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Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner - 01/31/10
Beautifully written - grabbed me from the start and never let up. Stegner has such a way of creating breathtaking descriptions of scenery and situations, and while I occasionally felt he was being a little unfair to his characters, that also is a testament to his ability to make me care so deeply for them. I had some difficulty with the ending, but it still worked, and though the present-day scenes weren't as compelling to me I think they were still necessary - and the author very skillfully threaded the past and the present together, which was, after all, the whole point of the book. Glorious. I listened to the soundtrack to "The Proposition" quite a bit during my reading and it was very very appropriate in tone and feeling. Ah, Complete Experience.
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't (1995 edition)
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
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Essays - Wallace Shawn
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God Is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything
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Buster Keaton Remembered
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Diary of Samuel Pepys, vol. 3
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Woody Guthrie: A Life
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Love, Poverty, and War
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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
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The Amber Spyglass
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Middlesex
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid On Earth
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Happy Trails!
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Regarding the Pain of Others
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102 Minutes: The Unold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers
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Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
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Brideshead Revisited
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Dark Lover - The Life & Death of Rudolph Valentino
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Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star
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America (The Book)
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Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way
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Cages
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How We Die
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James And The Giant Peach
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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
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Dr. Tatania's Sex Advice to all Creation
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Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
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The DC Comics Action Figure Archive
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Elegant Eating: Four hundred years of dining in style
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The Corrections
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Watchmen
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Moab Is My Washpot
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The Subtle Knife
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Fatland
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Mutants
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Keith Carter Photographs: Twenty-Five Years
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The Tipping Point
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The Aran Islands
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The Golden Compass
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Sun in the Blood of the Cat
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
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Superman: Red Son
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Dude, Where's My Country?
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Language Visible
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Push
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Dreamtoons
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Savage Love
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Stray Bullets, vol. 2
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Holidays on Ice
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Stupid White Men
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Lullaby
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Shutterbabe
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How to Spot a Bastard by His Star Sign
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