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April 23
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Jake
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
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New comment on Jake's review of
Outrage: How Liberals, Congress, Unions, Drug Companies, Big Oil, Banks, Lobbyists, Corporations, the United Nations, the World Bank, the INS, the TSA, and the Democratic Party Are Ripping
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April 13
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New comment on Matt's review of
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
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Jake
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Outrage: How Liberals, Congress, Unions, Drug Companies, Big Oil, Banks, Lobbyists, Corporations, the United Nations, the World Bank, the INS, the TSA, and the Democratic Party Are Ripping (Hardcover)
by Dick Morris
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read in January, 2008
Jake said:
"Really great so far. Morris isn't a great writer - his style is very conversational, and it comes off more like an angry speech instead of a book. However, the ideas are very engaging and fascinating. He very fairly attacks Republicans as much as he...more
Really great so far. Morris isn't a great writer - his style is very conversational, and it comes off more like an angry speech instead of a book. However, the ideas are very engaging and fascinating. He very fairly attacks Republicans as much as he goes after Democrats, and offers an incredibly insightful criticism of some of the problems with American politics. Even better than that, at the end of each section he offers some real ways to fix the system. I don't agree with some of the sections, but generally, it's a worthwhile read that will get you pretty outraged......less
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Jake
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The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him (Audio CD)
by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins
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read in February, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
Jake said:
"Great book. If you know anything about current world politics, the end won't be a shocker really, but it's incredibly suspenseful. It reads like a real life James Bond novel, except the villains win at the end. Some of the more technical aspects get ...more
Great book. If you know anything about current world politics, the end won't be a shocker really, but it's incredibly suspenseful. It reads like a real life James Bond novel, except the villains win at the end. Some of the more technical aspects get a little laborious to read, but these are not very long. Highly recommended. ...less
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Jake
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Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton (Hardcover)
by Jonah Goldberg
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read in December, 2007
Jake said:
"As Jonah Goldberg says, having heard to many times how blithely Conservatives are equated to fascists, he set out to prove the philosophical, ethical, and historical continuity between the modern liberal who makes such accusations, and concrete fasci...more
As Jonah Goldberg says, having heard to many times how blithely Conservatives are equated to fascists, he set out to prove the philosophical, ethical, and historical continuity between the modern liberal who makes such accusations, and concrete fascism. He makes the point that the word itself doesn't mean much except a synonym for evil with a connotation of the Holocaust. His thesis seems to be that liberalism or progressivism, socialism/Bolshevism and Fascism are all intellectual heirs of a few philosophical errors, namely, that man is perfectible through human agency, that a human utopia is not only within our reach, but is attainable through a simple reordering of social structures, and that the individual good is always subject to the good of the whole.
Gets better with every page you turn....less
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January 08
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Jake
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Mythologies (Paperback)
by Roland Barthes
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Jake said:
"Pretty funny - I don't know if that's intentional or not. But a guy who tries to invoke dialectical materialism in the dichotomy between butter and margarine is either a crazy Marxist nut, or a spectacular comedian. Some real insights into "read...more
Pretty funny - I don't know if that's intentional or not. But a guy who tries to invoke dialectical materialism in the dichotomy between butter and margarine is either a crazy Marxist nut, or a spectacular comedian. Some real insights into "reading" culture and politics with a semiological point of view. At first I was resistant, being a part of the "petit-bourgeois Establishment", but Roland makes some good points......less
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December 15
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New comment on Robin's review of
Brideshead Revisited
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December 10
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New comment on Aaron's review of
Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
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