Random books from abbot's library
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
The known world by Edward P. Jones
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The ox-bow incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus
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LibraryThing authors: Richard Price (rixsal), John Reed (easyreeder)
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Reviews8 reviews — see reviews
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Tagsunited states (19), england (18), memoir (17), london (13), science fiction (11), american culture (10), reality distortion (8), journalism (7) — see all tags
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Favorite authorsCharles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, William Faulkner, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, Matt Ruff (Shared favorites)
About me on a literature binge the past few years, hitting classics lists plus forays into weird, escapist, and off-planet fiction.
About my library books (and audiobooks) i remember reading + stuff on my shelves waiting to be read or recycled.
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posted by chearst at 4:48 am (EST) on May 24, 2008
Actually I recommend "Blood on the Forge" very highly. It is an amazing snapshot of life in the inner cities for black workers who migrated north during the early 20th century. It's grim, gritty, and you can feel the sweat and bile on your skin as you read it. It is a hard hitting novel, there is no letup, but you do get caught up in the lives of the Moss brothers. Really fantastic stuff and I'm amazed that it dropped off the map into obscurity. That's one of the things I like about NYRB Books, they just pluck these gems out of nowhere and bring them back into print.
Ken
posted by kwohlrob at 1:15 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2008
posted by kwohlrob at 8:09 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2008