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Matthew Budman
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Born
in Goleta, Calif., The United States
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October 2012
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Instant Expert: Collecting Books
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2004
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Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age
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2019
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Heroes
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1999
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"The author seems to be shooting for "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe," but to me, delivers "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
This book is a massive hit with a nice (self published) backstory; the protagonist, Theo, hits a small town and keeps his o" Read more of this review » |
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| I had no prior knowledge of or interest in Captain James Cook or any of his three voyages. But I loved Hampton Sides' Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, and I saw a social-media recommendation of this one, so sure. And damn, it's great— ...more | |
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| For some reason, waited until now to read Just Kids, and its depiction of late-’60s/early-’70s Manhattan really is magical, as is Smith’s depiction of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe as each blossoms as an artist. It was a time and place—pe ...more | |
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"This book sucked me in, and I could not stop reading it.
A rich, detailed story of a family in Ireland in the mid 1800s, this develops all characters extremely well, and shows off both the entire country, and a single plot of land, that become major " Read more of this review » |
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| For the first hundred or so pages, Big Fan is almost impossibly delightful, with co-authors Schur and Posnanski bantering about sports and the nature of fandom. Alas, they can't quite hold the focus: The book fragments into set pieces, stunts, and an ...more | |
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“There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
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