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The Areas of My Expertise
John Hodgman
Riverhead Trade, 2006
The Areas of My Expertise
+ A good mix of different types of humor
+ Captures both the patois of hobology and the romanticized nuance of facial hair
I read this book on the plane from Ohio to LAX and could not stop laughing, other passengers were looking at me in confusion. When reading this masterpiece, you either "get it" or you don't...
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
gives voices to those who lived through the Depression
+ The revolution that shoulda, coulda been
+ Not great, but still very good.
As a former grad student in History, I found this book fascinating. Author Studs Terkel interviews people who lived through the Depression and gets their takes on that difficult period. We hear the experiences and memories of those who lived through it from multiple points of view. The book was ...
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The Push Man and Other Stories
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
Bloody'ell!
+ Mind blowing short stories
+ awesome
+ "I myself am a very normal person"
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Anthony Swofford
Recorded Books, 2003
Jarhead, an honest look at war
+ Jarhead - The True Story of a Marine Who Served in the Gulf War
Jarhead is a fantastic read! It is a glimpse into the everyday life of Marine in Desert Storm. The book is pure raw emotion. You get the chance to move to the front lines with a Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition or S.T.A sniper and see the war through his eyes. It provides an ...
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Timbuktu: A Novel
Paul Auster
Picador, 2000
All You Need Is Love
+ Sweet and believable
+ A Charming Novel By An Unpredictable Author
+ In the mood for something sentimental?
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My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
Stephen Elliott
Cleis Press, 2006
My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
+ True or Not, These Stories Are Kinky, Intense, and Utterly Memorable
+ Another great book from Stephen Elliott
+ a true path
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Short Timers
Gustav Hasford
Bantam, 1983
GET SOME!!!
+ Flawless novel of the Vietnam War
+ Unbelievable
+ a few corrections
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
Studs Terkel
New Press, 2003
Thank you, Mr. Terkel. A true American asset right here.
+ My first Studs Terkel book
+ Maintaining Hope in Challenging Times
+ Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
+ Studs Terkel keeps getting better !
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Scribner, 2003
Great Buy
+ A Different time, a Different Place
+ Schoolbook
+ A great seller
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A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998
The Sublime and The Ridiculous
+ A Tour of the Forces of Communism Taken to the Absurd Degree
+ This is officially one of my favorite short story collections ever!
+ Whatever that guy is on, I want some...
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel
Scribner, 2006
FALLING DOWN THE CLIFF
+ Thoughtful eloquence
+ HEARTBREAKING AND GUT-WRENCHING -- WHAT A COMBINATION
+ Prose Poems
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Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with ...
Paul Auster
Picador, 2005
Compliments him work well
+ Well worth it...
Prior to the publication of this book, I had read most of Auster's non-fiction work. However, it had been spaced out over many years. Now, having read all of it again over the course of a week or two, one gets an even clearer sense of the common themes and symbols that reappear through out ...
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War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Smedley D. Butler
Feral House, 2003
Wake up America!!
+ Prescient
+ ANOTHER RARE GEM, IN THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST
+ War is a Racket, General Smedley Butler
+ Powerful and Sad
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Little Children: A Novel
Tom Perrotta
St. Martin's Griffin, 2005
Big Children
+ A-
+ YES, BEING A GROWN UP CAN BE HARD!
+ suburban angst and the pain of parenting
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage, 1989
A very good book
+ Satisfaction Guaranteed
+ Great book
+ Testament to both man's violence and unselfish nurturing
+ It might be different if it was written today....
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