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Very interesting so far. A book that constantly has you thinking about how different a life can be from the "mass" life most of us live. Taking a short break to inject a non-fiction book, it's a long read and I'm slogging a bit in the middle.

Monster book. has some slow spots but when it's good, it's really good and now I'm committing a half hour a day to it every day I'm making some ground ツ

this book should be required reading by everyone. it will change the way you see trees. change how you feel about forests and maybe that will spiral into a few other changes too. I'm loving it.

he shot her.

still slogging through this beast of a book.

dave eggers said in the intro i'd feel compelled to caring for gilmore before the murders happened. i didn't, and i don't. i find him a good symbol of the arrogance of the individual and little more so far. however, nicole, his life love, is very interesting. whore, mother, in love with a murderer, she's the thing that keeps the book going.

what a monster of a book. this is my first of mailer and the writing is so heavily "of the time" it was written it's slow going. the vernacular is painful and i get he wanted it written in the "voice" of the people who lived it but it lacks any elegance and feels a bit like reading a white trash biography so far.

not quite no holds barred but getting a view of the inside that was never possible when he was alive.

it's holding up as a pretty great look at information. A lot of history. which of course makes it better.

so far it's shaping up to be the information equivalent of the emperor of all maladies. which is pretty high praise.

I didn't want to like this book but when i found myself unable to stop reading it last night for 45 minutes i realized i do like this book.

i initially started recommending this to everyone. now two hundred pages in i still think it's an amazing book but most people will phase out before they can absorb it. it opens so vividly, but then meanders (if you like historical meandering, great). this guy is a great writer. depth, breadth, patience. but his pacing is off. the heights are high, but the slower sections will cost him average readers.

40 pages in an this book is already feeling like one of those rare books that come along and remind you you read too much crap.

laying explicit, almost ironic, term and scope, upon term and scope with a subtle but internally terrifying pace. he's destroying whatever is tacit in his topic and i went to bed deeply frustated by human hubris.

really good read so far. makes putting it down to sleep hard.

ebbs in and out of being a good novel.

i stopped reading this because it makes me crave silence and thats something i can't have in the building i live in. i will return to it this year though.

this is paused. got bored and tired of bad writing habits. debating if i bother to finish it.

books paused for now. like black swan green (which i never finished) this is tough to get into.

i've wanted to read this for a long time, but now that i am I realize i don't care much about henry miller, and that's 90% of her life. henry henry henry, brilliant observation, henry henry henry.

i remember why i stopped reading this. this book, unlike his first is in dire need of a rigorous editor to force him to ask why does this sentence, or word matter. i like his stories so im doing my best to ignore the shabby writing--but thats tough.

me, a dummy. the pain. the horror. hey. what can i say, objective c is a strange beast. im much farther ahead after 300 pages of this than the other two objective c books i have. if you're stuck, pick this up.

this book has redefined my understanding of cancer fundamentally.

the chapter on preventable cancer was tough to read while smoking. the broad sweep of this book is astounding. I'm steeped in cancer and still have 150 pages to go.

sweeping in scope, but beautifully written. large pages, small type, few breaks make 571 pages read more like 1000. this could take a while.

a book that would seem unreadable brought to life by the vibrance of the authors voice.

he manages to be irreverent without being inconsequential, modern without being trite, or simple. thats something.

picked this up in the discount bin.. so far, some nice turns of phrase, but like Jonathan Safran Foer he seems too interested in being clever.