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37. The Grand Complication, Allen Kurzweil
What a turnover rate! It's been awhile since I've read a book I couldn't put down. So I finished my second book (don't know if I'll read 50 at this speed, but I'll try to get as close as possible)
The grand complication - Allen Kurzweil
Let's just say that I rarely finish a book that I don't like, but I kept expecting something with this one, I couldn't actually believe ... I can't believe no one's mentioned Dracula...
Maybe A Case of Curiousities and The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil. I can't really put my finger on what's similar about them, but my brain insists that they are. ... Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper
26. The Fires, by Alan Cheuse
27. The Flanders Panel, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
28. The Grand Complication, by Allen Kurzweil
29. The Grey King, by Susan Cooper
30. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barro ... Book Lust Recommendations
1.The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
2. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
3. The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge
4. Callie's Tally by Betsy Howie
5. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear ... by Winifred Watson
4. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
5. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
6. The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
7. The Straight and Narrow Path by Honor Tracy
8. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn ... rson
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Original sins by Lisa Alther
The forgetting room : a fiction by Nick Bantock
The grand complication by Allen Kurzweil
... play an important role in The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, a children's book by Karen Cushman.
I had never heard of The Grand Complication, but I've just requested it from the library. Thanks to everyone who mentioned it -- I'm looking forward to reading it! ... Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
26. The Creative Writing Murders by Heather Ross Miller
27. The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
28. Mr. Dixon Disappears by Ian Sansom
29. The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell
30. Needled to Death by Maggie ... A book where the main protagonist is a librarian and the book dwells on the 'glories' of Dewey classification is The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzwell.
I quite enjoyed reading it. The Grand Complication is brilliant. Like The Time Traveller's Wife for the recluse generation. ... Robinson (book club)
20. Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy
21. Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
22. The grand complication - Allen Kurzweil
23. Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden
24. Only love - Erich Segal Grand Complication I had forgotten about this book, I loved it too, was a bit hard going in places, but a really good read The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil. Can't recommend it enough. It's about a reference librarian who works in the NY Public Library, and is asked to do some private research work for one of the borrowers. ... that would be a very beneficial development (a bit like some projects in biological taxonomy).
And as an aside the novel The Grand Complication through its hero sings praises to the beauties and delights of Dewey Decimal System
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