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Book hint: mail them to yourself Media Rate (used to be called Library Rate). Not too expensive. They'll get there in a week or so.

Posted by Fnarf | May 31, 2008 1:22 PM
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Murakami will always be weird, even if his work is nonfiction. That is what makes him so delightful as an author, a surreality in all things that still seems to make sense.

Posted by Jaye | May 31, 2008 1:41 PM
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the one about celine dion is by carl wilson, and its the most impt book about taste and popular culture i have read in a decade, esp. in how it realtes it to geography, gender, sexuality, race and class,

Posted by anthony | May 31, 2008 2:32 PM
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Murakami could write a menu or directions on how to assemble a box and it would be the best fucking read in the history of the world...

Posted by M | May 31, 2008 3:06 PM
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@3 -- you meant to write "important", right? I agree -- it's the best 33 1/3 I've read.

Posted by Fnarf | May 31, 2008 3:29 PM
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Can we get some comments about the weird photos you're using to illustrate these posts? Thanks.

Posted by Gurldoggie | June 1, 2008 12:14 AM
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I'm hearing a lot of buzz about THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS by Andre Dubus III - and that was before Stephen King's article in EW! Pick it up if you haven't and it's available!

Posted by booklova | June 1, 2008 4:45 AM
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Cosign on the Celine Dion 33 1/3 book. Required reading for pop music critics.

Posted by Eric Grandy | June 1, 2008 11:03 AM

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