100 books
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Listopia > Brian's votes on the list What we've read so far in...2014 (71 Books)
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Esther's Inheritance
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"Liars make the best story tellers."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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Bartleby & Co.
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"Embrace the No - it hugs back."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Xorandor
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"It's maxint, chum, real hexadex!"
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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"First book ever recommended by my daughter - a YA winner."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Stand
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"Superflu + dead relatives = Superlatives"
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rated it 3 stars
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Tongue Party
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"My taste buds will never be the same."
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rated it 4 stars
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The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
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"The US and the Russians can get together and have a good cry about Aganistan."
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rated it 4 stars
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Short Dark Oracles
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"Worth purchasing just for the story "Baby Love" alone. And that awesome cover art. Caketrain FTW!"
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
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"Spoiler alert! The lawn wins...."
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rated it 3 stars
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The Eyes of the Dragon
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"The 14 year old in me hates the 44 me for not reading this then."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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When You Were Pixels (Syntax #0.1)
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"WHAT?! You haven't read this yet? Ok, I can't talk to you until ya have."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Forgiven
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"When everything goes wrong in Morocco, Osborne can write it right."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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A Feast of Snakes
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"Grab a Schlitz and some jerky and strap-in."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The hero-worshipper in me loved this book as much as the historian did."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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"Chase Calvino down that rabbit hole."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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A Dying Colonialism
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"Fanon takes you by the hand and shows you what it's like to be an Arab fighting for independence from France."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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Coriolanus
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"O world, thy slippery turns."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Question
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"How could the French employ Gestapo learned torture tactics on its own citizens a few short years after WWII? Excellent question."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
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"Meh."
Brian
rated it 2 stars
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Notes of a Native Son
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"Essay book of 2014 - I still can't get my head around the review I want to write for this book."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Brothers Karamazov
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"Sorry, Fyodor, I fear I let you down."
Brian
rated it 2 stars
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Factotum
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""I haven't had a hard-on since Teddy Roosevelt took his last hill!""
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
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"We're on a train to nowhere."
Brian
rated it 3 stars
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Serena
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"After reading this I'll never complain about my wife again."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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King Rat
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"Unbelievable first book from a lit phenomen."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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Tours of the Black Clock
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"Steve Erickson, where have you been all my life?"
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Revenge
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"A haunting collection of interconnected stories."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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The Civil Wars
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"Taking my history old school."
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Pedro Páramo
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""Death isn't handed out as if it were something good. Nobody goes looking for sorrow." Read this."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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Pricksongs and Descants
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"A sort of fairytale with you."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
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"Stories. Real stories."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Adore
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"Skip it."
Brian
rated it 2 stars
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A Walk Out of the World
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"Test-read for daughter. A maybe for her, a meh for me."
Brian
rated it 3 stars
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Burning Bright
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"Another Rash! No calomine lotion required!"
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Motherfucking Sharks
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"Read this now, see. This is not a drill."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Vampire Conditions
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"Who WOULDN'T want to read a collection of stories by an author published in a periodical called Kitty Snacks?"
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Augustus
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"I am not fucking happy I only have one more John Williams book left to read..."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina
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"Rash's first collection of stories. So good. No fair."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Macbeth
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"Lady Macbeth gets crazier every time I read this."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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State of Grace
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"Get me 500 cc's of red wine and another Joy Williams novel, Stat!"
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)
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"Selling fiction by the word."
Brian
rated it 2 stars
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
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"No comment."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Before Leonora Wakes (Division, #1)
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"Better think twice about that make-believe friend of yours."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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The Pumpkin Eater
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"You wonderful people need to stop recommending me such great books like this. I need to earn a living, not read all the goddamned time. Think of the children!"
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Fifth Sunday
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"Nother hidden jewel of amazing short stories by a poet."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Touch Wood: Short Stories
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"Buried short stories. Treasure."
Brian
rated it 4 stars
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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"The best Stephenson. Hands down."
Brian
rated it 5 stars
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Mortal Leap
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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’Salem’s Lot
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Sleepless Nights
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Listening for Earthquakes
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
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Ulysses
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Tracy's Tiger
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Taking Care
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Atmospheres
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California
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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How to Get into the Twin Palms
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Damascus
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Secret Hours
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The Abandoned Places
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Copper Crown
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The Naked Eye
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Taken From Him
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MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
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One Foot in Eden
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The Kentucky Stories
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Fugue State
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Some Things That Meant the World to Me
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