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Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue 7 reviews
Spalding Gray
Crown, 2005
A Bittersweet Homage to Spalding Gray
+ A loss for all of us
+ A beautiful swan song for a loving man, husband, father & human.
+ If you liked his other works, you'll love this fast read.
+ Spalding gives us something to think about, and departs.
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon36 reviews
Garrison Keillor
Viking Adult, 2007
truly one of the funniest "payoff's"
+ "Pontoon" is Five Star plus
+ One of Garrison's best!
Let me begin by saying although a long time fan of Prairie Home Companion, I had never read any of Keiller's books. From the get go it was fun...I could visualize the people. The plot leads up to really hysterical funeral that only Keiller could describe.
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness65 reviews
Elyn R. Saks
Hyperion, 2007
An amazing woman has written an eye-opening book
+ Exceptional read!!
+ Remarkable, Courageous, Well-Written
No review is going to do justice to this incredible book by Elyn Saks, an academic dean, tenured law school and medical school professor, psychoanalysis student, and, not incidentally, a raving (at times of stress or change) schizophrenic. For readers who assume schizophrenics live out their ...
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The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978 4 reviews
Sarah Greenough, Diane Waggoner, ...
Princeton University Press, 2007
Affecting and Engrossing
+ The Art of the American Snapshot
+ A glorious exploration
+ Our love affair with the camera
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The Areas of My Expertise 123 reviews
John Hodgman
Dutton Adult, 2005
The Areas of My Expertise
+ A good mix of different types of humor
+ Captures both the patois of hobology and the romanticized nuance of facial hair
I read this book on the plane from Ohio to LAX and could not stop laughing, other passengers were looking at me in confusion. When reading this masterpiece, you either "get it" or you don't...
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No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth9 reviews
Frank Owen
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Great information on meth
+ Engaging book, important subject, somewhat sloppy
+ Great Book!
+ A very good overview.
+ Intersting Historical Insights into Crystal Meth as a Commodity
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The New Kings of Nonfiction11 reviews
Ira Glass
Riverhead Trade, 2007
Collected For A Purpose
+ Great reading and so much fun
+ Not a particularly fresh selection.
+ Yay for Ira
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames 239 reviews
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
LOL
+ Naked barrels engulfed in pretty denim
+ seemed somewhat different...but not worse than others.
+ Fabulous!
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The Wordy Shipmates12 reviews
Sarah Vowell
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
Dancing in History
+ A Fascinating Book about a Subject I Never Found Interesting Before
+ The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell is my type of gal: writer extraordinaire, political guru, and complete and total history nerd. Coming off the success of the off-beat and incredibly likeable Assassination Vacation, Vowell brings to us the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is her delightful new book, "The Wordy ...
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Assassination Vacation134 reviews
Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster, 2005
This book rocks!
+ A Trippy Field Trip Through Assassination History
+ America needs Sarah Vowell
+ History groupies are the coolest
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America92 reviews
Alex Kotlowitz
Anchor, 1992
The other America indeed
+ A World Not Seen By Many
+ There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
+ Incredible book to read depicting subsidized housing in Chgo
+ Riveting look at poverty
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx142 reviews
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Scribner, 2004
Excellent!
+ It was alright..
+ PAGE TURNER
+ COCO
+ Anthropological quest
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple254 reviews
Deborah Layton
Anchor, 1999
MADNESS IN THE JUNGLE
+ Compelling and disturbing. I could not put it down.
+ Oh MY GOSH, BEST EVER
+ GOOD BUY
+ Moving and inspirational. A must read
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Snuff 93 reviews
Chuck Palahniuk
Doubleday, 2008
"The Damaged Love the Damaged..."
An over-the-hill porn star wants to go out with a (gang) bang, so arranges for a world record effort with 600 stout and hearty fellows, brave and true. A few of this cast of hundreds are there for more than their allotted 60 seconds of, ah, contact with the legend. She has deep ulterior motives, ...
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The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture30 reviews
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 2007
A masterpiece
+ Great Book
+ Persepolis
+ AMAZING, UNIQUE BOOK
+ Amazing, couldn't put it down!!!!
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The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own74 reviews
David Carr
Simon & Schuster, 2008
The Night of the Gun
+ Very entertaining, but a little too long
I think this story is a good one about addiction. It doesn't tell all the seedy stuff that could have happened but it shows the life of an addict who is a pretty good guy with a pretty bad addiction. David Carr seems to have really looked at himself so that he could see himself as progressing ...
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The Monster of Florence93 reviews
Douglas Preston
Grand Central Publishing, 2008
Entirely unique in true crime, from the story that inspired Silence of the Lambs
+ Decent entry in the genre with a plus for involving the author.
+ Terrifying, but not in the way you think
+ Wonderful Tale
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sTORI Telling297 reviews
Tori Spelling
Simon Spotlight, 2008
Excellent Book...recommended to anyone
+ Interesting, but maybe a tad bit hypocritical
+ sTORI Telling
+ the nepotism nymph
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma51 reviews
Alex Kotlowitz
Anchor, 1999
read in one night! a real page turner
+ Sometimes the truth is difficult to take
Here's the thing - you know who died, and you know where the body was found and in what condition, but you don't know the why and how. And you still can't put this book down!
Alex Kotlowitz is a master story teller of a real life murder in a racially charged small town, geographically divided by a ...
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All New People12 reviews
Anne Lamott
Counterpoint, 1999
Anne Lamott is amazing!
+ All New People
+ Not Traditional Anne, but Still Good.
+ Anne, You're da bomb!!!
+ Thinly Disguised Nonfiction
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