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I'm wondering if this GRE prep book was maybe a waste of money: I've taken most of the sample tests and the recent scores are about the same as the first. Also I'm deeply distrustful of preparation guides in general. I got one out of the library the night before I took the SAT, earned high 1500s on two sample tests and went to bed happy. I got I think 1370. Not the end of the world but the library deserved its money back. Also the questions I'm missing in this GRE book are too frequently equivocal or insane, esp. the ones for Reading Comprehension (my personal trouble area, apparently); I hope against hope that these aren't representative of the actual exam. Clearly my vanity plan of drilling my way to 1600 won't pan out; but my position's precarious enough given my education history that I need to score as high as I'm capable of. Anyone who's gone through this have any tips?

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Objects I've been pining for:

My very own pinball machine.
Handheld electronic Poker/Solitaire/Blackjack thingie.
A really tall bookshelf with pocket pb-size shelves.
A box of puppies.

Amphigorey Too
Amphigorey Also

Dickinson's 3v Letters--back from my sister.
Crowley's Love & Sleep
Valery's Poems, Bollingen
Morris' The Earthly Paradise
Swinburne's Posthumous Poems
Beddoes' Works, ed. Donner
(B.V.) Thomson's Poems
Carson's Economy of the Unlost
Goethe's Scientific Writings, Princeton
Hofmannsthal's Poems and Early Verse Plays
Mann's Essays of Three Decades
Borges' Bustos Domecq books.
Ammons' Collected Poems: '51-'71
The Oxford Ibsen, V1 & V2
Rest of the Longman edition of Shelley.

And these unreleased ones:

Summer With Monika and many other Bergmans.
Lost Highway, Widescreen
The Devils uncut, Mahler and other crazy Ken Russell films.

Melville's Poems and Manuscript Works, Northwestern
Amphigorey Again
Bishop's Edgar Allen Poe and the Jukebox
Bishop's long-lost books for children.
Carson's version of Euripides' Hecuba
The Crowley/Bloom/Peter Milton 25th Anniversary Little, Big.

If they ever come out, I'd like to glance at:

Twin Peaks, 2nd Season
Greenaway's Tulse Luper Suitcases
Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain