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The Stand
Stephen King
Truman
David McCullough
October 2013
10
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The Butterfly
In the preface, Cain said he was originally working on a story about a family that migrates from rural Kentucky to California...
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The Butterfly
James M. Cain
October 2013
09
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This one is quite a page-turner. That, I expected.What pleasantly surprised me was that Hadley Chase wasn't satisfied stoppin...
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
James Hadley Chase
October 2013
07
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I never would have read this book had I not been watching Fawlty Towers last week and noticed this:Getting literature recomme...
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Jaws
Peter Benchley
October 2013
06
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Bum Deal: An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian
I am absolutely ashamed to say that I owned the Bumfight DVDs when they first came out in the early 2000s. I was in high scho...
October 2013
04
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A fairly straightforward retelling of the life of Alexander from his teen years to his death. All the major events and themes...
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Alexander the Great
Nikos Kazantzakis, Virgil Burnett, Theodora Vasils
September 2013
25
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True Grit
Charles Portis, Donna Tartt
September 2013
24
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Far too short. I appreciate the attempt, but it serves as little more than an apéritif. Especially regarding Churchill's pre-...
finished reading:
Churchill
Paul Johnson
September 2013
21
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi, Blake Ferris, Mattias Ripa
September 2013
20
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
A good read, but not a great one.First off, it's very short. The life of a man like Jackson is difficult to distill into less...
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham
September 2013
16
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If what Elliott House has written is accurate, it's a miracle that Saudi Arabia has managed to prevent itself from descending...
finished reading:
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Karen Elliott House
September 2013
15
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Theodore Rex
I am not usually a reader of biographies, and certainly not a ravenous one. But when it comes to Edmund Morris' works, I brea...
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A charming little story. Any attempts to summarize it would do it injustice, would make it sound like a trifle. Its simplicit...
finished reading:
Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris
finished reading:
Soumchi
Amos Oz, Quint Buchholz, Penelope Farmer
September 2013
12
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Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
This was one of my first forays into the fantasy genre (despite Goodkind vehemently denying that he's a fantasist). The only ...
finished reading:
Wizard's First Rule
Terry Goodkind
September 2013
07
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Always Right
Good, but too brief to be of any great use. Contrary to some of these other reviews, I thought Ferguson was fair in addressin...
finished reading:
Always Right
Niall Ferguson
September 2013
6
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Three Tales
Gustave Flaubert, Roger Whitehouse, Geoffrey Wall
September 2013
05
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The Mystery Of Capital Why Capitalism Succeeds In The West And Fails Everywhere Else
De Soto puts forth a compelling thesis and has a wonderful ability to explain himself to anyone of at least average intellige...
finished reading:
The Mystery Of Capital: Why Capitalism Succeeds In The West And Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando de Soto
September 2013
3
finished reading:
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
August 2013
30
finished reading:
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents The Definitive Edition
Friedrich A. von Hayek, Bruce Caldwell, Bruce Caldwell
finished reading:
The Life of Charlemagne
Einhard, Sidney Painter, Samuel Epes Turner
August 2013
27
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Five stars for the ideas, but considerably less for the collection compiled here by Haddad. I say that because they vary in q...
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Ron Paul Speaks
Philip Haddad, Roger Marsh, Ron Paul
August 2013
25
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Frederic Bastiat : A Man Alone
Bastiat truly was a man alone. Both his clear-headed thought and his indefatigable desire to bring liberty to the people of F...
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Frederic Bastiat : A Man Alone
George Charles Roche
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