Tom Shapira Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vladimir Voinovich
Can Batman beat Ivan Chonkin (from The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin). No. Batman is more skilled and brave; luck, however, is with Chonkin and Batman would find himself face down in shit.
Paperback, 1995
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Popeye: Let's You and Him Fight!
E. C. Segar
There are two perfect comics: E. C. Segar's Popeye Tove Jansson's Moomin. Everything else exists in their shadow
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) Olga Tokarczuk https://t.co/IhQcuPTogL
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pierre
Herman Melville
Fine, I admit it. It's me. I'm the guy breaking into people's houses with copies of Melville [Herman] books and Melville [Jean-Pierre] DVDs and forcing them to read and watch under gunpoint.
Paperback, 2017
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Superfudge
Judy Blume
As a child I also grew up with Judy Blume's fantastic Warhammer books, including "Are You There God-Emperor? It's Me, Margaret", "Tales of a Fourth Quadrant Rebellion", "It's Not the End of the World (Unless the Tyranids Arrive)" and "Superfudge"
Paperback, 2007
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee
Tom Scioli
Read Tom Scioli's I Am Stan sampler from FCBD. Not good https://t.co/5jJKt3jF0i
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Plays
William Shakespeare
Who wrote the plays of William Shakespeare?
Paperback, 2010
$33.75$16.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dubliners
James Joyce
Would you believe... The people and places of James Joyce's Dubliners? https://t.co/KRXzHO5YVu
Paperback, 1993
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Moomin: Volume 2: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Tove Jansson
There are two perfect comics: E. C. Segar's Popeye Tove Jansson's Moomin. Everything else exists in their shadow
Hardcover, 2007
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
True Grit
Charles Portis
Library of America just published a complete Charles Portis collection and I just might have to read True Grit at least...
Paperback, 2010
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book