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A Reader's Tastes Are Peculiar. Choosing Books To Read Is Like Making Your Way Down A Remote And Winding Path. Your Stops On That Path Are Always Idiosyncratic. One Book Leads To Another And Another The Way One Thought Leads To Another And Another. My Type Of Reader Is The Sort Who Burrows Through The Stacks In The Bookstore Or The Library (or The Web Site — Stacks Are Stacks), Yielding To Impulse And Instinct.

'ape House' Is An Ambitious Novel In Several Ways, For Which It Is To Be Admired, And It Is Certainly An Easy Read, But Because Gruen Is Not Quite Prepared For The Philosophical Implications Of Her Subject, It Is Not As Deeply Involving Emotionally Or As Interesting Thematically As It Could Be.

When People Leave, They Always Seem To Scoop Themselves Out Of You.

Well, In Fact Everybody - Everybody - In The Entire Nation Has Enough Stuff In Their Life To Write About That's Interesting That They Could Write Their Autobiography. And In The End That's Why I Find People Interesting.

Americans Took A Great Deal Too Much Credit For Creating Wealth, When Most Of The Time They Had Really Just Been Living Off Natural Bounty Unprecedented In The History Of The World.