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Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh
Back Bay Books, 1999
Scintillating sarcasm
+ "Faster, faster!"
+ Funny And Sad
+ To Be "Vile" Is To Go Through Life Without Passion
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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
H.g. Bissinger
Da Capo Press, 2000
A fantastic book
+ Best Sports Book Ever Written
+ Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissenger's book Friday Night Lights is a non-fiction account of a football team in Odessa, Texas spanning the decade of the 1980s. A once financially successful town dependent on oil revenues, Odessa's fate makes an about turn as profits dwindle, families face bankruptcy, and the crime rate ...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon & Schuster, 2006
Thank you for adding the voices of women to this book
+ Truly a Genius
+ Collaborative Governance
+ Best Book in 30 Years
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The Corrections: A Novel
Jonathan Franzen
Picador, 2002
A Modern Classic
+ Well worth the investment in time
This is the first novel I have read by this author. From the very beginning, his style captured my interest via wit and insight that would seem so obvious that no one would have thought to put it in words before.
The theme of this novel isn't a "correction" but more akin to a loyalty found in ...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
Bloomsbury USA, 2006
Good overview
+ I was not an environmentalist. Now I am.
+ Excellent
+ a mind opener
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1999
Was it really an unfinished business????
+ One of the most important writers of the 20th century
+ What a wonderful nightmare!
+ great thinker, creative writer
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon
Holt Paperbacks, 2006
Well written and very accessible, highly recommended
+ Pretty close to perfect
+ Great Book
+ Great book
+ Like You Were There
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
Anchor, 1990
Understanding The Middle East
+ From Beirut to Jerusalem Review
+ From Beruit To Jerusalem
+ From Beruit to Jerusalem
+ The most interesting book on Middle East societies complexity
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Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Ballantine Books, 1996
A sophisticated but playful Rabbit we have!
In the beginning, I was sort of depressed. the subject matter, the darkly setting, uneasy texture. However, I liked to read gradually. I loved it. And the main character of the novel is portrayed with sophisticatedly. A complex personality but somewhat amusing and certainly playful. I look forward ...
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Brilliant
+ Book of Enlightenment. Everyone should read this!
+ Renewed Faith
I read this book after admitting to myself that my faith had been reduced to nothing. I was brought up in the church, and swallowed it whole from a young age. It wasn't until later when I moved away from small town Texas that I found myself in an environment that encouraged critical thinking and ...
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Knopf, 2006
Audio Version A Little Weak, but Easier to Digest
+ should be required reading
+ This book will get under your skin
+ A plot cooked up by cavemen with computers
+ Good intro to the topic
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The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
John F. Harris
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
as close to fair as you can expect
+ Impartial look at Bill Clinton
+ Excellent Clinton Book !
+ Remember How Hopeful? How Infuriating It Was??
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The Cold War: A New History
John Lewis Gaddis
Penguin Press HC, The, 2005
A Long Hard Winter!
+ The Cold War - Recommended
+ An excellent manual on the cold war
+ Well researched but offers nothing new
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Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1936
Proves To Anyone Who Might Ever Doubt It What A Powerful Medium The Novel Can Be
+ It's a classic for a reason
Of Human Bondage truly is the greatest English-language novel of the first decade of the twentieth-century. In its depth, psycho-emotional sensitivity, its continent-ranging scope, and above all in the young Somerset Maugham's understanding of the human species, Of Human Bondage is one of the best ...
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Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
Jeffrey Goldberg
Knopf, 2006
Magnificent book
+ Outstanding story
+ Prisoners by Jerry Goldberg
most Middle East books are either boring or predictable. Prisoners is neither. It's written with humor and pathos by a reporter/journalist with a long histroy of covering the Jewish/Arab confict. Goldberg has written for Rolling Stone, the New Yorker and now the Atlantic. He's spent a lot of ...
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