Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
By: Arthur C. Danto
3.90
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
In this collection of interconnected essays, Arthur C. Danto argues that Andy Warhol's Brillo Box o…
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1. The Bridge
By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler
4.08
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more
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"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."-Hart Crane, The Bridge
"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"-Hart Crane, The Bridge
2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
By: William Gibson
3.89
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more
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"Boy, I was daid."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
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"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
3. Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
By: Gerri Hirshey
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music is a unique oral history. Here are the recollections of man… read more
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4. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.10
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more
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"Only the autodidacts are free."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
5. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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"Fou!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
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"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
6. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen
4.41
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more
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7. Mort (Death, #1; Discworld, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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8. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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9. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
On Discworld, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is … read more
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10. Money
By: Martin Amis
3.69
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 20… read more
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"Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch."-Martin Amis, Money
"Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it."-Martin Amis, Money
"Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback"-Martin Amis, Money
11. The Golden Bowl
By: Henry James , Gore Vidal , Patricia Crick
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter M… read more
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12. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
13. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
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15. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
16. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.34
Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more
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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
17. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
18. The Age of American Unreason
By: Susan Jacoby
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American c… read more
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19. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three wit… read more
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20. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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21. Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective
By: Arthur C. Danto
3.90
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
In this collection of interconnected essays, Arthur C. Danto argues that Andy Warhol's Brillo Box o… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- visual art
