false 230344 male Covington, KY 07/2007 12/2009 776 Michael Lewis 40 John McPhee 10 103 85 true 5780148 read 6 true 479252 currently-reading 12 true 479251 to-read 11 false 2097562 abandoned 0 false 1876262 to-buy-for-jessica A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (Paperback) by John McPhee]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82288629 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173068083s/243707.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:43:49 -0800 Altar of Eden (Hardcover) by James Rollins]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82288609 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255629460s/6287290.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:43:03 -0800 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3765.Hurry_Up_and_Release_It_ http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:32:33 -0800 World Without End (Hardcover) by Ken Follett]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82288643 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255589160s/5064.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:32:20 -0800 The Ransom of Russian Art (Paperback) by John McPhee]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79962680 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445916s/54977.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:31:11 -0800
I don't usually think of McPhee books as needing shortened (with the exception of Founding Fish), but nothing seemed to happen in later pages that didn't happen in the first pages. No new developments, no revelations, no insight...more...]]> Final Target (Mass Market Paperback) by Steven Gore]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81387364 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:42:29 -0800
It's an ambitious work - the complexity of the crimes seem staggering, and the amount of characters to keep straight. Towards the beginning, it was a problem, but eventually things smoothed out.

At times, it seems as though Gore may not understa...more...]]> Gutshot Straight: A Novel (Hardcover) by Lou Berney]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79626614 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261151193s/7037737.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:44:54 -0800
It's not boring...I did finish it. But the writing is pretty poor, with odd, awkward cultural references, a plot that's convenient coincidence after convenient coincidence....]]> The Crofter and the Laird (Paperback) by John McPhee]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78759892 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171946120s/128148.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:04:19 -0800
Somehow I expected this to be autobio-genealogical - which I would love for McPhee to...more...]]> Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover) by Michael J. Sandel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78303710 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255569448s/6452731.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:01:52 -0800
The intro was great... I mean, fabulous.

But I was really looking, and expecting, more of a legal or political book, and well...it was just philosophical dribble.

The intro was what I was looking for, but it quickly deteriorated....]]> Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback) by Studs Terkel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40747350 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533393s/59649.jpg 230344 James http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1216664876p2/230344.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/230344-james Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:58:29 -0800