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    <updated_at>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:00:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[How to get from one planet to the other w/ very little fuel.  It's an essay summarizing the author's research w/ a bit of biography thrown in.  I think it's amazing his ideas, which we now take for granted, were so poorly received when he first proposed them.  I was disappointed when he chose to pat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74674018">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:01:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm sure it was useful in its time, but it is stunningly useless today.  Read John Robb's &quot;Brave New War&quot; or anything by Mao instead.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:41:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read 13 Bullets, 99 Coffins or Vampire Zero, it's ok.  Wellington weaves his vampire mythos and character backgrounds seamlessly with the action.<br/><br/>And there's so much action.  A few times I had to stop and move back a few paragraphs because the situation changed so damn fast...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64730379">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232489.Advice_to_Rocket_Scientists_A_Career_Survival_Guide_for_Scientists_and_Engineers">Advice to Rocket Scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/596423.Jim_Longuski">Jim Longuski</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:45:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is so short and easy to read, you would think at least one professor or dean would include a copy of this w/ the school's graduation materials.  Higher payed alumni make for more donations, right?<br/><br/>This book is useful not just for rocket scientists but for any engineer/scientist ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63146565">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1043854.Chances_Are_Adventures_in_Probability">Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/121314.Michael_Kaplan">Michael Kaplan</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:45:30 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If you ever go gambling, <em>always</em> play the games that pit you against other people.  <em>Never</em> play any game that pits you against the house.  If you're curious about why this is, then read this book.  If not...  It's <em>your</em> money.  You do whatever you want.<br/><br/>Most math history books talk about who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58577392">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4924862.I_Will_Teach_You_To_Be_Rich">I Will Teach You To Be Rich (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/773057.Ramit_Sethi">Ramit Sethi</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:36:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[In one chapter, this book briefly describes a girl that spends $5,000/year on shoes.  Since it's a book on being rich, I figured she *must* be rich in order to waste that much money on shoes.  But no, her annual income is about half mine.  She's able to do this because she decided that &quot;$5,000/...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58573553">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:36:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The purpose of the book was to teach the concepts of differential equations to liberal arts students using QBASIC. The narrative is nice and the last chapter is surprisingly dense. I can only find one copy for sale on the internets, and it's ~$80, which is ridiculous since the monograph is available...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55178009">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4699575.Daemon">Daemon (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1956402.Daniel_Suarez">Daniel Suarez</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:19:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<div style="font-style: italic">This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55172179">click here.</a></div>]]></body>
        
    
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