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This book describes the novel genre as a child with an Oedipus complex. That alone makes it worth reading, in my opinion.]]> 3.85 1972
author: Marthe Robert
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This book describes the novel genre as a child with an Oedipus complex. That alone makes it worth reading, in my opinion.

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This book describes the novel genre as a child with an Oedipus complex. That alone makes it worth reading, in my opinion.
]]> 774027 160 Albert Camus 2070360105 Jason 4 3.87 1956
author: Albert Camus
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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Awesome! It's a conversation between two characters, but the reader only hears what one of the characters is saying.
]]> 70105 451 André Gide 0394718429 Jason 5 3.88 1925
author: André Gide
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]]> 2653700 Book by Daeninckx, Didier 86 Didier Daeninckx 2864323125 Jason 3 2.33 2001
author: Didier Daeninckx
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average rating: 2.33
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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I read this book for a class on French women filmmakers because Laetitia Masson made a film adaptation of this novel in 2002. Please don't crucify me, but I honestly enjoyed the movie a lot more than the book.
]]> 2365282 Albert Camus 078592924X Jason 4 3.86 1945
author: Albert Camus
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average rating: 3.86
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"I love my country too much be a nationalist." Nice.
]]> 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov 0679723161 Jason 5 3.87 1955
author: Vladimir Nabokov
name: Jason
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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So good. Creepy, playful, and seductive. It constantly challenges its readers' perspectives, alternately contructing them as judges and voyeurs, and, for me, raises the question of how to ethically read such a novel. It's pretty troubling, when you're reading a book, and you find yourself identifying with the hero, who is also a pedophile.
]]> 74126
Each chapter opens with an illustration from a recent movie and concludes with a case study considering recent developments in the church that have attempted to respond to the postmodern condition, such as the "emerging church" movement. These case studies provide a concrete picture of how postmodern ideas can influence the way Christians think and worship.

This significant book, winner of a Christianity Today 2007 Book Award, avoids philosophical jargon and offers fuller explanation where needed. It is the first book in the Church and Postmodern Culture series, which provides practical applications for Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world.]]> 160 James K.A. Smith 080102918X Jason 0 3.86 2006
author: James K.A. Smith
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average rating: 3.86
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I liked it. It wasn't particularly academic, but it did a good job of making the case that postmodernism isn't as scary as Josh McDowell and Francis Schaeffer make it out to be.
]]> 125880 Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.

Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine's theory of time and Aristotle's theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative. He concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge, understanding, and writing from Aron and Mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the Annales school and that of Anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s.

"This work, in my view, puts the whole problem of narrative, not to mention philosophy of history, on a new and higher plane of discussion."—Hayden White, History and Theory

"Superb. . . . A fine point of entrance into the work of one of the eminent thinkers of the present intellectual age."—Joseph R. Gusfield, Contemporary Sociology

]]> 281 Paul Ricœur 0226713326 Jason 1 This book is not fun. 4.19 1983
author: Paul Ricœur
name: Jason
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1983
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This book is not fun.
]]> 417466 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9782070360185.

«[...] je n'ai point encore dit l'immense plaisir que Gertrude avait pris à ce concert de Neuchâtel. On y jouait précisément La symphonie pastorale. Je dis "précisément" car il n'est, on le comprend aisément, pas une œuvre que j'eusse pu davantage souhaiter de lui faire entendre. Longtemps après que nous eûmes quitté la salle de concert, Gertrude resta encore silencieuse et comme noyée dans l'extase.
- Est-ce que vraiment ce que vous voyez est aussi beau que cela ? dit-elle enfin. [...]
- Ceux qui ont des yeux, dis-je enfin, ne connaissent pas leur bonheur.
- Mais moi qui n'en ai point, s'écria-t-elle aussitôt, je connais le bonheur d'entendre.»]]> 150 André Gide Jason 3 to-read 3.63 1919
author: André Gide
name: Jason
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1919
rating: 3
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]]> 53856 184 Lauren F. Winner 1587431971 Jason 0 currently-reading 3.87 2005
author: Lauren F. Winner
name: Jason
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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I'm still not sure what I think of this one. It's more conservative than I had expected, but the narrative voice makes it at least fun to read. It's witty.
]]> 12542 Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.

In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Lamott examines the ways we're caught in life's most daunting predicaments: love, mothering, work, politics, and maybe toughest of all, evolving from who we are to who we were meant to be. This is a complicated process for most of us, and Lamott turns her wit and honesty inward to describe her own intimate, bumpy, and unconventional road to grace and faith.

"I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kinds of things," she writes in one of her essays, "that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in silence, in the dark."

Whether she's writing about her unsuccessful efforts to get her money back from an obstinate carpet salesman, grappling with the tectonic shifts in her relationship with her son as he matures, trying to maintain her faith and humor during politically challenging times, or helping a close friend die with dignity, Lamott seeks out both the divinity and the humanity in herself and everything around her. Throughout these essays, she writes of her struggle to find the essence of her faith, which she uncovers in the unlikeliest places.]]> 255 Anne Lamott 1594489424 Jason 3 3.95 2007
author: Anne Lamott
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average rating: 3.95
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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A fun read, although Lamott deals with certain issues (euthanasia, abortion) in a way that makes me uneasy. The majority of the book, though, was a pleasure.
]]> 990855 256 Georges Bernanos 0803261616 Jason 0 to-read 3.68
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]]> 18517 To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change. A moving portrait in miniature of family life, it also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other.

There are very few exceptional and miraculous novels that have the power to change their readers forever. To the Lighthouse is one of them.]]> 209 Virginia Woolf 0156907399 Jason 5 One of my favorites. 3.81 1927
author: Virginia Woolf
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average rating: 3.81
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One of my favorites.
]]> 7588 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.]]> 329 James Joyce 0142437344 Jason 5 3.64 1916
author: James Joyce
name: Jason
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1916
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]]> 146661 192 André Gide Jason 2 3.53 1909
author: André Gide
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average rating: 3.53
book published: 1909
rating: 2
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]]> 990860 320 Georges Bernanos 2266122223 Jason 1 3.96 1936
author: Georges Bernanos
name: Jason
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1936
rating: 1
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Unbelievable, lame, boring, melodramatic, but says some interesting stuff about language. For the protagonist, a priest writing a journal, literary creation is an act of resistance and subversion. The novel also contrasts human language with God's language in a self-reflective way that I have not often found in Christian novels.
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