Review-a-Day for Sat, Nov 7: Meditations (Modern Library Classics)
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Meditations (Modern Library Classics) by Aurelius Marcus, a review from Powells.com by Doug Brown.
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1989 books
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The fall of Communism Wall stories Nov 5th 2009 From The Economist print edition How communism in eastern Europe collapsed, and what came next. Scholars and journalists give their account Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment . By Stephen Kotkin. Modern Library; 197 pages; $24. Buy from Amazon.com 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall . By Peter Millar. Arcadia;...
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The fall of Communism: Wall stories
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
How communism in eastern Europe collapsed, and what came next. Scholars and journalists give their account Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment. By Stephen Kotkin. Modern Library; 197 pages; $24. Buy from Amazon.com 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall. By Peter Millar. Arcadia; 220 pages; GBP11.99. To be published in America by Arcadia in April 2010; $16.95....
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Ready for Her Close-Up -- Re-examining Ayn Rand's place in American intellectual and cultural life
hamid & company (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Nick Gillespie | October 7, 2009 Ayn Rand and the World She Made . By Anne C. Heller. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 567 pp. $35 Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right . By Jennifer Burns. Oxford Univ. Press. 369 pp. $27.95 Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, have sold more than 12 million...
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Brian Flaherty: Let's talk about sexonomics
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
When the Modern Library polled more than 200,000 readers in 1998 to compile its 100 Best Novels list, voters in the poll selected writer Ayn Rand, an objectivist novelist, as the clear winner. Books by Rand took the top two spots and a total of four places in the top 10.
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"It was only during the age of candlelight that the race of ghosts really flourished," or, Edmund Wilson as uncanny anthologist
Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Since first discovering the giant Modern Library anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural last fall, I've admired it as much for its timing as for its quality: it was published in early 1944, when the war, though going far better than it had been a few years before, was still a long way from being over. I love picturing editors Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise drawing up a list of stories,...
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The Strongest Argument for Christianity
The Secular Outpost (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
In a major departure from my usual debunking mode, I am going to offer what I consider the strongest argument in favor of Christianity. No, let me hasten to assure everyone, I am not going all “Tony Flew” here. I think the arguments for the existence of God, whether considered individually or cumulatively, are totally worthless. Some theistic arguments are inferior specimens of a very dubious...
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Modern Library Revue: #95 Under the Net
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Someone once said (it was me) that Iris Murdoch wrote so many novels that if you are in the mood to read something by her, there is probably a fresh one available.
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Bunch your matter and count the pages.
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight Back to widget time. Really. Just want to sell some books, even if this internet thing is part of the reason why lovable stores like Black Oak (and Cody's, of course) are long gone. So, here's some stuff you should read, and probably own, if you haven't/don't already, along with some quick plugs for some DVDs (released and yet to be released) that I'll be bringing up and blogging...
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Belle's Library - Szabó Ervine Library
Ink and Paper (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Belle's Library is an Ink and Paper feature which shines the spotlight on beautiful libraries across the world - ones that inspire great awe and make you catch your breath when seeing them, like the library given to Belle in Beauty and the Beast. This week I'm featuring the Szabó Ervine Library in Budapest. Thank you so much to Szilvia Adrienn Szabó for letting me know about this gorgeous...
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Re-examining Ayn Rand's place in American intellectual and cultural life
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Nick Gillespie reviews two new books on Rand, Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns: Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged , have sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone and were ranked first...
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New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on Ayn Rand's Place in American Life
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged , have sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone and were ranked first and second in a 1998 Modern Library reader survey of the "greatest books" of the 20th century. Yet over the years, Rand's writing has been routinely dismissed as juvenile...
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Ayn Rand: Ready for her closeup (Reason Writers Around Town)
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
In The Wilson Quarterly , Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie reviews two brand-spankin' new (and largely sympathetic) biographies of Ayn Rand. A snippet: Has any major postwar American author taken as much critical abuse as Ayn Rand? Her best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged , have sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone and were ranked first and second in a 1998 Modern...
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Modern Library Revue: #78 Kim
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Kipling, I have observed, is catnip to gentlemen over a certain age; how far they are over that age determines how much they own up to his allure.
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Ironweed.
The dish (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Klaw links: Yesterday’s chat transcript. Yesterday’s hit on Mike & Mike in the Morning. A quick take on Pittsburgh’s 2010 rotation and on the Angels’ complaints about Wednesday’s umpiring. William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Ironweed, which also appeared at #92 on the Modern Library 100, is the third novel in his Albany Cycle, which started with [...]...
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The World According to Garp | Download The World According to Garp Movie
jetsz | 15/09/2009
Want to download "The World According to Garp" full movie online ? Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download "The World According to Garp". "Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other,...