetrative insight into their selections and of the key issues in contemporary art. The cultural context in which the artists work - from philosophy to fiction - is presented through recent texts from 10 contemporary writers, one selected by each curator. Itself embodying the creative originality and innovation of its content, Fresh Cream is packaged in an incredible, inflated, clear plastic pillow.]]> 656 Phaidon Press 0714839248 Jreimer 4 3.77 2000
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The book came in a plastic pillow for god's sake. that alone is worth a few stars.
]]> 1016117 * The blurring of roles between artist and curator demonstrated by the fact that artists have recently been invited to make selections in exhibitions. For example, The Wrong Gallery curated the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006) and presented an exhibition within the 2006 Whitney Biennial. The ICA London also exhibited the "Artist's Favorites" show in 2004.
* The shift in the conception of the exhibition that expands beyond museum walls. Inserting art in different environments.
* The effect of private art spaces that are run by collectors to display their own collections. Jens Hoffman states, "This will have a strong impact on the overall landscape of contemporary art, since many of those collectors who are opening spaces are also the people who give money to public institutions, which they'll probably cease to do (once they have their own location)."
* The impact of the booming art market on artists who seem deeply affected by the pressure to conform to market forces and adapt their work. Each of the 100 artists is featured over four pages with a selection of their work together with a commentary by the curator who selected them, an exhibition history, and a bibliography. Every curator also selects a Source Artist, namely any artist from any previous generation whom they feel remains of key significance either to art at large or to his or her own thinking. ICE CREAM is a dynamic showcase of the next big flavors of the year. It provides a glimpse of what the future may hold and is a must-have for collectors and for anyone who follows or is beginning to explore the contemporary art scene.]]> 448 Ten Curators 0714846805 Jreimer 4 art-books 3.78 2007
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]]> 5659 “All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.�

For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists—Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toad—have enchanted children of all ages. Whether the four friends are setting forth on an exciting adventure, engaging in a comic caper, or simply relaxing by the River Thames, their stories will surprise and captivate you.

Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, this story is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misadventures of the book’s intrepid quartet of heroes raise fantasy to the level of myth. Reflecting the freshness of childhood wonder, it still offers adults endless sophistication, substance, and depth.

The animals� world embodies the author’s wry, whimsical, and unfailingly inventive imagination. It is a world that succeeding generations of both adult and young readers have found irresistible. But why say more? To use the words of the estimable Mr. Toad himself: “Travel, change, interest, excitement!...Come inside.�]]> 197 Kenneth Grahame 0143039091 Jreimer 4 4.02 1908
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]]> 631423
In 1966-7 Graham also made a series of photographs showing details of suburban housing projects, new shopping precincts, truck depots and roadside diners, bearing the title Homes for America . Alongside the photographic images, Graham's texts deconstruct social architectural spaces in ways that were far ahead of their time. From 1969 to 1978 Graham worked primarily with performance, film and video, focusing, for example, on the synchronization of speech and breathing patterns between the artist and his audience. From 1974, with the installation/performance Present Continuous Past(s) , Graham began to use two-way mirror walls in relation to real reflections and time-delayed video projections. These works evolved into the socially-based architectural projects such as open-air pavilions, including a Skateboard Pavilion in Stuttgart in 1989 and in the same year The Children's Pavilion (with Jeff Wall), and the Star of David Pavilion (Vienna, 1991-6). All of Graham's projects are democratically rooted in everyday urban life and activity - particularly children's play. His work is thus as valuable to architects and town planners as to the art community. During the 1990s he has been offered major public commissions throughout North America and Europe.

In the Interview, London-based curator Mark Francis discusses with the artist how his public participation-based work has evolved. In the Survey, Brussels-based critic Birgit Pelzer draws on her extensive knowledge of Graham's work and writings. New York-based architectural theorist Beatriz Colomina focuses on Graham's Alteration to a Suburban House (1978). The artist has chosen an extract from the science fiction novel Ubik by Philip K Dick, whose writings were a formative influence. Writing has always been a major aspect of Graham's work. His Artist's Writings range from early pieces on Conceptual art, inserted in mass-market magazines, to writing on his fellow artists, to analyses of popular culture from Dean Martin to the post-Punk era.]]> 160 Birgit Pelzer 0714839647 Jreimer 4 3.55 2001
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]]> 396848 This beautifully illustrated book investigates Beuys’s sculpture, arguably the most fundamental portion of his artistic work, as well as his extraordinary influence. Featured objects include a stunning selection of Beuys’s remarkable vitrines—sly cousins of standard museum presentations, featuring both hand-made and found objects serving as “exhibitions� on Beuys’s own topics; blackboards on which he recorded his lectures and performances; room-sized environments; and many other sculptural projects that frequently served as physical documentation for Beuys’s performances.
With a comprehensive chronology of Beuys’s activities as an artist and activist, this book is essential for those interested in the life, work, and legacy of one of the art world’s most intriguing figures.]]> 224 Mark Rosenthal 0300104960 Jreimer 5 4.17 2004
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I have been lucky enough to see what I believe the only Texas solo show of one of my heroes. THis book is an excellent way to introduce yourself to Beuys or just salivate over it.
]]> 1527583 199 Julie Speed 0292702728 Jreimer 5
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If you're a fan of Mark Ryden you will not be disappointed. One of my favorite painters period, and her work is often shown around the Dallas area so... bonus.


]]> 160149 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King.

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.]]> 420 H.P. Lovecraft 0141182342 Jreimer 0 to-read 4.21 1928
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]]> 188176 336 Matthew Scott Hanson 0316610984 Jreimer 5 4.06 1999
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I hope he's alive. truly. even Zmuda thinks he might be... actually recent UFO activity is probably Kaufman.
]]> 676733 Swansea Grammar School Magazine. A highpoint of the collection is Thomas's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, a vivid collage of memories from his Swansea childhood that combines the lyricism of his poetry with the sparkle and sly humor of Under Milk Wood. Also here is the fiction from Quite Early One Morning, a collection planned by Thomas shortly before his death.

Altogether there are more than forty stories, providing a rich and varied literary feast and showing Dylan Thomas in all his intriguing variety-somber fantasist, joyous word-spinner, comedian of smalltown Wales. The book includes an entertaining, informative reflection on Thomas by another Welsh poet and storyteller, Leslie Norris, as well as a brief listing of publication details by Professor Walford Davies, editor of Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Works.

After the fair --
Tree --
True story --
Enemies --
Dress --
Visitors --
Vest --
Burning baby --
Orchards --
End of the river --
Lemon --
Horse's ha --
School for witches --
Mouse and the woman --
Prospect of the sea --
Holy six --
Prologue to an adventure --
Map of love --
In the direction of the beginning --
Adventure from a work in progress --
Portrait of the artist as a young dog: Peaches --
Visit to Grandpa's --
Patricia, Edith and Arnold --
Fight --
Extraordinary little cough --
Just like little dogs --
Where Tawe flows --
Who do you wish was with us? --
Old Garbo --
One warm Saturday --
Adventures in the skin trade: Fine beginning --
Plenty of furniture --
Four lost souls --
Quite early one morning --
Child's Christmas in Wales --
Holiday memory --
Crumbs of one man's year --
Return journey --
Followers --
Story --
Appendix: early stories: Brember --
Jarley's --
In the garden --
Gaspar, Melchior, Balthsar --
List of sources]]> 384 Dylan Thomas 0811209989 Jreimer 0 currently-reading 4.06 1983
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]]> 7493
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.

During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation--and perhaps any--came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton's deadly duel, and what may have really happened; Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison's secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton's financial plan; Franklin's petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery--his last public act--and Madison's efforts to quash it; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice; Adams's difficult term as Washington's successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son; and finally, Adams and Jefferson's renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger-than-life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

Ellis argues that the checks and balances that permitted the infant American republic to endure were not primarily legal, constitutional, or institutional, but intensely personal, rooted in the dynamic interaction of leaders with quite different visions and values. Revisiting the old-fashioned idea that character matters, Founding Brothers informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.]]> 288 Joseph J. Ellis 0375705244 Jreimer 4 3.94 2000
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]]> 22320
Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.]]> 367 William Gibson 0425198685 Jreimer 4 3.87 2003
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]]> 77956 257 Walker Percy 0312243073 Jreimer 3 3.72 1977
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]]> 10739
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is adrift. He occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the "treasurable moments" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a quest - a harebrained search for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the gaudy chaos of the French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, "The Moviegoer" is a genuine American classic.]]> 242 Walker Percy 0375701966 Jreimer 5 3.66 1961
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]]> 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 Jreimer 4 3.84 1886
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]]> 314796 Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writingserious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's intelligent and accessible texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.]]> 240 Michael Bierut 1568986998 Jreimer 0 currently-reading 4.05 2007
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]]> 1977592 280 Robert Scotto 0976082284 Jreimer 0 to-read 3.59 2007
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]]> 28862
1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people.
2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him.
3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose.
4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory.
5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression.
6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope.
7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters,
8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure.
9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice
10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.]]> 144 Niccolò Machiavelli 0937832383 Jreimer 5 3.85 1513
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so of course you'd like to know how *exactly* to control the world....
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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.]]> 96 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 0152023984 Jreimer 5 4.32 1943
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]]> 4407
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...

This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

]]> 635 Neil Gaiman Jreimer 0 to-read 4.10 2001
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]]> 1292871 214 Horacio Quiroga 0292715412 Jreimer 5 3.89 1909
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]]> 761807
Rather than add to the massive canon of the victimized, for example, "My Slave" takes the perspective of the victimizer. In "The Open Curtain," a man achieves intimacy with his family only when he recognizes -- watching them dine as he sits in his car at the curb -- that he lives in a household of strangers. Menaced by a gang of skinheads in a Jewish cemetery, an American tourist in Germany placates the Neo-Nazis with a formula he continues to repeat even after he is safely back home in "I Am Not a Jew." And as for love, it makes demands in such stories as "Do Me" that shake our very notions of what it means to love.

If these stories engage the world in sometimes shocking ways, they are virtuoso engagements, eloquent in their prose, surprising in their plotting, sly in their humor. Biguenet shifts among voices and narrative strategies and imposes neither a single style nor a repeated structure as he depicts the ecological catastrophe of "A Plague of Toads," the problem posed by a ghost in the nursery in "Fatherhood," and the ghastly discovery a grieving widower defends as "another kind of memory" in "Rose."

Such mastery of craft may come as a surprise in a first-time author, but even more impressive is the object of his art. For whether it seeks to prick or to tickle, each story in The Torturer's Apprentice addresses its subject with an authority unusual in contemporary literature as it entices the reader beyond the boundaries of the expected and the accepted.]]> 177 John Biguenet 0060007451 Jreimer 5 3.87 2001
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]]> 98264 Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair, with the play ending in the house of Emma and Robert, her husband, who is Jerry's best friend.

The classic dramatic scenario of the love triangle is manifest in a mediation on the themes of marital infidelity, duplicity, and self-deception. Pinter writes a world that simultaneously glorifies and debases love.]]> 144 Harold Pinter 0571160824 Jreimer 5 3.96 1978
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]]> 126261 Ìý
We've all been there--trapped in a conversation with smarty-pants music fiends who natter on about "the MC5" or "Eno" or "the Hammond B3," not wanting to let on that we haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about. Well, fret no more! The Rock Snob's Dictionary is here to define every single sacred totem of rock fandom's know-it-all fraternity, from Alt.country to Zimmy. (That's what Rock Snobs call Bob Dylan, by the way.)]]> 176 David Kamp 0767918738 Jreimer 5 3.76 2005
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]]> 60113 "Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." � Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools

Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand–in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way.ÌýBoth comic book devotees and theÌýuninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form.]]> 264 Scott McCloud Jreimer 4 4.34 2006
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]]> 102920 222 Scott McCloud Jreimer 5 4.00 1993
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]]> 350869 The New York Times

"One of the finest works of American literature that I have read." —James T. Farrell

"A knockout." �Saturday Review of Literature

"Never Come Morning depicts the intensity of feeling, the tawdry but potent dreams, the crude but forceful poetry, and the frustrated longing for human dignity residing in the lives of the Poles of Chicago's Northwest Side, and this revelation informs us all that there lies an ocean of life at our doorstep—an unharnessed, unchanneled and unknown ocean..." —Richard Wright

"Utter sincerity and psychological truth." —Philip Rahv in The Nation

"Mr. Algren is out to shock, but he does so without seeming to sensationalize. I, for one, found myself believing." —Clinton Fadiman in The New Yorker

"The girls sitting around the juke-box in Mama Tomek's, the boys playing under the El, the look of Chicago streets in the rain... It is the poetry of familiar things that is missing in the other Chicago novels... Algren is a poet the Chicago slums." —Malcolm Cowley

"A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting, publicly, his innermost feelings." —Nelson Algren]]> 310 Nelson Algren 1583222790 Jreimer 4 4.11 2002
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]]> 350872
"You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery."

Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: "Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder." And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: "Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards . . . [where there] are still . . . defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope."

In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer's relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy's heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.]]> 144 Nelson Algren 1888363622 Jreimer 4 4.08 1996
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]]> 4262 323 Nick Hornby 1594481784 Jreimer 4 3.92 1995
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]]> 597
For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock ‘n� roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end—one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean field. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what this means for the rest of us.]]> 245 Chuck Klosterman 0743264460 Jreimer 4 3.86 2005
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well this is the first time I've read Mr Klosterman and I wish i was less on the fence about it. I actually really liked the book in general even though there are passages I vehemently disagree with. Actually for some reason I think that's what I like about it. For any music fan of discernible taste you find yourself in constant arguments about music all the time (usually late at night) and it's a lot like that. For example, he dismisses all punk music except for the clash, all blues music across the board while stating the complexities of Kiss and Tesla... All of that aside, there are plenty of very funny passages will keep you afloat through this disagreements. If I read faster this would've taken two hours to read and that's not a bad thing. The only other thing that drove me a little nuts that I had to ignore was his need to list almost everything he says in an a) b) fashion. still pretty entertaining.
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Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.]]> 323 Erik Larson 0375708278 Jreimer 4 4.04 1999
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]]> 21996
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.]]> 496 Erik Larson 0739303406 Jreimer 5 3.99 2003
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]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Jreimer 4 3.89 2003
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]]> 118572 393 Phoebe Hoban 0143035126 Jreimer 5 3.94 1997
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]]> 1113329 60 Dave Hickey 1891273019 Jreimer 4 3.92 2000
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]]> 228462 143 Billy Name 1881616843 Jreimer 4 4.18 1997
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]]> 140987
Dave Hickey (born 1939) is one of today's most revered and widely read art writers. He has written for Rolling Stone , Art News , Art in America , Artforum and Vanity Fair among many others.]]> 208 Dave Hickey 0963726455 Jreimer 5 4.09 1997
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]]> 32351 Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it--a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book "captures what we know of the development of what makes us human" (Nature).

Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http: // effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science,]]> 448 Armand Marie Leroi 0142004820 Jreimer 0 to-read 4.04 2003
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]]> 30557 Shooting an Elephant.

"Shooting an Elephant" is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as "My Country Right or Left", "How the Poor Die" and "Such, Such were the Joys", his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies, and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative, and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.]]> 368 George Orwell 0141187395 Jreimer 4 4.08 1936
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]]> 7360
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.

It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.]]> 416 John Berendt 0679643419 Jreimer 4 3.71 1994
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]]> 123168 192 Jim Kjelgaard 0553156861 Jreimer 5 4.05 1953
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