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| This book was supposed to be funny. 90% of it was not. I gave it one star only because, at 207 pages, it only wasted 2 days of my discretionary reading time. | |
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Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
by James M. Tabor
read in January, 2012
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| Just really couldn't get into this book. I thought it would be an exciting and informative read, but was mostly repetitive and boring. I was somewhat surprised that Klimchouk got such relatively little coverage in this book compared to Stone, in th...more | |
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| Wonderfully written and entertaining throughout. The fact that the author used 2 narrators kept it especially interesting. Reading about English, French and American perpectives on our new country and the Age of Revolution in general was a real treat...more | |
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| One of the funniest books I've ever read. I was also moved to jealousy since, as a father, it has made me aware of the fact that I am Justin's father's opposite (passive aggressive) and need to change my ways! | |
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| The final 100 pages of the book brought my rating up from 3 stars to 4. I didn't really get involved with the characters or much interested in what might happen to them until I learned a bit about horse racing, which hasn't ever really held my intere...more | |
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| Old ground already thoroughly plowed by others. I found this book tedious in the extreme. | |
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| Gimmicky, non-linnear. Maybe I'm just too old for post-modernism, or maybe I just don't get it. Some chapters had me enthralled, others...not so much. And as for the Power Point usage....An "A" for Originality, an "F" for Relevance. | |
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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
by Paul Bloom
read in December, 2011
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| The book is like a very wide but very shallow river. The author covers a wide variety of topics in just over 200 pages, but doesn't really come close to answering the question posed in its' title. Other than a few interesting anecdotes and brief sym...more | |
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Fun fluff. I really hate to give this guy two stars for a decently written, well researched book. But for all the interesting anecdotes, experiments, and theories, the book doesn't begin to deliver what the title promises. In other words, the book pr...
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