Favorite Books of 1997
.Just like the last one, this is somewhat late… although almost a year less so. Because I stopped keeping track of the books I read for most of that year, this list of recommendations is going to be rather short.
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Just like the last one, this is somewhat late… although almost a year less so. Because I stopped keeping track of the books I read for most of that year, this list of recommendations is going to be rather short.
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I might not watch television per se, but I do watch shows on DVD, and this is a list of my favorites.
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Okay, so this is a little late… but 1996 is the first year I kept (sporadic) track of what I read, mainly during the time I was living in Berlin. This is some commentary (on the books from that year that I can still remember…).
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Last night I finally finished Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, after fourteen days of slogging through it. It contributed to his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, and has a host of admirers (as seen in the Amazon reviews, for example). I couldn’t stand it.
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I went to see this about ten days ago and it was fantastic. Raymond Chandler noir in a high school. Completely amazing dialogue. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time. Seth and I were both stunned by how great it was. Go see it.
(It’s a Wonderful Life) x (-1) = The Butterfly Effect
Three incredibly skillful assassins give up their lives in this dramatic paean to centralized state power.