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Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alex V. Cook
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September 2007
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This is idle bedtime reading on my phone as I fall asleep, but then it blurts onto my own adolescent mirror a D&D playing, girl-obsessed outcast cast among the living in a nowhere place. It's as beautiful as those who say it is, is.
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| Incredible, complicated, combustible. An electroshock of a typically depraved adolescent mind that follows through on its worst impulses. One of those books that reaffirms the miracle that any of us make it out alive. Just let those run-on sentences ...more | |
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| A love song to the dubious lovability of America through the eyes of those who consider themselves detached from it. The actual Europeans in here are wild cartoons of glamour and debauchery, while the expats are spunky sorts who fit in everywhere and ...more | |
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| Perhaps not the ideal book to read at the holidays, this unraveling of a person is a warning fable about the death of the American Dream and darkly exhilarating account of a dreamer losing it. | |
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| I loved this little dream of a book, with the narrative only occasionally poking out of the racing, repeating thoughts of the narrators. It is tragic and human and sweet and surprising and weirdly easy to digest despite the idiosyncratic language it ...more | |
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| Four stars for metaphors alone. “His smile was like a splash of ham gravy on a Statue of Liberty necktie.” will sustain me philosophically and spiritually for some time. | |
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| I was not prepared for how weird and kaleidoscopic a book this was. So many incredible sentences floating in this endless sea of a book, but also a lot of sea. | |
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| This is what I want out of science non-fiction - a compelling and quixotic saga of those weird souls who seek the evidence of the unimaginable, defeating the odds and the dullness of bureaucracy to eventually get a blip of data that confirms a profou ...more | |
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| Two cities partially overlap but the citizens of each are not allowed to interact or see each other. Not sure if this is a monument to or parody of world-building in science fiction, and thereby, of the “actual” “world” “we” “build,” but it worked. I ...more | |
Read Like A Mad Man: The Don Draper Reading List
— 27 members
— last activity Dec 09, 2011 08:38AM
a list of the books that have appeared on Mad Men
