Seventeen stories by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the greatest writers of
the century. My Love let me borrow this book to read. It was one of the
books he read for one of his philosophy classes at PC.
Latest Reads
Summer 2004
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A huge collection of science fiction works from the major science fiction writers of the 20th Century.
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They made a movie out of this book and followed it pretty closely. The story is told through the eyes of an Iranian colonel who is doing what he can for his family and a woman who is thrown out of her house. The colonel buys her house and she goes to great lengths to try to force him to give it back to her.
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Dave Barry has another novel out and it's all Tricky Business. A gambling boat goes out in a storm, a wacky newsreporter team reports up to the minute news which costs many of the team to lose their lives, and a drug deal turns bad. All this and more thought up in Dave Barry's head. I love to read his newspaper articles.
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The classic novel by Pearl S. Buck about a China man and his earth. Wang Lung is a poor man, but he has land and a faithful wife, O-Lan, who gives him children. The wealth he receives from his land turns him into a wealthy landowner.
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The story of a boy named Manual Martinez and his coming of age. Winner of the 1996 National Book Award for Young People's Fiction.
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Narrative recollections of growing up in the barrio in Fresno.
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The story of an orphanage, a Doctor who performs illegal abortions, and an orphan named Homer Wells. The movie was good, the book, even better.
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My love let me read his book cause I ran out of books to read. Dick's collection of short stories reminded me of one of my fav sci-fi authors, Ray Bradbury. Now I must check out his other works.
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The engineer Marlow, who must take a job in Italy. He replaces a man who was murdered, run down by a car in Milan, and now he is stuck in a deadly world of agents. Can he make it out of Italy alive, or will he be found and shot in the back of the head?
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Collection of Sci-Fi diaries, memos, and letters edited by Isaac Asimov.
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Ray Bradbury's latest novel from material from 1945. The Elliot family, based on Bradbury's own family, is full of strange and wonderful people including mind-readers, vampires, and many others.
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It is the year 1984. Or is it? George Orwell's classic novel of "Negative Utopia" where the Party controls the past and whether or not you ever existed at all. This nightmare is a warning to the world. In a society where the dictionary of vocabulary becomes smaller and smaller, where the Thought Police can take you away to Room 101 where the unspeakable happens, where WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, AND IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
