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Real Name: Alex
About My Library: This really is my library -- books I have in bookshelves (or in piles near bookshelves), not books I've read. (Clearly, there're a lot of books I haven't read. I've had some of them for eight years... working on it!)

Ratings don't represent an objective, well-defined scale of literary merit (i.e., I don't actually think that "Declare" by Tim Powers is "as good a novel as" "Absalom, Absalom"). Rather, they're a measure of how strongly I'd recommend the book for any of many reasons (compared to other books by same author, in same genre, etc).

Ratings, where they exist, are highly weighted towards three or more stars; I don't have room to keep books I don't like unless they're so bad that they gain sentimental value ("Dr. Futurity" comes to mind, though I couldn't bring myself to keep "Galactic Effectuator").
Location: Lexington, MA
Favorite Authors: Philip K. Dick, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Gene Wolfe

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