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Favorite authorsTheodor W. Adorno, Gaston Bachelard, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, William S. Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Stanley Elkin, Brian Evenson, Charles Fort, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Comte de Lautréamont, H. P. Lovecraft, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, Grant Morrison, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gene Wolfe (Shared favorites)

About meGrad student in philosophy. Should be working on my dissertation, but am probably doing something else instead.

About my libraryIn process of tagging and cleaning up my library. This might take a while or forever.

If I hate a book it will probably not be in my library, so although I will be using the 1 star rating, this does not mean that it indicates the worst book ever or something. Ratings: 1 = Did not enjoy reading it, but it's not bad enough, and is perhaps too important, to expel from my library. 1 1/2 = "Oh yeah, I read that . . . it was okay." 2 = I am glad I read it, thought it was decent, but probably will not return to it. 2 1/2 = Good. It has its problems but don't we all? 3 = Very good, but does not quite achieve greatness. 3 1/2 = Greatness I guess. 4 = Better than great, and I think about these books often. 4 1/2 = Nearly perfect. 5 = Has re-wired my brain and I have not been the same since. Basically anything 3 or 3 1/2 and up is really really good and I would recommend them without hesitation.

There is lots of stuff I have read, but really have no idea how to rate. I have not read Dune in years. And who am I to rate Aristotle's Metaphysics? The ratio of books ranked 5 is also a bit high, but that is because a really great book, like Lolita, still stands out after a few years, while The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, which did not make too much of an impression on me, will need to be reread before I rank it.

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Member sinceJul 29, 2006