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The Subterraneans (Kerouac, Jack) by Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans showcases Kerouac's jazzy, improvisational slang-laden stream-of-consciousness prose. It took a few pages to adjust my internal dialog to the 1950s sub-cultural vernacular and adapt to the pacing and rhythm of Kerouac's writing.
Jul 6, 200723 other reviews
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
King has an ability to take the potentially dry dates and places of history and weave in the perspective and personality of the historical characters to make the events interesting and meaningful. In this way, for example, he connected the historical dots between the Battle of Puebla in Mexico (which gave us the Cinco de Mayo celebration) with the plight of starving French artists in 1860s Paris.

The book chronicles and juxtaposes the lives of two Parsian artists through 1860s and 1870s France -- legend-in-his-own time Ernest Meissonier and legend-in-our-time Édouard Manet -- along with the social, political and cultural events of the time that produced artistic geniuses such as Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissaro and others.
May 19, 200725 other reviews
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This is a raw cheerless book. And yet somehow, after consuming it in about a day and a half (I do have a job unfortunately) I wasn't depressed at all. In fact, quite the opposite.
May 16, 20071,509 other reviews
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
The description of Oher's journey from the ghetto to a college scholarship and the stories of those who helped him along the way are very compelling. Lewis’ writing is solid, and tends to get in the way of the story only rarely.
½
May 16, 2007105 other reviews
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