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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room
Paul Auster
Penguin USA (P), 1990
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Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art. A Biography 3 reviews
Hermann Kurzke
Princeton University Press, 2002
Must-read for those who admire the works of Thomas Mann
+ Dissensio?
I have been a long-time admirer of the novels of Thomas Mann. I read "Buddenbrooks" in one go--never looking up from the pages while my roommate in college was convinced I'd gone crazy. But I'd never read a better novel. And to think, Mann wrote that as a youth of 24! Later, I read "The Magic ...
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Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology 1 review
Alexander Rosenberg
University Of Chicago Press, 2006
What Kim Sterelny and Elliot Sober say
They put it better than I can. From the back of the jacket:
Over the last twenty years and more, philosophers and theoretical biologists have built an antireductionist concensus about biology. We have thought that biology is an autonomous discipline without being spooky. While biological systems ...
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Notes From Underground 130 reviews
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2004
"I AM A SICK MAN...I am a wicked man."
+ Read it in context for a better understanding...
+ The epitome of the alienated, under-appreciated intellectual
+ "I am a sick man..."
+ so good
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Cancer Ward39 reviews
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
VINTAGE (RAND), 2003
Required reading
+ An incomparably rich and beautiful novel
+ Solzhenitsyn was right; New York Times was terribly wrong
+ Excellent book
+ Thinking about health care
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The History of the Life of Albrecht Dürer of Nürnberg: With a translation of his letters and journal, and ...
Mary Margaret Heaton
Adamant Media Corporation, 2005
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1870 edition by Macmillan and Co., London.
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Kolya60 reviews
Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon
Miramax, 2002
Heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure
+ Go Louka...
+ Charming In Substantive Way (not cute or silly)
+ Kolya
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss65 reviews
Claire Nouvian
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Incredible journey
+ Amazing look into the deep blue
+ Welcome to the mysterious Black Planet
+ Gorgeous book
+ Underwater magic!
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Death in Venice66 reviews
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli
Warner Home Video, 2004
Parting glances
+ Film only for those gifted from Muses and Graces
+ The sound of silence
Depending on whom you ask, Visconti's "Death in Venice" is either the most monumentally boring and pretentious film ever made or a wonderfully poetic and profound reflection on life, death, and what it takes to be a great artist. While I agree that gazing for hours into Andresen's ever-sleepy eyes ...
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Gantenbein (Harvest/Hbj Book)5 reviews
Max Frisch
Harvest Books, 1982
Imagine
+ One of the greatest works of Art of modern literature
+ Frisch's best novel
+ Too bad this book it out of print
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Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend18 reviews
Thomas Mann
Vintage, 1999
Artist Meets Scientist
+ Magnificent
+ Useful information....or not.
+ A demanding and crucially important read
+ Essential Reading for German Literary History
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Medieval people by Eileen Power 1 review
Eileen Edna Power
Methuen, 1946
Book holds pretty well after 80 years
This book, written by historian Eileen Power in 1924, and trying the then novel approach of looking at history through the lives of common people, holds up pretty well. Only the chapter on Marco Polo has aged somewhat (today's historians are much more skeptical on whether Polo even visited China, ...
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The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics)9 reviews
Jaroslav Hasek
Penguin Classics, 2005
Probably My Favorite Book
+ witty writing
+ the good soldier svejk
+ Picaresque antiwar classic
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss65 reviews
Claire Nouvian
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Incredible journey
+ Amazing look into the deep blue
+ Welcome to the mysterious Black Planet
+ Gorgeous book
+ Underwater magic!
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Notes From Underground130 reviews
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Signet Classics, 2004
"I AM A SICK MAN...I am a wicked man."
+ Read it in context for a better understanding...
+ The epitome of the alienated, under-appreciated intellectual
+ "I am a sick man..."
+ so good
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The History of the Life of Albrecht Dürer of Nürnberg: With a translation of his letters and journal, and ...
Mary Margaret Heaton
Adamant Media Corporation, 2005
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1870 edition by Macmillan and Co., London.
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Gantenbein (Harvest/Hbj Book)5 reviews
Max Frisch
Harvest Books, 1982
Imagine
+ One of the greatest works of Art of modern literature
+ Frisch's best novel
+ Too bad this book it out of print
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Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend18 reviews
Thomas Mann
Vintage, 1999
Artist Meets Scientist
+ Magnificent
+ Useful information....or not.
+ A demanding and crucially important read
+ Essential Reading for German Literary History
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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/ Ghosts/ the Locked Room
Paul Auster
Penguin USA (P), 1990
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Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology1 review
Alexander Rosenberg
University Of Chicago Press, 2006
What Kim Sterelny and Elliot Sober say
They put it better than I can. From the back of the jacket:
Over the last twenty years and more, philosophers and theoretical biologists have built an antireductionist concensus about biology. We have thought that biology is an autonomous discipline without being spooky. While biological systems ...
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