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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
deceptively simple
"The Black Swan" may seem to be a simple concept, but the implications are more complex and deep than may appear at first glance. The leap from commonplace beliefs to the realization that many of them are just that: commonplace and wrong is as difficult as the leap was ...
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Tandia
Bryce Courtenay
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1998
It feels bad when its over..great writer.
This is an author I hate to start reading. He is no lover of happy endings. He is so great an author it feels bad when its over. It feels as though your mother just left you at the nursery school door and you are five years old. So forlorn.
Mama come back I am ...
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Penguin Books Ltd, 1998
psychologically insightful
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta . . . standing four feet ten in one sock."
From the very first sentence in the book, Nabokov showed amazing perception of the mind of the child erotist. Nabokov wrote these words in 1947, but ...
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How Clean Is Your House?
Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie, ...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2004
great help from cleaning experts
After watching many episodes of the show on BBC (the homes they clean are really gross), I purchased the book. The book is filled with wonderful, safe, super economical and great cleaning methods. Their methods are a good way to get into the green movement and learn ...
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The Uses of Enchantment (Penguin Psychology)
Bruno Bettelheim
Penguin Books Ltd, 1991
A classic psychoanalytical view of fairy tales
It is well known that storytelling is an innate expression of civilization, in an effort to define who we are and to make sense of the world. The fairy tale is an important part of this tradition that has a long and rich history spanning thousands of years.
First ...
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Escape
Carolyn Jessop
Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
Great book. Chilling and amazing.
Though it had received great reviews, I took it them with a grain of salt.
Quickly after I began the book, I was captivated.
It's amazing and sad that cults like FLDS can exert such power over people.
Highly recommended.
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Penguin Books Ltd, 2002
Wake Up, America
This book essentially tells several facets to the fast food industry. It goes into detail discussing how some companies in this industry were launched into the monetary success they enjoy today. It discusses what's in the food they sell you, with on site evaluations ...
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Collapse (Penguin Press Science)
Jared Diamond
Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Critical topic, excellent scholarship, yet very accessible
I have been following the many trends on ecology, politics, and economics for many years. I'll admit I'm a complete pessimist in regards to human nature. Yet Diamond's book gives me a bit of hope that the message of stewardship vs resource consumption may be ...
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Allen Carr's Easyweigh to Lose Weight
Allen Carr
Penguin Books Ltd, 1997
Common Sense
I finished reading this book today, but its effects have already taken effect: I lost 10 pounds in 2 months. But the most important thing about the book is the way concepts are assimilated and you can really FEEL the changes inside. I think this is just the beginning ...
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" You Are What You Eat " Cookbook: Over 150 Healthy and Delicious Recipes
Gillian McKeith
Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
You are what you eat
This book is well Brilliant! I started cooking things I never used before. I have dropped 20 pounds in 2 weeks and feel 100% better. My husband even started to eat some of my meals. The conversions charts for farenheit and the metric system are easy enough to print ...
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I Ching or Book of Changes (Arkana)
Penguin Books Ltd, 1989
Old man's review
Very good book to use I Ching Oracle.
Good texts and commentaries according to the translation of Richard Wilhelm.
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The World According to Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson
Penguin Books Ltd, 2005
Very very good indeed
Bloody good stuff. So true.
One line that stuck in my mind. In 3rd world countries there's often a desperation in peoples faces whereas in provincial England there's a gormlessness. Describing the Vauxhall nova boys tearing up the neighborhood. Some great lines.
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Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris
Penguin Books Ltd, 2008
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The Last Human (Red Dwarf)
Doug Naylor
Penguin Books Ltd, 1995
Hello, How Do I Do?
"Last Human" is the third instalment in the Red Dwarf saga, picking up from where "Better Than Life" left off. While the first two books were collaborative efforts, this novel is a "solo" work by the Naylor half of that writing gestalt known as "Grant Naylor". When the ...
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank
Penguin Books Ltd, 2000
a very good debut
Melissa Bank's debut book was on the shelf at the family activity room at the hospital, where I was spending long hours and forgot to bring a book of my own. I took it to pass the time, because I did not have a choice really, but I was pleasantly surprised.
"The ...
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