Xavier's bookshelf: read en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 13:08:19 -0700 60 Xavier's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Wait Till Helen Comes 267972 Beware of Helen...

Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her ... our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire.

But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home—a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond ... to drown! I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watch her talk to Helen. And I'm terrified. Not for myself, but for Heather...]]> 184 Mary Downing Hahn 0380704420 Xavier 0 to-read 4.14 1986 Wait Till Helen Comes
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]]> Garfield: His 9 Lives 1435085 Cave Cat—the first cat crawled out of the sea 10 million years ago. He was happy to be out of the water—until he met Big Bob!
The Vikings—he was big, he was mean, he was a Viking. Garfield the Orange had looted a lot of cities, but none like St. Paul, Minnesota.
Babes and Bullets—Sam Spayed wasn’t the best private investigator in the world, but he did have one terrific thing going for him—a secretary who made a great cup of coffee.
The Exterminators—no mouse was safe from the exterminators. Catching mice was their life. It wasn’t a pretty job—especially the way they did it.
Lab Animal—Specimen 19-GB was not happy at the prospect of being dissected, so he did something about it. What happened set the federal government on its ear.
The Garden—life was a carefree romp among hovering harmonicas for Cloey and the orange kitten . . . until they confronted the crystal box.
Primal Self—he was an ordinary house cat leading an ordinary existence. A shadowy memory from another time changed all that.
Garfield—the marvelous cat we all know and love. This is his life in a nutshell.
Space Cat—he was lost in space with a computer built by the lowest bidder. And, he was not about to let his life slip away that easily.]]> 128 Jim Davis 0345320611 Xavier 0 to-read 4.09 1984 Garfield: His 9 Lives
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]]> On Bullshit 385
Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all.

Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.]]> 67 Harry G. Frankfurt 0691122946 Xavier 0 to-read 3.58 2005 On Bullshit
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]]> <![CDATA[Set Theory and its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction]]> 558192 360 Michael D. Potter 0199270414 Xavier 0 to-read 3.73 2004 Set Theory and its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction
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]]> <![CDATA[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]]> 12075 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarized the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' David Pears and Brian McGuinness received the highest praise for their meticulous translation. The work is prefaced by Bertrand Russell's original introduction to the first English edition.]]> 142 Ludwig Wittgenstein 0415254086 Xavier 0 to-read 4.09 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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]]> <![CDATA[The World as Will and Representation, Volume II]]> 445747 For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared which decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur HĂĽbscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotatioins in half a dozen languages, and Mr. Payne has provided a comprehensive index of 2,500 items. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher.]]> 720 Arthur Schopenhauer 0486217620 Xavier 0 to-read 4.24 1844 The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
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]]> Essays and Aphorisms 19510 Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. He depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, each individual absolutely free within a Godless world in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative and pessimistic view proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, affecting the work of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein among others.]]> 240 Arthur Schopenhauer 0140442278 Xavier 0 to-read 4.17 1851 Essays and Aphorisms
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]]> The Wisdom of Life 21182 In The Wisdom of Life, an essay from Schopenhauer's final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), the philosopher favors individual strength of will and independent, reasoned deliberation over the tendency to act on irrational impulses.

He examines the ways in which life can be arranged to derive the highest degree of pleasure and success, presents guidelines to achieving this full and rich manner of living, and advises that even a life well lived must always aspire to grander heights. Abounding in subjects of enduring relevance, Schopenhauer's highly readable work appears here in an excellent translation.]]> 77 Arthur Schopenhauer 0486435504 Xavier 0 to-read 4.18 1851 The Wisdom of Life
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]]> The Art of Always Being Right 230817
This the book the BBC, Andrew Gilligan, Lord Hutton, Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell will not be able to ignore. This is an irresistible guide to clear thinking and understanding of the art of debate.]]> 138 Arthur Schopenhauer 1903933617 Xavier 0 to-read 3.69 1831 The Art of Always Being Right
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]]> A Short History of Decay 2855
E.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He focuses on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science.]]> 186 Emil M. Cioran 1559704640 Xavier 0 to-read 4.27 1949 A Short History of Decay
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]]> On the Heights of Despair 117566
On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation.

"No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Bill Marx, Boston Phoenix

"The dark, existential despair of Romanian philosopher Cioran's short meditations is paradoxically bracing and life-affirming. . . . Puts him in the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."�Publishers Weekly, starred review

"This is self-pity as epigram, the sort of dyspeptic pronouncement that gets most people kicked out of bed but that has kept Mr. Cioran going for the rest of his life."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review]]> 128 Emil M. Cioran 0226106713 Xavier 0 to-read 4.21 1934 On the Heights of Despair
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]]> <![CDATA[Utilitarianism and Other Essays]]> 273971 Utilitarianism has had an enormous influence on moral philosophy and is the idea introduction to ethics.

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was a reformer who applied the test of utility to the law and politics of his day. Legislators must aim at 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number,' and Bentham explained in minute detail how they might achieve it. John Stuart Mill (1806-73), whose education at the hands of a Benthamite father had ended in emotional collapse, thought Bentham's ideal of human happiness too narrow and set out to reconcile his utilitarian inheritance with his own passionate commitment to freedom, spontaneity and imagination. In his essays on Bentham and Coleridge, and above all in Utilitarianism, Mill balanced the claims of reason and the imagination, justice and expediency, individuality and social well-being in a system of ethics that is as relevant to today's intellectua and moral dilemmas it was to the nineteenth century's.

]]> 352 Jeremy Bentham 0140432728 Xavier 0 to-read 3.66 1863 Utilitarianism and Other Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[The Principles of Morals and Legislation]]> 318365
Bentham concludes this groundbreaking work with an analysis of punishment: its purpose and the proper role that law and jurisprudence should play in its determination and implementation. Here we find Bentham as social reformer seeking to resolve the tension that inevitably exists when the concerns of the many conflict with individual freedom.

The Principles of Morals and Legislation offers readers the rare opportunity to experience one of the great works of moral philosophy, a volume that has influenced the course of ethical theory for over a century.]]> 352 Jeremy Bentham 0879754346 Xavier 0 to-read 3.46 1789 The Principles of Morals and Legislation
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]]> Works of Jeremy Bentham 21226079 622 Jeremy Bentham Xavier 0 to-read 3.34 1994 Works of Jeremy Bentham
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]]> <![CDATA[Discourses and Selected Writings]]> 4143812 Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing document of daily life in the classical world.

In the introduction that accompanies his lively new translation, Robert Dobbin discusses Epictetus' life, his place in the Stoic tradition, his influence on world philosophies and his relevance in the modern day. This edition also includes a bibliography, notes and a glossary of names.]]> 276 Epictetus 0140449469 Xavier 0 to-read 4.41 108 Discourses and Selected Writings
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]]> The Discourses 99328 The Discourses (c. 1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics. In this carefully argued commentary on Livy's history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics.

Leslie J. Walker's translation, revised by Brian Richardson, is accompanied by an introduction by Bernard Crick, which illuminates Machiavelli's historical context and his new theories of politics. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading and notes.]]> 544 Niccolò Machiavelli 0140444289 Xavier 0 to-read 4.07 1517 The Discourses
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]]> The Art of War 99324 The Art of War is far from an anachronism—its pages outline fundamental questions that theorists of war continue to examine today, making it essential reading for any student of military history, strategy, or theory. Machiavelli believed The Art of War to be his most important work.]]> 247 Niccolò Machiavelli 030681076X Xavier 0 to-read 4.10 1521 The Art of War
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]]> The Ego and Its Own 416318 432 Max Stirner 0521450160 Xavier 0 to-read 4.05 1844 The Ego and Its Own
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]]> Love 14679 Love was Stendhal's favorite. Written at a critical time in his life when his own love had been rejected, the book is a thinly disguised picture of the author's innermost feelings. Though it ranges over a wide variety of topics from courtly love to the emancipation of women, central to the book is Stendhal's account of love - an intense, romantic and generally unrequited love.]]> 336 Stendhal 014044307X Xavier 0 to-read 3.75 1822 Love
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]]> <![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schulyer Hamilton]]> 42762547 like Aaron's serpent, swallows up all the rest..." Betsy's passion is Alexander. Alexander's passion is America. Though Hamilton's financial acumen and political courage is crucial to the formation and survival of our nation, his star sets quickly. Disillusioned, political power broken, his adored eldest son killed in a duel, Hamilton goes to his own famous duel with Aaron Burr in the spirit of those noble Romans he so steadfastly admires, preferring death to dishonor.]]> 500 Juliet Waldron 1771456760 Xavier 0 to-read 3.33 2015 Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schulyer Hamilton
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]]> The Federalist Papers 36166009
With nearly two-thirds of the essays written by Hamilton, this enduring classic is perfect for modern audiences passionate about his work or seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most important documents in US history.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from iconic authors. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or revisit an old favorite, these new editions open the door to the stories and ideas that have shaped our world.]]> 592 Alexander Hamilton 1542099420 Xavier 0 to-read 4.20 1788 The Federalist Papers
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987-1997]]> 201701615 440 David E. Gehlke Xavier 0 to-read 4.40 The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987-1997
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]]> Drawings by Vincent Locke 150714081 0 Vince Locke Xavier 0 to-read 0.0 Drawings by Vincent Locke
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]]> <![CDATA[Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Omnibus Vol. 2 (2)]]> 224003648 480 Kyle Starks 1637158017 Xavier 0 to-read 0.0 Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Omnibus Vol. 2 (2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Omnibus Vol. 1 (1)]]> 228062182 496 Tom Fowler 1637157835 Xavier 0 to-read 0.0 Rick and Morty 10th Anniversary Omnibus Vol. 1 (1)
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]]> The Art of Rick and Morty 34480814
The animated science-fiction adventures of Rick and Morty are irreverent, shocking, and hilarious--from the cynical and rapid-fire one liners, to the grotesquely and endearing character designs. Now, take a deep trans-dimensional dive into the creation of these many insane universes with The Art of Rick and Morty !

This new book is a must-have, not only for followers of the series, but for fans of animation as well! Featuring intimate commentary from the show's creators accompanying a vast collection of process, concept, and production art, this striking volume offers a tantalizing exploration of one of the most outlandish and beloved shows on television. Don't miss your chance to see the amazing art that goes into creating this twisted and fantastic Adult Swim series!]]> 224 James Siciliano 1506702694 Xavier 0 to-read 4.43 2017 The Art of Rick and Morty
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]]> <![CDATA[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1]]> 36538793
In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life.

Learning to slayĚýdemons won’t be easy, and Tanjiro barely knows where to start. The surprise appearance of another boy named Giyu, who seems to know what’s going on, might provide some answers…but only if Tanjiro can stop Giyu from killing his sister first!]]> 192 Koyoharu Gotouge 1974700526 Xavier 0 to-read 4.39 2016 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Man's Place in Nature (Dover Books on Biology)]]> 30565 192 Thomas Henry Huxley 0486432734 Xavier 0 to-read 3.85 1863 Man's Place in Nature (Dover Books on Biology)
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]]> The Red Brick Road 17337454
Dorothy is hunted every step of the way by a fiend made of churning fumes that the Baron has sent after her in order to pollute her heart and mind. Will she manage to evade this relentless monster? Will she free the land of pollution’s grip and end the terrible reign of the Baron? Journey with her and find out what happens as she follows the red brick road.

Originally written for 11-16 year olds, The Red Brick Road has been enjoyed by many adults who have been touched by its light. It is a story with contemporary relevance and a very big heart, one filled with goodness and love.]]> 180 Edwin Page Xavier 0 to-read 3.00 2012 The Red Brick Road
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]]> <![CDATA[The Red Brick Road (Alternatives)]]> 42600756 Glenda the Witch of the North has a problem- the other members of her Cardinal Coven are very much alive and well. The problem is she really most sincerely does not want them that way. And she’s sure they feel that way about her.The Cardinal Coven was always contentious but since the arrival of the mysterious (and yet potentially non-magical) Wizard, alliances have formed. The witches of the East and West seem to pal around even more than they used to. Reports are they even fly about the lands together! On separate brooms- they are close but not that close.More troubling are the rumors that they are both working on magical talismans to use against the Witch of the North. It seems that the Witch of the West is creating an all-powerful broom. Reliable sources tell her that the one in the East is on the verge of perfecting some magic shoes.Really.A more immediate concern is the Witch of the South who has successfully created a powerful crystal star jewel. Safe in her snowy realm, she is just biding her time waiting for the chance to deal a deathly blow to the Witch of the North. Glenda is sure of it; a flying monkey told her.As Glenda knows all too well, if you can’t trust a flying monkey, there are bigger problems at hand! So that’s all the reason she needs; the time for action is now- and more lethal the better!When a tornado brings a Kansas (non-singing) Newsie to Oz, the Witch of the North sees a way to rid herself of her troublesome Coven sisters without drawing attention (or at least any legal proceedings) on herself.Seeing an opportunity to decrease the surplus Witch population and not have the incident implicate her, she sends the young man to retrieve the star jewel. By any means necessary…but hinting strongly that a lethal method would suit her just fine. So the intrepid Kansas newspaper crier Honus sets out across a colorful and sometimes confusing land, looking for the castle of the Witch of the South.Along for the ride is a pushy rooster who thinks he's the leader of the group; Marren, a Lollipop Guild Enforcer who wants the talisman for himself; and the famous chef, Gertie the Goat who's just looking for work since she was fired by the Witch of the South.Prepare yourself for a whimsical, barreling trip through Oz as they follow the Red Brick Road to the icy land of the Witch of the South, setting the Ozmonian wheels of political change in motion.Honus gets those wheels rolling. Then only about a week later, those same wheels of change roll over two more witches and a Wizard thanks to a young and meek Kansas gal who finishes the job.All according to Glenda's plan.]]> 239 Robert P. Wills Xavier 0 to-read 5.00 The Red Brick Road (Alternatives)
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]]> The Red Brick Road 57910560 284 Levi Bronze Xavier 0 to-read 4.00 The Red Brick Road
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]]> The Devil All the Time 12992927 The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi­cial blood he pours on his “prayer log.� There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial kill­ers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.]]> 320 Donald Ray Pollock 0307744868 Xavier 5 4.16 2011 The Devil All the Time
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I think Pollock could write about an uneventful trip buying white bread at a grocery store and still have me entranced, the writing's so smooth.
]]> The Gift 8147 The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.ĚýĚýIt is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:ĚýĚýthe story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished Ă©migrĂ© poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.]]> 403 Vladimir Nabokov 0141185872 Xavier 0 to-read 3.99 1937 The Gift
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]]> What Is to Be Done? 178196 Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution."--Joseph Frank, The Southern Review

Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of scientific knowledge served as a model of inspiration for Russia's revolutionary intelligentsia. On the one hand, the novel's condemnation of moderate reform helped to bring about the irrevocable break between radical intellectuals and liberal reformers; on the other, Chernyshevsky's socialist vision polarized conservatives' opposition to institutional reform. Lenin himself called Chernyshevsky "the greatest and most talented representative of socialism before Marx"; and the controversy surrounding What Is to Be Done? exacerbated the conflicts that eventually led to the Russian Revolution.

Michael R. Katz's readable and compelling translation is now the definitive unabridged English-language version, brilliantly capturing the extraordinary qualities of the original. William G. Wagner has provided full annotations to Chernyshevsky's allusions and references and to the, sources of his ideas, and has appended a critical bibliography. An introduction by Katz and Wagner places the novel in the context of nineteenth-century Russian social, political, and intellectual history and literature, and explores its importance for several generations of Russian radicals.]]> 445 Nikolai Chernyshevsky 0801495474 Xavier 0 to-read 3.45 1863 What Is to Be Done?
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]]> What Is to Be Done? 1108378 What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should form a political party, or "vanguard", of dedicated revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers.

Lenin said that the article represented "a skeleton plan to be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparation for print".]]> 272 Vladimir Lenin 0140181261 Xavier 0 to-read 4.07 1902 What Is to Be Done?
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]]> A Writer's Diary 1873-1881 6409458 Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. A Writer's Diary began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on The Brothers Karamazov to do so.
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The Diary's radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an astonishing variety of material: short stories; humorous sketches; reports on sensational crimes; historical predictions; portraits of famous people; autobiographical pieces; and plans for stories, some of which were never written while others appeared later in the Diary itself. A range of authorial and narrative voices and stances and an elaborate scheme of allusions and cross-references preserve and present Dostoevsky's conception of his work as a literary whole.
Ěý
Selected from the two-volume set, this abridged edition of A Writer's Diary appears in a single paperback volume, along with a new condensed introduction by editor Gary Saul Morson.]]> 574 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0810125218 Xavier 0 to-read 3.66 1881 A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
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]]> <![CDATA[Winter Notes on Summer Impressions]]> 138494 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions is an early book-length essay by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky which he composed while traveling in western Europe. Many commentators believe that in the themes it explores, the essay anticipates his later work Notes from the Underground.

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. He recorded his impressions in Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, which were first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical of which he was the editor.

Among other themes, Dostoevsky reveals his Pan-Slavism, rejecting European culture as corrupt and exhorting Russians to resist the temptation to emulate or adopt European ways of life.]]> 78 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0810115182 Xavier 0 to-read 3.48 1863 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
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]]> The Crocodile 329888 112 Fyodor Dostoevsky 088233588X Xavier 0 to-read 3.66 1865 The Crocodile
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]]> V for Vendetta 5805 "Remember, remember the fifth of November..."

A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.

Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.]]> 296 Alan Moore 1401207928 Xavier 5 4.26 1990 V for Vendetta
author: Alan Moore
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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]]> The Complete Fairy Tales 163716
A true classic of wonder for all ages.]]> 144 Oscar Wilde 1934169579 Xavier 0 to-read 4.35 1888 The Complete Fairy Tales
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name: Xavier
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]]> <![CDATA[The Importance of Being Earnest]]> 92303
Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the "rivals" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the "Ernests" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.]]> 89 Oscar Wilde 158049580X Xavier 0 to-read 4.17 1895 The Importance of Being Earnest
author: Oscar Wilde
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]]> <![CDATA[King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)]]> 23814 264 H. Rider Haggard 0812966295 Xavier 0 to-read 3.80 1885 King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
author: H. Rider Haggard
name: Xavier
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1885
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]]> The Ghost in the Machine 30677 400 Arthur Koestler 0140191925 Xavier 0 to-read 4.03 1967 The Ghost in the Machine
author: Arthur Koestler
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel]]> 931398 534 Jacob Bronowski 0061330019 Xavier 0 to-read 4.16 1960 The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
author: Jacob Bronowski
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.16
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]]> Science & Human Values 17358 144 Jacob Bronowski 0060972815 Xavier 0 to-read 4.18 1956 Science & Human Values
author: Jacob Bronowski
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.18
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]]> The Roots of Coincidence 30674 158 Arthur Koestler 0394719344 Xavier 0 to-read 3.83 1972 The Roots of Coincidence
author: Arthur Koestler
name: Xavier
average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01]]> 941803
Now you can re-discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast and Thrill-packed series of graphic novels collecting together all of Dredd's adventures in chronological order, complete and uncut!]]> 336 John Wagner 1904265790 Xavier 0 to-read 3.81 1977 Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01
author: John Wagner
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #2)]]> 198530916 560 Adam Silvera 0063240815 Xavier 0 to-read 4.12 2022 The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #2)
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name: Xavier
average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard]]> 85222
In 1950, fresh out of college -- having written two "pointless" stories, as he describes them -- Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published while he learned to write. In choosing between crime and Westerns, the latter had an irresistible pull -- Leonard loved movies set in the West. As he researched deeper into settings, Arizona in the 1880s captured his imagination: the Spanish influence, the standoffs and shootouts between Apache Indians and the U.S. cavalry ...

His first dozen stories sold for 2 cents a word, for $100 each. The rest is history.

This first-ever complete collection of Leonard's thirty Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between -- and makes a terrific study of the launch of a phenomenal career.

From his very first story ever published -- "The Trail of the Apache" -- through five decades of classic Western tales, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard demonstrates again and again the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that has made Leonard one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.]]> 544 Elmore Leonard 0060724250 Xavier 0 to-read 4.08 1975 The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
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]]> The Warlock of Love 1852384 63 Marc Bolan 0901563005 Xavier 0 to-read 4.16 1969 The Warlock of Love
author: Marc Bolan
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.16
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]]> The Friends of Eddie Coyle 82121 216 George V. Higgins 1841192627 Xavier 0 to-read 4.05 1971 The Friends of Eddie Coyle
author: George V. Higgins
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Omnibus]]> 49003652 204 Cullen Bunn 1846539870 Xavier 0 to-read 3.85 2011 Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Omnibus
author: Cullen Bunn
name: Xavier
average rating: 3.85
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]]> The Death of Bunny Munro 6389257 288 Nick Cave 1847673767 Xavier 0 to-read 3.46 2009 The Death of Bunny Munro
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name: Xavier
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]]> <![CDATA[Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave]]> 54221441 The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue.


Shortlisted for the ABIA Biography Book of the Year 2021

A deeply beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait of the artist as, first, a boy, and then a young man. It charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, revealing how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he has become.

As well as a powerfully compelling biography of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is a fascinating social and cultural biography, a vivid and evocative rendering of the people, time and places that went into the making of Nick Cave - from the fast-running dark river and ghost gums of Wangaratta and the punk scene that hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb, right through to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and manic energy of nights at St Kilda's Crystal Ballroom.

Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.

PRAISE FOR BOY ON FIRE:

'Mordue's exploration of Cave's protean and dynamic artistic universe, and the boy at its heart - malanderer, badlander and fabulator - is rich, sensitive, rollicking and, yes, tender' The Australian

'Boy On Fire is a beautiful book, evocative and sensual, yet with an even-handed and at times critical treatment of its subject' Sydney Review of Books

'All the relevant voices have their say, creating a wonderfully alive picture of this tumultuous time in modern Australian music ... on the page they glint with vitality and humour ... written with mercurial flair.' Books+Publishing]]> 401 Mark Mordue 1460713214 Xavier 0 to-read 3.93 2020 Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave
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]]> <![CDATA[Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave]]> 159145
Through Cave's fronting of the incendiary bands The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, producing music of unfettered expression and explosive intensity, to his creative collaborations outside of the rock industry in film and literature, BAD SEED illustrates a life lived in barely controlled chaos: and unravels the motivation and unique appeal of a reluctant icon whose songs, according to the Rolling Stones, possess "the authority of the most primal kind of myth."]]> 335 Ian Johnston 0316908339 Xavier 0 to-read 3.79 1996 Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave
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]]> Faith, Hope and Carnage 59851730
Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.

The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.

Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.]]> 294 Nick Cave 0374607370 Xavier 0 to-read 4.41 2022 Faith, Hope and Carnage
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]]> Nick Cave: Mercy on Me 34227681 327 Reinhard Kleist 1910593362 Xavier 0 to-read 4.03 2016 Nick Cave: Mercy on Me
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]]> <![CDATA[Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years]]> 20763855 Young Neil is a detailed chronological narrative of the early life of iconic Canadian musician Neil Young. Exploring a time in this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s life that has yet to be documented with such depth of research, Young Neil is an exhaustive document of his “Sugar Mountain� years, from 1945 to 1966. From his birth in Toronto through his school years in Florida, Ontario, and Manitoba, the book examines the development of Young’s unique talent against a backdrop of shifting postwar values, a turbulent family history, and a musical revolution in the making. Includes many previously unseen photos, memorabilia, and set lists.
]]> 470 Sharry Wilson 1770411860 Xavier 0 to-read 3.84 2014 Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[RickĚýandĚýMorty: Deluxe Edition, Book One]]> 30724373 Join the excitement as depraved genius Rick Sanchez embarks on insane adventures with his awkward grandson Morty across the universe and across time. Caught in the crossfire are his teenage granddaughter Summer, his veterinary surgeon daughter Beth, and his hapless son-in-law Jerry. This collection features the first ten issues of the comic book series, including " The Wubba Lubba Dub Dub of Wall Street, "Mort-Balls!," "Ball Fondlers Special," and more, along with hilarious mini-comics showcasing the whole family.
This special hardcover edition also includes an exclusive sound clip of Rick and Morty and all the cover art from the first ten issues of the comic book series!
"]]> 296 Zac Gorman 1620103605 Xavier 0 to-read 4.29 RickĚýandĚýMorty: Deluxe Edition, Book One
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]]> <![CDATA[Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons]]> 40630116 You've got to--belch!--roll for initiative, Morty!

Two pop-culture juggernauts are teaming up and neither multiverse is prepared for what comes next!

When Morty sees a cute girl at school playing Dungeons & Dragons, he asks Rick to show him the ropes, only to discover that his grandfather is a veteran gamer. Next thing he knows, the entire family has been pulled into a campaign that escalates from virtual D&D simulations to alternate universes governed by the rules of the game. And as it turns out, Rick isn't the only one who knows his way around a d20.

#1 New York Times-bestselling fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind), acclaimed comics writer Jim Zub (Dungeons & Dragons: Evil at Baldur's Gate, Skullkickers), and Eisner-nominated artist Troy Little (Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) bring you the comics crossover of the year! It's an irreverent, unexpected adventure sure to please fans of both franchises.

Collects the complete four issue miniseries.]]> 144 Patrick Rothfuss 1684054168 Xavier 0 to-read 4.09 2019 Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons
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]]> Rick and Morty, Vol. 1 26030214
The hit comic book series based on Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's hilarious [adult swim] animated show Rick & Morty is now available in its first collection! Join the excitement as depraved genius Rick Sanchez embarks on insane adventures with his awkward grandson Morty across the universe and across time. Caught in the crossfire are his teenage granddaughter Summer, his veterinary surgeon daughter Beth, and his hapless son-in-law Jerry.

This collection features the first five issues of the comic book series, including "The Wubba Lubba Dub Dub of Wall Street," "Mort-Balls!" and more, along with hilarious mini-comics showcasing the whole family.]]> 128 Zac Gorman 1620102811 Xavier 0 to-read 4.04 2015 Rick and Morty, Vol. 1
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name: Xavier
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[True Norwegian Black Metal - The Book]]> 221827122 443 Marco Campoli Xavier 0 to-read 4.00 True Norwegian Black Metal - The Book
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]]> <![CDATA[USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal]]> 55850207 544 Daniel Lake Xavier 0 to-read 4.21 USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal
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]]> <![CDATA[To Hell & Back Again: Part I: My Black Metal Story]]> 204981486
Vikernes provides a unique insider perspective on the birth and evolution of the Norwegian Black Metal movement. Explore the shocking stories of notorious musicians, church burnings and the intense ideological struggles that defined this subculture.

Feel the raw intensity and unapologetic authenticity as Vikernes reflects on his personal experiences. Understand the background for the profound impact of Norwegian Black Metal on global music and culture. Gain a deep understanding of the mindset that fueled the movement and its lasting influence on the metal genre.

Immerse yourself in the story of the Norwegian Black Metal scene by grabbing a copy of Varg Vikernes' book. Uncover the secrets, controversies, and the rebellious Pagan spirit that shaped an era in heavy metal history.]]> 150 Varg Vikernes Xavier 0 to-read 3.23 To Hell & Back Again: Part I: My Black Metal Story
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]]> <![CDATA[The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time]]> 147018 800 Martin Popoff 1550226002 Xavier 0 to-read 4.08 2002 The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time
author: Martin Popoff
name: Xavier
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2002
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]]> Ulysses Annotated 10543 Ulysses. Annotations in this edition are keyed both to the reading text of the new critical edition of Ulysses published in 1984 and to the standard 1961 Random House edition and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.

Gifford has incorporated over 1,000 additions and corrections to the first edition. The introduction and headnotes to sections provide general geographical, biographical and historical background. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, trace literary allusions and references to other cultures.

The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method. The annotations in this volume illuminate details which are not in the public realm for most of us.]]> 698 James Joyce 0520067452 Xavier 0 to-read 4.20 1922 Ulysses Annotated
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name: Xavier
average rating: 4.20
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]]> Swords of Cerebus, Volume 1 3576954 These volumes are NOT THE SAME as the larger phonebooks and should NOT BE COMBINED]]> Dave Sim Xavier 0 to-read 3.88 Swords of Cerebus, Volume 1
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name: Xavier
average rating: 3.88
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]]> Cerebus Number Zero 35172843 Dave Sim Xavier 0 to-read 3.55 1993 Cerebus Number Zero
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name: Xavier
average rating: 3.55
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors]]> 270340 304 Tim Lawson 1578066964 Xavier 0 to-read 4.29 2004 The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors
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name: Xavier
average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures]]> 60791673
Rob Halford has long been known for his legendary voice. As the front man of Judas Priest, his vocals have been tremendous, and tremendously influential. In 2020, he brought his voice to the page with a glorious autobiography. Fans and readers loved Halford’s frank and open narrative, as well as his terrific insight and sense of humor. In an ideal follow-up, Halford runs his lively eye over all facets of the hard rock history and the heavy metal world. Biblical is an encyclopedia and manifesto in which Halford shares his opinions, memories, and anecdotes regarding every element of the rock and roll work and lifestyle from tours to tattoos, riffs to riders, and drugs to devil horns. In Halford’s relaxed and honest tone, the book mixes serious and in-depth pieces with whimsical reflections on lessons learned during his fifty years of a life in music. Biblical is a handed-down-from-on-high holy tome that transports fans behind the scenes and back into their record collections, to the almighty ways of rock.]]> 336 Rob Halford 0306828243 Xavier 0 to-read 4.24 Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures
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]]> <![CDATA[My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy]]> 18077349
A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance ofĚý The College Dropout Ěý(2004) to the operatic narcissism ofĚý MBDTF , tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture - a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity - West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels ofĚý The AtlanticĚý calls "the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music." In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king.

Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke onĚý MBDTF , a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future - very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity - MBDTF is the album of its time, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era's most dynamic artist.Ěý]]> 152 Kirk Walker Graves 1623565421 Xavier 0 to-read 3.56 2014 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
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]]> Smile 18402924 Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.

In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration and mobility with images of youth. Led by dream master Brian Wilson, their music gave voice to a Southern California mythos and compelled an audience across the nation and beyond to live out their own versions of the fantasy. By 1966, the encroaching counterculture added new dimensions of creative possibility to popular music. Looking to revise and expand, Brian Wilson sought collaboration with a brilliant musician named Van Dyke Parks. Together they began work on Smile, an ambitious album of music that refracted The Beach Boys' naïveté into a visionary exploration of American consciousness. Smile edged so close to greatness it seemed destined to become one of the most significant musical advances of its time. But the story didn't end quite like this.

In this book of evocative essays, Sanchez traces the musical journey that transformed The Beach Boys from West Coast surf heroes into America's pop luminaries, and ultimately why Smile represents a tumultuous turning point in the history of popular music.]]> 144 Luis Sánchez 1623562589 Xavier 0 to-read 3.06 2014 Smile
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]]> Flood 17188264 Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, who are more often called clever than cool. Neither the band’s hip origins in the Lower East Side scene nor Flood’s platinum certification can cover up the record's singular importance at the geek fringes of culture.

Flood’s significance to this audience helps us understand a certain way of being: it shows that geek identity doesn’t depend on references to Hobbits or Spock ears, but can instead be a set of creative and interpretive practices marked by playful excess—a flood of ideas.

The album also clarifies an historical moment. The brainy sort of kids who listened to They Might Be Giants saw their own cultural options grow explosively during the late 1980s and early 1990s amid the early tech boom and America’s advancing leftist social tides. Whether or not it was the band's intention, Flood’s jubilant proclamation of an identity unconcerned with coolness found an ideal audience at an ideal turning point. This book tells the story.]]> 152 S. Alexander Reed 162356915X Xavier 0 to-read 3.50 2013 Flood
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name: Xavier
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]]> Fear of Music 9691681
Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future. Lethem transports us again to the New York City of another time - tackling one of his great adolescent obsessions and illuminating the ways in which we fall in and out of love with works of art.]]> 141 Jonathan Lethem 1441121005 Xavier 0 to-read 3.35 2011 Fear of Music
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name: Xavier
average rating: 3.35
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]]> Marquee Moon 9433004
Bryan Waterman peels back the layers of this origin myth and, assembling a rich historical archive, situates Marquee Moon in a broader cultural history of SoHo and the East Village. As Waterman traces the downtown scene's influences, public image, and reputation via a range of print, film, and audio recordings we come to recognize the real historical surprises that the documentary evidence still has to yield and come to a new appreciation of this quintessential album of the New York City night.]]> 244 Bryan Waterman 1441186050 Xavier 0 to-read 3.83 2011 Marquee Moon
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> Some Girls 9432989
But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired by the year he has just spent in New York City, where he was hanging out with the punks at CBGB and with the glitterati at Studio 54. And new bandmember Ron Wood is helping Richards recapture the two-guitar groove that the band had been missing since the Brian Jones era. The result? Some Girls, the band's response both to punk rock and to disco, an album that crackles with all the energy, decadence, and violence of New York in the 1970s. Weaving together the history of the band and the city, Cyrus R. K. Patell traces the genesis and legacy of the album that Jagger would later call the band's best since Let It Bleed.]]> 192 Cyrus R.K. Patell 1441192808 Xavier 0 to-read 3.56 2011 Some Girls
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]]> Chocolate and Cheese 10150188
One answer is that, in the years following their MTV breakthrough, Ween gradually polished their output, turning their staunchly primitive musical sketches into hi-fi paintings. Chocolate and Cheese, released in 1994, marked Freeman and Melchiondo's first crucial steps in this direction. Based on new, in-depth interviews with both members of Ween, as well as producer Andrew Weiss and associates ranging from Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) to Spike Jonze, this book explores the song-by-song creation of Chocolate and Cheese and how the album served as a bridge between Ween's original two-guys-and-a-4-track incarnation and the rich, virtuosic rock & roll force they would later become.]]> 176 Hank Shteamer 0826431178 Xavier 0 to-read 3.96 2011 Chocolate and Cheese
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]]> Tusk 2286936
Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.]]> 144 Rob Trucks 0826429025 Xavier 0 to-read 3.02 2009 Tusk
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]]> Reign in Blood 2449963 160 D.X. Ferris 0826429092 Xavier 0 to-read 3.57 2008 Reign in Blood
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]]> Pink Moon 782174 128 Amanda Petrusich 0826427901 Xavier 0 to-read 3.47 2007 Pink Moon
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]]> Aja 302880 144 Don Breithaupt 0826427839 Xavier 0 to-read 3.51 2007 Aja
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]]> Daydream Nation 234752 Daydream Nation when the record's aggregate narratives, boggling sound composites, and distributed energies reach a level of intensity so pitched the whole thing seems to hover on the brink of self-implosion. These moments, when the record is played at appropriately upsetting volumes, have physical corollaries that often involve shooting waves of alarm up the spine, flushes of energy through the lobes and sternum, lockjaw, palpitations, and visual disorientation. If the act of listening to music requires some degree of participatory commitment from the listener, then this record asks for one hell of a commitment.

A landmark album for alternative rock, Daydream Nation was the pinnacle of what Sonic Youth had been working towards during their first decade together. Ambitious, sprawling. and often astoundingly noisy, it's a serious record that somehow never takes itself too seriously. Here, Matthew Stearns traces how Sonic Youth reached this point and - with the help of the band - guides us through the album in a way that's at once informed, inspired, and flat-out awestruck.]]> 174 Matthew Stearns 082641740X Xavier 0 to-read 3.13 2007 Daydream Nation
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]]> Highway 61 Revisited 282724 Highway 61 Revisited so affecting, how they work together as a suite,
and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful). And he focuses on Dylan's mythic presence in the mid-60s, when he emerged from his proletarian incarnation to become the American Rimbaud. The comparison has been made by others, including Dylan, and it illuminates much about his mid-sixties career, for in many respects Highway 61 is rock 'n' roll's answer to "A Season in Hell."]]> 176 Mark Polizzotti 0826417752 Xavier 0 to-read 3.79 2006 Highway 61 Revisited
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]]> There's a Riot Goin' On 301902 142 Miles Marshall Lewis 0826417442 Xavier 0 to-read 3.56 2006 There's a Riot Goin' On
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]]> Music from Big Pink 301899 Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man's cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy....This well-written first novel captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died."
-Greg Kamiya, The New York Times Book Review

Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and actual, documented events thread their way through text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug-dealer and wannabe musician, we witness the gestation and birth of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades - bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Travis, Wilco and Mercury Rev.]]> 160 John Niven 082641771X Xavier 0 to-read 3.71 2005 Music from Big Pink
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]]> Grace 301894

Jeff Buckley was piecing together a contemporary popular music history for himself that was steeped in the magic of singing. He was busy hearing how Dylan channeled Billie Holiday in Blonde On Blonde and how Robert Plant was doing his best to sound like Janis Joplin on early Led Zeppelin recordings. He was thinking about doo-wop and opera and Elton John and working at developing a way to harness the power of the voice...In the process, he was re-defining punk and grunge "attitude" itself by rejecting the ambivalent sexual undercurrents of those movements, as well as Led Zeppelin's canonical "cock rock" kingdom that he'd grown up adoring. He was forging a one-man revolution set to the rhythms of New York City and beyond. And he was on the brink of recording his elegant battle in song for the world to hear.]]> 157 Daphne A. Brooks 0826416357 Xavier 0 to-read 3.56 2005 Grace
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]]> Exile on Main Street 68413
Tracing the creation of Exile on Main St. from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock and roll. Looking at each song individually, Janovitz unveils the innovative recording techniques, personal struggles, and rock and roll myth-making that culminated in this pivotal album.

"Exile" is exactly what rock and roll should sound like: a bunch of musicians playing a bunch of great songs in a room together, playing off of each other, musical communion, sounds bleeding into each other, snare drum rattling away even while not being hit, amps humming, bottles falling, feet shuffling, ghostly voices mumbling on and off-mike, whoops of excitement, shouts of encouragement, performances without a net, masks off, urgency. It is the kind of record that goes beyond the songs themselves to create a monolithic sense of atmosphere. It conveys a sense of time and place and spirit, yet it is timeless. Its influence is still heard today. Keith Richards has said, tongue in cheek, the record was the first grunge record.]]> 174 Bill Janovitz 082641673X Xavier 0 to-read 3.88 2005 Exile on Main Street
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]]> Electric Ladyland 302580 142 John M. Perry 0826415717 Xavier 0 to-read 3.57 2004 Electric Ladyland
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]]> <![CDATA[The Piper at the Gates of Dawn]]> 302581
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a wondrous creation often seen through the distorted view of later events. These things have served to overshadow the achievement of The Pink Floyd on their debut album: an outstanding group performance; a milestone in record production; and something made in much happier circumstances than I had expected to find...This is not another book about "mad Syd". This, instead, is a celebration of a moment when everything seemed possible, when creative worlds and forces converged, when an album spoke with an entirely new voice. "Such music I never dreamed of," as Rat said to Mole.]]> 132 John Eric Cavanagh 0826414974 Xavier 0 to-read 3.49 2003 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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]]> Meat Is Murder 302579 110 Joe Pernice 082641494X Xavier 0 to-read 3.43 2003 Meat Is Murder
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]]> Raylan (Raylan Givens, #3) 12037108 —New York Times Book Review

With more than forty novels to his credit and still going strong, the legendary Elmore Leonard has well earned the title, “America’s greatest crime writer� (Newsweek). And U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in the Hole) is one of Leonard’s most popular creations, thanks in part to the phenomenal success of the hit TV series “Justified.� Leonard’s Raylan shines a spotlight once again on the dedicated, if somewhat trigger-happy lawman, this time in his familiar but not particularly cozy milieu of Harlan County, Kentucky, where the drug dealing Crowe brothers are branching out into the human body parts business. Suspenseful, darkly wry and riveting, and crackling with Leonard’s trademark electric dialogue, Raylan is prime Grand Master Leonard as you have always loved him and always will.]]> 263 Elmore Leonard 006211946X Xavier 0 to-read 3.61 2012 Raylan (Raylan Givens, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4)]]> 41463743
Acting on a tip, Raylan and his new partner, deputy marshal Bobby Torres arrest Jose Rindo, a destructive and violent criminal. Rindo is also being pursued by the FBI who arrive shortly after he is in custody. Raylan bumps heads with a beautiful FBI agent named Nora Sanchez, who wants Rindo for the murder of a one of their own.

When Rindo, escapes from the county jail and is arrested in Ohio, Raylan and FBI Special Agent Sanchez drive south to pick up the fugitive and bring him back to stand trial. Later, when Rindo escapes again, Raylan and Nora―still at odds―are reunited and follow the elusive fugitive's trail across Arizona to El Centro, California and into Mexico where they have no jurisdiction or authority. How are they going to bring Rindo, a Mexican citizen, across the border without anyone knowing?

Raylan Goes to Detroit is an exciting continuation of one of Elmore Leonard’s greatest heroes, an edge-of-your-seat, page-turner in the spirit of Elmore’s classic Raylan books.]]> 247 Peter Leonard 1947856219 Xavier 0 to-read 3.72 2018 Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)]]> 16395913
In Leonard's first original e-book, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (featured in Pronto and Riding the Rap) returns to the Eastern Kentucky coal-mining country of his youth. When Boyd Crowder, a mail-order-ordained minister who doesn't believe in paying his income taxes, decides to blow up the IRS building in Cincinnati, Givens is asked by the local marshal to intervene.

This sets up an inevitable confrontation between two men on opposite sides of the law who still have a lingering respect for each other. Throw into the mix Boyd's sister-in-law, Ava, who carries a torch for Raylan along with a deer rifle, and you've got a funny, adrenaline-charged novella only Leonard could have written.]]> 240 Elmore Leonard 5551096602 Xavier 0 to-read 3.95 2001 Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Riding the Rap (Raylan Givens, #2)]]> 166857 326 Elmore Leonard 0060082186 Xavier 0 to-read 3.78 1995 Riding the Rap (Raylan Givens, #2)
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]]> Pronto (Raylan Givens, #1) 85211 Justified are in for a major treat. The unstoppable manhunter with the very itchy trigger finger stars in Pronto, a crime fiction gem from the one and only Elmore Leonard, "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever" (New York Times Book Review).

The Grand Master justifies the overwhelming acclaim he has received over the course of his remarkable career with an electrifying thriller that sends the indomitable Raylan racing to Italy on the trail of a fugitive bookie who's hiding from the vengeful Miami mob. The legendary Leonard, whom the Seattle Times lauds as the "King Daddy of crime writers," proves that all comparisons to American noir icons John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain are well deserved with this tale of very dirty doings and extremely dangerous men coming together in the birthplace of Puccini, Garibaldi, and La Cosa Nostra.
]]> 400 Elmore Leonard 0060082178 Xavier 0 to-read 3.74 1993 Pronto (Raylan Givens, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio]]> 45018673
Today, most of the music we hear is com-pressed to a fraction of its original sound, while analog masterpieces are turning to dust in record company vaults. As these record-ings disappear, music fans aren't just losing acollection of notes. We're losing spaciousness, breadth of the sound field, and the ability to hear and feel a ping of a triangle or a pluckof a guitar string, each with its own reso-nance and harmonics that slowly trail off into silence.Ěý

The result is music that is robbed of its original quality—muddy and flat in sound compared to the rich, warm sound artists hear in the studio. It doesn't have to be this way, but the record and technology companies have incorrectly assumed that most listeners are satisfied with these low-quality tracks.

Neil Young is challenging the assault on audio quality—and working to free music lovers from the flat and lifeless status quo.

To Feel the Music is the true story of his quest to bring high-quality audio back to music lovers—the most important undertaking of his career. It's an unprecedented look inside the successes and setbacks of creating the Pono player, the fights and negotiations with record companies to preserve master-pieces for the future, and Neil's unrelenting determination to make musical art available to everyone. It's a story that shows how much more there is to music than meets the ear.

Neil's efforts to bring quality audio to his fans garnered media attention when his Kickstarter campaign for his Pono player—a revolutionary music player that would combine the highest quality possible with the portability, simplicity and affordability modern listeners crave—became the third-most successful Kickstarter campaign in the website's history. It had raised more than $6M in pledges in 40 days. Encouraged by the enthusiastic response, Neil still had a long road ahead, and his Pono music player would not have the commercial success he'd imagined. But he remained committed to his mission, and faced with the rise of streaming services that used even lower quality audio, he was determined to rise to the challenge.

An eye-opening read for all fans of Neil Young and all fans of great music, as well as readers interested in going behind the scenes of product creation, To Feel the Music has an inspiring story at its One determined artist with a groundbreaking vision and the absolute refusal to give up, despite setbacks, naysayers, and skeptics.]]> 272 Neil Young 1948836386 Xavier 0 to-read 3.16 2017 To Feel the Music: A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio
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]]> <![CDATA[Shakey: Neil Young's Biography]]> 62837 786 Jimmy McDonough 0679750967 Xavier 0 to-read 4.08 2002 Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
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]]> <![CDATA[Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream]]> 13586786 Déjà vu, and writing the song, “Ohio;� life at his secluded ranch in the redwoods of Northern California and the pot-filled jam sessions there; falling in love with his wife, Pegi, and the birth of his three children; and finally, finding the contemplative paradise of Hawaii. Astoundingly candid, witty, and as uncompromising and true as his music, Waging Heavy Peace is Neil Young’s journey as only he can tell it.]]> 512 Neil Young 0399159460 Xavier 0 to-read 3.60 2012 Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
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]]> <![CDATA[Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance]]> 375538 358 Johnny Rogan 0711930007 Xavier 0 to-read 3.90 1992 Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance
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