books about: david     books:       When You Are Engulfed in Flames240 reviews David Sedaris Little, Brown and Company, 2008 LOL I laughed. Out loud. On an airplane reading this book. BTW... Also check out the interview he did with Jon Stewart about it. Hysterical.             What In the World Is Going On?: 10 Prophetic Clues You Cannot Afford to Ignore7 reviews David Jeremiah Thomas Nelson, 2008 Accurate and Timely Dr. David Jeremiah's book "What in the World is Going On?" is a guide to events that are ocurring before our eyes. When I got it I could not stop reading it; I red it in 3 nights. (and I'm a slow reader) but the book, is so current, and it is a wonderful guide for the Believer. Dr. Jeremiah exposes current facts with a Biblical perspective in such a way that is so easy to comprenhend, and see the ...             The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)455 reviews David Wroblewski Ecco, 2008 Great Writing I bought Edgar Sawtelle because of the location depicted in the story. I am very familiar with Wisconsin, central and northern. I could picture the location. It was very descriptive and well written. The characters and the dogs were well described; and I felt sad at the end, saddened because it had ended.             Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays47 reviews David Foster Wallace Back Bay Books, 2007 Smart, eclectic, and hilariously funny. Full disclosure: I have a major intellectual crush on David Foster Wallace. Yes, yes, I know about his weaknesses - the digressions, the rampant footnote abuse, the flaunting of his amazing erudition, the mess that is 'Infinite Jest'. I know all this, and I don't care. Because when he is in top form, there's nobody else I would rather read. The man is hilarious; I think he's a mensch, and I don't ...             A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments89 reviews David Foster Wallace Back Bay Books, 1998 Sheer genius. David Foster Wallace is one awesomely smart guy. This is both his greatest strength and his potential Achilles heel as a writer. Personally, I will read anything this man writes, because I think he is a true genius with a rare sense of compassion, and a hilarious sense of humor. Even when his writing falls victim to its own cleverness, I still find it worthwhile - perhaps because one senses that ...             Infinite Jest346 reviews David Foster Wallace Back Bay Books, 2006 Great even if you don't get everything I didn't, like one reviewer here suggested, look up every word I didn't know in the dictionary (and there were a lot. Antinomy?) I didn't even read all the footnotes, because after a while this was, even though it was a great book, one of those books where you start staring at the width of the pages you've finished and the pages you have left in order to measure how far you are and how many days ...             The Whole Truth100 reviews David Baldacci Hachette Audio, 2009 Great read Awesome book. David Baldacci is a wonderful author who paints pictures with words. Don't read this book unless you are willing to stay put until its finished. Draws you in and doesn't let go. Fantastic.             The Way We Work1 review David Macaulay Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 2008 Anatomy and Physiology in an easy to digest form. A nurses perspective. I am a nurse and also a student currently working on my masters. During the course of my degree I have of course had to learn anatomy (body structures) and physiology (body functions). The one thing that I have always had issue with was the way even my very expensive books for school seemed to lack in any really good illustrations. I am a visual learner and I really appreciate the clarity of a ...             Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity457 reviews David Allen Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 Absolutely phenomenal ways of managing yourself Management begins with self! Start managing yourself and you would be able to manage everyone and everything around you. But there are times when you have lots of things to do and you are left with no choice but to get more and more confused. The best ways I thought to manage everything starting from my desktop to the projects I was working in was (after I analyzed a lot and Googled around) to ...             Divine Justice David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing, 2008 Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's most surprising thriller yet . . . Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America . With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out ...             The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy8 reviews David M. Smick Portfolio Hardcover, 2008 A Blockbuster of a book that everyone should read This extremely well-written book describes the current financial problems of globalization. It is easy to follow, easy to understand, and eliminates jargon. It's a great example of communication out of the Frank Lutz 'words that work' school. The problems of globalization, as the book described' are critical as a major period of entrepreneurial prosperity may be coming to an end. The ...             The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate182 reviews David Freddoso Regnery Publishing, 2008 MUST Read for All! NOT a Hatchet Job! I don't care if you are Democrat, Republican, Independent, Populist, Ron Paulist, Whig, Tory,... whatever. You NEED to read this book. It is a terrific piece of investigative journalism, which builds on other great research pieces, many of which were published by Chicago media but not read by many outside of Illinois. The books breaks down as follows: Introduction: The Rhetoric vs. the ...             Deaf Sentence: A Novel3 reviews David Lodge Viking Adult, 2008 "What shall I do with myself today?" David Lodge's "Deaf Sentence" is a seriocomic novel about a man whose quality of life is steadily declining. Desmond Bates, a former professor of linguistics, takes early retirement, mostly because of a hearing loss that began twenty years earlier. He suffers from "high-frequency deafness...caused by accelerated loss of the hair cells in the inner ear...." Since there is no treatment for this ...             Oblivion: Stories31 reviews David Foster Wallace Back Bay Books, 2005 Brilliant The best collection of short fiction from the best living writer in the English language. It demands patience and attention, but the rewards for the effort are incredible. The best story in the collection is Good Old Neon, which is bifercated (by use of footnotes), such that there are two distinct endings, both of which would qualify the story as probably the best I have read this year. These ...             Storm from the Shadows David Weber Baen, 2009 Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle. The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces, and they had to run. But Michelle?s ship was crippled, and had to be destroyed to prevent superior Manticoran technology from falling into Havenite hands, and she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner. Much to her surprise, she was repatriated to Manticore, carrying a ...             Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim312 reviews David Sedaris Back Bay Books, 2005 Dress Your Family in Cords or enim This book is hysterical! Probably one of his best works if not the best.If you like Sedaris at all then you must read this (even though it's not his latest). It's even funny a second time around, the semi biographical short stories don't get dated.             Brief Interviews with Hideous Men68 reviews David Foster Wallace Back Bay Books, 2000 Talented writer will be missed I am still absorbing the news that David Foster Wallace apparently took his own life this weekend. He was 46. I vividly recall my experience reading "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," because these short short stories are both insightful and laugh out loud funny. Wallace had a keen understanding of the often reptilian and repellent motivations of human beings. He knew that for all our ...             Me Talk Pretty One Day732 reviews David Sedaris Back Bay Books, 2001 Not heartwarming... in a good way. Before reading this book, I very much thought from the title (and because at the time I did not know who David Sedaris is)that it would be a "heart wrenching tale" about some child who is physically unable to speak or doesn't have access to a decent education. It was one of those books I meant to get to someday, but probably never would. Finally someone clued me in. I read it in a day. ...             Naked412 reviews David Sedaris Back Bay Books, 1998 Absolutely fantastic This has become a very famous book and it deserves to be. It is certainly the type that has you lending it to all your friends and telling them about which pieces are your favorites. I love reading about his family and am a big fan of sister Amy so whenever there's a mention of her I get excited. So many of these stories are hilarious but there are also others that are incredibly sad. Ashes ...             Holidays on Ice: Stories162 reviews David Sedaris Back Bay Books, 1998 David Sedaris is brilliant. A must own! Holidays On Ice is a terrific compilation and should be given as a gift to anyone who is less than enthused when December rolls around. David and his sister Amy are two of the funniest people on earth it seems. While there are a couple of stories in here that are less enjoyable than others, it is still superb comic writing and had me in hysterics while reading some parts of this collection. ...              search for books against, agenda, arguments, candidate, consider, corduroy, dangers, economy, engulfed, family, favorite, getting, hideous, holidays, infinite, interviews, justice, lobster, oblivion, productivity, prophetic, sawtelle, sentence, shadows, stories, stress-free, supposedly, things, unexamined, unlikely books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Holly Carburetor Handbook 4150 & 4160 Hp473 leave a comment home  impressum - about us