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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
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Library139 books — see library
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TagsCDs (7), "fugue-like" and other pretentious adjectives (1) — see all tags
GroupsFolio Society devotees, What Are You Reading Now?
Favorite authorsG. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Greil Marcus, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)
About me Currently reading:
Travels With Robert Louis Stevenson: An Inland Voyage; In the South Seas; Across the Plains. 3 vol. set
Still need to finish reviews for:
Never Let Me Go
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Remains of the Day
The Wind in the Willows
Travels With A Donkey
The Complete Short Stories of Graham Greene
Put down, but will reattempt soon:
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
An Alphabet for Gourmets
Things Fall Apart
Bee Thousand
Travels With Charley
Shaming the Devil: Essays in Truth-Telling by Alan Jacobs
Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster
Optimistic/Completely Unrealistic Reading List for 2008:
Middlemarch
Up at the Villa
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Remains of the Day *
The Snow Leopard
Finn Family Moomintroll
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis (reread)
(more to come...)
* Mission Accompished
About my library For 2008, I'm trying to read a helluva lot more than I did last year. Thanks to working two jobs, I think I only squeezed in about a dozen complete books.
To add to my already over-ambitious list of 50+ books for the year, I want to try and add a poorly written review for each book I finish.
I'm going to evaluate what I read based on three criteria:
- the quality of the writing (* being your average self-help guru, ***** being Dostoyevsky)
- the entertainment/enlightenment value of the story [* being the average self-help book, ***** being The Brothers Karamazov]
- the reread-ability of the story.
Only those I perceive to be true classics will get the five-star treatment. There are plenty of books I love which I'll have to concede a three- or four-star rating due to technical or creative failings (Pamela Frankau's Wreath for the Enemy springs to mind immediately as one of these).
Real namePhilip Tatler
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posted by josephx23 at 10:19 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2008
posted by josephx23 at 10:31 am (EST) on Jan 29, 2008
posted by keren7 at 5:50 pm (EST) on Dec 31, 2007
I know, I have way too much angst built up over this book, but that's the unfortunate result of having to teach from it all semester, and also having to deal with a senior faculty member who has absolutely no interest in hearing why this might not be the best textbook to foist on 900 students every semester - because he, too, has a Sesame Street view of philosophy and is more interested in making students feel good about themselves than in actually teaching them philosophy. *Sigh* I'm done, really!
posted by philosojerk at 4:30 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007
LOL too, too funny (and ain't that the truth!).
on the 'CDs thing' - i just put them in manually. there are already a few CDs in the system but most aren't. you can search like you would for a book but i just find it easier to assume it's not in there and go right to manual. i just enter the 'book name' as the album name and the 'author' as the artist, then tag it however i like. not too complicated. if you're adamant about having book (album) covers, you're going to need to input those in manually as well (you can scan covers or just swipe them from websites such as amazon or barnes and noble, etc).
if you find an easier way of doing it, please share! =)
i'm still entering the rest of my collection in the database. there's something very relaxing about mindlessly inputing in data and organizing them - this site caters to my OCD tendencies beautifully LOL
hey, if you need anymore help, don't hesitate to stop by again.
later,
mary
posted by aznstarlette at 3:54 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007
Anyway, I updated my review of the Biffle book, although I'm not sure it's any better than it was. If anything, I might now look like even more of a screeching, bitter grad student who just needs someone to take it out on!
Cheers,
Dani
posted by philosojerk at 6:20 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2007