![Emad Attely [The Book Nerd]](http://booklikes.com/photo/crop/60/60/upload/avatar/80/22/766071c173b4128cd3c1dbb4ed905ff9.jpg)
it's Boring Boring Boring!I'm glad I didn't buy it!It has some beautiful lines though.
Grrr. This is the only book I brought with me today, for when I finished [b:Red Scarf Girl|413432|Red Scarf Girl|Ji-li Jiang|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1174522009s/413432.jpg|2411038]. Something light and amusing, I thought, for after the downer.Well, it is light, in the sense that it is printed o...
Reasons why Shields is unlikeable: 1) Reads gf's journal 2) Spends a lot of pages recounting sexual exploits 3) Takes a potshot at Toni Morrison 4) Thinks everyone needs to get over copyright law 5) Already labels books as artifacts 6) "James Joyce? Brother worked too hard." REALLY.I can dislike hi...
Not my cup of tea In this series of essays author David Shields examines what he's learned from great literature--for this he includes texts as varied as Spiderman and ancient Greek drama--then applies it to his personal life and the general human condition. Since literature has also been an impor...
When people ask me, “What do people mean when they talk about personal essay?” I can do no better than refer them to this book.David Shields combines info about the gradual decline and decay of the body with stories about his own life at fifty-one and stories about the life of his father, now 97. Ab...
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