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stale cooper rated The Beast In The Jungle: 4 stars
stale cooper rated The Bridge: 4 stars
stale cooper rated McTeague: 5 stars

McTeague by Frank Norris (Penguin Twentieth-century classics)
It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon …
stale cooper rated WHEREAS: Poems: 4 stars
stale cooper rated Zona: A book about a film about a journey to a room: 4 stars

Zona: A book about a film about a journey to a room by Geoff Dyer
An in-depth, discursive, obsessive analysis of/speculation about the film Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
stale cooper rated The Remains of the Day: 4 stars

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take …
stale cooper rated The economics of global turbulence: 4 stars
stale cooper rated Their Eyes Were Watching God: 3 stars

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- and feel that this measures …
stale cooper rated Marge Piercy: 2 stars
stale cooper rated Underworld (Scribner Classics): 5 stars

Underworld (Scribner Classics) by Don DeLillo
Underworld is a 1997 novel by the American writer Don DeLillo. The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick …
stale cooper rated Age of System: 3 stars
stale cooper rated After Marx: 5 stars
stale cooper rated The Body Keeps the Score: 4 stars

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five …
stale cooper rated The postmodern condition: 2 stars

Jean-François Lyotard: The postmodern condition