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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
read in March, 2012
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Read this one in German with a dictionary (yay, my first real book in German!) -- still as good as the first time around.
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Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber
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Numerous "everything was so horrible but then I used this trick and now everything is great!" real-life stories are a bit annoying, some pieces of advice are questionable, but generally it was a very useful reading (me being an only child and looking...more
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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
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Kinda nice, but maybe a bit more boring and repetitive than e.g. Outliers.
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Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter Boxset
by J.K. Rowling
read in December, 2011
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Read the whole thing on vacation. Very relaxing.
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The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
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Catching up with the classics.
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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Somehow I missed that one -- catching up with the classics.

The perfect superhuman protagonists are a bit annoying, but that's mormon sci-fi for you, I guess. Overall it was quite a nice read despite all clichés and convenient plot devices.
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Mafia State by Luke Harding
Mafia State
by Luke Harding
read in October, 2011
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The field trip reports from Dagestan..Kyrgyzstan with historical/geographical notes are somewhat boring, but the "life of a Guardian reporter in modern Moscow" part compensates for that. I mean, it reads like some oldschool Aksyonov ("Скажи Изюм" wit...more
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
read in September, 2011
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Must read. My review (in Russian) and some random quotes at https://plus.sandbox.google.com/u/1/1...
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Вверх! Практический подход к карьерному росту by Инна Кузнецова
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It's not as bad as the cover suggests, but the blog (lj user=karial) was somehow more fun to read.
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The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
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