Page Count Grade 0-9 Date I finished Source (FPL: Fargo Public Library, MSU: Minnesota State University Moorhead Library)
After all the build up that my sister gave me it was a little anti-climatic. There is no erotic content only blood lust. The coldness of the book was cool haha. Also she doesn't write that well, especially coming off Nabakov. But in the end the story wins out over the few flaws. 346 pages 6.0 1/7/92 Craig
Rice's writing has improved, of course this book was written in 1986 vs 1976 for "Interview.." The story is better as well 550 pages 7.0 1/11/92 Craig
As the series progresses the powers of the Vampires grow as does the "tall tale" aspect. She should have brought it down to Earth. 491 pages 6.0 1/20/92 Craig
Better than the vampires? More sex more mystery 398 pages 7.0 1/27/92 Craig
Some of these criticism books are okay this one's writing was too dense to understand. 101 pages 3.0 2/4/92 MSU
At some point half way through the book it became obvious that John was content to torture the charactor like Nabakov or Amis would do, but to have a go after me as well. Using the reader's, suspension of disbelief against me! The key is Malvolio (Hamlet?) The writing style was okay; an interesting line: I still couldn't accept that this was not some nightmare, like a freak binding in a book, a Lawernce novel becomes, at the turn of a page, one by Kafka. On Feb 19 I read Part 3 of the first version. I wasn't much different, even the ending was only slighty different with Nicholas trying to make his own Godgame but we still don't know what occurs. He doesn't actually get to sleep with Lily that first time. The other sexual parts seem the same. 656 pages 9.0 2/5/92 MSU
Many pronouns, reminds me of Edgar Rice Burrough's style, only Tarzan never took his own life. 411 pages 5.0 2/7/92 MSU
Simple Chaos theory, but he doesn't explain it very well and I don't agree with many of his points. I ran out of time and patience. 141 pages 3.0 2/8/92 MSU
The charactor trys to help out his friends and family but gets no where. The day I finished it I felt that way about Mom's outburst at the diner table. I was alittle erie read about feelings one is currently experiencing. 630 pages 6.0 2/19/92 MSU
Two view points; the victom's and the victomizer's. Interesting how she spents all day thinking about GP sort of an old (old guy) flame who was the opposite of the collector. 305 pages 7.0 2/24/92 MSU
Nuclear Winter and the end of the arms race. Since when has logic had anything to do with politics and the military, but the book does sound a hopeful note along with the horrors of the bomb. 301 pages 6.0 3/2/92 FPL
More interesting hints on using the Mac. 612 pages 7.0 3/7/92 FPL
Victor told me to read these Feldman books. The pieces are short and easy to read but only a few items are that interesting: like the shape of various chocolates and their fillings. 239 pages 5.0 3/10/92 MSU
Mortality and the decy of life? Americans in Europe. The writing was great, the story was good, but I had a hard time reading it. 315 pages 6.0 3/10/92 FPL
Not as funny as the christmas story but parts were namely; The Rosetta Stone of American Culture(Johnson Smith Catolog) and The Indy 500 269 pages 6.0 3/11/92 FPL
Some of it was interesting, inlightening and amusing but a lot of it was dull. Even the photographs weren't that interesting. Two,three years ago I would have loved this book but now it seems stupid although the Atlantis/Mu part was fun. Enoch seems like something worth looking into. 253 pages 5.0 3/14/92 FPL
Same old story, rewrite standard marketing/management text and use exambles that prove your theory. However the books examples were interesting and funny. It also made me feel good as it turns out I'm a political 'Straight Arrow' and dad looks good in the eyes of the book. 322 pages 5.0 3/17/92 FPL
More stupid questions answered 245 pages 5.0 3/18/92 MSU
It's a great idea and Martin goes a long way to pulling it off. The story of a guy living another's life backwards is okay, but then I knew what was gonna happen which spoiled it. It's short and almost doubled spaced; a novella. 168 pages 6.0 3/20/92 FPL
Designing Effective Publications With Your Computer
Some of the examples were good and most of the information in the book I already know. 252 pages 5.0 3/26/92 FPL
536 pages, a collection of various writings, I only read the poems and a few pieces I didn't remember reading until I started them 50 pages 5.0 3/30/92 MSU
Lives Of The Mayfair Witches
Slow in spots, but it is by far the best book by Anne Rice. She ends the book with out tieing up the lose-ends ie. she'll write a sequel. 965 pages 7.0 3/30/92 FPL
This book is full of good advice, but I'm not ready to work that hard at it. However if I ever have a problem with someone I'll know were to look. 225 pages 7.0 4/4/92 MSU
I was surprised that this book is a comedy, and a good one at that, even with the subject of old time baseball. 400 pages 8.0 4/10/92 MSU
A good collection of short stories with few repeats from the other collections; only one I think. 214 pages 6.0 4/14/92 MSU
A short story close to the Magus. I didn't get to finish any of the other stories (274 pages) 105 pages 7.0 4/19/92 MSU
An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
It fit my mood perfectly. The lone Beat writes about his High School, College and "What I did during the war" days. 280 pages 6.0 5/1/92 MSU
I found this book slightly better than Persumed Innocent which I thought was great. (The made for TV movie isn't anywere near as good as P.I.) The book's ending was disappointing, just killing Dixon is a cheap way out. 515 pages 7.0 5/6/92 MSU
I suddenly stopped reading the book because after a hot start with Sharon(?) and the Zuchinni, Roth drops her for some problem child, it made me mad, besides the fact he had told this story before. (330 odd pages) 47 pages 3.0 5/10/92 MSU
Clarified a few points but that was all. I still want to know which is the best ink?! 137 pages 5.0 5/12/92 MSU
Jack's first love and his High School through College/ Maritime days. His dad's plays a large roll in this one. I got the book on the Interlibrary Loan Program from Valley City State University Library. 194 pages 7.0 5/22/92 FPL
From on top of Desolation peak to San Francisco to see Neil Cassady, to Mexico to see old Wm Burroughs, to New York to see Allen Ginsberg, to Tangiers & Paris & London to find out he misses the USA, to Florida to get his ma to San Francisco to find out she wants to go back; all before "On the Road" is published. The same time frame as "Lonesome Traveler" I got the book on the Interlibrary Loan Program from Mayville State University Library. 366 pages 7.0 6/1/92 FPL
Now that Asimov is dead, I was surprised at how poorly his work aged. The robot ideas are used in stupid ways and the money is laughable. (He must not have taken inflation into account!) I can't see how Robots would allow more leasure time - more unemployment and more hussling to make a buck seem more likely. 482 pages 5.0 6/10/92 FPL
of the 382 pages, I only read from World War II, namely to get an idea of what magazines are out there. Unfortunately there were too many to do me any good. Interesting storys. 155 pages 5.0 6/23/92 FPL
The prose was beautiful. The book came all the way from an Iowa college thru the interlibrary loan program. 97 pages 7.0 6/28/92 FPL
Dickens is getting to be hard to take. Those old Victoria social mores in particular. Too many coincedences. 454 pages 5.0 6/30/92 FPL
Jack's little brother the saint. A sad tender tale. This book came from the University of San Diego thru the interlibrary loan program. 130 pages 6.0 7/5/92 FPL
A pretty good overview of religion as taught at Harvard. A short bio of the author's Jewish experience in America. 283 pages 5.0 7/8/92 FPL
Life On The New Frontier
Interesting book on real state and the new social order. The 'Laws' were great. 471 pages 7.0 7/18/92 FPL
How To Make Your Business Grow Safely & Profitably
It was all common sense stuff, nothing very illuminating and the writing was 'Matter-of-fact'. I did think that looking toward your smaller competitor rather than your large competitors for innovation was a good idea. 188 pages 2.0 7/20/92 FPL
At first I wasn't that impressed, but then I read a few outloud and they took on new life. I read over half of them outloud, whenever the house was empty, even taped a few for Victor. Playing the Kerouac tape I found I was reading them too fast. 244 pages 7.0 7/23/92 FPL
The story of some young engineers in the basement of Data General building the new Eagle computer under tight deadlines and little management. Reads like a thriller. 293 pages 6.0 8/11/92 FPL
A glimps at the name physicist of quantum mechanics but not much of an explaination. 165 pages 5.0 8/23/92 FPL
A great overview of the world, up to date too. A disappointing look at the US economy and no mention of the mash he make of the economy during his administration. 309 pages 6.0 8/23/92 FPL
A book of Ross quotes, but it was still interesting. 189 pages 5.0 8/26/92 FPL
Sub titled "How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date." I maybe should give it an A- The book is pretty funny and quite informative. 316 pages 7.0 8/27/92 FPL
Extreme Close Up
Funny, picture book 96 pages 6.0 9/8/92 FPL
I read it in one sitting, whereas Suz had it for the full two weeks. I had it reserved right after her. It was funny but having read most of it in Rolling Stone it didn't have quite the tooth it did the first time. 233 pages 7.0 9/8/92 FPL
In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity
I only read the intro. That was as boring as a term paper so I did feel like reading any further. Besides I've read another Niels bio before. (546 pages) 29 pages 3.0 9/10/92 FPL
I orginially borrowed this tomb from Bob in order to read Connecticut Yankee, but then I got carried away and started readin in a random manor. So I had most of it read so I decided to finish the job. I ranged from roaringly funny to dry in spots. The order of storys I read are: 1. Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court 2. Innocents Abroad (part 1&2) 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5. The Prince and the Pauper 1289 pages 7.0 9/12/92 Bob
I got this from Vic, It was stupid. Why couldn't they think of anything funny? 95 pages 1.0 9/29/92 Vic
A great biography with insights into the books. " My job! I replied: "Ask me what I can do, not what I do, lovely girl, lovely wake of the sun through semitransparent black fabric… I can compose patches of poetry as strange and new as you are, or as anything a person may write three hundred years hence, but I have never published one scrap of verse except some juvenile nonsense at college I can levitate one inch high and keep it up for ten seconds, but cannot climb an apple tree… I have fallen in love with you but shall do nothing about it. In short I am an all-around genius." TRANSPARENT THINGS 669 pages 7.0 10/1/92 FPL
The Life Of Marlene Dietrich
I didn't realize that she slept around so freely. She was a prisoner of her own creation. A young sex godess, she was in her 30's at the time, which is hard to believe. 302 pages 5.0 10/2/92 FPL
A great overview of the war and various weapon systems, although it is lightly biased to the navy. Not surprising as it's published by the Naval Institute Press. 424 pages 7.0 10/9/92 FPL
Great story. The Large Print was a little hard to read! haha. I even guessed the ending right. Unusual for me. hee hee. I got this from Victor who had it on reserve. 581 pages 7.0 10/12/92 FPL
Same stuff in Rolling Stone, with a few new piece. Great intro on Liberals haha 233 pages 6.0 10/15/92 FPL
After waiting all summer for this book, it was a terrible let down. Bill believes we should all have basic general information on everything like growing our own food. If we did, we'd never have time for anything else! 252 pages 2.0 10/17/92 FPL
This last collection od short stories came from NDSSS, they seem to have a lot of Nabokov for a tech school. 179 pages 6.0 10/23/92 FPL
Compared to his other novels it wasn't that good. He cried over the breakup with his Japanese girlfriend through most of the Sombrero story. This book came from UND. 187 pages 5.0 10/27/92 FPL
Great first novel. I read it in four days. I finished it between 12:30 and 2:00AM, even though I was tired I couldn't put it down. 515 pages 8.0 11/1/92 Victor
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Almost the same theroy(?) as McKibben's book but put forward much better than Technology is good but it brings it's own social luggage along. 199 pages 6.0 11/7/92 FPL
Great Read, I miss SF. I read the last 300+ pages in one setting. 502 pages 7.0 11/13/92 FPL
Written at sub moron level, it was boring. Windows is a stupid interface, not that close too Mac, barely a GUI. 179 pages 1.0 11/15/92 FPL
I waited so long for this book, which i first read about in Rolling Stone about three years ago. I ordered thru interlibrary loan. I showed being in stock at UND and that next week I got another book from UND but not Gilligan so I figured the FPL makes editorial judgements and didn't order it. But they did, from the U of M! The text wasn't that interesting but it did have episode summarys and a good collection of pictures. 313 pages 4.0 11/22/92 FPL
Companion to the PBS Television series. Interesting but most of it is a rehash of info I already knew. Some of the photos and addendums to the text are interesting. 312 pages 5.0 11/26/92 FPL
Somewhat funny in places, Which is okay becasue my leg hurt too much to allow me to laugh. 236 pages 6.0 12/8/92 FPL
Some interesting real spy stories, Some of the best did very little cloak and dagger. Also some big sell outs such as Fuchs who gave the USSR our bomb secrets. It has been said of Fuck, for instance, that "on matters outside his special province he could not even be considered an intelligent adolescent." 260 pages 6.0 12/11/92 FPL
My Life Inside Rock And Out
From escaping the Nazi in Europe to Reagan's trip to Bitzburg. Stories of the bands: Stones, the Who etc. 546 pages 7.0 12/17/92 FPL
Another large print edition, but this one wasn't as hard to read. The book was very exciting and Darby was a great heroine. 642 pages 7.0 12/20/92 FPL
Adventures In Geography
He started off great but ended up parroting facts. 386 pages 2.0 12/23/92 FPL
What will Tom write about after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Even this book lost a biy of it's edge. I made the mistake of reading a bit before bed near the end… I couldn't put it down until I was finished! 547 pages 7.0 12/29/92 Victor