Friday, September 29, 2006

A father's story

Author: Dahmer, Lionel

Title: A father's story

Published: New York: W. Morrow & Co., 1994

Description: 255 p. :ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):
  • Serial murderers -- Family relationships -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
  • Serial murders -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies
  • Fathers -- United States -- Biography
  • Dahmer, Jeffrey -- Family
  • Dahmer, Lionel
Review(s):
  • A FATHER'S STORY, Kirkus Reviews, NON-FICTION, 309 words, 0-688-12156-X, Dahmer, Lionel
Read: 1996
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Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios


Author: Moraga, Cherríe

Title: Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios

Published: Boston: South End Press, 1983

Description: viii, 152 p. ; 21 cm.

Bibliography: p. 143-144
Subject(s):
  • Mexican American women -- Literary collections
  • Feminism -- Literary collections

    • N.B.:
    • The most seductive book I've read
    Read: Spring 1988
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    The Odessa file

    Author: Forsyth, Frederick

    Title: The Odessa file

    Published: New York: Viking Press, 1972

    Description: xi, 337 p. ; 23 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Journalists -- Germany -- Fiction
    • Nazis -- Fiction
    • Anti-Nazi movement -- Fiction
    • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction
    N.B.:
    • The most smokin' book I've read
    • First book read in single setting
    Read: Unknown
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    The crying of lot 49

    Author: Pynchon, Thomas

    Title: The crying of lot 49

    Published: New York: Perennial Library, 1986, 1966

    Description: 183 p. ; 21 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Administration of estates -- Fiction
    • Married women -- Fiction
    • California -- Fiction
    N.B.:
    • The queerest book I've read
    Read: Winter 1988
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    Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez: an autobiography

    Author: Rodriguez, Richard

    Title: Hunger of memory: the education of Richard Rodriguez: an autobiography

    Published: New York: Bantam Books, 1983, 1982

    Description: 195 p. ; 18 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • English language -- Acquisition
    • Bilingualism
    • Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography
    • California -- Biography
    • Affirmative action programs -- United States
    • Rodriguez, Richard
    N.B.:
    • The most Scottish book I've read
    Read: Unknown
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    Thursday, September 28, 2006

    Tales of the city

    Author: Maupin, Armistead

    Title: Tales of the city

    Published: New York: Harper & Row, 1978

    Description: 240 p. ; 24 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • City and town life -- Fiction
    • San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The most fearless book I've read
    Read: Unknown
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    The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark

    Author: Sagan, Carl

    Title: The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark

    Published: New York: Random House, 1995

    Description: xviii, 457 p. ; 25 cm.

    Bibliography: p. 439-448

    Subject(s):
    • Science -- Methodology -- Popular works
    • Science -- Study and teaching -- Popular works
    • Literacy -- Popular works
    • Science and civilization -- Popular works

    N.B.:

    • The most intuitive book I've read

    Read: October 1997

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    Black boy; a record of childhood and youth

    Author: Wright, Richard

    Title: Black boy; a record of childhood and youth

    Published: New York: Harper & Row, 1966

    Description: 288 p. ; 19 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social life and customs
    • Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
    • African American authors -- Biography
    • Mississippi -- Social life and customs
    • Wright, Richard
    N.B.:

    • The most surprising book I've read

    Read: 1983

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    The ballad of sexual dependency

    Author: Goldin, Nan

    Title: The ballad of sexual dependency

    Published: New York: Aperture Foundation, 1996, 1986

    Description: 147 p. :ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Photography, Artistic
    • Photography, Erotic
    • Portrait photography
    • Goldin, Nan

    N.B.:

    • The most fragile book I've read

    Read: February 4, 2003

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    When the legends die

    Author: Borland, Hal

    Title: When the legends die

    Published: New York: Bantam Books, 1976, 1963

    Description: 216 p. ; 18 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Wilderness survival -- Fiction
    • Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
    • Indians of North America -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The saddest book I've read

    Read: 1985

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    Naked lunch

    Author: Burroughs, William S.

    Title: Naked lunch

    Published: New York: Grove Press, 1962, 1959

    Description: 255 p. ; 21 cm.

    Subject(s):

    • Drug addicts -- Fiction
    • Recovering addicts -- Fiction
    • Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction
    • Drug withdrawal symptoms -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The most incomprehensible book I've read

    Read: Unknown

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    Steppenwolf

    Author: Hesse, Hermann

    Title: Steppenwolf

    Published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, 1929

    Description: xxxii, 218 p. ; 21 cm.

    Bibliography: p. xxvii-xxxii

    Note: "This is the first revised edition of Basil Creighton's translation of 1929."--T.p. verso

    Subject(s):
    • Civilization, Western -- Fiction
    • Life -- Fiction
    • Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The most familiar book I've read

    Read: Fall 1989

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    With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa

    Author: Sledge, E.B. (Eugene Bondurant)

    Title: With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa

    Published: Novato: Presidio Press, 1981

    Description: xvi, 326 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

    Bibliography: p. 319-320

    Subject(s):
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Palau -- Peleliu Island
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
    • Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
    • Peleliu Island (Palau) -- History
    • Okinawa Island (Japan) -- History
    • Sledge, E.B. (Eugene Bondurant)
    • United States. Marine Corps. -- Biography

    N.B.:

    • The most eloquent book I've read

    Read: April 1997

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    Watchmen

    Author(s): Moore, Alan, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins

    Title: Watchmen

    Published: New York: DC Comics Inc., 1987, 1986

    Description: 413 p. :ill. ; 26 cm.

    Note: Originally published in 12 issues, magazine form, 1986-1987

    Subject(s):
    • Watchmen (Comic strip)
    • Comic books, strips, etc.

    N.B.:

    • The most apocalyptic book I've read

    Read: circa 1991

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    Wednesday, September 27, 2006

    Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on earth

    Author: Ware, Chris

    Title: Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on earth

    Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 2000

    Description: 380 p. :ill. ; 18 x 21 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Problem families -- Fiction
    • Corrigan, Jimmy (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The most beautiful book I've read

    Read: November 2002

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    Fanny: being the true history of the adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones: a novel

    Author: Jong, Erica

    Title: Fanny: being the true history of the adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones: a novel

    Published: New York: New American Library, 1980

    Description: 504 p. ; 24 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Young women -- Fiction
    • Prostitutes -- Fiction
    • Foundlings -- Fiction
    • Witches -- Fiction
    • London (England) -- Fiction
    N.B.:
    • The classiest book I've read
    Read: Unknown
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    Dying, we live: the personal chronicle of a young freedom fighter, Warsaw, 1939-1945

    Author: Kulski, Julian Eugene

    Title: Dying, we live: the personal chronicle of a young freedom fighter, Warsaw, 1939-1945

    Published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979

    Description: 304 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish
    • Soldiers -- Poland -- Biography
    • Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography
    • Kulski, Julian Eugene
    • Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. -- Biography
    N.B.:
    • The most devastating book I've read
    Read: circa 1982
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    Brown's requiem

    Author: Ellroy, James

    Title: Brown's requiem

    Published: New York: Avon Books, 1981

    Description: 256 p. ; 18 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Private investigators -- California -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The most double-d-daring Book I've read

    Read: circa 1994

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    Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent

    Author: Galeano, Eduardo H.

    Title: Open veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent

    Published: New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974, 1973

    Description: 339 p. ; 21 cm.

    Note: Translated by Cedric Belfrage

    Subject(s):

    • Latin America -- Economic conditions
    N.B.:
    • The maddest book I've read
    Read: Fall 1988
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    The scarlet letter: a romance

    Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

    Title: The scarlet letter: a romance

    Published: New York: Penguin Books, 1983

    Description: 283 p. ; 18 cm.

    Bibliography: p. 25-26

    Subject(s):
    • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
    • Illegitimate children -- Fiction
    • Women immigrants -- Fiction
    • Married women -- Fiction
    • Puritans -- Fiction
    • Adultery -- Fiction
    • Revenge -- Fiction
    • Clergy -- Fiction
    • Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
    N.B.:
    • The most daunting book I've read
    Read: 1986
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    The autobiography of Malcolm X

    Author(s): X, Malcolm and Alex Haley

    Title: The autobiography of Malcolm X

    Published: New York: Ballantine Books, 1973, 1965

    Description: xiv, 460 p. ; 18 cm.

    Subject(s):

    • Black Muslims -- Biography
    • African Americans -- Biography
    • X, Malcolm

    N.B.:

    • The most dangerous book I've read

    Read: Unknown

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    Notes of a dirty old man

    Author: Bukowski, Charles

    Title: Notes of a dirty old man

    Published: San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1973, 1969

    Description: 204 p. ; 21 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
    • Bukowski, Charles -- Portraits

    N.B.:

    • The most hippest book I've read

    Read: September 19, 2003

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    Young men & fire

    Author: Maclean, Norman

    Title: Young men & fire

    Published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992

    Description: viii, 301 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Forest fires -- Montana -- Mann Gulch -- Prevention and control
    • Smokejumpers -- United States
    • United States. Forest Service -- Officials and employees

    N.B.:

    • The most technically elegant book I've read

    Read: April 2001

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    Tuesday, September 26, 2006

    The man who planted trees

    Author: Giono, Jean

    Title: The man who planted trees

    Published: Boston: Shambhala, 2000, 1985

    Description: 74 p. :ill. ; 12 cm.

    Note: Originally published: Chelsea, VT: Chelsea Green Pub. Co., 1985

    Subject(s):
    • Tree planting -- Fiction
    • Ecology -- Fiction
    N.B.:
    • The wisest book I've read
    Read: September 21, 2006
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    The hero with a thousand faces

    Author: Campbell, Joseph

    Title: The hero with a thousand faces

    Published: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, 1972

    Description: xxiii, 416 p. :ill. ; 23 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Mythology
    • Psychoanalysis

    N.B.:

    • The most resonant book I've read

    Read: August 2002

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    Love in the time of cholera

    Author: García Márquez, Gabriel

    Title: Love in the time of cholera

    Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988

    Description: 348 p. ; 25 cm.

    Note: Translated by Edith Grossman

    Subject(s):
    • Colombia -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The most enchanting book I've read

    Read: 1988

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    So long, see you tomorrow

    Author: Maxwell, William

    Title: So long, see you tomorrow

    Published: New York: Vintage Books, 1996, 1980

    Description: 135 p. ; 22 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
    • Teenage boys -- Fiction
    • Friendship -- Fiction
    • Murder -- Fiction
    • Illinois -- Fiction

    N.B.:

    • The loneliest book I've Read

    Read: October 28, 2003

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    Goodbye, darkness: a memoir of the Pacific war

    Author: Manchester, William Raymond

    Title: Goodbye, darkness: a memoir of the Pacific war

    Published: Boston: Little, Brown, 1980

    Description: 401 p. :ill. ; 25 cm.

    Subject(s):
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Ocean
    • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
    • Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
    • Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
    • Manchester, William Raymond
    • United States. Marine Corps -- Biography
    N.B.:
    • The most memorable book I've read
    • First adult-length book read
    Read: 1981
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