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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Mt. Judge, Pa.

Ooh, I really like this snippet. In the introduction of the version I have, Richard Ford notes that the book is an examination of the promises that America initially represented and its failure to make good on them. This full-circle aspect of the title word introduces another interesting layer...

I read Everyman earlier this year, and I was really disappointed... It was probably my least favorite Philip Roth book (perhaps beating out The Breast) I'd ever read — and I think it was my fourteenth. The language was flat, and the idea to universalize this human experience through the tale of...

Started off strong, finished weak.

You misspelled "misspell."

No love for Exit Ghost?

One Hundred Years of Solitude and Invisible Man are two of my favorite books ever.

Well, that depends. Are you trying to learn more about some of the philosophies therein, or are you trying to find a work that closely resembles the free-form, intellectual, dreamlike atmosphere of the work?

Many writers are affiliated with schools as professors. I contacted T.C. Boyle this way for an article.

There are a number of reasons to be wary of surveys, but this is not one of them. Populations tend follow something called a bell curve; that means two-thirds of the population fall within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% fall within two standard deviations, and 99.9% fall within three...

oh GOD yes Carcassonne is also fun but definitely more complex. Plus, it's really only fun with two people, unlike Catan.

Lots of academic journals, but a few books (also academic) that might bear a mention: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman Social Mindscapes by Eviatar Zerubavel Shared Fantasy (again) by Gary Alan Fine Still in the middle of Lolita, too... :(

I'm sure this is coming as a huge surprise to everyone, but I cannot wait until Exit Ghost, Philip Roth's final Zuckerman novel and a sequel to The Ghost Writer. Plus, it comes out the week before my birthday, so I can treat myself to a little present beforehand.

Then again, there's food and there's "cuisine."

Yes, this could represent another problem. Many people, despite the fact that they are promised complete confidentiality in these surveys, will feel stupid in truthfully describing the number of books they read in a year and will pad the number a bit, thus skewing the results to seem higher...

I don't you have a very good understanding of statistical significance. Statistical significance doesn't refer the validity of a particular survey but whether a certain outcome is likely to have occurred by chance. If it is unlikely, then it is statistically significant. Furthermore, if...

Well, once you've earned a billion dollars, I imagine it becomes significantly easier.

Disregard this entirely. Catch-22 and Confederacy of Dunces are two of the funniest works you will likely ever read. The former is my favorite book, period.

As a college student, I'm familiar with the kind of work to which your niece was "subjected." That's why I think it's important to note that these works were used as supplemental material to Dickens, Twain, Golding, Heller, Harper Lee, Homer, Hemingway, Vonnegut, Orwell, Tolkien, Arthur Miller...