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100 one-pager humorous wisdoms that will alter the way you perceive thingsGet a glimpse of what to expect insideDiscover the 90 / 10 principle. But what is this?It says 10% of life is made up of what ...
 
- reviewed by sribinayg
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Featured on September 1st, 2008
 
 
The Iraq War…The War on Terror…The Surg...
 
- reviewed by pcontino
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Featured on September 1st, 2008
 
 
Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
I wanted to like this book; I really, really did. I thought something set in a post-9/11 world that still has elements of cyberpunk--I could TOTALLY get on board with that. And yet...This book disap...
 
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Featured on August 28th, 2008
 
 
The Tortilla Curtain, by T.Coraghessan Boyle
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Featured on August 23rd, 2008
 
 
Publisher: Pustak Mahal ISBN: 9788122306521URL: http://www.pustakmahal.com/book/book/bid,,8919D/index.html ...
 
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Featured on August 16th, 2008
 
 
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I shelve this only to denounce it Total misrepresentation. Bah, humbug.
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Hitchens makes the case that religion spoils every part of our lives and society. Powerful stuff.
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A nice bedtime book....
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Reading this now. Our Latin American future canon. On the shelf with Garcia-Marquez. Anti-Magical Realism.
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A powerful memoir The horrors of desperate poverty, told with humor, love, and pain
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The China Lover, by Ian Burma
The one job qualification necessary for becoming celebrity is reinvention. Part this has to do with the reality and economics of the business: Marlon Brando had to audition for The Godfather because ...
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Many great minds throughout history have commented on the invisible war waged between the written word and technology. Kafka referred to the dawn of motion picture as the...
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American Wife , by Curtis Sittenfeld
It seemed like a good idea: a sexed-up, fictionalized autobiography of Laura Bush. For eight years the First Lady has been the "silent partner" in a White House that can boast that it changed the cou...
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The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
This is Dave King's debut fictional novel, and it is superb. It is centered around Howie, a Vietnam Vet. He became disabled in the war and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since. His disabi...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the novel that took this series to a whole new level. Not only is it more complicated, dramatic, and suspenseful than the first three, but it is also the found...
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