false 49 111 106 true 5699629 read 1 true 4099010 currently-reading 4 true 4099009 to-read 0 false 4978844 the-future-list <![CDATA[N-rose added 'Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79412630 Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Hardcover) by Barbara Ehrenreich
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]]> <![CDATA[N-rose is on page 45 of Bright-sided: How th... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79412630 N-rose is on page 45 of 240 of Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America ]]> <![CDATA[N-rose added 'The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63801263 to: The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound (Hardcover) by Ron Darling
You know when you read a book by a blowhard who had to be mellowed by his co-writer or editor? This has a bit of that, and Darling doesn't speak to how he went from a hot prospect to a wild starter to major league flotsam (I never watched him after he left the Mets... he was in Oakland and it was the early 90s!), but the book also has some spectacular musings on athletic competition, pitching strategy, emotion, and how to adapt when everything is not working right.

I loved this book and would recommend it. ]]> <![CDATA[N-rose added 'By Night in Chile']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64990683 By Night in Chile (Paperback) by Roberto Bolaño
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I liked the writing - smutty writer and his many trysts - but I felt I've read it before, and it's not better than other degenerate-writer novels. ]]> <![CDATA[N-rose added 'To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42175221 to: To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry (Paperback) by Will Blythe
So very good - a look at the social aspects of the Duke/ UNC rivalry, conversations with the players in a very human way, fantastically written look inside the University of North Carolina basketball... and Duke. ]]> <![CDATA[N-rose added 'Angela's Ashes']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64989948 to: Angela's Ashes (Paperback) by Frank McCourt
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While I'm not a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell, I thought this book was some food for thought about the legacies that make the successful people successful. Of course, it's a little too simplistic-seeming and some of the research could use more rigorous detail for me to determine whether I go with the premises and the research, but the book was definitely something to think on. ]]> <![CDATA[N-rose added 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56160721 to: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1 (Mass Market Paperback) by Douglas Adams
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