Squirreled away these a long time ago, and my God! Most of them still sound sensational!!
Freeman's Old GR To Reads Public
Created by Freeman Crouch
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"In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary …
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The black-eyed blonde by Benjamin Black (Philip Marlowe novels -- 1)
"Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case …
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Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson
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Ariel Blum is pushing thirty and doesn't have much to show for it. His computer programming skills are producing nothing …
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Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
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"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel …
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries …
