false 8 117 106 true 5823455 read 3 true 3700424 currently-reading 8 true 3700423 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76436114 to: Memories of the Future - Volume 1 (Paperback) by Wil Wheaton
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be Wil Wheaton.

I was nine when TNG debuted, and Wesley Crusher was a role model. Here was a child prodigy saving the day with his science projects, he had a cool haircut, and those sweaters were pretty rad, too. Well, I wasn't too big a fan of the sweaters, but I identified with Wesley, and for what it's worth, this is about when I started embracing my status as Smartest Kid in the Class (which, granted, only lasted until middle school). Did I mention that one of the two VHS tapes available during my summers at my Grandma's place on Long Island, and thus viewd dozens, if not hundreds of times, was 'Stand By Me' (the other one being 'Jaws')? Point is, the book's great. It's a snarky, nostalgia-fueled look back at his childhood and, to a certain extent, mine. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76436173 to: Columbine (Hardcover) by Dave Cullen
Couldn't put it down. Most of what we know about Columbine is just wrong, from the notion of the Trenchcoat Mafia to the story of the girl who professed her belief in God right before her murder. This clears up the misconceptions, the cover-ups, and the urban legends that surround the event with a thoroughly investigated account of the tragedy, what led up to it, and it's aftermath. Cullen doesn't excuse, but he comes close to explaining what drove the killers. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2072.Atheists_and_Skeptics Bob joined the Atheists and Skeptics group. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74046601 to: The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity (Paperback) by Lee Strobel
If you know anything about logical fallacies, stay away lest your head explode on page three. If not for your own sake, then for the person who gets stuck cleaning chunks of skull and gray matter from the ceiling of your bathroom. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58720503 to: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception (Hardcover) by Scott McClellan
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Painful read. Only a few chapters in, and it's as though I'm stuck at the bar, waiting to sober up, and this guy's telling me his life story in the most boring and scattershot way possible just because I'm the only other person not with someone and therefore must be interested in everything he has to say. Nonetheless, I'm still hoping I'll go back to it at some point and suddenly it'll be a Tom Clancy novel. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74046230 The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
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