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Thoughts and reflections on works of fiction and literature. Pondering of life through pictures and words. Babbling about gay rights. Travelogues and anecdotes.

Book Reviews

  • [1] Annie Proulx: Brokeback Mountain
  • [2] Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
  • [3] Yu Hua: To Live
  • [4] Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
  • [5] Colm Toibin: The Master
  • [6] Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind
  • [7] William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • [8] Charles Higham: The Civilization of Angkor
  • [9] Graham Greene: A Burnt-Out Case
  • [10] Dai Sijie: Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
  • [11] Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library
  • [12] Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
  • [13] Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship
  • [14] Alan Hollinghurst: The Folding Star
  • [15] Ross King: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
  • [16] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
  • [17] Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
  • [18] Colm Toibin: The Story of the Night
  • [19] John Banville: Shroud
  • [20] Leo Tolstoy: Resurrection
  • [21] Peter Hessler: River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze
  • [22] Ian McEwan: The Atonement
  • [24] Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera
  • [25] Ignacio Padilla: Shadow without a Name
  • [26] Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
  • [27] Richard Russo: Straight Man
  • [28] Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
  • [29] Alan Hollinghurst: The Spell
  • [30] Hermann Broch: The Death of Virgil
  • [31] James Baldwin: Giovanni's Room
  • [32] Ken Kesey: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • [33] Xingjian Gao: One Man's Bible
  • [34] C. Jay Cox: Latter Days
  • [35] Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
  • [36] William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
  • [37] Daniel A. Helminiak: What The Bible Really Says about Homosexuality
  • [38] James Baldwin: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
  • [39] Kenji Yoshino: Covering - The Hidden Assault of Civil Rights
  • [40] Italo Calvino: If, On a Winter's Night A Traveler
  • [41] Arthur Phillips: The Egyptologist
  • [42] George Orwell: 1984
  • [43] Michael Warner: The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and Ethics of Queer Life
  • [44] Andrew Sullivan: Virtually Normal
  • [45] Henry James: The Wings of the Dove
  • [46] Jose Saramago: Blindness
  • [47] Umberto Eco: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
  • [48] Dan Brown: Da Vinci Code
  • [49] Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
  • [50] Ken Follett: The Pillars of Earth
  • [51] Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
  • [52] Michael Thomas Ford: Alec Baldwin Doesn't Like Me
  • [53] Jonathan Franzen: How To Be Alone
  • [54] Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
  • [55] Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club
  • [56] Zadie Smith: White Teeth
  • [57] Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Double
  • [58] Jose Saramago: The Double
  • [59] Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance
  • [60] Heinrich von Kleist: The Marquise of O & Other Stories
  • [61] Andrew Holleran: In September, the Light Changes
  • [62] Tom Perrotta: Little Children
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    December 29, 2006

     

    A Few Light Fares to Complement the 50 Things

    I consider myself a little weird and picky...but...
    You Are 90% Weird

    You're more than quirky, you're downright strange.
    But you're also strangely compelling, like a cult leader.


    Friends make up part of my life. They have modled and pruned me.
    You Are A Good Friend

    You're always willing to listen
    Or lend a shoulder to cry on
    You're there through thick and thin
    Many people consider you their "best friend"!


    And this one really hits home...
    How You Are In Love

    You take a while to fall in love with someone. Trust takes time.

    You give completely and unconditionally in relationships.

    You tend to get very attached when you're with someone. You want to see your love all the time.

    You love your partner unconditionally and don't try to make them change.

    You stay in love for a long time, even if you aren't loved back. When you fall, you fall hard.


    Happy New Year!

    Permalink posted by mattviews at 5:53 PM

    5 Comments:

    Blogger matty said...

    This tests are fun and it often surprising to see how on the money they can be --- however, I took the first one and it says the following:

    You Are 70% Weird
    You're so weird, you think you're *totally* normal. Right?
    But you wig out even the biggest of circus freaks!

    ...I was expecting a rating below 20% because I am very normal. Don't ya think?!?!?

    12/29/2006 7:50 PM  
    Blogger johnNokc said...

    I am so totally depressed. I'm only 30% weird. Hell, that practically makes me a Republican. Gork. I'm really depressed. I think I'll go eat a chocolate cake.

    12/29/2006 8:10 PM  
    Blogger Unknown said...

    Happy New Year from Kelly and Jeff!

    12/30/2006 8:43 AM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    I'm 80% weird. No wonder we click. LOL

    1/01/2007 2:32 PM  
    Anonymous Anonymous said...

    For the up coming year....! Thanks for the beautiful lines .......Currently I am not but on a new year party who knows what happens....It's really something I love about..Thanks for that...

    9/28/2007 10:14 PM  

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