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author: Alexander McCall Smith
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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This book and the others in the series are the funniest books I have ever read. The humor is very dry so the over the top situations feel credible rather than cartoonish.
]]> 13065713 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:39:37 -0800 <![CDATA[Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations]]> Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
author: Alexander McCall Smith
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.23
book published: 2004
rating: 1
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I love McCall Smiths other books but including the pedophiles story in this collection crossed all sorts of lines for me.
]]> 13067455 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:35:21 -0800 <![CDATA[The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories]]> The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
author: Susanna Clarke
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 13066963 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:29:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Gnomes]]> Gnomes
author: Wil Huygen
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1977
rating: 5
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It gets 5 stars because my grandma had a copy on her shelf. And everything she did was cool.
]]> 13066781 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:28:48 -0800 <![CDATA[The Virgin Suicides]]> The Virgin Suicides
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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This is one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read. It was haunting and illuminating. I still re-read it every now and then, if only to mourn the fact that I don't write like that.
]]> 13066678 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:26:49 -0800 <![CDATA[Me Talk Pretty One Day]]> Me Talk Pretty One Day
author: David Sedaris
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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I am increasingly of the opinion that all David Sedaris' books should be read as case studies in narcissism.
]]> 13066508 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:25:03 -0800 <![CDATA[I Am America (And So Can You!)]]> I Am America (And So Can You!)
author: Stephen Colbert
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 1
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Like that kid in your fourth grade class who just wouldn't quit, this was funny for a minute. Then it was annoying. Then you wanted a ritalin dart gun so you could make him stop. It would be funny if it weren't trying so very very very hard to be.
]]> 13066354 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:22:27 -0800 <![CDATA[The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in all the Wrong Places]]> The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in all the Wrong Places
author: Laura Ingraham
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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Nothing new here. Yes she is a conniving shrew. How many more books can cover that?
]]> 13066201 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:21:07 -0800 <![CDATA[Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You]]> Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You
author: Deborah Norville
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2007
rating: 2
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I just never got over the "lookie here, a cheerleader published her term paper" feeling. Gratitude is important. It has been discussed elsewhere with greater success.
]]> 13066173 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:19:37 -0800 <![CDATA[Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know]]> Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
author: E.D. Hirsch
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> 13066170 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:19:35 -0800 <![CDATA[The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know]]> The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
author: E.D. Hirsch
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> 13066141 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:19:10 -0800 <![CDATA[One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance]]> One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
author: Christina Hoff Sommers
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 13066132 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:19:04 -0800 <![CDATA[The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men]]> The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
author: Christina Hoff Sommers
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 13066055 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:18:45 -0800 <![CDATA[Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women]]> Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
author: Christina Hoff-Sommers
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.13
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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This is the book that taught me how to question things around me. I love the author and make it a point to read all her stuff. She never lets me down.
]]> 13065968 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:17:37 -0800 <![CDATA[The Closing of the American Mind]]> ]]> The Closing of the American Mind
author: Allan Bloom
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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This book began my personal question for education.

]]> 13065619 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:13:18 -0800 <![CDATA[New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought]]> New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
author: Todd G. Buchholz
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 13065579 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:12:57 -0800 <![CDATA[The Youngest Science]]> The Youngest Science
author: Lewis Thomas
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1983
rating: 4
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]]> 13065557 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:12:48 -0800 <![CDATA[Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony]]> Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
author: Lewis Thomas
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> 13065554 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:12:46 -0800 <![CDATA[The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher]]> The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
author: Lewis Thomas
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> 13065531 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:12:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher]]> Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
author: Lewis Thomas
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1974
rating: 5
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]]> 13065193 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:09:57 -0800 <![CDATA[Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News]]> Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News
author: Stephen E. Robinson
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.54
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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My favorite book on the atonement. This book literally changed my life.
]]> 13065039 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:07:53 -0800 <![CDATA[Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction]]> Game Theory: A Nontechnical Introduction
author: Morton D. Davis
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.05
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 13064832 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:07:00 -0800 <![CDATA[On Writing]]> On Writing
author: Stephen King
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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My favorite book on writing. Yes he is passionately in love with the F-bomb.
]]> 13064674 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:05:27 -0800 <![CDATA[Homebody: A Novel]]> Homebody: A Novel
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.26
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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I loved this book. Before M. Knight Shamilyan started ruthlessly plundering every good idea anyone else ever had, the ending was quite a shock.
]]> 13064620 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:04:12 -0800 <![CDATA[How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life]]> How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life
author: Ben Stein
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 13064588 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:04:03 -0800 <![CDATA[How to Ruin Your Life]]> How to Ruin Your Life
author: Ben Stein
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 13064412 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:03:03 -0800 <![CDATA[The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Classics)]]> The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (Scribner Classics)
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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One can only imagine what he would have accomplished if he had ever once met a woman he liked.
]]> 13064334 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:02:00 -0800 <![CDATA[The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel]]> The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
author: Diane Setterfield
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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Best gothic novel since "Rebecca".
]]> 13064311 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:01:11 -0800 <![CDATA[Stones from the River]]> Stones from the River
author: Ursula Hegi
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1995
rating: 2
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]]> 13064261 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust]]> Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> 13064237 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:24 -0800 <![CDATA[A great big ugly man came up and tied his horse to me;: A book of nonsense verse]]> A great big ugly man came up and tied his horse to me;: A book of nonsense verse
author: Wallace Tripp
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.78
book published: 1973
rating: 5
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]]> 13064199 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:02 -0800 <![CDATA[Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems]]> Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
author: Camille Paglia
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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]]> 13064190 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:59:58 -0800 <![CDATA[Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays]]> Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
author: Camille Paglia
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> 13064189 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:59:57 -0800 <![CDATA[Vamps & Tramps: New Essays]]> Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
author: Camille Paglia
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> 13064093 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:59:43 -0800 <![CDATA[Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)]]> Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
author: Camille Paglia
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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I disagree with just about every belief and value Ms Paglia expresses. But she remains one of my all time favorite thinkers.
]]> 13064016 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:58:06 -0800 <![CDATA[The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages]]> The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
author: Harold Bloom
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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]]> 13064007 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:57:59 -0800 <![CDATA[How to Read and Why]]> How to Read and Why
author: Harold Bloom
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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]]> 13063941 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:57:21 -0800 <![CDATA[The Collected Poems (Harper Colophon Books)]]> The Collected Poems (Harper Colophon Books)
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> 13063926 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:57:11 -0800 <![CDATA[The Bell Jar]]> The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1963
rating: 3
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]]> 13063886 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:56:45 -0800 <![CDATA[Happier]]> Happier
author: Tal Ben-Shahar
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 13063828 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:56:07 -0800 <![CDATA[The Phantom Tollbooth]]> The Phantom Tollbooth
author: Norton Juster
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1961
rating: 5
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]]> 13063712 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:55:42 -0800 <![CDATA[Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)]]> Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
author: J. M. Barrie
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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This is a stunningly great book about children and parents. The Disney version retained none of the books power and wisdom.
]]> 13063652 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:54:20 -0800 <![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]> The Da Vinci Code
author: Dan Brown
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2003
rating: 1
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I have no idea why I inflicted this book on myself. You live and learn.
]]> 13063588 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:53:07 -0800 <![CDATA[The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life]]> The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
author: Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> 13063155 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:50:34 -0800 <![CDATA[Twilight (Twilight Series, Book 1)]]> Twilight (Twilight Series, Book 1)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2005
rating: 1
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First book I ever didn't finish. I found myself alternately hoping that the characters would die horribly or wishing they were real so that some day I might meet them and beat them soundly. I know- everyone else loved it.
]]> 13063040 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:48:08 -0800 <![CDATA[How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)]]> How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)
author: Thomas Cahill
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 13062961 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:47:35 -0800 <![CDATA[Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics)]]> Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics)
author: Guy de Maupassant
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1971
rating: 5
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]]> 13062901 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:46:58 -0800 <![CDATA[Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist]]> Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist
author: Tyler Cowen
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.26
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 13062822 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:46:26 -0800 <![CDATA[The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!]]> The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
author: Tim Harford
name: Hannah
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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This is my favorite intro to economics.
]]> 13062566 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:43:30 -0800 <![CDATA[Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded]]> Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded
author: Thomas Sowell
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> 13062451 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:42:39 -0800 <![CDATA[The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy]]> The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
author: Thomas Sowell
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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]]> 13062400 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:41:52 -0800 <![CDATA[Radical Eye for the Infidel Guy: Inside the Strange World of Militant Islam]]> Radical Eye for the Infidel Guy: Inside the Strange World of Militant Islam
author: Kevin J. Ryan
name: Hannah
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
rating: 2
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