Steven Ray rated Cuba libre: 4 stars
Cuba libre by Elmore Leonard
E-book extras: "Martin Amis Interviews 'The Dickens of Detroit'"; Elmore Leonard's "If It Sounds Like Writing, Rewrite It"; "All By …
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Sound & visual artist and poet. Former IT guy. Raised on the right coast, livin’ on the left one.
I tend to focus on poetry, social justice non-fiction, socialism, literary journals and novels.
Some favorite authors: Joan Didion, Samuel Beckett, C.D. Wright, Patti Smith and Noam Chomsky.
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Steven Ray rated The Dharma bums: 4 stars
The Dharma bums by Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts …
Steven Ray rated Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: 3 stars
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith Jane Austen, Katherine Kellgren
Great first line, it had to be polished, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of …
Steven Ray rated Brave New World: 4 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
Steven Ray rated The First Third: 3 stars
Steven Ray rated The metamorphosis and other stories: 4 stars
The metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka (Barnes & Noble classics)
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of …
Steven Ray rated Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics): 4 stars
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From [wikipedia][1]:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a novel …
Steven Ray rated The essential Rumi: 4 stars
Dzalaladdin Rumi, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi: The essential Rumi (2004, HarperSanFrancisco)
The essential Rumi by Dzalaladdin Rumi, Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the year 1207 and until the age of thirty-seven was a brilliant scholar and popular …
Steven Ray rated The Body Ghost: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Twenty love poems and a song of despair: 4 stars
Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin classics)
Steven Ray rated A Coney Island of the mind: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The subterraneans: 4 stars
The subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short …
Steven Ray rated Stranger Albert Camus: 4 stars
Stranger Albert Camus by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera …
Steven Ray rated Bodega: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Naked Lunch: 4 stars
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed …