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The Way The World Works (2012)

by Nicholson Baker(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416572473 (ISBN13: 9781416572473)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: A collection of essays. Some topics I liked, some I didn't care for - but each was written with carefully selected interesting words and I like that kind of thing. One essay I esp. liked is "One Summer". The author makes me think about and see things in a way I haven't before.Here's an example of a sentence I liked: "A tree was balancing big buds on the finger-ends of its curving branches; the brown bud coverings, which looked like gecko skins, were drawing back to reveal inner loaves of meaty magnolial pinkness."
review 2: Could revisit with pleasurenotes/quotes50..copying passages..commonplacing84..lant..add urine to wine to give kick88..vicambulist..city street wanderer89..the Nod..Updike tribute206..Kindle 2, an alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian reval... moreorization236..google earthKen auletta....Googled238..the old days, the antegoogluvian era239..line text ads..load fast and are supposedly "polite"..don't flicker and popup240..G-VOICE..CAN EMAIL TRANSCRIPTS OF VM MESSAGES....242..S Jobs..copy247..WHY I'M A PACIFIST257..cf pearl harbor & 9-11259..final solution accelerated by US entry to the war....Jews lost their value as hostages313..I want to write a book called "The way the world works"..get this ambition most powerfully when I have the feeling that i have right now, that everything is simple. I know I'll never write the book. less

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