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August 31
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Richard
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The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by Alice Sebold
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Richard
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by Jim Collins
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read in August, 2008
Richard said:
"I enjoyed this book as it clarify ideas I've always had about working for organizations. The difference between a "level 4" and a "level 5" leader was most interesting - the Lee Ioccoca-types (Level 4), are all about themselves an...more
I enjoyed this book as it clarify ideas I've always had about working for organizations. The difference between a "level 4" and a "level 5" leader was most interesting - the Lee Ioccoca-types (Level 4), are all about themselves and not about the company, whereas Level 5 types like David Packard are about their companies not their egos.
The idea that the right people on the bus in the right seats is the best way to take an organization to the next level. It makes perfect but it surprising how often it isn't followed....less
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August 05
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Richard
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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 (Hardcover)
by Geoffrey C. Ward
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Richard said:
"I listened to this book on CD and found it riveting. I learned thigs I had no idea about, including near the end of the war the Germans put together a team of veterans who had lost their hearing as a result of battle. They were called the Ear Battlio...more
I listened to this book on CD and found it riveting. I learned thigs I had no idea about, including near the end of the war the Germans put together a team of veterans who had lost their hearing as a result of battle. They were called the Ear Battlion or something like that. Lots of little things like that were interest. Specially the blunders on both sides in both theatres of the war....less
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July 26
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Richard
marked as to-read:
Notes from Underground; White Nights; The Dream of a Ridiculous Man; and: White Nights Dream Ridiculous Man and selections from The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Richard
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The Secret (Hardcover)
by Rhonda Byrne
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Richard
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by Dave Eggers
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Richard
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The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life (Paperback)
by Amy Tan
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Richard said:
"I enjoyed this book a lot. I recommend listening to the author read her own words. The impression of her mother's voice, so prominent in her "The Joy Luck Club" and other writings, is great, hilarious. There were lots of interesting stories...more
I enjoyed this book a lot. I recommend listening to the author read her own words. The impression of her mother's voice, so prominent in her "The Joy Luck Club" and other writings, is great, hilarious. There were lots of interesting stories in the compilation of essays. My favorite was Amy talking about how she dealt discovering she had Lyme Disease....less
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Richard
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by Malcolm Gladwell
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read in July, 2008
Richard said:
"This was an excellent book. To say it was thought-provoking, is an extreme understatement. The concept of "thin-slicing" and how the human mind processes so quickly as revealed in this book was fascinating. My favorite parts include the rea...more
This was an excellent book. To say it was thought-provoking, is an extreme understatement. The concept of "thin-slicing" and how the human mind processes so quickly as revealed in this book was fascinating. My favorite parts include the reasoning behind why it's safer for everyone to have one cop in a car on patrol instead of two, how with the smallest exchange researchers can predict who will make it as a couple and who won't, and how it may not be ESP when we make a decision in an emergency that turns out to be right but based on seemingly impossible little information. This is one of the rare books that I will read (listen) to again in the near future....less
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June 22
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Richard
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If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Hardcover)
by Goldman Family
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read in June, 2008
Richard said:
"This was a very strange book. The Goldmans published O.J. Simpson's account of his marriage, divorce and the events before and after the murders. It is basically a confession to the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, a waiter who sh...more
This was a very strange book. The Goldmans published O.J. Simpson's account of his marriage, divorce and the events before and after the murders. It is basically a confession to the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, a waiter who showed up at the wrong time in front of her door. The Goldmans published the book so they could get some of the money they were awarded in the civil trial of Simpson, and so he couldn't use the proceeds for himself or funnel them to his family members. The long foreword explains all this. The afterword by Dominick Dunne is a big disappoint me, because it does refute any of O.J.'s account as one would expect. About the only thing I got out of Dunne was that Judge Ito wasn't such a big guy.
Anyway the actually "confession" (If I Did It) was a character assassination of his ex-wife. However, if she was half as bad as OJ makes her out to be, you can start to understand how she was driving the man crazy...I actually found myself relating to many of OJ's complaints about his ex-wife...Not trying to blame the victim here, but women do provoke men...The question of whether Nicole was drinking heavily, doing drugs, partying with sleazeballs and abusing the help do make you wonder...She apparently was no saint....But OJ, I don't remember any of what happened, but when I woke up there were two bloody bodies around me is laughable...One interesting element is OJ claims he had an accomplice who got rid of his bloody clothes and the knife. Somebody he calls "Charlie"...I think the real horror of the whole OJ Simpson fiasco was the incredible damage it did to people's faith in the justice system and in race relations....less
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June 16
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Richard
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A Long Way Down (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby
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Richard said:
"I liked this book. Hornby does a good job interweaving 4 characters and their monologues to tell why people attempt suicide and how they are different from those that actually do it. I prefer "How to Be Good" and "About a Boy" but...more
I liked this book. Hornby does a good job interweaving 4 characters and their monologues to tell why people attempt suicide and how they are different from those that actually do it. I prefer "How to Be Good" and "About a Boy" but consider Hornby's work a cut above the rest because of the ideas and themes he explores are not tired, but novel (pun intended)....less
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