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DVD/Blu-ray producer for @KinoLorber. Occasional film critic.

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Book Cover for: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Favorite books I read this year: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Backstreets - Perhat Tursun The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon

Paperback, 2020

$31.99$15.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, Perhat Tursun

The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang

Perhat Tursun
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Favorite books I read this year: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Backstreets - Perhat Tursun The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Favorite books I read this year: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Backstreets - Perhat Tursun The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon

Paperback, 2017

$20.60$10.30 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Frankenstein, Shelley Mary

Frankenstein

Shelley Mary
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

According to Dave Mustane Megadeth's new album The Sick, They Dying...and The Dead! was inspired by a screening of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994)

Paperback, 2014

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Image Book, Marcia B. Wilson

The Image Book

Marcia B. Wilson
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

The Image Book disc includes that 30-minute convo with Aragno but also a 98-minute talk by Nicole Brenez - a crash course in late Godard: https://t.co/eTxD5gJUwj https://t.co/eWCwj2gcnN

Paperback, 2013

$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Favorite books I read this year: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Backstreets - Perhat Tursun The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

According to Dave Mustane Megadeth's new album The Sick, They Dying...and The Dead! was inspired by a screening of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994)

Paperback, 1994

$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Macunaíma, Mário de Andrade

Macunaíma

Mário de Andrade
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Katrina Dodson was an invaluable help in preparing the subtitles for Kino Lorber's Blu-ray of Macunaíma, so I am thrilled that her translation of the novel is coming out in April! Get on it: https://t.co/Qr5GZ7cQVn

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Maigret

Georges Simenon
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Favorite books I read this year: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Backstreets - Perhat Tursun The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon

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Book Cover for: Pickwick Papers..., Charles Dickens

Pickwick Papers...

Charles Dickens
R. Emmet SweeneyR. Emmet Sweeney

Favorite books I read this year: The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber & David Wengrow The Backstreets - Perhat Tursun The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon

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