Augustus's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 16 May 2023 13:12:09 -0700 60 Augustus's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Remains of the Day 274186 here.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.� But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness� and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served.]]> 245 Kazuo Ishiguro 0679731725 Augustus 5 4.17 1989 The Remains of the Day
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]]> High-Rise 70256
Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on ‘enemy� floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for riots and technological mayhem.

In this visionary tale of urban disillusionment society slips into a violent reverse as the isolated inhabitants of the high-rise, driven by primal urges, create a dystopian world ruled by the laws of the jungle.

This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.]]> 272 J.G. Ballard 0586044566 Augustus 5 3.85 1975 High-Rise
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name: Augustus
average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp, notes (The Documents of twentieth century art)]]> 775947 Marcel Duchamp 0805799559 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 5.00 1980 Marcel Duchamp, notes (The Documents of twentieth century art)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction]]> 3892153 111 Walter Benjamin 0141036192 Augustus 5 4.02 1936 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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]]> The Grip of It 31574739 A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It tells the eerie story of a young couple haunted by their new home.

Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. The move—prompted by James’s penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check—is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. But this house, which sits between ocean and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to settle into their home and their relationship, the house and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The architecture—claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms—becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall—contracting, expanding—and map themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of bruises; mold spores taint the water that James pours from the sink. Together the couple embark on a panicked search for the source of their mutual torment, a journey that mires them in the history of their peculiar neighbors and the mysterious residents who lived in the house before Julia and James.

Written in creepy, potent prose, The Grip of It is an enthralling, psychologically intense novel that deals in questions of home: how we make it and how it in turn makes us, mapping itself onto bodies and the relationships we cherish.]]> 276 Jac Jemc 0374536910 Augustus 5 3.17 2017 The Grip of It
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]]> What Should Be Wild 35068762 The Tiger’s Wife, The Snow Child, and Swamplandia!

Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family’s manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie’s father, an anthropologist who sees her as more experiment than daughter, has warned Maisie not to venture into the wood. Locals talk of men disappearing within, emerging with addled minds and strange stories. What he does not tell Maisie is that for over a millennium her female ancestors have also vanished into the wood, never to emerge—for she is descended from a long line of cursed women.

But one day Maisie’s father disappears, and Maisie must venture beyond the walls of her carefully constructed life to find him. Away from her home and the wood for the very first time, she encounters a strange world filled with wonder and deception. Yet the farther she strays, the more the wood calls her home. For only there can Maisie finally reckon with her power and come to understand the wildest parts of herself.]]> 368 Julia Fine 0062684159 Augustus 5 3.20 2018 What Should Be Wild
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]]> <![CDATA[Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle]]> 564701
Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.]]> 300 Simon Ford 1901033600 Augustus 5 4.29 1999 Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle
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]]> CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 484121 179 George Saunders 0679448128 Augustus 4 4.09 1996 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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]]> CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 28747 179 George Saunders 0099595818 Augustus 4 4.25 1996 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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]]> Absolutely Golden 35748908
"Pure, mind-blowing enchantment." —Nelly Reifler

"Gyrates seamlessly between the hilarious and profound." —Augustus Rose

"Full of extraordinary, richly-drawn characters in supremely memorable situations." —Christine Sneed

"Its bawdy characters will enchant you; the vitality of D. Foy's prose will make you weep." —Courtney Maum

It's 1973, and a thirty-something widow has been cajoled by a young hippie parasite into financing their vacation to a nudist colony in the Northern California mountains. The night before their departure, however, she arrives home to learn that she and this man will be accompanied by the stripper on his lap. At Camp Freedom Lake, the trio meet a womanizing evangelist, a bumbling Zen gardener, and a pair of aging drug-addled swingers from Holland. Together, they're catapulted through one improbable event after the other, each stranger than the last, until finally the woman who was dominated by her fear of past and future finds herself reveling in the great here and now.

D. Foy's Absolutely Golden is a radical departure from his two previous novels, Made to Break and Patricide. It's comic, ebullient, magic, light, gently surrealistic. It's rollicking, effervescent, slyly profound. But more, this brisk tale offers a kaleidoscopic look at parts of the 1970s we haven't often seen in fiction--nudism, New Age philosophy, Eastern religion, the occult, swingers culture, California culture, and then some.

Best of all, Foy tells his story in the guise of a woman obsessed with the notion that she'll never find another man until she's rid of what she believes to be a mysterious curse. As if written in the marriage of Vladimir Nabokov, Renata Adler, and AnaIs Nin, her words transport us from doubt, despair, and dread into states of increasing wonder and euphoria.]]> 202 D. Foy 0998433969 Augustus 5 4.06 2017 Absolutely Golden
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]]> Eastman Was Here 33156491 An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life.

The year is 1973, and Alan Eastman, a public intellectual, accidental cultural critic, washed-up war journalist, husband, and philanderer; finds himself alone on the floor of his study in an existential crisis. His wife has taken their kids and left him to live with her mother in New Jersey, and his best work feels as though it is years behind him. In the depths of despair, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome phone call from his old rival dating back to his days on the Harvard college newspaper, offering him the chance to go to Vietnam to write the definitive account of the end of America's longest war. Seeing his opportunity to regain his wife s love and admiration while reclaiming his former literary glory, he sets out for Vietnam. But instead of the return to form as a pioneering war correspondent that he had hoped for, he finds himself grappling with the same problems he thought he'd left back in New York.

Following his widely acclaimed debut, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, Alex Gilvarry employs the same thoughtful, yet dark sense of humor in Eastman Was Here to capture one irredeemable man's search for meaning in the face of advancing age, fading love, and a rapidly-changing world.]]> 368 Alex Gilvarry 1101981504 Augustus 5 3.24 2017 Eastman Was Here
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]]> <![CDATA[American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt]]> 17883917
From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even flappers “barney-mugged� in “petting pantries,� Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx.

This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun . Tying together captivating stories of Americans� “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis.

(With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)]]> 432 John Beckman 0307908178 Augustus 5 3.08 2014 American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
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]]> Duchamp 5329630
Duchamp's two great preoccupations were the nature of scientific truth and a feeling for love with its natural limit, death. His works all speak of eroticism in a way that pushes the socially acceptable to its outer limits. Juan Antonio Ramirez addresses such questions as the meaning of the artist's ground-breaking ready-mades and his famous installation Etant donnés ; his passionate essay reproduces all of Duchamp's important works, in addition to numerous previously unpublished visual sources. Love and Death, even is a seminal monograph for understanding this crucial figure of modern art.]]> 304 Juan Ramirez 1861890273 Augustus 5 4.29 1998 Duchamp
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]]> The Readymade Thief 33358209
Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend, Lee finds refuge in a cooperative of runaways holed up in an abandoned building they call the Crystal Castle. But the façade of the Castle conceals a far more sinister agenda, one hatched by a society of fanatical men set on decoding a series of powerful secrets hidden in plain sight. And they believe Lee holds the key to it all.

Aided by Tomi, a young hacker and artist with whom she has struck a wary alliance, Lee escapes into the unmapped corners of the city—empty aquariums, deserted motels, patrolled museums, and even the homes of vacationing families. But the deeper she goes underground, the more tightly she finds herself bound in the strange web she’s trying to elude. Desperate and out of options, Lee steps from the shadows to face who is after her—and why.

A novel of puzzles, conspiracies, secret societies, urban exploration, art history, and a singular, indomitable heroine, The Readymade Thief heralds the arrival of a spellbinding and original new talent in fiction.]]> 374 Augustus Rose 0735221839 Augustus 0 to-read 3.36 2017 The Readymade Thief
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare]]> 152561 224 Octavio Paz 1559701382 Augustus 5 4.07 1968 Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare
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]]> Pataphysical Essays 13612949 Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician, first appeared in 1911, and over the next 100 years, his pataphysical supersession of metaphysics would influence everyone from Marcel Duchamp and Boris Vian to Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard. In 1948 in Paris, a group of writers and thinkers would found the College of 'Pataphysics, still going strong today. The iconoclastic René Daumal was the first to elaborate upon Jarry's unique and humorous philosophy. Though Daumal is better known for his unfinished novel Mount Analogue and his refusal to be adopted by the Surrealist movement, this newly translated volume of writings offers a glimpse of often overlooked Daumal: Daumal the pataphysician. Pataphysical Essays collects Daumal's overtly pataphysical writings from 1929 to 1941, from his landmark exposition on pataphysics and laughter to his late essay, "The Pataphysics of Ghosts." Daumal's "Treatise on Patagrams" offers the reader everything from a recipe for the disintegration of a photographer to instructions on how to drill a fount of knowledge in a public urinal. This volume also includes Daumal's column for the Nouvelle Revue Francaise, "Pataphysics This Month." Reading like a deranged encyclopedia, "Pataphysics This Month" describes a new mythology for the field of science, and amply demonstrates that the twentieth century had been a distinctly pataphysical era.

Poet, philosopher, and self-taught Sanskrit scholar René Daumal (1908�1944) devoted himself to a lifelong attempt to think through death by means of what he called “experimental metaphysics�: an attempt to address metaphysical questions through scientific methodology. After co-founding the iconoclastic journal Le Grand Jeu and rejecting overtures from the Surrealist movement, he abandoned the literary path to become a disciple of the spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff.]]> 136 René Daumal 0984115560 Augustus 5 4.03 2012 Pataphysical Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Adventures in 'Pataphysics: Collected Works I]]> 207917 336 Alfred Jarry 1900565250 Augustus 0 to-read 4.21 2001 Adventures in 'Pataphysics: Collected Works I
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]]> <![CDATA[CBGB and OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock]]> 98558
CBGB & OMFUG is a musical and cultural landmark, recognized worldwide and visited by countless tourists and music lovers each year. In these luminous pages, CBGB's influence and legacy is honored with 200 photos of some of the most celebrated artists in music history. With an introduction by Hilly Kristal, an afterword by David Byrne, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cofounder of Talking Heads, and additional commentary by numerous performers and patrons, CBGB & OMFUG features unforgettable images by the many photographers who documented an American institution.]]> 160 Hilly Kristal 0810957868 Augustus 0 to-read 4.38 CBGB and OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock
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]]> <![CDATA[Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life]]> 12315354
The anecdotes remain, and are even augmented: Jarry's assumption of the "ubuesque," his inversions of everyday behavior (such as eating backwards, from cheese to soup), his exploits with gun and bicycle, and his herculean feats of drinking. But Brotchie distinguishes between Jarry's purposely playing the fool and deeper nonconformities that appear essential to his writing and his thought, both of which remain a vital subterranean influence to this day.]]> 405 Alastair Brotchie 0262016192 Augustus 5 4.48 2011 Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life
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]]> The White Album 421 The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.]]> 224 Joan Didion 0374532079 Augustus 5 4.05 1979 The White Album
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]]> Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 6149 Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.]]> 325 Toni Morrison Augustus 5 3.96 1987 Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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]]> Namedropper 766992 A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel, Namedropper takes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets.]]> 240 Emma Forrest 0684865386 Augustus 3 3.54 1998 Namedropper
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet]]> 7141642
But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?�

A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.]]> 479 David Mitchell 1400065453 Augustus 5 4.01 2010 The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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]]> The Sheltering Sky 243598 The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence—perhaps even the limits of human life—when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.]]> 342 Paul Bowles 0141023422 Augustus 4 3.92 1949 The Sheltering Sky
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> Cold Snap 884156 228 Thom Jones 0316472573 Augustus 3 3.70 1995 Cold Snap
author: Thom Jones
name: Augustus
average rating: 3.70
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]]> <![CDATA[My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories]]> 147020 224 Steve Almond 0802140130 Augustus 3 3.80 2002 My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Matchstick Men: A Novel About Grifters with Issues]]> 332282 228 Eric Garcia 0812968212 Augustus 3 3.67 2002 Matchstick Men: A Novel About Grifters with Issues
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]]> Time Out of Joint 698034
But he gradually begins to suspect that his life - indeed his whole world - is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?']]> 255 Philip K. Dick 037571927X Augustus 3 3.87 1959 Time Out of Joint
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]]> Endless Love 61008 Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual, Endless Love tells the story of David Axelrod and his overwhelming love for Jade Butterfield.

David's and Jade's lives are consumed with each other; their rapport, their desire, their sexuality take them further than they understand. And when Jade's father suddenly banishes David from the house, he fantasizes the forgiveness his rescue of the family will bring and he sets a "perfectly safe" fire to their house. What unfolds is a nightmare, a dark world in which David's love is a crime and a disease, a world of anonymous phone calls, crazy letters, and new fears—and the inevitable and punishing pursuit of the one thing that remains most real to him: his endless love for Jade and her family.]]> 436 Scott Spencer 0880016280 Augustus 3 3.51 1979 Endless Love
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]]> Vox 28229 165 Nicholson Baker 1862070962 Augustus 3 3.45 1992 Vox
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average rating: 3.45
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]]> Running Wild 70236 112 J.G. Ballard 0374525463 Augustus 3 3.60 1988 Running Wild
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Augustus 3 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
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]]> Foucault's Pendulum 255987
Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled � a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.]]> 533 Umberto Eco 0345368754 Augustus 4 3.81 1988 Foucault's Pendulum
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]]> The Consumer 676920 233 Michael Gira 1880985268 Augustus 3 3.71 1995 The Consumer
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]]> War Fever 70252
Includes:
"War Fever" (1989)
"The Secret History of World War 3" (1988)
"Dream Cargoes" (1990)
"The Object of the Attack" (1984)
"Love in a Colder Climate" (1989)
"The Largest Theme Park in the World" (1989)
"Answers to a Questionnaire" (1985)
"The Air Disaster" (1975)
"Report on an Unidentified Space Station" (1982)
"The Man Who Walked on the Moon" (1985)
"The Enormous Space" (1989)
"Memories of the Space Age" (1982)
"Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown" (1976)
"The Index" (1977)]]> 175 J.G. Ballard 0374525765 Augustus 3 3.93 1990 War Fever
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average rating: 3.93
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]]> Foucault’s Pendulum 17841
Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled � a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.]]> 623 Umberto Eco 015603297X Augustus 4 3.92 1988 Foucault’s Pendulum
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]]> Elvissey (Jack Womack) 524004 319 Jack Womack 0802134955 Augustus 3 3.81 1993 Elvissey (Jack Womack)
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]]> <![CDATA[As She Climbed Across the Table]]> 16720 Gun, with Occasional Music.

Alice Coombs is a particle physicist, and she and her colleagues have created a void, a hole in the universe, that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with taste � tastes; it absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock; it disdains a bow tie, an ice ax, and a scrambled duck egg. To Alice, this selectivity translates as an irresistible personality. To Philip, it makes Lack an unbeatable rival, for how can he win Alice back from something that has no flaws � because it has no qualities? Ingenious, hilarious, and genuinely mind-expanding, As She Climbed Across the Table is the best boy-meets-girl-meets-void story ever written.]]> 212 Jonathan Lethem 0375700129 Augustus 3 3.68 1997 As She Climbed Across the Table
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]]> A Maze of Death 216399 A Maze of Death is Philip K. Dick at his most dizzyingly provocative.

]]> 192 Philip K. Dick 0679752986 Augustus 3 3.82 1970 A Maze of Death
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]]> Martian Time-Slip 40361 226 Philip K. Dick 185798837X Augustus 3 3.69 1964 Martian Time-Slip
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]]> Cane 765172 Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.
]]> 116 Jean Toomer 0871401517 Augustus 3 3.86 1923 Cane
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]]> Drown 96000 Drown, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect.]]> Junot Díaz 0571190634 Augustus 3 4.06 1995 Drown
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name: Augustus
average rating: 4.06
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rating: 3
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]]> Fiskadoro 29941 New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldiers, screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones," Fiskadoro is a stunning novel of an all-too-possible tomorrow. Deeply moving and provacative, Fiskadoro brilliantly presents the sweeping and heartbreaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to salvage remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.]]> 221 Denis Johnson 0060976098 Augustus 4 3.56 1985 Fiskadoro
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name: Augustus
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rating: 4
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]]> The Secret Life of Houses 657469 nice book Scott Bradfield 0044402414 Augustus 3 3.37 The Secret Life of Houses
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]]> The Short Stories 4662
In 'The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction.

The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses.

Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks."

These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context.

Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless.

This essential collection is a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.]]> 800 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0684842505 Augustus 3 4.23 1920 The Short Stories
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name: Augustus
average rating: 4.23
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]]> Dead Souls 224155 402 Nikolai Gogol 0679776443 Augustus 3 3.94 1842 Dead Souls
author: Nikolai Gogol
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]]> The Cosmic Puppets 14187
Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.]]> 150 Philip K. Dick 1400030056 Augustus 3 3.48 1957 The Cosmic Puppets
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]]> Dr. Bloodmoney 636108 Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick's most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonny Keller, two unremarkable people bent on the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dick's undying hope in humanity.

]]> 298 Philip K. Dick 0375719296 Augustus 3 3.71 1965 Dr. Bloodmoney
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]]> The Third Policeman 27208 The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.]]> 200 Flann O'Brien 156478214X Augustus 3 4.00 1967 The Third Policeman
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name: Augustus
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]]> The Game-Players of Titan 100692 Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff, the game that's become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isn't even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley.]]> 223 Philip K. Dick 0007115881 Augustus 3 3.68 1963 The Game-Players of Titan
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]]> Nothing More Than Murder 246737 Jim Thompson 0752852140 Augustus 2 3.81 1949 Nothing More Than Murder
author: Jim Thompson
name: Augustus
average rating: 3.81
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rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)]]> 154091 Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known.And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.

]]> 308 William Gibson 0553281747 Augustus 2 4.01 1988 Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
author: William Gibson
name: Augustus
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]]> <![CDATA[Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories]]> 193901
“Moving from the chaotic world of adolescence and into adulthood is the theme that links Nissen's bittersweet collection of 25 fierce and quirky short stories, the winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Familiar issues are dealt with innovatively—young women (and some men) deal with eating disorders, illness, death, infidelity and love. The cast is an eclectic crew of original, sometimes bizarre, yet recognizable characters with names like Silver Tarkington, Wing MacArdle, Moët and Zagarella. The settings range from Santa Cruz to the Midwest, Manhattan to Paris. With self-deprecating and wry humor, Nissen's characters frequently improvise unusual answers for difficult, confusing questions. In “Way Back When in the Now before Now,� Sari, a city-savvy teenager whose mother is dying of cancer, slips into the bed of her best friend's brother, searching for comfort in “The hot sleepy boy-smell with its acrid twinge of sex.� “The Estate� charts the fleeting passage of time as experienced by a close-knit group of friends and family summering together annually at a carriage house on a large property. Other stories feature young hippies hoping to make a Grateful Dead show; a group of eight women living in a feminist co-op; a child coping with being pushed too hard by ambitious, cold parents. In these tales, as in others, Nissen displays a sharp talent for fresh detail and Barb-Jean, a soprano who conserves her voice for days at a time, communicates through scraps of paper. “When we cleaned the house…at the end of the season we'd find fragments of conversation stuck between the couch cushions and tucked into kitchen how many people? how many ears? Portuguese on her mother's side I think, Sot�5 letters—ends in a y.� Many of the stories in this warm, fearless collection trace college love affairs and exquisite, if tentative, sexual explorations between young women. Where a few tales are merely good, several of them are stellar, marking Nissen as an assured writer whose wide-ranging interest in varied people and life situations creates lively fiction.”—Publishers Weekly

“Absolutely stunning. Ms. Nissen's characters are among the most honest, difficult, endearing, expansive, and blatantly human that I have encountered on the page in quite some time.”—Jules Davis, Pendragon Books, Oakland CA, in The Book Sense 76

“…these smoothly polished little narrative gems are not about love at all so much as they are about the desire for what love placing yourself in context, finding comfort enough inside your own skin to turn your attention to the world and welcome it…With wry humor and uncommon poignancy, Thisbe distills entire emotional universes into her slim stories. You may never have lived with seven other women during a semester of nervous breakdowns and supernatural events, found yourself preferring your boyfriend's sister to your actual boyfriend, or lost a parent to a freak accident, but you'll recognize parts of yourself in Girls' Room.� Feminist Response to Pop Culture

“…an awe-inspiring collection of short stories…Nissen's characters are young and yearning, and they come together in lovely and unexpected ways…Although [her] characters are generally young and blessed—traveling Deadheads, college housemates, wealthy New York teens—Nissen bestows them with earnesty and explores their desires carefully and with gravity.”—Austin Chronicle

Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night is a spirited, offbeat collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call …love. All manner of love thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love stories, erudite and amusing love stories.

“People don't meet because they both like Burmese food,� says one character, “or because someone's sister has a friend who's single and new in town, or because Billy's nose happened to crook just slightly to the left at an angle that made me want to weep…People don't fall in love with each other …they just fall into love.�

Everyone does women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other—they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight.

Quirky, real, idealistic, deluded, bohemian, and true, these are people who can—and often do—fall...]]> 208 Thisbe Nissen 038572053X Augustus 3 3.92 1999 Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3)]]> 6094181
Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president’s strong-arm goon, an ex-cop and heroine runner, and a private eye whose quarry is so dangerous she could set off the whole powder keg. With his trademark deadly staccato prose, James Ellroy holds nothing back in this wild, startling and much anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy.



From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 656 James Ellroy 0679403930 Augustus 3 3.93 2009 Blood's a Rover (Underworld USA, #3)
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]]> The Vegetarian 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Augustus 5 3.62 2007 The Vegetarian
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]]> <![CDATA[The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong]]> 25538075 312 Leland Cheuk Augustus 5 4.25 2015 The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong
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]]> Vessels: A Love Story 25622758

Based on Daniel Raeburn’s acclaimed New Yorker essay, Vessels: A Love Story is the story of how he and Bekah clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally, joyfully, becoming parents. In prose as handsomely unadorned as his wife’s pottery, Raeburn recounts a marriage cemented by the same events that nearly broke it.


Vessels is an unflinching, enormously moving account of intimacy, endurance, and love.]]> 192 Daniel Raeburn 0393285383 Augustus 5 4.18 2016 Vessels: A Love Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood]]> 3130440 160 Chris Allen 1900565439 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.29 2011 Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
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]]> Midnight's Children 318456
Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other "midnight's children"--all born in the initial hour of India's independence--and an uncanny sense of smell that allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.

Ebullient, operatic, comic, and serious, this novel is a wild, astonishing evocation of the maturity of a vast and complicated land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy, Indian-style.
(back cover)]]> 552 Salman Rushdie Augustus 2 4.10 1981 Midnight's Children
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]]> Pushing Perfect 28459896 Playlist for the Dead.

How far would you go to be perfect?

Kara has the perfect life. She gets perfect grades. She never messes up. Until now. Because perfection is an illusion, and Kara has been struggling to maintain it for as long as she can remember. With so much pressure to succeed, it’s hard not to do whatever it takes.

But when Kara takes a new underground drug to help her ace the SATs, she doesn’t expect to get a text from a blocked sender, telling her to follow a set of mysterious instructions—or risk her dark secret getting out. Soon she finds herself part of a group of teens with secrets of their own, who are all under the thumb of the same anonymous texter. And if they don’t find a way to stop the blackmailer, their perfect futures will go up in flames.

This dark, emotionally resonant contemporary YA novel is perfect for fans of We Were Liars and The Secret History.]]> 352 Michelle Falkoff 0008110697 Augustus 5 3.42 2016 Pushing Perfect
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]]> Big Girl Small 8789529
Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old - sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?

The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something - but not everything - to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall.

Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep's ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.]]> 294 Rachel DeWoskin 0374112576 Augustus 5 3.35 2011 Big Girl Small
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name: Augustus
average rating: 3.35
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]]> Blind 18667798
Unflinching in its portrayal of Emma's darkest days, yet full of hope and humor, Rachel DeWoskin's brilliant Blind is one of those rare books that utterly absorbs the listener into the life and experience of another.]]> 416 Rachel DeWoskin 0670785229 Augustus 5 3.48 2013 Blind
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life / Ephemerides on and about Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy 1887-1968]]> 677806 616 Jennifer Gough-Cooper 026208225X Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.50 1993 Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life / Ephemerides on and about Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy 1887-1968
author: Jennifer Gough-Cooper
name: Augustus
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers]]> 18159 Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of Deception
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art of Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized case studies that illustrated how savvy computer crackers use "social engineering" to compromise even the most technically secure computer systems. Now, in his new book, Mitnick goes one step further, offering hair-raising stories of real-life computer break-ins-and showing how the victims could have prevented them. Mitnick's reputation within the hacker community gave him unique credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now reveals in detail for the first time, including:
A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the Lockheed Martin computer systems Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prison A "Robin Hood" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained access With riveting "you are there" descriptions of real computer break-ins, indispensable tips on countermeasures security professionals need to implement now, and Mitnick's own acerbic commentary on the crimes he describes, this book is sure to reach a wide audience-and attract the attention of both law enforcement agencies and the media.]]> 288 Kevin D. Mitnick 0471782661 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.90 2005 The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
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]]> <![CDATA[Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker]]> 10256723 If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-artist was penetrating the digital secrets of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nokia, Motorola, Pacific Bell, and other mammoth enterprises. His Ghost in the Wires memoir paints an action portrait of a plucky loner motivated by a passion for trickery, not material game. (P.S. Mitnick's capers have already been the subject of two books and a movie. This first-person account is the most comprehensive to date.)

]]> 413 Kevin D. Mitnick 0316037702 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.94 2011 Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
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]]> <![CDATA[Expedient B & E: Tactics and Techniques for Bypassing Alarms and Defeating Locks]]> 5816076 216 Carl Hammer 0873646886 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.00 1992 Expedient B & E: Tactics and Techniques for Bypassing Alarms and Defeating Locks
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World]]> 5956744 336 Trevor Paglen 0525951016 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.65 2009 Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
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name: Augustus
average rating: 3.65
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]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York]]> 285190
Led by its two founding agents, L. B. Deyo and David “Lefty� Leibowitz, Jinx is a stylish urban adventure out?t known for its daring—if sometimes ridiculous—forays into the hidden wonders that lurk above and beneath America’s greatest city, New York. In Invisible Frontier L. B. and Lefty chronicle Jinx’s dramatic—if sometimes absurd—exploration of a Dante-esque New York, from the depths of the city’s underground Hell (abandoned aqueducts and subway tunnels) to the pinnacles of its Paradise (rooftops and bridges) and everything in between, capturing the genius of the city’s engineering, the vibrancy of its found art, and the elegiac beauty of its ruins. Here is a true series of wittily narrated adventures into the hidden world beneath a great civilization.]]> 240 L.B. Deyo 0609809318 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.41 2003 Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York
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average rating: 3.41
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]]> <![CDATA[Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City (Creating the North American Landscape)]]> 638909 112 Stanley Greenberg 080185945X Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.31 1998 Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City (Creating the North American Landscape)
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average rating: 4.31
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security]]> 18160 Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief."
Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked-down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Narrating from the points of view of both the attacker and the victims, he explains why each attack was so successful and how it could have been prevented in an engaging and highly readable style reminiscent of a true-crime novel. And, perhaps most importantly, Mitnick offers advice for preventing these types of social engineering hacks through security protocols, training programs, and manuals that address the human element of security.]]> 352 Kevin D. Mitnick 076454280X Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.79 2001 The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
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]]> <![CDATA[Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins]]> 31447 248 Richard T. Wright 1555532713 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.49 1994 Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins
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average rating: 3.49
book published: 1994
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]]> <![CDATA[Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration]]> 310683 Discover a hidden world in your own city!

From Ninjalicious, the author of Infiltration zine, comes Access All Areas, the the first published guide to the exciting art of urban exploration, a rapidly growing hobby that allows participants to personally experience their cities� hidden and off-limits spaces. Through chapters on topics like sneaking around, equipping and training, readers will learn the basics of the hobby, as well as about the most popular sites for urban exploration, such as abandoned buildings, construction sites, storm drains and utility tunnels.

Always an adventurer, Toronto author Ninjalicious began his intensive, thoroughly documented approach to exploration during a lengthy hospital stay, when boredom motivated him to explore the beautiful old building’s every nook and cranny. He began publishing the zine Infiltration in 1996, in conjunction with the website infiltration.org, which, with nearly 2,000 visitors a day, is widely considered to be an authoritative source on the hobby of urban exploration. Ninjalicious completed Access All Areas shortly before his untimely death from cancer in summer 2005.

Copies are available for online purchase at

]]> 242 Ninjalicious 0973778709 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.16 2005 Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration]]> 2134044 144 Troy Paiva 0811863387 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.09 2008 Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration
author: Troy Paiva
name: Augustus
average rating: 4.09
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]]> <![CDATA[Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World's Great Metropolises: a Memoir of Urban Exploration]]> 15814887
In this finely-written book, Gates describes his immersionin the worldwide subculture of Urban Exploring; how he joineda world of people who create secret art galleries in subway tunnels, break into national monuments for fun, and travel the globe sleeping in centuries-old catacombs and abandoned Soviet relics rather than hotels or bed-and-breakfasts. They push each other further and further—visiting the hidden side of a dozen countries, discovering ancient underground Roman ruins, scaling the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges, partying with mole people, sneaking into Stonehenge, and even finding themselves under arrest on top of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Ultimately, Gates contemplates why he and other urban explorers are so instinctivelydrawn tothese unknown and sometimes forbidden places—even (and for some, especially) when the stakes are high.Hidden Cities will inspire readers to contemplate the potential for urban exploration available for anyone, anywhere—ifthey have only the curiosity (and nerve!) to dig below the surface to discover the hidden corners of this world.]]> 368 Moses Gates 1585429341 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.65 2013 Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World's Great Metropolises: a Memoir of Urban Exploration
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]]> <![CDATA[Beauty in Decay: The Art of Urban Exploration]]> 8118387 This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers, who sometimes risk their safety, police records, and even their lives to explore abandoned buildings, sewers and storm drains, transit tunnels, utility tunnels, high-security areas of inhabited buildings, and even catacombs such as those in Paris, Rome, Odessa and Naples. Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams, they collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new, polished, uniform, and mundane. Urban explorers find the layers of graffiti by years worth of writers, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, someone's initials left in the dust on a broken stained glass window and physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces can hold. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world.]]> 192 RomanyWG 1584234202 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.13 2010 Beauty in Decay: The Art of Urban Exploration
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]]> <![CDATA[Seven Brief Lessons on Physics]]> 25734172 All the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages.

This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, it's already a major bestseller in Italy and the United Kingdom. Carlo Rovelli offers surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations of general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back tothe origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. “Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,� Rovelli writes. “And it’s breathtaking.”]]> 81 Carlo Rovelli 0399184414 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.97 2014 Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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]]> <![CDATA[Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality]]> 6448772
For 60 years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied the very existence of reality itself. Yet Kumar shows how the golden age of physics ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century.

Quantum sets the science in the context of the great upheavals of the modern age. In 1925 the quantum pioneers nearly all hailed from upper-middle-class academic families; most were German; and their average age was 24. But it was their irrational, romantic spirit, formed in reaction to the mechanised slaughter of the First World War that inspired their will to test science to its limits.

The essential read for anyone fascinated by this complex and thrilling story and by the band of young men at its heart.]]> 448 Manjit Kumar 1848310358 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.26 2007 Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
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]]> The Holographic Universe 319014
Now, two of the world's most eminent thinkers -- University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein's and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain -- believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind.

This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains not only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near death experiences, "lucid" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings.]]> 338 Michael Talbot 0060922583 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.14 1991 The Holographic Universe
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory]]> 8049273
Today, physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small--General Relativity and Quantum Theory--is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of everything.

Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.]]> 464 Brian Greene 039333810X Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.11 1999 The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: The Box in a Valise]]> 799841 324 Ecke Bonk 084780979X Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.44 1989 Marcel Duchamp: The Box in a Valise
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]]> Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés 6723845 Étant donnés: 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage, composed of a battered wood door through which one views a prone, nude female, holding aloft an antique gas lamp against a landscape of trees, waterfall, and sky. Unveiled as a permanent installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in July 1969, the year after Duchamp’s death, it startled the art world with its explicit eroticism and voyeurism, as well as its trompe l’oeil realism. Since its public debut, Étant donnés has been recognized as one of the most important and enigmatic works of the 20th century.



Publishedto commemoratethe fortieth anniversary of the original installation ofÉtant donnés and to accompany the first major exhibition on the artwork and its studies, this richly illustrated book presents a wealth of new research and documents that draw upon previously unpublished works of art and materials. The catalogue also examines the critical and artistic reception of Étant donnés, as evidenced by the subsequent work of Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Robert Gober, Marcel Dzama, Ray Johnson, and other artists who have engaged with Duchamp’s provocative and challenging tableau-construction.]]> 448 Michael R. Taylor 0300149794 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.52 2009 Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: Manual of Instructions: Étant donnés]]> 6518473 Manual of Instructions was prepared by the artist for the disassembly of Étant donnés in his New York studio and its reassembly at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. First published more than twenty years ago, the manual has had far-reaching ramifications for the study of Étant donnés and Duchamp. Illustrated with 116 black-and-white Polaroids taken by the artist and 35 pages of his handwritten notes and sketches, the revised edition includes a new essay by Michael R. Taylor on the pivotal importance of the manual to an understanding of Duchamp’s artistic practice as well as the first English translation of the artist’s text.]]> 76 Marcel Duchamp 0300149808 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.42 1987 Marcel Duchamp: Manual of Instructions: Étant donnés
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare: A Biography]]> 152558 368 Alice Goldfarb Marquis 0878466444 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.10 2002 Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare: A Biography
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: In the Infinitive]]> 3130436 126 walther-konig 3883753912 Augustus 0 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 3.00 Marcel Duchamp: In the Infinitive
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]]> The Duchamp Dictionary 18474130
From alchemy and anatomy to Warhol and windows, The Duchamp Dictionary offers a pithy and readable text that draws on in-depth scholarship and the very latest research. Thomas Girst includes close to 200 entries on the most interesting and important artworks, relationships, people, and ideas in Duchamp’s life―from The Bicycle Wheel and Fountain to Walter and Louise Arensberg, Peggy Guggenheim, Katherine Dreier, and Arturo Schwarz. Delightful, newly commissioned illustrations introduce each letter of the alphabet and accompany select entries, capturing the irreverent spirit of the artist himself. 59 color illustrations]]> 224 Thomas Girst 0500239177 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.04 2014 The Duchamp Dictionary
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]]> <![CDATA[The Writings of Marcel Duchamp]]> 152555 In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make love. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the writings of Marcel Duchamp, who fashioned some of the more joyous and ingenious couplings and uncouplings in modern art. This collection beings together two essential interviews and two statements about his art that underscore the serious side of Duchamp. But most of the book is made up of his experimental writings, which he called ”Texticles,� the long and extraordinary notes he wrote for The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Eben (also known as The Large Glass), and the outrageous puns and alter-ego he constructed for his female self, Rrose Sélavy (”Eros, c’est la vie� or “arouser la vie”—“drink it up�; “celebrate life�). Wacky, perverse, deliberately frustrating, these entertaining notes are basic for understanding one of the twentieth century’s most provocative artists, a figure whose influence on the contemporary scene has never been stronger.]]> 208 Marcel Duchamp 0306803410 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.32 1973 The Writings of Marcel Duchamp
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]]> <![CDATA[Alchemist of the Avant-Garde: The Case of Marcel Duchamp (Western Esoteric Traditions)]]> 799851
Acknowledged as the "Artist of the Century," Marcel Duchamp (1887�1968) left a legacy that dominates the art world to this day. Inventing the ironically dégagé attitude of "ready-made" art-making, Duchamp heralded the postmodern era and replaced Pablo Picasso as the role model for avant-garde artists. John F. Moffitt challenges commonly accepted interpretations of Duchamp's art and persona by showing that his mature art, after 1910, is largely drawn from the influence of the occult traditions. Moffitt demonstrates that the key to understanding the cryptic meaning of Duchamp's diverse artworks and writings is alchemy, the most pictorial of all the occult philosophies and sciences.

This innovative art history is written in a lively, unique style. Much like a prosecuting lawyer's brief, Alchemist of the Avant-Garde argues its case with documented historical evidence, not theoretical models. A fascinating read, Moffitt's work will be welcomed by artists, art lovers, and all those interested in the cultural history of the modern and postmodern eras.

“…this extensive and profound research is highly informative, thought-provoking and horizon-broadening.� � AMBIX, Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

"The whole book is unexpected to those who have never considered Duchamp as an alchemist, ranging from the professors who include him in their Art History surveys to the authors of even fatter books about him. Moffitt's a prolific and very widely cultured author, with special expertise in the Renaissance and in the subject of forgery as well as in those most enigmatic of modern artists, Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp. I cannot name any other art historian who knows the esoteric field as well as he does." � Joscelyn Godwin, author of Theosophical Enlightenment]]> 512 John F. Moffitt 0791457109 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.29 2003 Alchemist of the Avant-Garde: The Case of Marcel Duchamp (Western Esoteric Traditions)
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]]> <![CDATA[Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence]]> 678529 448 Marcel Duchamp 9055442496 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.08 Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence
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]]> <![CDATA[Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works]]> 519522

In preparation for the Large Glass , Duchamp wrote hundreds of notes, which he considered just as important as the work itself. He published 178 during his lifetime, but over 100 more notes relating to the Glass were discovered and published following his death. In this landmark book, Linda Henderson provides the first systematic study of the Large Glass in relation to the entire corpus of Duchamp's notes for the project. Since Duchamp declared his interest in creating a "Playful Physics," she focuses on the scientific and technological themes that pervade the notes and the imagery of the Large Glass . In doing so, Henderson provides an unprecedented history of science as popularly known at the turn of the century, centered on late Victorian physics. In addition to electromagnetic waves, including X-rays and the Hertzian waves of wireless telegraphy, the areas of science to which Duchamp responded so creatively ranged from chemistry and classical mechanics to thermodynamics, Brownian movement, radioactivity, and atomic theory. Restored to its context and amplified by the information in the posthumously published notes, the Large Glass appears far richer and more multifaceted and witty than had ever been suspected.


Henderson also includes a close examination of Duchamp's literary and artistic models for creative invention based on science, including Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, Frantisek Kupka, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The book will not only redefine scholarship on Duchamp and the Large Glass , but will be a crucial resource for historians of literature, science, and modernism.]]> 520 Linda Dalrymple Henderson 0691123861 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.36 1998 Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works
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]]> Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp 152556




"Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneer artists, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art. . .





"In the 1920s Duchamp gave up, quit painting. He allowed, perhaps encouraged, the attendant mythology. One thought of his decision, his willing this stopping. Yet on one occasion, he said it was not like that. He spoke of breaking a leg. 'You don't mean to do it,' he said.




"The Large Glass. A greenhouse for his intuition. Erotic machinery, the Bride, held in a see-through cage-'a Hilarious Picture.' Its cross references of sight and thought, the changing focus of the eyes and mind, give fresh sense to the time and space we occupy, negate any concern with art as transportation. No end is in view in this fragment of a new perspective. 'In the end you lose interest, so I didn't feel the necessity to finish it.'




"He declared that he wanted to kill art ('for myself') but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, 'a new thought for that object.'




"The art community feels Duchamp's presence and his absence. He has changed the condition of being here."-- Jasper Johns, from Marcel An Appreciation]]> 152 Pierre Cabanne 0306803038 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.32 1967 Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp
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]]> Duchamp 899886 A New York Times Notable Book of 1996
Booklist Editor's Choice, 1996

The celebrated, full-scale life of the century's most influential artist. One of the giants of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp changed the course of modern art. Visual arts, music, dance, performance--nothing was ever the same again because he had shifted art's focus from the retinal to the mental. Duchamp sidestepped the banal and sentimental to find the relationship between symbol and object and to unearth the concepts underlying art itself. The author's intimacy with the subject and glorious prose style, wit, and deep sense of irony--"the only antidote to despair"--make him the perfect writer to bring this stunning life story to intelligent readers everywhere.
]]> 560 Calvin Tomkins 0805057897 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.35 1996 Duchamp
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]]> <![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews]]> 17194956
Calvin Tomkins was born in 1925 in Orange, New Jersey. He joined the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960. His many profiles include John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Leo Castelli, Damien Hirst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman and Jasper Johns. Tomkins is the author of 12 books, including "The Bride and the Bachelors" (1965), "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" (1971), "Lives of the Artists" (2008) and "Duchamp: A Biography" (1996).]]> 102 Calvin Tomkins 1936440393 Augustus 5 readymade-thief-bibliograhy 4.25 2013 Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
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]]> It's Superman! 198076 417 Tom De Haven 0345493923 Augustus 4 3.82 2005 It's Superman!
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]]> The Raw Shark Texts 144800
But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether. As Eric begins to examine letters and papers left in the house by "the first Eric Sanderson," a staggeringly different explanation for what is happening to Eric emerges, and he and the reader embark on a quest to recover the truth and escape the remorseless predatory forces that threatens to devour him.

The Raw Shark Texts is a kaleidoscopic novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love. It will dazzle you, it will move you, and will leave an indelible imprint like nothing you have read in a long time.]]> 427 Steven Hall 1841959111 Augustus 2 3.84 2007 The Raw Shark Texts
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]]> <![CDATA[The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)]]> 156024 The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley—is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."]]> 249 Patricia Highsmith Augustus 5 3.91 1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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]]> Dragonfish 26530360 A thrilling work of sophisticated suspense set amid the Vietnamese underworld in Las Vegas.

Robert, an Oakland cop, still can't let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she's disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who's blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny's sadistic son, "Junior," and assisted by unexpected and reluctant allies, Robert learns more about his ex-wife than he ever did during their marriage. He finds himself chasing the ghosts of her past, one that reaches back to a refugee camp in Malaysia after the fall of Saigon, as his investigation soon uncovers the existence of an elusive packet of her secret letters to someone she left behind long ago. Although Robert starts illuminating the dark corners of Suzy’s life, the legacy of her sins threatens to immolate them all.

Vu Tran has written a thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism, set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor trust themselves. This remarkable debut is a noir page-turner resonant with the lasting reverberations of lives lost and lives remade a generation ago.]]> 320 Vu Tran 0393352870 Augustus 5 3.22 2015 Dragonfish
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]]> Playlist for the Dead 17838490
To figure out what happened, Sam has to rely on the playlist and his own memory. But the more he listens, the more he realizes that his memory isn’t as reliable as he thought. Especially when someone claiming to be Hayden starts sending him cryptic messages, and a series of violent attacks begins on the bullies who made Hayden’s life hell.

Sam knows he has to face up to what happened the night. But it’s only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him—including an eccentric, unpredictable girl who’s got secrets, too—that Sam will finally be able to piece together his best friend’s story.

And maybe have a chance to change his own.]]> 288 Michelle Falkoff 006231050X Augustus 5 3.28 2015 Playlist for the Dead
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]]> Green Island 25763894 A stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century.

February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed narrator ofGreen Island, just after midnight as the city is plunged into martial law. In the following weeks, as the Chinese Nationalists act to crush the opposition, Dr. Tsai becomes one of the many thousands of people dragged away from their families and thrown into prison. His return, after more than a decade, is marked by alienation from his loved ones and paranoia among his community � conflicts that loom over the growing bond he forms with his youngest daughter.Years later, this troubled past follows her to the United States, where, as a mother and a wife, she too is forced to decide between what is right and what might save her family � the same choice she witnessed her father make many years before.

As the novel sweeps across six decades and two continents, the life of the narrator shadows the course of Taiwan’s history from the end of Japanese colonial rule to the decades under martial law and, finally, to Taiwan’s transformation into a democracy. But, above all,Green Islandis a lush and lyrical story of a family and a nation grappling with the nuances of complicity and survival, raising the question: how far would you be willing to go for the ones you love?]]> 400 Shawna Yang Ryan 1101874252 Augustus 5 4.07 2016 Green Island
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]]> Angels of Detroit 26073019
In razor-sharp, beguiling prose, Angels of Detroit draws us into the lives of multiple characters struggling to define their futures in this desolate a scrappy group of activists trying to save the city with placards and protests; a curious child who knows the blighted city as her own personal playground; an elderly great-grandmother eking out a community garden in an oil-soaked patch of dirt; a carpenter with an explosive idea of how to give the city a new start; a confused idealist who has stumbled into debt to a human trafficker; a weary corporate executive who believes she is doing right by the city she remembers at its prime--each of their desires is distinct, and their visions for a better city are on a collision course.

In this propulsive, masterfully plotted epic, an urban wasteland whose history is plagued with riots and unrest is reimagined as an ambiguous new frontier--a site of tenacity and possible hope. Driven by struggle and suspense, and shot through with a startling empathy, Christopher Hebert's magnificent second novel unspools an American story for our time.]]> 423 Christopher Hebert 1632863634 Augustus 5 2.80 2016 Angels of Detroit
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