false 215470 26 male Portland, OR 07/2007 09/2008 11 27 22 true 5692487 read 2 true 449083 currently-reading 3 true 449082 to-read 8 false 1640920 fiction-novel 5 false 1685751 history 5 false 1786844 sci-fi 4 false 1550679 apocalyptic-non-fiction 3 false 2132325 airport-reading 1 false 1558635 screenplays 1 false 3364941 essays 1 false 1597098 short-stories 1 false 2505027 self-care 0 false 2505025 self-help Kindred (Paperback) by Octavia E. Butler]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32731948 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1232805354s/60931.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:57:27 -0700 It's a story about time travel to the slave culture of the 19th century south.

I have been told by a couple of friends that this sort of book is part of a whole genre ...more...]]> The Coming Global Superstorm (Mass Market Paperback) by Art Bell]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32730986 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176314959s/612153.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:44:14 -0700 more...]]> When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover) by David Sedaris]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32646700 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255615795s/1044355.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:12:28 -0700
I have been told that Sedaris' autobiographical essays are usually much more edgy tha...more...]]> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback) by Dave Eggers]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25225593 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H215HG0ML._SL75_.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:26:10 -0700 Green Pope (Hardcover) by Miguel Ángel Asturias]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25224881 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:20:29 -0700 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback) by Jared Diamond]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25223606 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156921664s/475.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:10:19 -0700 One Hundred Years of Solitude (Hardcover) by Gabriel García Márquez]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25223557 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255666245s/320.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:09:58 -0700 Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback) by Kurt Vonnegut]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23213621 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227252234s/4981.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:22:57 -0700 Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Trade Paperback) by Lester Russell Brown]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25197833 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41g7jb1GQPL._SL75_.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:34:59 -0700
I would consider myself pretty well versed when it comes to issues potentially b...more...]]> Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace (Paperback) by William Greider]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23213768 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175836340s/565027.jpg 215470 Mark http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/215470-mark Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:11:27 -0700 Fortress America does a very good job at describing how our economy is reliant on runaway defense spending. Written in 2000, Greider asks us why we had continued to spend as if the Cold war never happened.

Answer: I...more...]]>