books i read in 2010

[ateolf]

in the order i finished them...almost ALL of them before august (and teaching)...actually only the last one was finished in the interim...

[Poll #1663016]

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[ateolf.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorite books. The "unimportant" parts are the best parts! The book isn't the same without all of the insane ranting. What a lot of people cite as dry and boring about the book is, to me, what really makes it absolutely hilarious. The book on my list took an abridgment called Moby-Dick in Half the Time and edited together exactly and only everything that was cut out of that edition, including stuff like stray punctuation. So it takes the flip-side of what was a classic, coherent adventure story and renders it a textual, postmodern cut-up. It was a really fun read, though, uh, not for everyone. Definitely for fans of the original (and especially fans of ALL of the original).