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Voyage de noces
Patrick Modiano
Gallimard, 1990
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The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) 170 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Very nice edition to have
+ Ripped map corners
+ Smites every othe piece of modern fantasy
+ For now...
+ The best and only version to have for true fans
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel89 reviews
Edward Abbey
Holt Paperbacks, 1998
One Man's Life: A Journey Out; A Journey Back
+ One of my favorite novels ...
+ not his best
+ Pilgrim in progress, sometimes fooled
+ Letting it all Hang Out
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Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California18 reviews
Graham Mackintosh
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
Great reading!
+ The word incredible barely lends justice to Graham's effort
+ Husband's birthday present
+ True Baja experience
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Chronicle of San Gabriel (Discoveries) 1 review
Julio Ramon Ribeyro
Latin American Literary Review Press, 2004
Excellent
Ribeyro gives amazing insight into Peruvian culture and history. He looks at social and cultural norms in an isolated ranch in the Peruvian highlands. Some of what you'll read is shocking. It is interesting to see how the main character Lucho becomes a man. I appreciated Ribeyro's ability to ...
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Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria1 review
Natalie Ginzburg
Einaudi Italian, 1998
Pure joy
Somewhere in one of his typically understated essays, Primo Levi (like Natalia Ginzburg, a Levi with Turin connections), writes that it's unusual for the writer who enjoys his writing not to transmit at least some of that enjoyment to his readers. If so, then "la Ginzburg" must have had a great ...
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Los Geniecillos Dominicales (Coleccion Andanzas) 2 reviews
Julio Ramon Ribeyro
Tusquets Editor, 2002
Algunos temas en Los geniecillos dominicales
+ Not bad at all
Cuando empecé a leer Los geniecillos dominicales pensé que se trataba de un bildungsroman más. Sin embargo, por ser esta novela escrita por Julio Ramón Ribeyro, uno de mis escritores favoritos, decidí dar paso a su lectura. Al final me di con la sorpresa de encontrar una diversidad de temas que se ...
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Not Under Forty2 reviews
Willa Cather
University of Nebraska Press, 1988
Cather's essays are as sublime as her novels
+ A glimpse of Cather's tastes in literature
William Gass recently observed that participants in contemporary writing workshops are not interested in literature. They are interested in writing, in "expressing a self as shallow as a saucer." Willa Cather was interested in literature, in art, in permanence, and the essays in Not Under Forty ...
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The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)170 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Very nice edition to have
+ Ripped map corners
+ Smites every othe piece of modern fantasy
+ For now...
+ The best and only version to have for true fans
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Not Under Forty2 reviews
Willa Cather
University of Nebraska Press, 1988
Cather's essays are as sublime as her novels
+ A glimpse of Cather's tastes in literature
William Gass recently observed that participants in contemporary writing workshops are not interested in literature. They are interested in writing, in "expressing a self as shallow as a saucer." Willa Cather was interested in literature, in art, in permanence, and the essays in Not Under Forty ...
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Voyage de noces
Patrick Modiano
Gallimard, 1990
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Into a Desert Place: A 3000 Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California18 reviews
Graham Mackintosh
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
Great reading!
+ The word incredible barely lends justice to Graham's effort
+ Husband's birthday present
+ True Baja experience
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Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria1 review
Natalie Ginzburg
Einaudi Italian, 1998
Pure joy
Somewhere in one of his typically understated essays, Primo Levi (like Natalia Ginzburg, a Levi with Turin connections), writes that it's unusual for the writer who enjoys his writing not to transmit at least some of that enjoyment to his readers. If so, then "la Ginzburg" must have had a great ...
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Chronicle of San Gabriel (Discoveries)1 review
Julio Ramon Ribeyro
Latin American Literary Review Press, 2004
Excellent
Ribeyro gives amazing insight into Peruvian culture and history. He looks at social and cultural norms in an isolated ranch in the Peruvian highlands. Some of what you'll read is shocking. It is interesting to see how the main character Lucho becomes a man. I appreciated Ribeyro's ability to ...
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Los Geniecillos Dominicales (Coleccion Andanzas)2 reviews
Julio Ramon Ribeyro
Tusquets Editor, 2002
Algunos temas en Los geniecillos dominicales
+ Not bad at all
Cuando empecé a leer Los geniecillos dominicales pensé que se trataba de un bildungsroman más. Sin embargo, por ser esta novela escrita por Julio Ramón Ribeyro, uno de mis escritores favoritos, decidí dar paso a su lectura. Al final me di con la sorpresa de encontrar una diversidad de temas que se ...
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The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel89 reviews
Edward Abbey
Holt Paperbacks, 1998
One Man's Life: A Journey Out; A Journey Back
+ One of my favorite novels ...
+ not his best
+ Pilgrim in progress, sometimes fooled
+ Letting it all Hang Out
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