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I read on Mike D'Angelo's site that the Movie Nerd Discussion Group has five ratings: PRO, pro, mixed, con, and CON. Here's how my ratings correlate:

PRO: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6; pro: 5, 4; mixed: 3, 2; con: 1; CON: 0

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2010 May242  The Ice Storm
2009 October204  The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
2009 June123  What Hath God Wrought
2009 June13  The Time Traveler's Wife
2009 May231  The Sound and the Fury
2009 May236  The Remains of the Day
2009 April307  The Greenlanders
2009 January21  Herland
2008 December281  World Made by Hand
2008 December185  The Political Culture of the American Whigs
2008 October254  The Jewish Century
2008 October124  City of Glass
2008 September52  Burr
2008 September51  Arc d'X
2008 July101  Argall
2008 June171  Civilizations
2008 May302  Lust
2008 May242  The World Without Us
2008 May131  Jealousy
2008 May103  The Confusion
2008 April71  We
2008 March247  Nineteen Eighty-Four
2008 March221  Unconquered Countries
2008 March132  The Disappearance
2008 March55  Koba the Dread
2008 February245  Animal Farm
2008 February182  Coming Up for Air
2008 February132  Homage to Catalonia
2008 January275  A Pattern Language: "Towns"
2007 December185  A Wrinkle in Time
2007 December92  Salt
2007 December12  The Road to Wigan Pier
2007 November183  Keep the Aspidistra Flying
2007 November33  Jennifer Government
2007 October153  The Dispossessed
2007 August311  A Clergyman's Daughter
2007 August200  The Fermata
2007 August21  Dr. Bloodmoney
2007 August15  The Mezzanine
2007 July182  Burmese Days
2007 July113  Down and Out in Paris and London
2007 June234  Stories of Your Life and Others
2007 June170  The Girl Who Owned a City
2007 June121  Stranger in a Strange Land
2007 May32  The Road (addendum)
2007 April246  Time's Arrow
2007 April42  The Road
2007 March314  1491
2007 February93  Berkeley 1900
2007 January275  Lanark
2007 January103  Native Son
2007 January42  Julian
2006 December191  A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
2006 December64  Air
2006 November61  Haroun and the Sea of Stories
2006 October291  The God of Small Things
2006 October232  The Code of the Woosters
2006 October185  Guns, Germs, and Steel
2006 September291  The Driver's Seat
2006 September81  V.
2006 August315  A Canticle for Leibowitz
2006 August310  Malone Dies
2006 August306  Memoirs of an Invisible Man
2006 August105  Level 7
2006 August425 books by William Sleator
2006 June180  Ape and Essence
2006 June181  Riddley Walker
2006 June183  Warday
2006 June81  The Promise of Joy
2006 June81  Come Nineveh, Come Tyre
2006 May212  Triumph
2006 May143  Tomorrow!
2006 May62  Parable of the Talents
2006 April215  White Noise
2006 March183  On the Beach
2006 March13  Alas, Babylon
2006 February143  Earth Abides
2006 February23  Parable of the Sower
2006 January255  Collapse
2005 December244  The Rivals
2005 December10  Watch Your Mouth
2005 November195  Oryx and Crake
2005 September69  Cosmos
2005 August244  Quicksilver
2005 July84  The Plot Against America
2005 June105  Freakonomics
2005 June89  Was
2005 April291  First Kyu
2005 April203  The Years of Rice and Salt
2005 March253  Pacific Edge
2005 March36  The Gold Coast
2005 February143  The Wild Shore
2004 November122  Speeches
2004 October212  Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
2004 October84  Chapters from My Autobiography
2004 October83  1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead?
2004 September31  Christian Science
2004 August262  The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
2004 August202  What Is Man?
2004 August207  The Diaries of Adam and Eve
2004 August182  The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays
2004 August145  Following the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays
2004 July172  How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
2004 July123  The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories
2004 July33  Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
2004 May174  The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins
2004 May43  Tom Sawyer Abroad
2004 April252  The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other Stories
2004 April203  The American Claimant
2004 April102  Merry Tales
2004 April85  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
2004 March265  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2004 March67  Life on the Mississippi
2004 January293  The Prince and the Pauper
2004 January26  A Tramp Abroad
2003 December165  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2003 December13Twisty Little Passages
2003 December24  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2003 November173  Sketches, New and Old
2003 October193  The Gilded Age
2003 October36  Freaky Friday
2003 August265  Roughing It
2003 July294  The Innocents Abroad
2003 May303  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories
2002 December202  Godbody
2002 November242  The Mind of a Mnemonist
2002 August302  An Army of Angels
2002 June103  Field of Schemes
2002 May92  The Pleasures of Counting
2001 December154  What It Takes
2001 November307  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
2001 November303  Lord of the Flies
2001 November302  The Discourses
2001 October184  A Confederacy of Dunces
2001 October186  Perfume
2001 October33  Cheaper by the Dozen
2001 October33  Belles on Their Toes
2001 October35  A Voyage to Arcturus
2001 September174  McTeague
2001 September152  Faster
2001 August252  The Victorian Internet
2001 August252  Longitude
2001 August42  Undaunted Courage
2001 July284  Mostly Harmless
2001 July244  The Ancient Engineers
2001 July75  Pale Fire
2001 July72  How the Irish Saved Civilization
2001 June301  Dream Children
2001 June254  How Far Can You Go?
2001 June214  The Left Hand of Darkness
2001 May273  The Demolished Man
2001 May127  A New World
2001 April152  This Star Shall Abide
2001 March132  Mathematics for the Nonmathematician
2001 January232  Tom's Midnight Garden


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