Found this at the local used book store. Always wanted to read it.
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If only there were enough time to read as much as I would like.
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Autolycus rated A Midsummer Night's Dream: 3 stars
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare c. 1595 or 1596. The play is set in …
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Galápagos is the eleventh novel written by American author Kurt Vonnegut. The novel questions the merit of the human brain …
Autolycus started reading Burning chrome by William Gibson
Autolycus rated The copy workshop workbook: 3 stars
Autolycus rated The Castle of Otranto: 3 stars
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Oxford world's classics)
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of …
Autolycus rated Hey, Whipple, squeeze this: 3 stars
Hey, Whipple, squeeze this by Luke Sullivan
In this new edition of the irreverent, celebrated bestseller, master copywriter Luke Sullivan looks at the history of advertising, from …
Vathek by William Beckford (Oxford world's classics)
Vathek is one of the earliest and most influential Gothic novels. Its hero is the Caliph Vathek who renounces Islam …
Autolycus rated The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 5 stars
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the …
Autolycus rated Novels 1930-1935: 4 stars
Novels 1930-1935 by William Faulkner (The Library of America -- 25)
Autolycus rated The art of rhetoric: 5 stars
The art of rhetoric by Αριστοτέλης
Conflated. Needs cleanup.
Autolycus rated Understanding scientific prose: 4 stars
Understanding scientific prose by Jack Selzer (Rhetoric of the human sciences)
Autolycus rated All the King's Men: 5 stars
Autolycus rated Syntactic structures: 5 stars
Syntactic structures by Noam Chomsky
American linguist Paul Postal wrote in 1964 that most of the "syntactic conceptions prevalent in the United States" were "versions …