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	08/02 Brendan is currently reading: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback) by Rebecca West bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	09/13 Brendan is currently reading: The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged) by Edward Gibbon bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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August 17

Brendan gave

to:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein

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read in August, 2008

Brendan said: "Economic and ideological nonsense in the best Noam Chomsky tradition, with minimal regard for serious history and serious economics, let alone intellectual honesty.

Since Klein spends to much time attacking the Cato Institute, they released a fair...more "

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August 02

Brendan is currently reading:
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Paperback)
by Rebecca West
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Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Paperback)
by Milton Friedman

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read in July, 2008

Brendan said: "I probably only understood 50-60% of what they were talking about in this book, but since it is considered one of the seminal achievements in economics in the 20th Century, I guess I don't feel I have the right to give it a bad rating. "

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July 06

Brendan gave

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The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics)
by Reinhold Niebuhr

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read in May, 2008

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Brendan gave

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
by David McCullough

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read in July, 2008

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June 17

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The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means (Hardcover)
by George Soros

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read in June, 2008

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Brendan gave

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Dispatches (Paperback)
by Michael Herr

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read in June, 2008

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May 20

New comment on Brendan's review of The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artists

Brendan wrote: "You're a Jenny Garth in a Shannon Douherty world. "

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May 19

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by Brian Greene

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Brendan gave

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The Ugly American (Paperback)
by William J. Lederer

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