false 1429082 27 male Chicago, IL 08/2008 12/2009 34 79 79 true 5642120 read 0 true 3178220 currently-reading 0 true 3178219 to-read 20 false 4971609 fiction 17 false 4971686 current-events 11 false 4971869 history 11 false 4971618 psychology 11 false 4971665 religion 10 false 4971586 science 8 false 5042038 biography-memoir 8 false 4971720 business-economics 7 false 6990562 culture-sociology 7 false 6585367 pulitzer-prize 6 false 5295689 athletics 5 false 5042039 pop-culture 3 false 6677212 nobel-prize 3 false 7291809 mathematics 2 false 5527739 historical-fiction Oryx and Crake (Paperback) by Margaret Atwood]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82517127 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573547s/46756.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:17:18 -0800 Oryx and Crake was my second Atwood novel, after reading The Handmaid’s Tale in high school. Both are dystopian novels set in a not-so-distant future, where society is breaking down by our standards but for the greater good within its own universe. I want to assume that this is Atwood in her fav...more...]]> The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback) by Carl Sagan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81925217 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166806168s/17349.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:25:55 -0800 The Demon-Haunted World is more than just a passionate pro-science polemic with a clunky title. It is a treatise on the proper acquisition, use, distribution and revision of knowledge. This authoritative attitude permeates the twenty-five chapters of his book, which focus on the nat...more...]]> The Road (Paperback) by Cormac McCarthy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81203646 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233151881s/350540.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:23:56 -0800 Blood Meridian and No Country For Old Men. It was with an awareness for this type of macabre brutality that I ventured into his widely lauded novel, Th...more...]]> Open: An Autobiography (Hardcover) by Andre Agassi]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80873975 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oI8yQJxhL._SL75_.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:59:09 -0800 more...]]> The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover) by Lawrence Wright]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80254954 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171646758s/110890.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:42:15 -0800 more...]]> It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (Paperback) by Lance Armstrong]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79405054 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1160807318s/2265.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:57:35 -0800 more...]]> Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories (Paperback) by Elizabeth Strout]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78969687 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vmAJkZWzL._SL75_.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:43:58 -0800 more...]]> American Gods (Mass Market Paperback) by Neil Gaiman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78661351 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173975984s/349347.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:08:22 -0800 more...]]> Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner (Paperback) by Dean Karnazes]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77876925 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171104471s/87632.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:39:02 -0800 more...]]> No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (Paperback) by Naomi Klein]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77763826 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157065229s/647.jpg 1429082 Daniel http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218806878p2/1429082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1429082-daniel Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:14:41 -0800 The Shock Doctrine a little over a year ago. In it, Klein condemns governments’ privatization of the public...more...]]>