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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
Hyperion, 2003
Wonderful
+ Worth Thinking About
+ Lessons for life
+ Your destiny fulfilled
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The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage, 1998
Perfectly Written
+ One of best fiction books I've read
+ Did the Eighties Ever End?
+ A sad but hilarious portrayal of contemporary college culture
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Deep Survival
+ A Great Book
+ Excellent!
+ Lessons for Management
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Company
Max Barry
Vintage, 2007
Stupendous job!
+ A Real-life Dilbert!
+ Story of my life!
+ Very entertaining
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys)
Chuck Palahniuk
Crown, 2003
Interesting, offbeat
+ Great Glimpse into a Great City
+ Drag Queens and Aborted Fetuses in Portland, OR
+ An interesting look at Portland
+ Oregonian loving this book
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Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis
Knopf, 2005
Ellis delivers again
+ Good deal!
+ Sinister
+ Angst and Despair Reign
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
Warms up after the first couple chapters
+ Good overview of the relationship between the environment & politics
+ Critical topic, excellent scholarship, yet very accessible
Not quite as good as his best-known book, "Guns, Germs and Steel", mostly because the first 50 pages are about Montana. Who cares about Montana? I barely even know where it is. But after that it gets wicked awesome. Unfortunately you can't really skip the Montana parts - too many concepts are ...
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Clown Girl: A Novel
Monica Drake
Hawthorne Books, 2007
Dark, Dank and Delicious
+ Depressing, hilarious, unconventional, and universal all at once
+ Funny concept, great voice
Recently I read somewhere that great novels aren't written anymore - certainly it's true that great novels aren't often published anymore. but Clown Girl stands as a shiny exception. Through spare dialogue, brutal imagery and divine comedy Drake pulls the reader into a vivid world that is ...
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The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach
The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker III, ...
Vintage, 2006
Fantastic book
+ You Break it, You Bought it
The book The Iraq Study Group Report investigated the problem within Iraq, in regargs to the ensuing militant insurgency and ongoing civil war that we have sometimes seen on the television news in our home countries around the world. Sometimes from these pictures it is hard to view the whole ...
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This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future
John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry
PublicAffairs, 2007
Encouragement for activism
+ May A Republican Say Something?
+ Required Reading
+ KERRY gETS IT RIGHT
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Scribner, 1995
Hemingway at his best
+ Builds Into A Very Good Read
+ Takes a while, but builds into a pretty good book
+ The sun also rises
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Glamorama (Vintage Contemporaries)
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage, 2000
You have to read the whole book
+ Baby, Baby, This Book Is Like, Too Very
+ A very interesting book
+ Will the Real Victor Ward Please Stand Up?
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Plume, 2005
Very thought provoking.
+ An Eye Opener
+ I loved it
I enjoyed the way the author tied details of modern history to the events of his life. Very thought provoking. I think it is striking the way the individuals who critique it for a lack of statistics provide none of their own.
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Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
Vintage, 1998
Ignore the movie version, read the book, it's (unfortunately) pitch-perfect
+ Disturbing on a couple of levels.
Ellis is an expert at chronicling the callow consumerism and nihilism of a particular breed of American wealth. He hits it here. These characters aren't at all overblown. They are incredibly shallow. They are exactly as shallow as they would be if they were actually alive. If you don't know people ...
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A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
Vonnegut Never Fails
+ Compare to Kurt and Dlyan
+ Final thoughts
"A Man Without A Country" is a must read for anyone who loves Mr. Vonnegut. It is a collection of short essays and writings published 2 years before his death. Written in true Vonnegut fashion, I believe he is on point with his satire and knowledge of the world more then ever. He is as sharp as ...
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