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Jessica Rayne jessicarayne — James Baldwin is probably the reason that I would go back to grad school and throw my twenties away in some hidden library carrel. However, I think I will just teach him in a high school class sometime. Violent, passionate, about love, New York in the 50s, writing, race in America, being black, being white, hate. The American Novel. I read it in one weekend, but I don't recommend it. Take your time with it. I still don't fully understand it, but am hoping to go back to it soon.

Adam Sacco soulty — An excellent book with some very good lessons which really do aid in re-thinking a view of weight and food. A few of her suggestions I found slightly unhelpful, but only a few, the majority of her insights are very good and the course of actions she recommends are truly helpful and worthwhile. I'm starting over reading it again because there is a lot to digest even though it's not a very big book. Really processing the information takes time. But is worth it. I wouldn't let the title "spiritual" lessons throw you - I mean, maybe there are some people who have no belief in a spiritual side and maybe the book wouldn't be helpful for them, but I think most people could utilize the lessons here without having to embrace any particular belief system. It's really more about believing in yourself, regardless of any other spiritual or religious belief system you might have.

Yong Vang mandykue313001 — I had begun and stoppped reading this book several times before now. Glad I finished. Safran Foer structures the book somewhat disjointedly. Readers of his fiction won't find that strange, but for a non-fiction book that is (at least on some level) making an argument that he hopes will convince others... it seemed a little strange. On to the content, though. The book could be retitled "The Case Against Factory Farming," and in this he succeeds with all pistons firing. It seems hard to me to see how the case can be made to support such practices, and the fact that I have personally been able to ignore or forget a lot of it says something about how disconnected I am (dare I say 'we'?) from the systems and the processes and the industries that produce food. I liked that Safran Foer isn't afraid to complicate the argument. This book isn't just a straightforward slam-dunk case for veganism, though following certain parts to their logical conclusions might be such. The alternatives to factory farming that he highlights are so small-scale that it's hard to see how they are anything outside interesting edge and exception cases. Also, the fact that the practices of the US meat industry (where many of the commonplace practices were begun) are now spreading to other parts of the world -- China, India and Europe -- makes the bits of the book about factory farming the most important, I felt. To me, a lot of it came down to this quote: "Whether we’re talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that’s not the question. Is it more important than sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That’s the question." Safran Foer -- in an attempt to make the book readable, I'm guessing -- leaves out a bunch of side issues relating to our eating animals, most notably things relating to human labour and the environment, but it's tough to write books and this one already does a lot.

Sharon Sarmiento sharon_design — Culmination of all love stories I have read till date. Strangely evocative!

Ludger Banneke-wilking banneke_wi4381 — Fun little exercise in what happens when you approach pure rationality as far as you can. Also has some great perspectives on daily life, hobbies and other things.

Nick Milodragovich nick340d — Better than his other works-- This massive 726-page comedy in unattributed dialogue is a thick, tough read. I wouldn't say the story is amazing, but it is entertaining enough to keep reading AFTER the first 150 pages which comprises the story's slow, uneventful, and often boring beginning. After spending a month going through it, I think that William Gaddis is a great writer of dialogue and a mediocre storyteller with a good sense of humor. The way he captures spoken American English is simply genius. W/r/t his sense of humor, I did laugh out loud at parts, but didn't think him as funny as DFW. And the story. It's there, and unlike other modern/postmodern works, it's got an ending which is always nice (unlike DeLillo's Underworld or Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow), and an entertaining plot (in stark contrast to Joyce's Ulysses and Beckett's trilogy), but due to the sheer abundance of characters, the story has no focus and I never made any connection and identified with any of them (although I was rather fond of Jack Gibbs). JR is also better than his other works I read - A Frolic of His Own (which was frustrating to read at parts because I thought a lot of the scenes were pointless) and Agapē Agape (just an old dying man rambling about his work throughout). Like other modern and postmodern works, the book has everything going against itself to be read by the general public despite winning the National Book Award. Characters and company names abound, story continues without any chapter break as characters' voices come and go, and the business transactions that form the spine of the story are highly complex and difficult to keep track of. The main difficulties in going through this novel are: 1) figuring out who's talking and what's going on from the dialogue, which fortunately gets easier as you slog through the story and get used to the lilt and locution of the characters; and 2) keeping track of all the people and companies' names and business deals and understanding how they are all related to one another. Overall, a good comedy with amazing dialogue. It just takes patience to go through.