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| Book Id | Title | Author | Author l-f | Additional Authors | ISBN | ISBN13 | My Rating | Average Rating | Publisher | Binding | Number of Pages | Year Published | Original Publication Year | Date Read | Date Added | Bookshelves | Bookshelves with positions | Exclusive Shelf | My Review | Spoiler | Private Notes | Read Count | Recommended For | Recommended By | Owned Copies | Original Purchase Date | Original Purchase Location | Condition | Condition Description | BCID | |
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| 13278990 | The Housing Monster | prole.info | prole.info, prole.info | ="160486530X" | ="9781604865301" | 0 | 3.77 | PM Press | Paperback | 160 | 2012 | 2011 | 2017/12/07 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#3) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7805 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | Nabokov, Vladimir | ="0141185260" | ="9780141185262" | 0 | 4.19 | Penguin Books Ltd | Paperback | 246 | 2000 | 1962 | 2013/10/09 | to-read | to-read (#26) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 34220725 | Never Use Futura | Doug Thomas | Thomas, Doug | Ellen Lupton | ="1616895721" | ="9781616895723" | 4 | 4.29 | Princeton Architectural Press | Paperback | 208 | 2017 | 2017/11/12 | read | Pretty good! It's halfway between a coffee-table book and a book you'd want to read-through. I did the latter, and, well, it isn't a masterpiece in terms of writing - lacks continuity, often uses lingo without definition - but it makes up for that with the gorgeous typesetting and examples. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 34913288 | The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law and Ethics | George Siedel | Siedel, George | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.00 | Van Rye Publishing, LLC | Kindle Edition | 253 | 2017 | 2017/11/12 | 2017/07/09 | read | The bad: like the other business / sales books I've read, it spends almost half of its pages just telling you how good the book is. It reassures you that, yep, this will increase your sales, just as it did for Bill and Barbara.<br/><br/>The good: this is like looking though the eyes of The Corporation. The book will give you their take on why car companies shouldn't invest too much in seatbelts, why arbitration clauses are good, how you must avoid giving the impression of firing-with-cause, and so on. Not that you'll agree with (or should agree with) any of that, but, well, it's interesting to hear those points so clearly made. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 11275062 | Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America | Rick Perlstein | Perlstein, Rick | ="1451606265" | ="9781451606263" | 5 | 4.12 | Scribner | ebook | 896 | 2010 | 2008 | 2017/11/11 | 2017/10/01 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 27162486 | The Banjo: America's African Instrument | Laurent Dubois | Dubois, Laurent | ="0674047842" | ="9780674047846" | 5 | 4.39 | Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press | Hardcover | 384 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/11/07 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 8219235 | Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns | Immanuel Kant | Kant, Immanuel | ="1452841098" | ="9781452841090" | 5 | 3.80 | Createspace | Paperback | 94 | 2010 | 1785 | 2010/05/23 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1407132 | Hinduism | Louis Renou | Renou, Louis | ="0671478710" | ="9780671478711" | 2 | 3.09 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 1971 | 1951 | 2007/07/03 | read | A fast read, but it included too much biased language & opinionated writing. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 29548767 | Time Travel: A History | James Gleick | Gleick, James | ="" | ="" | 2 | 3.58 | Pantheon | Kindle Edition | 352 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/06/23 | 2017/05/31 | read | Gleick's 'Time Travel' includes one scene with a physicist rolling his eyes wearily, explaining that, yes, time travel is possible in the case of black holes, but that he would rather not talk about it. Unfortunately I felt like that guy when I was reading this book.<br/><br/>There are only so many times I can read that time is like 'a river', or read a paragraph-length biography of someone's life in order to support their two sentences of historical contribution. The historical viewpoint, too, gives the story a sort of interrupted flow. Sure, it makes a lot of sense to 'start from the beginning' but I wish that the physical approaches (time as a field, as a measure of entropy, as relative or absolute) were enumerated rather than unveiled one by one, deep in mostly unnecessary context.<br/><br/>This might sound like a review written by some guy who heard about time travel and wants a time machine as soon as possible, with as little interference as possible. And maybe I've worn out my nonfiction reading ability by overdosing on these mile-deep scientific/literary history books. But anyway, Time Travel seemed, well, like a lackluster use of my time, a book that tried to be too much in and of itself and that never really developed into anything or built on itself, perhaps like our thinking about time travel itself. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 31416132 | The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream | Tyler Cowen | Cowen, Tyler | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.64 | St. Martin's Press | Kindle Edition | 256 | 2017 | 2017/05/11 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 18505802 | Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation | Blake J. Harris | Harris, Blake J. | ="0062276697" | ="9780062276698" | 2 | 3.91 | It Books | Hardcover | 576 | 2014 | 2014 | 2017/05/11 | 2017/05/11 | read | This was a fascinating time in history, and the book starts out with some great anecdotes, but the writing is terrible. I understand that history authors need to manufacture dialogue, but what he comes up with is chock-full of unbelievable cliches. And the entire 'war' is described only through the eyes of marketers, with everything else - the technological development, financial situation, view from the perspective of kids - elided.<br/><br/>Overall, not recommended. I hope someone writes a book about the same topic but spares us the dialogue. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 8913542 | 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism | Ha-Joon Chang | Chang, Ha-Joon | ="1608191664" | ="9781608191666" | 5 | 3.98 | Bloomsbury Press | Hardcover | 286 | 2011 | 2010 | 2017/03/06 | 2017/03/07 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 313223 | Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games | Anton Rippon | Rippon, Anton | ="1844154440" | ="9781844154449" | 2 | 3.43 | Pen & Sword Books | Hardcover | 228 | 2006 | 2006 | 2017/01/26 | 2017/01/26 | read | Well, it's an interesting topic and there was certainly research done. Unfortunately, at least the eBook edition of this is a copyediting disaster. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 29954161 | The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture | Pamela Haag | Haag, Pamela | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.33 | Basic Books | Kindle Edition | 530 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017/01/21 | 2017/01/21 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9602 | Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0385334265" | ="9780385334266" | 5 | 3.77 | Dial Press | Paperback | 300 | 1999 | 1981 | 2017/01/01 | 2017/01/01 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 6732019 | Rework | Jason Fried | Fried, Jason | David Heinemeier Hansson | ="0307463745" | ="9780307463746" | 3 | 3.93 | Crown Business | Hardcover | 279 | 2010 | 2010 | 2016/12/20 | 2016/12/21 | read | I really like that this book exists: a lot of its suggestions are the opposite of conventional knowledge around startups. If you follow Signal vs Noise, their blog, as I do, it's less worthwhile to buy the book. Many of the chapters are already shared as blog posts.<br/><br/>Some of the advice could be stronger if it thought harder about the opposing argument, rather than dismissing it as greedy or thoughtless. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6600498 | Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power | James Mahaffey | Mahaffey, James | ="1605980404" | ="9781605980409" | 4 | 4.24 | Pegasus Books | Hardcover | 352 | 2009 | 2009 | 2016/12/20 | 2016/12/21 | read | It's a solid book, but it's trying to be different things at different points. He starts with lots of biographical detail - too much, for my taste, since I don't particularly care whether Oppenheimer had a nice childhood. And then it transitions into a methodical explanation of the atomic experimentation and industry, and then finally into a decently robust argument for nuclear power. The first 80% is completely non-rhetorical, but you really feel it speed up and energize in the last 20%, and I was left wishing he had chosen one or the other. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 25739712 | Etiquette: A Guide to the Most Common Etiquette Rules and Social Situations where Etiquette Matters (The Modern Ladies & Gentleman Book 4) | Niel Schreiber | Schreiber, Niel | ="" | ="" | 2 | 3.38 | Niel Schreiber | Kindle Edition | 48 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016/11/12 | 2016/11/12 | read | This is not a great work of nonfiction: it's a quickly-written ode to Emily Post, with updates for the modern era. And it's passable, for the first few chapters. It takes a turn at Chapter 7. Maybe the copyeditor stopped there, or another author swapped in, and at that point the number of grammar and style errors skyrockets. The effect is worsened by the prose, which, in the pattern of Post, goes over the top with its old-fashioned turns of phrase. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 236144 | Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software | Ben Klemens | Klemens, Ben | ="0815749422" | ="9780815749424" | 5 | 3.97 | Brookings Institution Press | Hardcover | 150 | 2007 | 2005 | 2016/11/04 | 2016/11/04 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 4980 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0385334206" | ="9780385334204" | 3 | 4.08 | Dell Publishing | Paperback | 303 | 1999 | 1973 | 2016/10/30 | 2016/07/17 | read | I'm having a hard time deciding whether I liked this book less than the rest of Vonnegut's, or such time has passed since my Vonnegut phase that I wouldn't like others either anymore. Regardless, it didn't click: the ratio of insight to connecting narrative seemed off, such that the book felt like a disjointed series of one-liners. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1448236 | Parkinson's Law | C. Northcote Parkinson | Parkinson, C. Northcote | ="1568490151" | ="9781568490151" | 4 | 4.04 | Buccaneer Books | Hardcover | 112 | 2003 | 1957 | 2016/10/30 | 2016/10/30 | take-these | take-these (#8) | read | A classic: the witticisms live on in the Internet age, but are well-spun in the original book. Hilarious and highly recommended. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 14315 | Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology | Lawrence Weschler | Weschler, Lawrence | ="0679764895" | ="9780679764892" | 4 | 4.03 | Vintage | Paperback | 192 | 1996 | 1995 | 2016/09/16 | 2016/10/03 | read | The style of this book is peak New Yorker voice. I read it after visiting the MJT, which I enjoyed greatly. I'm a fan, though I feel like it falls into the New Yorker trap of being too focused on the individual - we learn about Wilson's family, upbringing, habits, personality - but not enough about the ideas that he's trying to share. After all, this is a book about a relatively unique type of museum trying to send a message, and it would be interesting to also hear how this message is received and how it changes over the years. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 821355 | The Pine Barrens | John McPhee | McPhee, John | James Graves | ="0374514429" | ="9780374514426" | 5 | 4.15 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Paperback | 176 | 1978 | 1967 | 2016/09/09 | 2014/03/04 | take-these | take-these (#7) | read | McPhee at his best, and covering the best state. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 21797589 | CLOG: National Mall | Kyle May | May, Kyle | ="" | ="9780983820444" | 5 | 4.33 | CLOG | Paperback | 128 | 2012 | 2012 | 2016/09/13 | 2016/09/15 | read | I loved this book - it's readable and unique, with articles about fundamental elements of the mall by the people who built and designed them. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 424 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | Didion, Joan | ="0374521727" | ="9780374521721" | 5 | 4.23 | Farrar Straus Giroux | Paperback | 238 | 1990 | 1968 | 2016/09/08 | 2016/09/10 | read | Super enjoyable and readable - it lives up to the hype. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4865 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Carnegie, Dale | ="" | ="9780671723651" | 2 | 4.14 | Gallery Books | Paperback | 288 | 1998 | 1936 | 2010/12/26 | 2010/12/26 | read | Kind of a ridiculous book. There are one or two good notes, like pointing out how people often offer rewards they themselves would enjoy without considering the other party.<br/><br/>But besides that, it's absurd: there's a serious anti-intellectual bent combined with crazy culture (offering suggestions of what to do at "the club"). Science and studies cited are loose, with guesstimated statistics. Although the observations about human nature - brutal realism of people as plastic, self-centered, and fragile creatures - are usually valid, their portrayal here make the follower of directions act without allowing people to rise above these expectations. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 10276354 | The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better | Tyler Cowen | Cowen, Tyler | ="1101502258" | ="9781101502259" | 3 | 3.73 | Dutton Books | ebook | 64 | 2011 | 2011 | 2016/08/12 | 2016/08/13 | read | For pop-economics, this is an interesting and unusual read. It doesn't swing predictably Republican, Democratic, or other, and it's on a refreshingly more macro level than the 'random walk' trend. Where other writers lean toward character judgments of the rich or the poor, Cowen tries to present the problem as more deeply-embedded, as a cyclical slowdown in mankind's progress itself.<br/><br/>He is oddly dismissive of the internet as a technology. It's true that job creation has revenue on the internet has been limited, but the examples in this book are thin and the language, which is otherwise nice and balanced, distills the internet down into a "fun" fad. His focus is heavily on media companies on the internet - wouldn't be more interesting to compare, say, Amazon to Wal-Mart?<br/><br/>All in all, it's a worth a read and I appreciate the pacing and brevity - it feels exactly as long as it should be. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 411830 | The Salamander Room | Anne Mazer | Mazer, Anne | Lou Fancher, Steve Johnson | ="0679861874" | ="9780679861874" | 5 | 4.15 | Dragonfly Books | Paperback | 32 | 1994 | 1991 | 2016/07/27 | read | This was one of my top three books growing up. It's lovely and beautiful and I recommend it to anyone with kids. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 27831864 | Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days | Jake Knapp | Knapp, Jake | John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz | ="" | ="" | 4 | 4.24 | Simon & Schuster | Kindle Edition | 289 | 2016 | 2016 | 2016/07/23 | 2016/07/02 | read | It's pretty good, but like many 'business books', could be half as long and retain all the meaning. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 703532 | Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas | Seymour Papert | Papert, Seymour | ="0465046746" | ="9780465046744" | 4 | 4.32 | Basic Books | Paperback | 252 | 1993 | 1980 | 2016/07/17 | 2016/07/17 | take-these | take-these (#6) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 12917338 | Homeland (Little Brother, #2) | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="0765333694" | ="9780765333698" | 3 | 3.95 | Tor Teen | Hardcover | 396 | 2013 | 2013 | 2016/07/16 | 2016/07/16 | read | It's YA fiction in the 'kid hacker' genre. Since this is one of my few adventures into YA novels, I can't judge it with good relative accuracy, but it does fall into many tropes - tortured revolutionary political boy with female love interest and SF setting. The plot has few major hooks. But all-in-all, it's a nice read and, even if it laboriously explains every tech concept, it does so accurately and has a tasteful selection of references. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 18691224 | The Most Important Thing | Maura Pennington | Pennington, Maura | ="145360152X" | ="9781453601525" | 0 | 4.00 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Kindle Edition | 258 | 2010 | 2010 | 2016/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 25112174 | The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Studies in Postwar American Political Development) | Lee Drutman | Drutman, Lee | ="" | ="" | 0 | 3.52 | Oxford University Press | Kindle Edition | 288 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016/07/02 | currently-reading | currently-reading (#2) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 685483 | The Elements of Typographic Style | Robert Bringhurst | Bringhurst, Robert | ="0881791326" | ="9780881791327" | 5 | 4.25 | Hartley & Marks Publishers | Paperback | 320 | 2001 | 1992 | 2016/07/02 | 2014/11/04 | read | My favorite English-language-typographic pedant book. Written with an attitude, like Eats Shoots and Leaves, but with more historical backup and a more amusing tone. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 25189315 | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory | Caitlin Doughty | Doughty, Caitlin | ="0393351904" | ="9780393351903" | 5 | 4.06 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 272 | 2015 | 2014 | 2016/07/02 | 2016/01/03 | read | Loved it! A well-considered mix of personal tales and observations about death and the funeral industry's past and future. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 71730 | Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life | Marshall B. Rosenberg | Rosenberg, Marshall B. | Arun Gandhi | ="1892005034" | ="9781892005038" | 4 | 4.31 | Puddledancer Press | Paperback | 220 | 2003 | 1999 | 2016/07/01 | 2016/07/02 | read | Some of the book is typical self-help fare: semi-believable anecdotes from conferences and history. But on the whole it lives up to its reputation as a ambitious but pragmatic system for solving problems and talking about emotions. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 381355 | The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing | Taylor Larimore | Larimore, Taylor | Michael LeBoeuf, Mel Lindauer | ="0471730335" | ="9780471730330" | 4 | 4.23 | John Wiley & Sons | Hardcover | 307 | 2006 | 2006 | 2016/07/01 | 2016/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 603255 | Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C | Bruce Schneier | Schneier, Bruce | ="0471117099" | ="9780471117094" | 4 | 4.18 | Wiley | Paperback | 758 | 1996 | 1993 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 3067234 | The Algorithm Design Manual | Steve S. Skiena | Skiena, Steve S. | ="1848000693" | ="9781848000698" | 4 | 4.34 | Springer | Hardcover | 730 | 2011 | 1997 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 6590992 | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | William McDonough | McDonough, William | ="" | ="" | 2 | 4.10 | Kindle Edition | 2002 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 23546276 | Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon | Kim Zetter | Zetter, Kim | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.11 | Crown | Kindle Edition | 448 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 23676935 | Life in Prison: Eight Hours at a Time | Robert Reilly | Reilly, Robert | ="" | ="" | 2 | 3.83 | Tilbury House Publishers | Kindle Edition | 293 | 2014 | 2014 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 19929257 | Levels of the Game | John McPhee | McPhee, John | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.20 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Kindle Edition | 162 | 2011 | 1969 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 19252926 | NaS Lost: A Tribute to the Little Homey | Byron Crawford | Crawford, Byron | Theotis Jones | ="" | ="" | 5 | 3.76 | Byron Crawford | Kindle Edition | 197 | 2013 | 2013 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9024174 | Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion | David Sirlin | Sirlin, David | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.83 | Kindle Edition | 144 | 2005 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 16149296 | On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction | William Zinsser | Zinsser, William | ="" | ="" | 4 | 4.24 | Harper Perennial | Kindle Edition | 303 | 2012 | 1976 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 20242999 | The Smart Growth Manual | Andrés Duany | Duany, Andrés | Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.94 | McGraw-Hill Education | Kindle Edition | 241 | 2004 | 2004 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 6705401 | Free: The Future of a Radical Price | Chris Anderson | Anderson, Chris | ="" | ="" | 1 | 3.83 | Hyperion e-books | Kindle Edition | 288 | 2009 | 2009 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 6621198 | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation | Lynne Truss | Truss, Lynne | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.86 | Avery | Kindle Edition | 240 | 2004 | 2003 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 18802222 | Remote: Office Not Required | Jason Fried | Fried, Jason | David Heinemeier Hansson | ="" | ="" | 3 | 3.80 | Crown Business | Kindle Edition | 256 | 2013 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 27843051 | The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton | William E. Leuchtenburg | Leuchtenburg, William E. | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.40 | Oxford University Press | Kindle Edition | 902 | 2015 | 2015 | 2016/04/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 871706 | Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy | Manuel De Landa | Landa, Manuel De | ="0826479324" | ="9780826479327" | 0 | 4.06 | Bloomsbury Academic | Paperback | 240 | 2005 | 2002 | 2016/02/23 | to-read | to-read (#25) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 158785 | Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set) | Wu Cheng'en | Cheng'en, Wu | W.J.F. Jenner | ="7119016636" | ="9787119016634" | 0 | 4.25 | Foreign Languages Press | Paperback | 2346 | 2003 | 1592 | 2010/04/01 | to-read | to-read (#4) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 96123 | All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein | Bernstein, Carl | Bob Woodward | ="1416522913" | ="9781416522911" | 4 | 4.17 | Pocket Books | Paperback | 480 | 2005 | 1974 | 2016/01/02 | 2016/01/03 | take-these | take-these (#5) | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 18509663 | Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door | Brian Krebs | Krebs, Brian | ="1402295618" | ="9781402295614" | 4 | 3.71 | Sourcebooks | Hardcover | 256 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/12/13 | 2015/12/13 | take-these | take-these (#4) | read | A pretty satisfying read: from a tech standpoint, most books that 'dabble' in tech are littered with mistakes. Krebs knows his subject and explains it well. His prose isn't magical - sometimes the scene-setting and phrasing will lack grace, but it's never bad enough to overpower the well-constructed plotline and good background research. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 16131189 | Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove | Ahmir Questlove Thompson | Thompson, Ahmir Questlove | Ben Greenman | ="1455501352" | ="9781455501359" | 4 | 4.08 | Grand Central Publishing | Hardcover | 288 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/09/18 | 2015/09/18 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 44895 | Confessions of an Advertising Man | David Ogilvy | Ogilvy, David | Alan Parker | ="1904915019" | ="9781904915010" | 4 | 4.06 | Southbank Publishing | Paperback | 208 | 2004 | 1963 | 2015/08/30 | 2015/08/30 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 29 | The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way | Bill Bryson | Bryson, Bill | ="0380715430" | ="9780380715435" | 4 | 3.95 | William Morrow Paperbacks | Paperback | 270 | 1991 | 1990 | 2015/08/24 | 2015/08/24 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 4852344 | No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment | David L. Lange | Lange, David L. | H. Jefferson Powell | ="080474579X" | ="9780804745796" | 0 | 4.00 | Stanford Law Books | Paperback | 456 | 2008 | 2008 | 2015/05/25 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 338798 | Ulysses | James Joyce | Joyce, James | ="0679722769" | ="9780679722762" | 0 | 3.74 | Vintage | Paperback | 810 | 1990 | 1922 | 2015/05/25 | to-read, take-these | to-read (#24), take-these (#3) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 208669 | A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works | Baruch Spinoza | Spinoza, Baruch | Edwin M. Curley | ="0691000670" | ="9780691000671" | 0 | 4.15 | Princeton University Press | Paperback | 320 | 1994 | 1994 | 2015/05/25 | take-these | take-these (#2) | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 194769 | To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles | Raymond M. Smullyan | Smullyan, Raymond M. | ="0192801422" | ="9780192801425" | 4 | 4.12 | Oxford University Press, USA | Paperback | 256 | 2000 | 1985 | 2010/04/12 | currently-reading, take-these | currently-reading (#1), take-these (#1) | currently-reading | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 9155566 | The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires | Tim Wu | Wu, Tim | ="" | ="" | 1 | 3.87 | Kindle Edition | 385 | 2010 | 2015/05/25 | read | Uninformed. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| 8470384 | Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter | Tom Bissell | Bissell, Tom | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.55 | Kindle Edition | 240 | 2010 | 2015/05/25 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 12385458 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Kahneman, Daniel | ="" | ="" | 3 | 4.09 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Kindle Edition | 512 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/05/25 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 19271328 | The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath | Nicco Mele | Mele, Nicco | ="" | ="" | 2 | 3.71 | St. Martin's Press | Kindle Edition | 321 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/05/25 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 19252428 | Infinite Crab Meats | Byron Crawford | Crawford, Byron | Theotis Jones | ="" | ="" | 5 | 4.20 | Byron Crawford | Kindle Edition | 183 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/05/25 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 21412400 | The First Bad Man | Miranda July | July, Miranda | ="1439172560" | ="9781439172568" | 5 | 3.58 | Scribner | Hardcover | 288 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015/05/18 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 22748352 | Kanye West Superstar | Byron Crawford | Crawford, Byron | ="1500586188" | ="9781500586188" | 4 | 3.90 | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Paperback | 172 | 2014 | 2014 | 2015/05/13 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 171254 | Giving an Account of Oneself | Judith Butler | Butler, Judith | ="0823225046" | ="9780823225040" | 0 | 4.14 | Fordham University Press | Paperback | 160 | 2005 | 2003 | 2015/05/03 | to-read | to-read (#23) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 29393 | Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 | Michael Azerrad | Azerrad, Michael | ="0316787531" | ="9780316787536" | 4 | 4.20 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 522 | 2002 | 2001 | 2015/05/01 | 2015/05/03 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 37819 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Roy, Arundhati | ="0060977493" | ="9780060977498" | 5 | 3.92 | HarperCollins | Paperback | 321 | 1997 | 1997 | 2007/06/26 | read | This book rocks. There's probably so much more about it that I haven't picked up on yet, but it was still one of the best reads I've come across so far. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 17396720 | Infinite Crab Meats | Byron Crawford | Crawford, Byron | ="1482516438" | ="9781482516432" | 4 | 3.98 | Byron Crawford | Paperback | 182 | 2013 | 2013 | 2015/02/15 | 2015/02/16 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 991197 | The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | Satrapi, Marjane | Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris, Anjali Singh | ="0375714839" | ="9780375714832" | 5 | 4.36 | Pantheon Books | Paperback | 341 | 2007 | 2003 | 2015/01/05 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 11865558 | Venture Deals | Brad Feld | Feld, Brad | Jason Mendelson | ="0470929820" | ="9780470929827" | 4 | 4.08 | John Wiley & Sons | Hardcover | 219 | 2011 | 2011 | 2015/01/01 | 2015/01/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 12617 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky | Chomsky, Noam | Edward S. Herman | ="0375714499" | ="9780375714498" | 0 | 4.22 | Pantheon | Paperback | 412 | 2002 | 1988 | 2014/11/04 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 20657434 | The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz | Horowitz, Ben | ="" | ="" | 0 | 4.21 | HarperBusiness | Kindle Edition | 308 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014/11/04 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 16284965 | 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep | Jonathan Crary | Crary, Jonathan | ="1781680930" | ="9781781680933" | 2 | 3.73 | Verso | Hardcover | 144 | 2013 | 2013 | 2014/10/22 | 2014/10/22 | read | Now, it is social philosophy so I should have seen it coming, but this book starts strong and then heads deep into academic-themed overwrought prose that makes it very hard to go on and quite tempting to sleep. As the argument broadens, it also weakens, suggesting a significant lack of research or confidence that most readers are fine with their analysis of recent history done in broad and questionable strokes. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 77 | The Control of Nature | John McPhee | McPhee, John | ="0374522596" | ="9780374522599" | 5 | 4.24 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Paperback | 288 | 1990 | 1989 | 2014/10/22 | 2014/10/22 | read | Loved it. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 18077903 | Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed Catmull | Catmull, Ed | Amy Wallace | ="0812993012" | ="9780812993011" | 0 | 4.23 | Random House | Hardcover | 340 | 2014 | 2009 | 2014/08/15 | to-read | to-read (#22) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 11517403 | The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="1604864044" | ="9781604864045" | 5 | 3.64 | PM Press | Paperback | 136 | 2011 | 2011 | 2014/08/10 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 5544 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character | Richard Feynman | Feynman, Richard | ="0393316041" | ="9780393316049" | 4 | 4.29 | W. W. Norton & Company | Paperback | 391 | 1997 | 1984 | 2014/07/16 | 2012/05/24 | read | Interesting. Feynman is a brilliant, egotistical, flawed, inspiring fellow. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 33279 | Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer | Stewart Brand | Brand, Stewart | ="0465007805" | ="9780465007806" | 3 | 4.12 | Basic Books | Paperback | 208 | 2000 | 1999 | 2014/01/28 | 2014/01/06 | read | Definitely worth reading, as one of the somewhat few books that not only talks about the fast-paced now-times but also potential ways to add some anchors and stability.<br/><br/>I would have loved to read more about the clock and previous thinking around time - the kairos/chronos distinction could be elaborated on a lot more and it would have been great.<br/><br/>It has drawbacks: nearly every reference to technology makes a bad bet. It quotes Jaron Lanier, one of the least likable and most unproductive voices in tech. And it often flows into a sort of 'but let's raise some more questions' type writing which is somewhat disappointing in light of the fact that authors have enough time to think and say something. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 18279 | Phenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice | Colin Smith | ="0415278414" | ="9780415278416" | 0 | 4.14 | Routledge | Paperback | 544 | 2005 | 1945 | 2014/01/27 | to-read | to-read (#21) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1301 | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Michael Lewis | Lewis, Michael | ="0393324818" | ="9780393324815" | 3 | 4.25 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 317 | 2004 | 2003 | 2014/01/24 | 2014/01/24 | read | Had to give up on this one: disregard this review if you are interested in baseball.<br/><br/>This just doesn't feel like it has enough content to make up a whole book. On the way to the thing that makes it different than other sports books, it does the classic 'here's what they all looked like and their relationships with parents and hometown' thing. It finally gets to the bits that are somewhat interesting, the reforms of the hiring system are mostly seen as revolutionary since they were pretty off-the-hinges in the past. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 10868 | Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays | Steve Martin | Martin, Steve | ="0802135234" | ="9780802135230" | 0 | 3.99 | Grove Press | Paperback | 150 | 1997 | 1996 | 2014/01/24 | to-read | to-read (#20) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 773858 | Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life | Steve Martin | Martin, Steve | ="1416553649" | ="9781416553649" | 0 | 3.87 | Scribner Book Company | Hardcover | 207 | 2008 | 2007 | 2014/01/24 | to-read | to-read (#19) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 830 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Stephenson, Neal | ="0553380958" | ="9780553380958" | 0 | 4.03 | Bantam Books | Paperback | 438 | 2000 | 1992 | 2014/01/21 | to-read | to-read (#18) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 11208846 | The Greenhouse | Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir | Ólafsdóttir, Auður Ava | Brian FitzGibbon | ="1611090792" | ="9781611090796" | 0 | 3.72 | AmazonCrossing | Paperback | 260 | 2011 | 2007 | 2014/01/21 | to-read | to-read (#17) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 327488 | The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 | David Edgerton | Edgerton, David | ="0195322835" | ="9780195322835" | 0 | 3.52 | Oxford University Press, USA | Hardcover | 288 | 2007 | 2006 | 2014/01/20 | to-read | to-read (#16) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 5297 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Wilde, Oscar | Jeffrey Eugenides | ="0375751513" | ="9780375751516" | 5 | 4.06 | Random House: Modern Library | Paperback | 254 | 1998 | 1890 | 2014/01/04 | 2012/05/24 | read | Great, concise, entertaining read. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 168642 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Capote, Truman | ="0679745580" | ="9780679745587" | 5 | 4.05 | Vintage | Paperback | 343 | 1994 | 1966 | 2013/12/03 | 2013/12/04 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 16071764 | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | Sandberg, Sheryl | Nell Scovell | ="0385349947" | ="9780385349949" | 2 | 3.94 | Knopf | Hardcover | 217 | 2013 | 2013 | 2013/11/04 | 2013/10/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 33600 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | Roberts, Gregory David | ="192076920X" | ="9781920769208" | 0 | 4.26 | Scribe | Paperback | 936 | 2004 | 2003 | 2013/10/27 | 2010/03/04 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 12046245 | Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive | Bruce Schneier | Schneier, Bruce | ="1118143302" | ="9781118143308" | 3 | 3.76 | Wiley | Hardcover | 348 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013/10/26 | 2012/02/03 | read | True but disappointing relative to Schneier's other work: while his blog posts and public appearances are cutting and succinct, this falls victim to the habit of over-exampling and under-specifying ideas. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 13503109 | This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Díaz | Díaz, Junot | ="1594487367" | ="9781594487361" | 4 | 3.75 | Riverhead Books | Hardcover | 217 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013/10/26 | 2013/10/26 | read | The experience is 4/5, but I can't really judge the lasting merit. It's unlike most of my other reads, and full of extremes: punchy but distant, matter-of-fact but kind of an extended bildungsroman, full of Diaz's deference to the task of writing 'women' but somewhat constructing that by plot and character, and only occasionally explicitly talking role. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2325390 | The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems | T.S. Eliot | Eliot, T.S. | ="143410169X" | ="9781434101693" | 5 | 4.20 | Waking Lion Press | paper | 81 | 2008 | 1922 | 2013/10/05 | 2013/10/09 | read | I mean, it's The Wasteland. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 76778 | The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury | Bradbury, Ray | ="0553278223" | ="9780553278224" | 3 | 4.12 | Bantam/Spectra | Mass Market Paperback | 182 | 1984 | 1950 | 2013/06/02 | 2013/06/03 | read | Awesome, fast, slow, bizarre, sparing. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 486625 | Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents | Ellen Ullman | Ullman, Ellen | ="0872863328" | ="9780872863323" | 4 | 3.79 | City Lights Publishers | Paperback | 189 | 2001 | 1997 | 2013/05/15 | 2013/02/12 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 30593 | Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | Nabokov, Vladimir | David Lodge | ="1400041988" | ="9781400041985" | 0 | 3.90 | Everyman's Library | Hardcover | 143 | 2004 | 1953 | 2013/05/11 | to-read | to-read (#15) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8701960 | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick | Gleick, James | ="0375423729" | ="9780375423727" | 4 | 3.98 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Hardcover | 527 | 2011 | 2011 | 2012/11/12 | 2012/05/23 | read | Solid and influential. The last 20% is pretty well-known if you're into technology, but the middle section and the account of signal analysis is excellent. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6748 | A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments | David Foster Wallace | Wallace, David Foster | ="0316925284" | ="9780316925280" | 5 | 4.27 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 353 | 1998 | 1996 | 2012/09/19 | 2012/09/20 | read | One of my favorite reads of the last year. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 11438 | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | Raymond Carver | Carver, Raymond | ="0679723056" | ="9780679723059" | 5 | 4.22 | Vintage Contemporaries / Vintage Books | Paperback | 159 | 1989 | 1981 | 2012/08/11 | 2012/08/11 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 6953335 | Indignation | Philip Roth | Roth, Philip | ="0307388913" | ="9780307388919" | 4 | 3.70 | Vintage | Paperback | 256 | 2009 | 2008 | 2012/08/05 | 2012/08/05 | read | Quite enjoyable; I liked this a lot more than Everyman, which was just continually sad. This is more full of life, more interesting on a personal level and probably a bit meta in its character construction. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 6753 | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | David Foster Wallace | Wallace, David Foster | ="034911188X" | ="9780349111889" | 4 | 3.88 | Abacus | Paperback | 273 | 2000 | 1999 | 2012/06/21 | 2012/05/23 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 7275043 | Scroogled | Cory Doctorow | Doctorow, Cory | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.61 | Radar | 2007 | 2007 | 2012/05/27 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 548914 | The Little Schemer | Daniel P. Friedman | Friedman, Daniel P. | Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman | ="0262560992" | ="9780262560993" | 0 | 4.28 | MIT Press | Paperback | 210 | 1995 | 1974 | 2012/05/24 | to-read | to-read (#14) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 38500 | Women | Charles Bukowski | Bukowski, Charles | ="0061177598" | ="9780061177590" | 0 | 3.89 | Ecco | Paperback | 291 | 2014 | 1978 | 2012/05/24 | to-read | to-read (#13) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2615 | The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business | Clayton M. Christensen | Christensen, Clayton M. | ="0060521996" | ="9780060521998" | 2 | 3.99 | Collins | Paperback | 320 | 2003 | 1997 | 2012/05/12 | 2012/05/12 | read | A great idea, some decent history. Beyond that it's just annoying business-book patterns (three subheadings per page), no fewer than six mismatched fonts used in the typesetting, and lots of advice for managers of big companies. Deserves the BusinessWeek recommendation. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4806 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Dava Sobel | Sobel, Dava | Neil Armstrong | ="0802714625" | ="9780802714626" | 3 | 3.95 | Walker Books | Hardcover | 192 | 2005 | 1995 | 2012/04/17 | 2012/04/14 | read | I think that this book really picked up in the end - for quite a while it seemed to be floating in details and personal conflict without enough personal description to make you care deeply.<br/><br/>The points about how the Longitude Act would transfer ownership of the design could have had a really interesting segue into how governments in general fund and use R&D - stuff like how France bought early photography technology and freely licensed it to its citizens - could have been fascinating. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 11100788 | Leaving the Atocha Station | Ben Lerner | Lerner, Ben | Alva Dahl | ="1566892740" | ="9781566892742" | 5 | 3.78 | Coffee House Press | Paperback | 181 | 2011 | 2011 | 2012/03/29 | 2012/04/14 | read | After reading quite a few that didn't quite hit the mark, I loved Leaving the Atocha Station. It's the right mix of pace, detail, sensitivity, and variation for me. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 7331435 | A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | Egan, Jennifer | ="0307592839" | ="9780307592835" | 3 | 3.64 | Knopf | Hardcover | 288 | 2010 | 2010 | 2012/02/01 | 2012/01/21 | read | This novel seems like several novels, since it's not only 'one of those ones that weaves storylines together' but it also is an amalgamation of styles.<br/><br/>Unfortunately the styles range from quite great to quite lame. I found the peak to be at halfway through, with the pseudo-interview, and then the 'PowerPoint' section was surprisingly well-executed. However, the ending is unbearably lame to an extreme - not only silly future-thinking but it falls flat stylistically.<br/><br/>That said, it's a quick read and the variety makes it a good quick read - since the shifts in style can serve as anchors for the plots. Recommended for that purpose, but don't come expecting too much depth or dexterity in this one. | 1 | 1 | unspecified | ||||||||||||
| 5107 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | Salinger, J.D. | ="0316769177" | ="9780316769174" | 4 | 3.79 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 277 | 2001 | 1951 | 2011/08/01 | 2012/01/21 | read | 1 | 1 | unspecified | |||||||||||||
| 50695 | Everyman | Philip Roth | Roth, Philip | ="0307277712" | ="9780307277718" | 3 | 3.55 | Vintage | Paperback | 182 | 2007 | 2006 | 2012/01/21 | 2012/01/15 | read | This one... what an odd read. Definitely amongst the saddest books I've read, but near the end, I started thinking about [b:Der Fremde Freund / Drachenblut|1514969|Der Fremde Freund / Drachenblut|Christoph Hein|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184547651s/1514969.jpg|1506667] (in English), which resonated so much more deeply with me. Everyman's main character is at first almost relatable, but by the end of the book, there's a feeling that all of the sadness is entirely physical in nature - that he's caring so much about his body without any real plans of what to do with it, and without a shred of caring for other people. Roth plays with this in the last scene - in which the gravedigger is a far more relatable character, and someone who has a really different feeling on the passing of life. | 1 | 1 | unspecified | ||||||||||||
| 24113 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Hofstadter, Douglas R. | ="0465026567" | ="9780465026562" | 5 | 4.30 | Basic Books | Paperback | 822 | 1999 | 1979 | 2012/01/15 | 2010/03/29 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 340867 | Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature | Lynn Margulis | Margulis, Lynn | ="1933392312" | ="9781933392318" | 4 | 3.61 | Chelsea Green Publishing Company | Paperback | 259 | 2007 | 2007 | 2012/01/15 | read | Five stars for every chapter written by Lynn, three for those written by Dorion, and four for the duo. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 460984 | On Growth and Form | D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson | Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth | John Tyler Bonner | ="0521437768" | ="9780521437769" | 5 | 4.15 | Cambridge University Press | Paperback | 368 | 1992 | 1942 | 2012/01/15 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 169982 | Afghanistan | Stephen Tanner | Tanner, Stephen | ="0306812339" | ="9780306812330" | 4 | 3.87 | Da Capo Press | Paperback | 368 | 2003 | 2002 | 2010/12/26 | 2010/10/22 | read | This was my first history book in a long time. And for that, it's very readable, with the right level of detail for a start-to-finish introduction of Afghanistan.<br/><br/>That said, I would dock one star for the description of battles and battle strategy; something that probably gets the history fans uppity, but isn't essential to the book itself and feels like the same thing (a push towards the center! flanking! surprise! general in the army!) repeated over and over again. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 69951 | The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag | Kang Chol-Hwan | Chol-Hwan, Kang | Pierre Rigoulot | ="0465011047" | ="9780465011049" | 0 | 4.06 | Basic Books | Paperback | 272 | 2005 | 2000 | 2010/09/15 | to-read | to-read (#12) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 24970 | Either/Or: A Fragment of Life | Søren Kierkegaard | Kierkegaard, Søren | Victor Eremita, Alastair Hannay | ="0140445773" | ="9780140445770" | 0 | 4.17 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 640 | 1992 | 1843 | 2010/09/15 | to-read | to-read (#11) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 130440 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | Pasternak, Boris | Max Hayward, Manya Harari, John Bayley | ="0679774386" | ="9780679774389" | 0 | 4.03 | Pantheon | Paperback | 592 | 1997 | 1957 | 2010/09/14 | to-read | to-read (#10) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8720123 | Unknown Book 8720123 | Unknown Author 124 | 124, Unknown Author | ="" | ="" | 5 | 5.00 | 2010/09/12 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 23878 | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel García Márquez | Márquez, Gabriel García | Gregory Rabassa | ="140003471X" | ="9781400034710" | 3 | 3.95 | Vintage | Paperback | 120 | 2003 | 1981 | 2008/05/18 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 45307 | The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Murakami | Murakami, Haruki | ="0679420576" | ="9780679420576" | 0 | 3.88 | Knopf | Hardcover | 327 | 1993 | 1993 | 2010/08/23 | to-read | to-read (#9) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 1313991 | The Kingdom of Zydeco | Michael Tisserand | Tisserand, Michael | ="0380732386" | ="9780380732388" | 5 | 4.21 | Spike | Paperback | 1998 | 2009/05/28 | 2009/05/28 | read | A great book to start of learning about zydeco and the various cultures and people behind it. Tisserand seemed to do a decent job of interviewing everyone involved and getting himself into the scene. The only thing that I found kind of odd and interrupted my reading was the fact that, on a few occasions, the same person or event is introduced twice within the span of a few pages. This could have been intentional but seemed like an editor's error. | 1 | 1 | Like new | ||||||||||||||
| 49552 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Camus, Albert | Leman Sarı, Matthew Ward, Stuart Gilbert | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.96 | Vintage International | Paperback | 123 | 1989 | 1942 | 2010/08/22 | 2010/08/22 | read | Good, possibly awesome, surprisingly comic and lighthearted. It was an unusual pairing with reading The Immoralist, which talks about some of the same emotional states but makes an entirely different statement about them. Possibly this didn't have an epic impact only because its sort of cold matter-of-factness has been adopted by many authors with less mojo than Camus. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 70101 | The Immoralist | André Gide | Gide, André | Alan Sheridan, David Watson | ="0142180025" | ="9780142180020" | 5 | 3.59 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 144 | 2001 | 1902 | 2010/08/15 | 2010/08/15 | read | Wow. As gripping as it is incredibly sad, in a way that goes so far beyond the mere plot and events. Highly recommended. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 6712580 | Reality Hunger: A Manifesto | David Shields | Shields, David | ="0307273539" | ="9780307273536" | 0 | 3.62 | Knopf | Hardcover | 219 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010/06/11 | to-read | to-read (#8) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 119561 | The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences | Michel Foucault | Foucault, Michel | ="0679753354" | ="9780679753353" | 0 | 4.12 | Vintage | Paperback | 416 | 1994 | 1966 | 2010/06/11 | to-read | to-read (#7) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 77516 | Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (Stones of Aran #1) | Tim Robinson | Robinson, Tim | ="014011565X" | ="9780140115659" | 0 | 4.23 | Penguin Books Ltd | Paperback | 320 | 1991 | 1986 | 2010/06/11 | to-read | to-read (#6) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 114550 | Vanishing Point | David Markson | Markson, David | ="1593760108" | ="9781593760106" | 0 | 3.91 | Counterpoint | Paperback | 191 | 2004 | 2004 | 2010/06/11 | to-read | to-read (#5) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 41681 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | Sinclair, Upton | Earl Lee, Kathleen DeGrave | ="1884365302" | ="9781884365300" | 5 | 3.72 | See Sharp Press | Paperback | 335 | 2003 | 1906 | 2010/05/23 | 2010/05/01 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 29579 | Foundation (Foundation #1) | Isaac Asimov | Asimov, Isaac | ="0553803719" | ="9780553803716" | 4 | 4.13 | Bantam | Hardcover | 244 | 2004 | 1951 | 2010/04/12 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 69242 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | Chip Heath | Heath, Chip | Dan Heath | ="1400064287" | ="9781400064281" | 3 | 3.96 | Random House | Hardcover | 291 | 2007 | 2006 | 2010/04/04 | 2010/03/29 | read | This is a decent book; a few of the concepts - styles of introducing gaps in knowledge and the idea of 'commander's intent' were quite useful. However, it too-often falls into the pop-psych mold of "Researchers from X tested whether X is X. The results were surprising" (no citation). The fact that the authors pay all too much credit to Gladwell makes it clear that they haven't woken up to the fact that many readers have grown beyond the enjoyment of such light science and the stratospheric concepts that authors try to wire together. I also wish that this sort of text would focus on one or a few industries or companies because the 'whoah, this applies to farming and web 2.0 companies' type of rhetoric is old and detracts from the storytelling by requiring too much setup and too little examination of each scene. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 93504 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | Pollan, Michael | ="0143038583" | ="9780143038580" | 0 | 4.17 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 450 | 2007 | 2006 | 2010/03/29 | to-read | to-read (#3) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 236866 | Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape | Brian Hayes | Hayes, Brian | ="0393329593" | ="9780393329599" | 0 | 4.45 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 544 | 2006 | 2005 | 2010/03/29 | to-read | to-read (#2) | to-read | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 102030 | Musashi | Eiji Yoshikawa | Yoshikawa, Eiji | Charles Terry, Edwin O. Reischauer | ="4770019572" | ="9784770019578" | 0 | 4.43 | Kodansha International | Hardcover | 970 | 1995 | 1935 | 2010/03/29 | to-read | to-read (#1) | to-read | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 27303 | A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | Karen Armstrong | Armstrong, Karen | ="0345384563" | ="9780345384560" | 5 | 3.85 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 496 | 1994 | 1975 | 2010/03/05 | 2007/07/25 | read | This book is taking me forever to read.<br/><br/>But anyway, thoughts.<br/><br/>The author's neutrality towards God is incredibly impressive and quite a relief after a few of the works I've read lately. Although I do wish that there were more time spent on non-Abrahamic religions, there just aren't many other major monotheistic ones...<br/><br/>The account of the creation of the Trinity, which I feel like I've read at least four times in different places, really annoyed me... the unknowable paradox of the Trinity, which I had always thought (back in the dizzle) was something basic to Christianity, seems to be just the haphazard result of lots of stupid bickering. And then now that real Christian philosophy dies, we get an oversimplified, anthropomorphisized, really... backwards attempt to package all facets of God into Jesus. The fact is, belief in Jesus as divine and all-encompassing just isn't 'original' or, really, fundamental to Jesus's teachings.<br/><br/>So says I, at least. I'll add more as I think more. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 143170 | Sixty Stories | Donald Barthelme | Barthelme, Donald | David Gates | ="0142437395" | ="9780142437391" | 4 | 4.21 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 451 | 2003 | 1981 | 2007/07/01 | read | If anyone wants this book, it's yours. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 118008 | White Noise | Don DeLillo | DeLillo, Don | ="" | ="" | 2 | 3.86 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 326 | 1986 | 1985 | 2007/06/28 | read | I've gotta say, this one irritated me. Especially the dialogue, which seemed weirdly and poorly constructed. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 1701 | Augustine: A New Biography | James J. O'Donnell | O'Donnell, James J. | ="0060535385" | ="9780060535384" | 2 | 3.67 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 432 | 2006 | 1985 | 2007/06/27 | read | Suffered through this one. Not very interesting or great. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 412791 | Evil: An Investigation | Lance Morrow | Morrow, Lance | ="0465047556" | ="9780465047550" | 3 | 3.18 | Basic Books | Paperback | 288 | 2004 | 2003 | 2005/01/01 | 2007/06/26 | read | Simply didn't congeal into anything 'useful' in the realm of personal philosophy or understanding. But interesting tidbits scattered throughout it. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 239100 | Digital Fortress | Dan Brown | Brown, Dan | ="0312995423" | ="9780312995423" | 1 | 3.61 | St. Martin's Paperbacks | Mass Market Paperback | 431 | 2004 | 1998 | 2007/06/26 | read | Essentially a poorly-written [author:Michael Chrichton] novel. He could have been better aware of the technology he wrote about. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 99944 | The Bhagavad Gita | Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa | Vyasa, Krishna-Dwaipayana | Simon Brodbeck, Juan Mascaró | ="0140449183" | ="9780140449181" | 4 | 4.10 | Penguin | Paperback | 160 | 2003 | -400 | 2007/06/23 | read | Surprisingly accessible. Definitely an interesting perspective on power and attachment in (everybody's, including god's) action. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2210223 | Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out of Sync? | Seth Godin | Godin, Seth | ="1591841747" | ="9781591841746" | 3 | 3.73 | Portfolio | Hardcover | 256 | 2008 | 2007 | 2009/09/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 113171 | The Jazz Theory Book | Mark LeVine | LeVine, Mark | ="1883217040" | ="9781883217044" | 4 | 4.44 | Sher Music Co. | Spiral-bound | 522 | 2005 | 1995 | 2009/09/03 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1301183 | The Southern Baptists: A Subculture in Transition | Ellen MacGilvra Rosenberg | Rosenberg, Ellen MacGilvra | ="0870495984" | ="9780870495984" | 5 | 4.50 | University of Tennessee Press | Hardcover | 240 | 1989 | 1989 | 2009/08/30 | read | Amazed that there aren't any reviews for this one... I'm still reading it, to be honest, but I'm really into it. This hits that really cool point in religious studies writing where stereotypes, races, genders, and cultures are all taken correctly into account and seen as real factors on the development of religion. It does get a little intense at points: it's clear that Rosenberg does not identify as an agrarian Baptist southerner, but, given the lack of similar works, it has a responsibility to be a little over-the-top in introducing so many principles and facts of the Southern Baptist tradition which are probably obvious for someone deeply involved, but rather opaque to the outside world. | 1 | 1 | Good | |||||||||||||
| 77203 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Hosseini, Khaled | ="1594480001" | ="9781594480003" | 3 | 4.26 | Riverhead Books | Paperback | 371 | 2004 | 2003 | 2009/08/20 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 7745 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson | Thompson, Hunter S. | Ralph Steadman | ="0679785892" | ="9780679785897" | 3 | 4.08 | Vintage Books | Paperback | 204 | 1998 | 1971 | 2008/06/11 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 920197 | Pro Drupal Development | John K. VanDyk | VanDyk, John K. | Matt Westgate | ="1590597559" | ="9781590597552" | 4 | 3.99 | Apress | Paperback | 428 | 2007 | 2007 | 2008/05/18 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 48464 | A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories | Flannery O'Connor | O'Connor, Flannery | ="0151365040" | ="9780151365043" | 4 | 4.24 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Hardcover | 252 | 1992 | 1953 | 2008/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1129035 | Noble Powell and the Episcopal Establishment in the Twentieth Century | David Hein | Hein, David | ="1556353944" | ="9781556353949" | 1 | 3.00 | Wipf & Stock Publishers | Paperback | 182 | 2007 | 2001 | 2008/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1201676 | An Introduction to Hinduism | Gavin D. Flood | Flood, Gavin D. | ="0521438780" | ="9780521438780" | 3 | 3.79 | Cambridge University Press | Paperback | 367 | 1996 | 1996 | 2007/06/23 | read | Wasn't bad, although it dismisses almost every 19th century philosopher without hesitation, and it doesn't quite treat nationalist groups with academic equality. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 575786 | The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery | Janwillem van de Wetering | Wetering, Janwillem van de | ="0312207743" | ="9780312207748" | 4 | 4.06 | St. Martin's Griffin | Paperback | 160 | 1999 | 1973 | 2008/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1332188 | Shattered Faith: A Woman's Struggle to Stop the Catholic Church from Annuling Her Marriage | Sheila Rauch Kennedy | Kennedy, Sheila Rauch | ="0679439951" | ="9780679439950" | 2 | 3.48 | Pantheon | Hardcover | 238 | 1999 | 1997 | 2008/04/28 | school-related | school-related | read | Seems like she had very little interesting material and thus wrote about other people's (barely more entertaining) experiences... | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1057231 | Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man | U.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ | ಅನ೦ತಮೂರ್ತಿ, U.R. Ananthamurthy ಯು. ಆರ್. | A.K. Ramanujan | ="0195610792" | ="9780195610796" | 4 | 3.88 | Oxford University Press, USA | Paperback | 176 | 1979 | 1965 | 2008/04/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 18238 | A Season in Purgatory | Dominick Dunne | Dunne, Dominick | ="0345430557" | ="9780345430557" | 3 | 4.04 | Ballantine Books | Paperback | 464 | 1998 | 1993 | 2008/03/10 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 9454 | Phenomenology of Spirit | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich | A.V. Miller, John Niemeyer Findlay | ="0198245971" | ="9780198245971" | 1 | 3.91 | Oxford University Press | Paperback | 640 | 1976 | 1807 | 2008/01/28 | school-related | school-related | read | I abhor Hegel. If you don't 'get' this book, don't blame yourself - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer didn't either. Philosophy curricula seem to ignore it, simply because Hegel is the worst of authors. Not different, worst. | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 80324 | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics | Immanuel Kant | Kant, Immanuel | James W. Ellington, Paul Carus | ="0872205932" | ="9780872205932" | 3 | 3.89 | Hacket Publishing | Paperback | 160 | 2002 | 1783 | 2007/09/01 | 2007/10/28 | school-related | school-related | read | Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous to give the best philosopher ever a 3, but it just wasn't all that enthralling, even though he wrote it to be an improvement in readability to the Critique. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1782103 | The Ethics | Baruch Spinoza | Spinoza, Baruch | ="1404302069" | ="9781404302068" | 4 | 4.01 | IndyPublish.com | Hardcover | 208 | 2002 | 1677 | 2007/10/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 208657 | Theological-Political Treatise | Baruch Spinoza | Spinoza, Baruch | Seymour Feldman, Samuel Shirley | ="0872206076" | ="9780872206076" | 4 | 4.03 | Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. | Paperback | 296 | 2001 | 1670 | 2007/10/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 7588 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | Joyce, James | Seamus Deane | ="0142437344" | ="9780142437346" | 4 | 3.61 | Penguin Classics | Paperback | 329 | 2003 | 1916 | 2007/07/03 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 8852 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | ="0743477103" | ="9780743477109" | 4 | 3.88 | Washington Square Press | Mass Market Paperback | 323 | 2003 | 1606 | 2007/07/03 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 5470 | 1984 | George Orwell | Orwell, George | Erich Fromm, George Orwell | ="0451524934" | ="9780451524935" | 3 | 4.15 | New American Library | Mass Market Paperback | 328 | 1950 | 1949 | 2007/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 4381 | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Bradbury, Ray | ="0307347974" | ="9780307347978" | 4 | 3.97 | Plaza y Janes | Paperback | 174 | 2006 | 1953 | 2007/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 28862 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | Machiavelli, Niccolò | Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez | ="0937832383" | ="9780937832387" | 3 | 3.78 | Dante University of America Press | Paperback | 140 | 2003 | 1532 | 2007/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 616993 | Ethics | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Bonhoeffer, Dietrich | ="068481501X" | ="9780684815015" | 4 | 4.17 | Touchstone | Paperback | 384 | 1995 | 1955 | 2007/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 4981 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0385333846" | ="9780385333849" | 4 | 4.06 | Dial Press | Paperback | 275 | 1999 | 1969 | 2007/07/02 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 160171 | Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary | Linus Torvalds | Torvalds, Linus | David Diamond | ="0066620732" | ="9780066620732" | 4 | 3.91 | HarperBusiness | Paperback | 288 | 2002 | 2001 | 2007/06/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 44954 | Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace | Lawrence Lessig | Lessig, Lawrence | ="0465039138" | ="9780465039135" | 4 | 3.94 | Basic Books | Paperback | 320 | 2000 | 1999 | 2007/06/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 72011 | Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity | Lawrence Lessig | Lessig, Lawrence | ="0143034650" | ="9780143034650" | 4 | 4.12 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 368 | 2005 | 2004 | 2007/06/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 22320 | Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) | William Gibson | Gibson, William | ="0425198685" | ="9780425198681" | 3 | 3.86 | Berkley Books | Mass Market Paperback | 367 | 2005 | 2003 | 2007/06/28 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 31463 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | Hardy, Thomas | Rosemarie Morgan, Shannon Russell | ="0141439653" | ="9780141439655" | 1 | 3.92 | Penguin Books | Paperback | 433 | 2003 | 1874 | 2007/06/28 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 960 | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown | Brown, Dan | ="1416524797" | ="9781416524793" | 2 | 3.86 | Pocket Books | Mass Market Paperback | 736 | 2006 | 2000 | 2007/06/27 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 426826 | When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today | Harvey Cox | Cox, Harvey | ="061871054X" | ="9780618710546" | 4 | 3.81 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 352 | 2006 | 2004 | 2007/06/27 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 77084 | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century | Thomas L. Friedman | Friedman, Thomas L. | ="0374292884" | ="9780374292881" | 1 | 3.66 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Hardcover | 488 | 2005 | 2005 | 2007/06/27 | read | This book really sucked. There aren't many books that I've given up on halfway through, but this was one of them. He was either misinformed or uninformed the whole way through, and somehow it became a bestseller. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2612 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | Gladwell, Malcolm | ="0316346624" | ="9780316346627" | 2 | 3.93 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 301 | 2002 | 2000 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 16981 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | Ellison, Ralph | ="0679732764" | ="9780679732761" | 5 | 3.84 | Vintage | Paperback | 581 | 1995 | 1952 | 2007/06/27 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 833213 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | Márquez, Gabriel García | ="0060919655" | ="9780060919658" | 5 | 4.04 | HarperPerennial | Paperback | 422 | 1991 | 1967 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 385 | On Bullshit | Harry G. Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Harry G. | ="0691122946" | ="9780691122946" | 2 | 3.55 | Princeton University Press | Hardcover | 67 | 2005 | 1986 | 2007/06/26 | read | Given the title, maybe surprisingly (or predictably?) non-factual. Not nearly as concise as the physical book would make you expect. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 22283 | Survivor | Chuck Palahniuk | Palahniuk, Chuck | ="009928264X" | ="9780099282648" | 5 | 3.93 | Vintage | Paperback | 289 | 2000 | 1999 | 2007/06/26 | read | Definitely my favorite Palahniuk. | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 370493 | The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein | Silverstein, Shel | ="0060256656" | ="9780060256654" | 5 | 4.37 | HarperCollins Publishers | Hardcover | 64 | 1964 | 1964 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 30118 | A Light in the Attic | Shel Silverstein | Silverstein, Shel | ="0060513063" | ="9780060513061" | 4 | 4.34 | Harpercollins Childrens Books | Hardcover | 176 | 2002 | 1981 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 30119 | Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | Silverstein, Shel | ="0060513039" | ="9780060513030" | 4 | 4.29 | Harpercollins Childrens Books | Hardcover | 176 | 2002 | 1974 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 6689 | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | Dahl, Roald | Quentin Blake | ="0375814248" | ="9780375814242" | 5 | 3.99 | Alfred A. Knopf | Hardcover | 146 | 2002 | 1961 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9328 | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | Allende, Isabel | Magda Bogin | ="0553383809" | ="9780553383805" | 5 | 4.20 | Dial Press Trade Paperback | Paperback | 448 | 2005 | 1982 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 5129 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Huxley, Aldous | ="0060929871" | ="9780060929879" | 4 | 3.97 | Harper Perennial | Paperback | 268 | 1998 | 1932 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 40102 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | Gladwell, Malcolm | ="0316010669" | ="9780316010665" | 2 | 3.90 | Back Bay Books | Paperback | 296 | 2007 | 2005 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1618 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Haddon, Mark | ="1400032717" | ="9781400032716" | 4 | 3.85 | Vintage Contemporaries | Paperback | 226 | 2004 | 2003 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 3876 | The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) | Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway, Ernest | ="" | ="" | 4 | 3.83 | Pan Books | Paperback | 189 | 1957 | 1926 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 12938 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | ="074348276X" | ="9780743482769" | 3 | 3.90 | Simon Schuster | Paperback | 316 | 2004 | 1603 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1420 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare, William | Rex Gibson, Richard Andrews | ="0521618746" | ="9780521618748" | 4 | 4.01 | Cambridge University Press | Paperback | 289 | 2005 | 1600 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 7667 | Airframe | Michael Crichton | Crichton, Michael | ="0099556316" | ="9780099556312" | 4 | 3.67 | Arrow Books | Paperback | 431 | 1997 | 1996 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 15860 | State of Fear | Michael Crichton | Crichton, Michael | ="0061015733" | ="9780061015731" | 2 | 3.69 | Avon | Mass Market Paperback | 672 | 2005 | 2004 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 7669 | Timeline | Michael Crichton | Crichton, Michael | ="0099244721" | ="9780099244721" | 2 | 3.83 | Arrow Books | Mass Market Paperback | 489 | 2000 | 1999 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 7670 | The Andromeda Strain | Michael Crichton | Crichton, Michael | ="0060541814" | ="9780060541811" | 4 | 3.87 | Avon Books | Paperback | 327 | 2003 | 1969 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 885642 | Pretty Good Magic | Cathy East Dubowski | Dubowski, Cathy East | Mark Dubowski | ="039489068X" | ="9780394890685" | 5 | 4.00 | Random House Books for Young Readers | Paperback | 48 | 1987 | 1987 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9601 | Bluebeard | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="038533351X" | ="9780385333511" | 5 | 4.02 | Dial Press Trade Paperback | Paperback | 318 | 1998 | 1987 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 4982 | The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="1857988841" | ="9781857988840" | 4 | 4.16 | Gollancz | Paperback | 224 | 1999 | 1959 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 9593 | Galápagos | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0385333870" | ="9780385333870" | 5 | 3.87 | Dial Press | Paperback | 324 | 1999 | 1985 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 135479 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Jr., Kurt Vonnegut | ="0140285601" | ="9780140285604" | 4 | 4.18 | Penguin | Paperback | 306 | 1999 | 1963 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 29059 | Choke | Chuck Palahniuk | Palahniuk, Chuck | ="0385720920" | ="9780385720922" | 4 | 3.69 | Anchor Books | Paperback | 293 | 2002 | 2001 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 22284 | Diary | Chuck Palahniuk | Palahniuk, Chuck | ="1400032814" | ="9781400032815" | 4 | 3.61 | Anchor | Paperback | 262 | 2004 | 2003 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 33293 | Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science | Charles Wheelan | Wheelan, Charles | ="0393324869" | ="9780393324860" | 4 | 4.00 | W. W. Norton Company | Paperback | 288 | 2003 | 2002 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 968 | The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) | Dan Brown | Brown, Dan | ="0307277674" | ="9780307277671" | 1 | 3.79 | Anchor | Paperback | 481 | 2006 | 2003 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 10176 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | David Sedaris | Sedaris, David | ="0965904830" | ="9780965904834" | 1 | 4.09 | Little Brown & Co. | Paperback | 272 | 2004 | 2004 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 4671 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | ="0743273567" | ="9780743273565" | 5 | 3.89 | Scribner | Paperback | 180 | 2004 | 1925 | 2007/06/26 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 4588 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Foer, Jonathan Safran | ="0618711651" | ="9780618711659" | 5 | 3.97 | Mariner Books | Paperback | 326 | 2006 | 2005 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 411321 | Invisible Monsters | Chuck Palahniuk | Palahniuk, Chuck | ="0393319296" | ="9780393319293" | 5 | 4.00 | W.W. Norton & Company | Paperback | 297 | 1999 | 1999 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 2265 | It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life | Lance Armstrong | Armstrong, Lance | Sally Jenkins | ="0425179613" | ="9780425179611" | 4 | 3.72 | Berkley Trade | Paperback | 294 | 2001 | 1999 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 5562 | Winning [Ganar] | Jack Welch | Welch, Jack | Suzy Welch | ="8466621091" | ="9788466621090" | 3 | 3.80 | Vergara | Paperback | 395 | 2005 | 1992 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 849747 | Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth | Andrew Smith | Smith, Andrew | ="0747563691" | ="9780747563693" | 3 | 4.06 | Bloomsbury | Paperback | 372 | 2006 | 2005 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 439673 | Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market | Eric Schlosser | Schlosser, Eric | ="0618334661" | ="9780618334667" | 4 | 3.76 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Hardcover | 320 | 2003 | 2003 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 25887 | Islam: A Concise Introduction | Huston Smith | Smith, Huston | ="0060095571" | ="9780060095574" | 5 | 3.71 | HarperOne | Paperback | 112 | 2001 | 1958 | 2007/06/23 | read | 1 | 0 |
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