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Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

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"Mind-blowing. Stupendous. Confounding. Challenging. There is a book called "The Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake" which I must find! I found "The Key to The Name of the Rose" to be so illuminating to Eco's astonishing, brilliant work that I can now openly admit: I get by sometimes only with the help from my (writing) friends who are way way smarter than me." — Dec 17, 2016 03:51AM

Sep 15, 2016 11:57PM

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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

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"I am enjoying this but slowly. Problem is, this sorta feels like that Tony Basil song "Girl with a Thousand Lists" or maybe that was the Bangles. Anyway, at times, this feels very repetitive." — Dec 01, 2016 04:28PM

Oct 31, 2015 09:05PM

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The Andy Warhol Diaries

by Andy Warhol

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"For a diary, I just can't get a handle on what Warhol really thinks about most of these famous people. It's an odd reading experience." — Oct 02, 2016 07:45PM

Sep 16, 2016 02:56PM

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Greg Z liked R.G. Phelps's review of The Manuscript (The Delphi Chronicle, #1): "A Perfect Cliffhanger Russell has presented "A Perfect Cliffhanger" and I think you will enjoy it as much as I have. The secrets had to stay silenced; the world could never know the truth – too much would be destroyed, too many of the country’s pow..." Read more of this review »
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Greg Z liked Marian's review of Hidden Bodies (You, #2): "Wow. Just...wow. This look inside the mind of a sociopathic killer who works very hard to fit in with everyone else is chilling. Caroline Kepnes is an absolutely stunning writer. She makes you like Joe and root for him at the same time you are com..." Read more of this review »
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Greg Z and 25 other people liked Fabian's review of Sula: "This unerring writer has been the only one to get all five star reviews from me so far (for "Beloved," "The Bluest Eye," & this); all of her books have that same wondrous quality. What can be said about our most cherished writer that hasn't al..." Read more of this review »
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Greg Z wants to read The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures by Christine Kenneally	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

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