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July 03
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Drew Lackovic
is currently reading:
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Hardcover)
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Mark Bauerlein
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Drew Lackovic
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Paperback)
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Sven Birkerts
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Drew Lackovic
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
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Henry Jenkins
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Drew Lackovic
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God in my Throat (Paperback)
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Colleen S. Harris
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read in June, 2009
Drew said:
"I'm somewhat biased to say that I loved this book, but I do love it. Colleen does an amazing job in singing Lilith's song. I read it the day it showed up on my doorstep.
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Drew Lackovic
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The Public Burning (Paperback)
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Robert Coover
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read in July, 2009
Drew said:
"I've read a lot of theory about this book, and when I finally had a chance to sit down and read it, I had very high expectations. For the most part, the book was very good, but Coover is VERY wordy. Once I was about 3/4 through the book I found myse...more
I've read a lot of theory about this book, and when I finally had a chance to sit down and read it, I had very high expectations. For the most part, the book was very good, but Coover is VERY wordy. Once I was about 3/4 through the book I found myself increasingly wanting to skim the pages, especially in the sections that weren't from Nixon's perspective.(less)
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June 25
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Drew Lackovic
is currently reading:
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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Neil Postman
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June 11
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Drew Lackovic
gave  to:
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Hardcover)
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Michael Abrashoff
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read in June, 2009
Drew said:
"as far as crappy business leadership books go, this is one of the best. I had to read this when I was working for Verizon, and of all the garbage texts they threw at us over the years, this was the only practical, inspiring, and useful leadership boo...more
as far as crappy business leadership books go, this is one of the best. I had to read this when I was working for Verizon, and of all the garbage texts they threw at us over the years, this was the only practical, inspiring, and useful leadership book I read. (Too bad VZ management was too corrupt to ever even begin to entertain the ideas herein.)
Anyway, the book operates on the simple idea that if you empower your workforce to challenge the status quo, everyone will become more involved and accountable for the business. It's an argument against micromanagement and bureaucracy.
I'm currently teaching it as a sort of ethics component to my Business Writing class. (less)
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April 07
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Drew Lackovic
gave to:
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
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Steven Hall (Goodreads author)
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read in March, 2009
Drew said:
"Fantastic book. It felt like a melding of Haruki Murakami and Jesse Ball. This book delves into some very interesting ontologies of language and how the world is made up of so much discourse. Simply it follows a man who has repetitive dissociative ...more
Fantastic book. It felt like a melding of Haruki Murakami and Jesse Ball. This book delves into some very interesting ontologies of language and how the world is made up of so much discourse. Simply it follows a man who has repetitive dissociative memory loss; but there's much much more to it than that. Excellent use of fracture to display a very complicated and somewhat labyrinthine whole. (less)
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March 09
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Drew Lackovic
gave to:
Watchmen (Paperback)
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Alan Moore
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Drew said:
"Finally got around to reading this just days before the movie came out. Loved the metafictive nature of much of it, and also how Moore handles Jon's sense of timeflow...brilliant.
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