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About a Boy
Nick Hornby
Penguin Books Ltd, 2002
Quirky, funny and sad ~ I loved it
+ Two Coming of Age Tales
+ About two boys
+ Growing up - but how
+ Growing up ý but how?
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World Without End
Ken Follett
Dutton Adult, 2007
Why did it have to end? Great book!
+ A great step back in time
+ Cannot stop reading
+ Received Promptly
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Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present
Cory Doctorow
Running Press, 2007
A review of Cory Doctorow's work, including this collection
+ One is not enough
+ Free SF Reader
I own and have read all of Cory's novels and short story collections but one. Little Brother is actually on its way from Amazon as I type this. I hope to start reading it this weekend.
Cory writes excellent fiction. His short stories are smart and engaging. His novels are a lot quirky and ...
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
David Guterson
Vintage, 1995
A Beautiful Story
+ "Let Fate, Coincidence and Accident Conspire; Human Beings Must Act on Reason..."
+ A Masterpiece
What amazed me about this book was the way the story was told. It's kind of a courtroom drama, kind of a romance, and very much a commentary on the state of a torn and divided nation after World War II. On the North end of Puget Sound there was a murder and the accused, Kabuo Miyamoto is a friend ...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
Don't judge a book by its cover, or its title . . .
+ Funny, gross, interesting, riveting!
+ All the answers to questions you wanted to ask, but didn't want to say outloud...
+ 4.5 stars-Things to do when you're dead
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The Queen of the South
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Picador, 2005
Fasten Your Seat Belt
+ The Queen of the South
From Mexican towns ruled by drug Lords to the southern coast of Spain, Perez Reverte takes us on a wild ride. Hooked from the beginning, the reader follows the vertigenous career of Teresa Mendoza, who changes from victim of circumstances to Queen of the South. I particularly enjoyed, Reverte's ...
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A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
Random House Audio, 2005
A Lesson Before Dying
This was the book on CD, unabridged version, and it is great. I purchased this for a college class, and needed to save time due to 10 other novels I needed to read in the same semester. It has been a blessing I have listened to this now more than once, and the speaker is great! His inflections ...
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
Like no other book
+ Absolutely Moving
I wanted to throw this book across the room so often - yet I couldn't release my grasp or even put it down for 2 days.
What would I do, my 5 year old son near starvation, who would I kill, could I end both our lives if I had no hope of anything short of a miserble tortured death? McCarthy ...
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Shame the Devil
George P. Pelecanos
Orion mass market paperback, 2007
John Steinbeck with a pistol
+ Interesting and different
+ Powerful, gritty storytelling
+ Nick and Dimitri sitting side by side . . .
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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Dell Publishing, 1998
As relevant today as it was in the past
+ WONDERFUL BOOK
+ The master of Cat's Cradle
+ Great Read
+ Wild satire about nuclear arms and the end of the world
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The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel
Michael Gruber
Harper Paperbacks, 2008
Complex and engaging
+ Literary thriller trumps Da Vinci Code
I've noticed a wide variety of opinions posted about this book so I felt compelled to weigh in. I found it to be an engrossing tale that weaves together the stories of characters from Elizabethan England and contemporary New York with a terrific command of narrative and suspense.
I very much ...
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Hill and Wang, 2001
An Interesting Read
+ Must-Reading
+ Very good book
+ Good despite the self-referential inference to innumeracy
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The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Paul Roberts
Mariner Books, 2005
Still an excellent primer on the economics of hydrocarbons and alternatives
+ Excellent and thorough book, misleading title
+ the oil end
+ Makes analysis of the contemporary energy order accessible.
+ The Title should have been " We are running out of low to medium priced oil "
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead, 2007
Heart-wrenchingly beautiful
+ Amazingly told...a must read!
+ Great second novel
+ Spendid is spendid
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The Painter of Battles: A Novel
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Random House, 2008
Reverte's Finest Novel to Date
+ The Painter of Battles
+ Character Study
I just finished reading this melancholic masterpiece. This is by far, Arturo Perez Reverte's finest book. I am no philosopher, but his ruminations on war, brutality, and man will make you ponder yourself and the darkness in man's soul. That being said, it is a beautiful and short novel that needs ...
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