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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Matthew Budman’s Followers (83)
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Matthew Budman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Goleta, Calif., The United States
Website
Twitter
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Member Since
October 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/matthewbudman
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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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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
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| In gathering my thoughts about my first and last encounter with Jack Reacher—I quit at page 274—I'm finding it challenging to not denigrate the innumerable readers who have bought these books over the last quarter century. Presumably others have disc ...more | |
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| In Mark Helprin's early novels—the now-classic Winter's Tale and especially Refiner's Fire: The Life and Adventures of Marshall Pearl, a Foundling, my all-time favorite novel—young protagonists routinely encounter elderly men who are proudly, determi ...more | |
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| In gathering my thoughts about my first and last encounter with Jack Reacher—I quit at page 274—I'm finding it challenging to not denigrate the innumerable readers who have bought these books over the last quarter century. Presumably others have disc ...more | |
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Matthew Budman
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Chris McGrath's review
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Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1):
"I could not read this. The prose is terrible. Commas are rare. Periods are abundant. It's hard to read. I got through one chapter. I checked later books. They are the same. I had heard good things. I cannot get past this. I am not exaggerating. It's "
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| In gathering my thoughts about my first and last encounter with Jack Reacher—I quit at page 274—I'm finding it challenging to not denigrate the innumerable readers who have bought these books over the last quarter century. Presumably others have disc ...more | |
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| In gathering my thoughts about my first and last encounter with Jack Reacher—I quit at page 274—I'm finding it challenging to not denigrate the innumerable readers who have bought these books over the last quarter century. Presumably others have disc ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| All About Books: * Non-Fiction - What are you reading? | 5506 | 1312 | Jul 15, 2026 07:18AM |
“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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