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Member: rmambert

Library1,870 books — see library

ReviewedNone so far

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Tagsfiction (1,077), read (1,036), unread (636), non-fiction (469), reference (118), fantasy (108), memoirs (90), Italian (89), poetry (87) — see all tags

GroupsGraduate Students, The Green Dragon

Favorite authorsDante Alighieri, Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, Alfred Bester, Paul Bowles, A.S. Byatt, James M. Cain, Italo Calvino, Storm Constantine, T. S. Eliot, Jostein Gaarder, Michael Moorcock, Vladimir Nabokov, Steven Pinker, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Jose SARAMAGO, William Shakespeare, Tom Spanbauer, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, Andrea Zanzotto (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesAuburn Public Library

About me I like books. I will read most anything but I am always on the look out for a good fantasy novel. Suggestions are always appreciated.

I am one of those weird people who like watching a foreign movie with subtitles or reading a book in the original language (as long as the original language is English, Italian, French or Spanish). Part of the reason why I studied Italian was because one of my goals in life was to read Dante's "Divine Comedy" in the original. Which I did, at the age of 35.

I'm also one of those people who can't seem to read only one book at a time.

Last 15 books read:
"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
"The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
"Three Tales" by Flaubert
"First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy" by Rosetta Loy
"Marcovaldo" by Italo Calvino
"Icelandic Folktales I"
"Lisey's Story" by Stephen King
"The Book of Tea" by Kakuzo Okakura
"The World Inside" by Robert Silverberg
"Orlando Furioso" by Ariosto
"The Best of Robert Silverberg"
"Deerskin" by Robin McKinley
"The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana" by Umberto Eco
"Nightside City" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
"The Cambridge Companion to Dante"

About my library "He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot." - Arabic proverb

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LocationAuburn, Massachusetts

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Member sinceJun 9, 2007