4.5 - I probably would have been better off reading ficciones. Some of the back half essays were well written but not mind melting like the short stories.
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yams rated The Marriage Plot: 3 stars
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by the American writer, Jeffrey Eugenides. The novel grew out of a manuscript …
yams rated White Noise: 3 stars
White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National …
yams rated Killers of the Flower Moon: 5 stars
yams rated The Nineties: 4 stars
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying …
yams reviewed Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (A New Directions paperbook -- NDP186)
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge …
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4 stars
yams rated The Cold Start Problem: 3 stars
yams rated On the road: 2 stars
On the road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …
yams reviewed Forgetting Machine by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
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4 stars
fun, short pop sci
yams reviewed Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
Review of 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
unbelievable writer but I’m a bit too young for a lot of the subject matter to hit squarely
yams reviewed Eat a Peach by David Chang
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3 stars
3.5
yams reviewed Meridiano de sangre by Cormac McCarthy
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian …
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brutal.
undeniably a Great novel, but I will never reread it and would not suggest it to anyone.
yams reviewed The Lost City of Z by David Grann
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out …
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3 stars
3.5
yams reviewed Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …
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5 stars
Wow, this book is incredible.
The fall by Albert Camus (Vintage international)
Mordant, brilliant, elegantly styled, The Fall is a novel Of the conscience Of modern man in the face of evil. …