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FWASHMAN.

2008-04-04T07:29:59Z

FLASHMAN: A NOVEL; GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER Introducing the shining beacon of the Queen's Empire and a true Crown Jewel of England! Flashman is what Forrest Gump would have been if Forrest Gump were a pompous, shameless, endlessly horny homunculus...

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DECLINE AND FALL; Waugh

2008-03-06T07:34:54Z

Decline and Fall; Evelyn Waugh Terrible things happen to Paul Pennyfeather, testing his stiff British upper lip and endless supply of Valium. Decline and Fall is light, frothy social satire, and utterly impossible to review. The novel moves at ...

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Slaughterhouse Five; Vonnegut

2008-01-26T06:02:27Z

Guess who decided up up her reading-fu in the one week before her Life-Deciding, Five Hour Long Decathlon of a Standardized Test? I DID. Was it wise? NO NO NO. What are the primary feelings now that Five Hour Long Decathlon of a Standardized Test ...

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The Bonfire of the Vanities; Wolfe

2008-01-17T17:55:30Z

The Bonfire of the Vanities; Tom Wolfe New York City, 1980's. The city is broiling, heated by years of racial and socioeconomic strain. Investment banker Sherman McCoy and his chin stand shakily on top of a teetering metropolitan tableau, and sh...

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FEAR AND BUTTSEX IN KABUL

2007-09-20T07:15:12Z

The Kite Runner; Khaled Hosseini "A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about cliches: "Avoid them like the plague." Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap...

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Unnatural Death; Sayers

2007-09-13T20:23:59Z

Unnatural Death; Dorothy L. Sayers Mysterious circumstances and his own curiosity pull Lord Peter Wimsey out of a life of foppish luxury into a life of foppish luxury, grisly tension, and glamorous detective work. Unnatural Death rides two rails...

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Ahhh! Layla, get back in your cell! Don't make me get the hose!

2007-08-22T04:46:21Z

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing; Melissa Bank Oh chick-lit. Only you could take an otherwise hard-bitten, verbally snappy, prickly heroine and focus all of her amateurish but refreshing waspish animosity at the timeless art of seduction. T...

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The Once and Future King; White

2007-08-19T21:27:46Z

The Once and Future King; T.H. White T.H. White is merciless in his retelling of the Arthurian legend. He does his job with merciless and thankless aplomb, changing a brawny, brainless, sad epic into something infinitely more painful and emot...

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Jacob Have I Loved; PATERSON

2007-08-03T04:18:26Z

Jacob Have I Loved, Katherine Paterson I should have loved this book. After all, it has all of my sensitive, Freudian soft spots. Intense sibling rivalry? Check! Sullen teenage griping? Check! Overwrought Biblical references? Check*! Self-grat...

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The Return of Jeeves & Sunset at Blandings; WODEHOUSE

2007-07-31T20:12:40Z

The Return of Jeeves, Sunset at Blandings; P.G. Wodehouse P.G. Wodehouse is my safety blanket. Last year, after a relentless depressive onslaught of We Wish to Inform You, I, Claudius, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, I turned to Wodehouse to ...

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