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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Neal Stephenson
Harper Perennial, 2004
Just what I was looking for...
+ Nearly Perfect Reading!
+ Part 1 of a lengthy epic
Quicksilver was exactly what I was looking for this summer, it was in fact more than I'd hoped for.
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Spook Country
William Gibson
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2007
Brilliant, but not perfect
+ The Future is Now and Gibson is still there!
The good: This book has some brilliant characters which ultimately intertwine around a caper based climax at the end. The writing is clever and a joy to read, and paints a very realistic and plausible world, once you get past the first chapter, which was like another reviewer mentioned like wading ...
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Crooked Little Vein
HarperCollins e-books, 2007
An R, Well X, Rated Read & A Great Ride
+ A Weirdly Entertaining Ride... with Soundtrack listings
+ Subversive counter-culture satire of detective genre -- great fun!
In Crooked Little Vein the classic, burned-out, hardened detective of Hollywood and mystery novel lore is given a mission to find a long lost secret text which, as the reader quickly realizes, is to be found somewhere within the new sexual mainstream. Or do these encounters "represent" the ...
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Orb Books, 1997
Hands down, Heinlen's best
+ Remarkable
+ Once in a Generation
+ All Smiles
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort
Bantam, 2007
keeps your interest
I had heard Jordan Belfort talk on Donnie Bonaduce's radio show, and wanted to read the book right away. This guy has no shame and he'll tell you - all the drugs he's taken- all the money he made (mostly illegally) and spent, how he treated people and how they treated him. He was on a huge high on ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2006
Response to Goosecat
+ Gave as a gift for my son majoring in Economics
+ Freakonomics
Just to respond to a review that was extremely critical of this book - Economics is just that STATISTICS WITH A THEORY.
If you took any undergraduate economic classes you'd understand that economics is the formation of theories to explain trends that are portrayed in data. No matter how ...
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Maybe
+ Really makes you wonder
+ upon reading it a second time...
+ Excellent Roadmap of the Potential Future
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Coyote Blue
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2004
Native Farce
+ Loved It
+ Another winner for Moore
+ Golden eyes
+ A Warped and Wise Willie Loman
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
Lamb
+ Irreverent, but Funny!
+ This book is great!
+ Awesome Book
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson
Simon & Schuster, 2006
Stumble out of the Box a little?
+ The dark side of the Army's New Age
+ Not a book for goat lovers
+ Disturbing read
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Spook Country
William Gibson
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2007
Brilliant, but not perfect
+ The Future is Now and Gibson is still there!
The good: This book has some brilliant characters which ultimately intertwine around a caper based climax at the end. The writing is clever and a joy to read, and paints a very realistic and plausible world, once you get past the first chapter, which was like another reviewer mentioned like wading ...
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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stephen J. Dubner
William Morrow, 2006
Response to Goosecat
+ Gave as a gift for my son majoring in Economics
+ Freakonomics
Just to respond to a review that was extremely critical of this book - Economics is just that STATISTICS WITH A THEORY.
If you took any undergraduate economic classes you'd understand that economics is the formation of theories to explain trends that are portrayed in data. No matter how ...
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson
Simon & Schuster, 2006
Stumble out of the Box a little?
+ The dark side of the Army's New Age
+ Not a book for goat lovers
+ Disturbing read
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore
Harper Paperbacks, 2003
Lamb
+ Irreverent, but Funny!
+ This book is great!
+ Awesome Book
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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Neal Stephenson
Harper Perennial, 2004
Just what I was looking for...
+ Nearly Perfect Reading!
+ Part 1 of a lengthy epic
Quicksilver was exactly what I was looking for this summer, it was in fact more than I'd hoped for.
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