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Maul, Tricia Sullivan
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The Teahouse Fire, Ellis Avery
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The Contract with God Trilogy, Will Eisner
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Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
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American Gods, Neil Gaiman
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Hilldiggers, Neal Asher
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The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
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Pushing Ice, Alistair Reynolds
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nice concepts, crude interpersonal relatioships
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Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
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Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
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Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds
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Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan
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Voyage of the Sable Keech, Neal Asher
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Bayba: The 110 Bj's, Baldazzini
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Small Favors, Colleen Coover
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Runcibe Tales, Neal Asher
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A Fire Upon The Deep, Vernor Vinge
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The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
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The Skinner, Neal Asher
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Prador Moon, Neal Asher
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The Engineer Reconditioned, Neal Asher
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Polity Agent, Neal Asher
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Brass Man, Neal Asher
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The Line of Polity, Neal Asher
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Gridlinked, Neal Asher
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The Professor's Daughter
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Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight
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Spider's Web, Agatha Christie
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adapted as a novel by charles osborne from the agatha christie play
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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, Walter Miller
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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazines: 6-9/96, 8/97, 2/98, 8/98, 6/99, 8/99, 10-11/99
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given to me by robot boy and passed on to zach.
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawki), Sara Paretsky
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Bindlestiff: A "Nameless Detective" Mystery, Bill Pronzini
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waste of time
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The Christmas Train, David Baldacci
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entertaining, especially since i've taken the same route
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Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
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Straight Man, Richard Russo, Random House, 1997
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Eye in the Sky, Philip K. Dick, Gregg Press, 1957 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001
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Her Forbidden Knight, Rex Stout, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1997 (see my Nero Wolfe list)
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sentimental & awful. beware posthumously published works.
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Five Guard a Hidden Discovery (previously entitled Five on Kirrin Island Again), Enid Blyton, Aladdin Books, 1972
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Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee, Viking, 2003
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Mary and the Giant, Philip K. Dick, Arbor House, 1987 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, Philip K. Dick, Doubleday & Co., 1985 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick, Timescape Books, 1981 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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The Broken Bubble, Philip K. Dick, Arbor House, 1988 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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An Officer and a Lady and Other Stories, Rex Stout, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2000 (see my Nero Wolfe list)
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Details of a Sunset and Other Stories, Vladimir Nabokov, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976
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The Zap Gun, Philip K. Dick, Gregg Press, 1979 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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Martian Time-Slip, Philip K. Dick, Vintage Books, 1992 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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Deus Irae, Philip K. Dick & Roger Zelazny (see my P.K. Dick list)
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gave me nightmares for 2 nights
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And Four to Go, Rex Stout (see my Nero Wolfe list)
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Villa Incognito, Tom Robbins, Bantam Books, 2003
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No Second Chance, Harlan Coben, Dutton, 2003
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chiropractor gave me this. unoriginal and not particularly well written, yet compelling.
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The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993
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sort of like graham swift but more sentimental. a bit heavy handed with the florid similes: features bunched like kissed fingertips. fingernails like the bowls of souvenir spoons.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte, Penguin Books, 1987
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laughed aloud in several parts
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The Lost Girl, D.H. Lawrence, Bantam Books, 1996
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The Sweet-Shop Owner, Graham Swift, Vintage Books, 1993
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Box Office Poison, Alex Robinson, Top Shelf Productions, Inc., 2002
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Now Wait for Last Year, Philip K. Dick, Vintage Books, 1966 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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The Simulacra, Philip K. Dick, Vintage Books, 1964 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick, Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1959 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
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The Man Who Never Was, Ewan Montagu, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1954
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A Right to Die, Rex Stout, The Viking Press, 1964 (see my Nero Wolfe list)
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The Womansleuth Anthology, edited by Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press, 1988
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The Futurological Congress, Stanislaw Lem
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Delta of Venus, Anais Nin, Bantam Books, 1969
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Gun, With Occasional Music, Jonathan Lethem, Tor Books, 1995
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Mao II, Don Delillo, Penguin, 1992
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A Woman's Eye, edited by Sarah Paretsky
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Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley, Elephant Paperbacks, 1948
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Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen, Warner Books, 1999
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Murder of Roger Akroyd, Agatha Christie, 1923
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain
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Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, Avond Books, 1999
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Suicide Blonde, Darcey Steinke, Grove Press, New York, 1992
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The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, The Penguin English Library, 1868
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The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, MacMillaan Publishing Co., 1922
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everytime i read an f. scott fitzgerald i realize i've read it before. has similar themes to How to Be Good, below. the (inevitable?) erosion of love.
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Ratner's Star, Don DeLillo, Random House, 1976
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Latin Satins, Terri de la Pena, Seal Press, 1994
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awkwardly written; the political focus subsumes characters and plot, but the author does manage to make you care about what happens. not worth the time unless you're intent on hispanic lesbian fiction.
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How to Be Good, Nick Hornby, Riverhead Books, 2001
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A Taste for Death, P.D. James
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Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, Random House, 1967
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difficult not to toss it. gets better though.
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Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, Joe Coomer, Simon & Schuster Inc., 1995
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sweet, some nice images, suspense. what is it with men writing chick stories?
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Ain't Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice, April Sinclair, Avon Books, 1997
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enjoyable
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Sherman's March - The Complete Box Office Poison Vol. 1, Alex Robinson, Antarctic Press, 1998.
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i want to read the next one
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The Inspector General, Nikolai Gogol, Avon Books, 1976
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Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata, Perigee Books, 1959
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Red Threads, Rex Stout, Jove Publications, 1939 (see my Nero Wolfe list)
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Time Snake and Superclown, Vincent King, Futura Publications Ltd., 1976
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Selected Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, Penguin Books, 1971
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Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
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The Enemy Stars, Poul Anderson, Berkeley Publishing Corp., 1979
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Assignment Zoraya, Edward S. Aarons, Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1960
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To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1927
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Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney, Random House, 1987
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Ubik, Philip K. Dick, Vintage Books, 1991 (see my P.K. Dick list)
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Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood |
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well written, depressing
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Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons, Vintage Contemporaries (Random House), 1990 |
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short with a simple narrative voice. doesn't pull tear-jerker tricks as most books on this topic
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Selected Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, Penguin Books, 1971
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not as delightful as Mademoiselle Fifi
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The Lover, Marguerite Duras, Harper & Row, 1986
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Name and Tears & Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian Fiction, Kathrine Jason, Graywolf Press, 1990
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The Archivist, Martha Cooley, Little Brown & Co., 1998 (uncorrected advance proof)
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picked this up in a guest house in new orleans. disjointed, not compelling, didn't even go into the t.s. eliot stuff much.
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Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem, Random House, Inc., New York, 1999
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entertaining read about a detective with tourette's syndrome.
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Use Me, Elissa Schappell, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2000
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trash
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg, Havill Press, 2000
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well written, nice details about greenland, snow, and lovely food descriptions. as a mystery it has holes in the plot. The first half is very different from the second half, almost like separate books.
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Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings, Bernard Shaw, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934
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Across the River and Into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
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the worst hemingway i have ever read.
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Cass Timberlane, Sinclair Lewis, Random House of Canada Ltd, 1945. Hardcover.
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The Beginning Place, Ursula K. LeGuin, 1980
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badly written. must stop reading authors i favored in childhood.
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the rest is a partial list of what i've read while in barcelona. partial because most of the books have already been given away to friends in preparation for moving. these books came from a box of my old books that frank's mom debbie mailed me for my birthday, a box of used books tricia mailed me for my birthday (thanks, you two!!), and the sparse, random english selection at used book stores in barcleona. all the books i read on the boat going there i left on it.