false 15 520 504 true 5643671 read 11 true 496147 currently-reading 5 true 496146 to-read 66 false 4725241 graphic-novels 29 false 4725861 non-fiction 13 false 4725853 novels 10 false 4728197 humor 7 false 4728149 graphic-arts 6 false 5129125 theater 3 false 4983846 short-stories 3 false 4725858 children 2 false 5527479 poetry http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77536149 to: Spirit Vol. 2 SC (Paperback) by Darwyn Cooke
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Darwyn Cooke is one of the few contemporary artist-writers that really "gets" The Spirit and presents a satisfying modern spin of creator Will Eisner's sensibilities. This volume has some fine work by other artists (Chris Sprouse, Eduardo Risso, Kyle Baker), but it's Cooke that really understands the character. New characters like newscaster Ginger Coffee and villains such as El Morte could have been conceived by Eisner himself. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76890862 Christove's review of V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore

A classic. Who but Alan Moore could make such a British-centric story so universal? This is another example of a film not doing justice to one of Moore's novels. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77196728 to: George Macdonald: An Anthology : 365 Readings (Paperback) by C.S. Lewis
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A potent collection of pithy thoughts from a master that influenced Lewis and many other Christian writers. MacDonald has an abrasive edge that Lewis lacks, but his piercing ideas about faith and fidelity are powerful and as relevant as ever. A great read. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50992526 to: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77196250 to: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Hardcover (Large Print)) by Malcolm Gladwell
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I love Gladwell's approach. He manages to make the most complex ideas clearly understood (he should write the new health care legislation). This is a collection of essays from the New Yorker, most of which I've already read at one time or another. It's wonderful to see them collected in one volume. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77114511 Amander's review of I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
by Tom Wolfe

Even though I love Tom Wolfe's non-fiction, the idea of a seventy-year-old man writing in the voice of a twenty-something college girl stretches my credulity to the breaking point. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76817154 to: The Cannibal Galaxy (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) by Cynthia Ozick
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76817132 to: Quarrel & Quandary: Essays (Paperback) by Cynthia Ozick
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76817127 to: Metaphor & Memory (Paperback) by Cynthia Ozick
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39512297 to: Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (Hardcover) by Andy Crouch
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This is a book I could have written, a well thought-out, non-judgmental survey of the media landscape of America in the beginning of the new millennium. Nicely done, clearly stated, and a joy to read. ]]>