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Errata: An Examined Life 6 reviews George Steiner
Yale University Press, 1999
a profound, passionate and humane thinker
+ Dense, Typically Provocative, Worthwhile + Pundit worries + At the top of western culture
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Piano Ctos 1 4 & 5 - 70th Anniversary Edition 4 reviews Glenn Gould, Bach
Sony, 2002
THE ONE AND ONLY
+ These historic recordings are excellent even by today's sound standards. + This is the perfect Glenn Gould sampler.
This disc does not amount to much in terms of playing-time, and the recorded balance is a little unfair to the orchestra, but I can still give it 5 stars at a bargain price. Sviatoslav Richter apparently said that in these performances the youthful Gould was not yet fully inside his own distinctive ...
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Trails of the Angeles: 100 Hikes in the San Gabriels 12 reviews John W. Robinson, Doug Christiansen
Wilderness Press, 2005
great classic, niclely updated
+ Methinks I'm in for it + This is THE definitive guide to hiking the San Gabriels
This book is the go to source for hiking in the San Gabriel mountains.
I have earlier editions, and was pleased to see many hikes updated and revisited and new ones added.
All previously closed or open hikes now revisited and updated.
author is handing off this book to writer of a younger ...
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Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee 4 reviews Bruce Bernard, David Dawson
Knopf, 2006
Absolutely Essential
+ Lucian Freud in conversation with models, canvas and paint + A Window into the Privacy of the Creative Mind of Lucian Freud + If you like Freud's work, you'll love this
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Four Quartets 15 reviews T. S. Eliot
Harvest Books, 1968
All art ... approaches the condition of music.
+ most famous poem of T.S. Eliot + Only through time, time is conquered + Eliot's Four Quartets + Four Quartets
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Escape to Reality: The Western World of Maynard Dixon 2 reviews Linda Jones Gibbs
Brigham Young University, Creative Works, 2001
Images of the Southwest & the streets of San Francisco
+ Some striking images
I first encountered Maynard Dixon in William N. Goetzmann's "The West of the Imagination," a book about how America's picture of the Western frontier was shaped by early painters, illustrators, filmmakers and wild west shows. Born in 1875, Dixon stepped into a tradition defined by Charles Russell ...
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New and Selected Poems: Volume One 10 reviews Mary Oliver
Beacon Press, 2005
Read These Poems Out Loud
+ Poems that are tender and profound. + New and Selected Poems, Vol one + Takes you to another dimension...
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The Right to Be Here 3 reviews Copper Wimmin
Copper Wimmin, 2005
Amazing powerful vocals
+ Copper Wimmin + magic of human voices
These womyn leave their listeners speachless. Their vocal composition and powerful honest lyrics are spellbinding. The musical addition is rich - it adds to the album's beauty. Lovely harmonies...
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Infinite Thought: Truth And The Return To Philosophy (Continuum Impacts) 5 reviews Alain Badiou
Continuum, 2005
At last French philosophy goes beyond post-modernist confabulations
+ comment on Sam's review: + Philosophy at last coming back to life. + the essays
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Eros the Bittersweet 6 reviews Anne Carson
Dalkey Archive Press, 1998
From the Classics
+ Life Changing Read + Amazing + Anne Carson's Best Book + Carson is an inspired guide
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Infinite Thought: Truth And The Return To Philosophy (Continuum Impacts) 5 reviews Alain Badiou
Continuum, 2005
At last French philosophy goes beyond post-modernist confabulations
+ comment on Sam's review: + Philosophy at last coming back to life. + the essays
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The Right to Be Here 3 reviews Copper Wimmin
Copper Wimmin, 2005
Amazing powerful vocals
+ Copper Wimmin + magic of human voices
These womyn leave their listeners speachless. Their vocal composition and powerful honest lyrics are spellbinding. The musical addition is rich - it adds to the album's beauty. Lovely harmonies...
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Trails of the Angeles: 100 Hikes in the San Gabriels 12 reviews John W. Robinson, Doug Christiansen
Wilderness Press, 2005
great classic, niclely updated
+ Methinks I'm in for it + This is THE definitive guide to hiking the San Gabriels
This book is the go to source for hiking in the San Gabriel mountains.
I have earlier editions, and was pleased to see many hikes updated and revisited and new ones added.
All previously closed or open hikes now revisited and updated.
author is handing off this book to writer of a younger ...
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Escape to Reality: The Western World of Maynard Dixon 2 reviews Linda Jones Gibbs
Brigham Young University, Creative Works, 2001
Images of the Southwest & the streets of San Francisco
+ Some striking images
I first encountered Maynard Dixon in William N. Goetzmann's "The West of the Imagination," a book about how America's picture of the Western frontier was shaped by early painters, illustrators, filmmakers and wild west shows. Born in 1875, Dixon stepped into a tradition defined by Charles Russell ...
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Eros the Bittersweet 6 reviews Anne Carson
Dalkey Archive Press, 1998
From the Classics
+ Life Changing Read + Amazing + Anne Carson's Best Book + Carson is an inspired guide
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New and Selected Poems: Volume One 10 reviews Mary Oliver
Beacon Press, 2005
Read These Poems Out Loud
+ Poems that are tender and profound. + New and Selected Poems, Vol one + Takes you to another dimension...
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Errata: An Examined Life 6 reviews George Steiner
Yale University Press, 1999
a profound, passionate and humane thinker
+ Dense, Typically Provocative, Worthwhile + Pundit worries + At the top of western culture
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Piano Ctos 1 4 & 5 - 70th Anniversary Edition 4 reviews Glenn Gould, Bach
Sony, 2002
THE ONE AND ONLY
+ These historic recordings are excellent even by today's sound standards. + This is the perfect Glenn Gould sampler.
This disc does not amount to much in terms of playing-time, and the recorded balance is a little unfair to the orchestra, but I can still give it 5 stars at a bargain price. Sviatoslav Richter apparently said that in these performances the youthful Gould was not yet fully inside his own distinctive ...
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Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee 4 reviews Bruce Bernard, David Dawson
Knopf, 2006
Absolutely Essential
+ Lucian Freud in conversation with models, canvas and paint + A Window into the Privacy of the Creative Mind of Lucian Freud + If you like Freud's work, you'll love this
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Four Quartets 15 reviews T. S. Eliot
Harvest Books, 1968
All art ... approaches the condition of music.
+ most famous poem of T.S. Eliot + Only through time, time is conquered + Eliot's Four Quartets + Four Quartets
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