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№51
Title: Bonk [$]
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 2008
Pages: 288
I picked up Bonk entirely on a whim: it was sitting precociously on the shelf of new books at the library. It wasn’t until later, when I was reading that, [...]
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№50
Title: Me Of Little Faith [$]
Author: Lewis Black
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2008
Pages: 256
I like Lewis Black’s standup, and I like him on The Daily Show; I was less than impressed, however, by his sort-of-biography, Nothing’s Sacred. Lewis qua storyteller with occasional [...]
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№48
Title: The Ten-Cent Plague [$]
Author: David Hadju
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2008
Pages: 448
I was always around comics growing up; with the exception of the 6-part Double Dragon series, however, I was never really a collector myself. I spent a lot [...]
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№47
Title: Musicophilia: Stories of Music and the Brain [$]
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2007
Pages: 400
I have read Oliver Sacks before. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was a fascinating book, but it could get a bit dry at [...]
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№44
Title: His Excellency: George Washington [$]
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2005
Pages: 352
Hot on the heels of John Adams comes this new book about George Washington; I’ve mentioned before that I don’t usually read a lot of pure history books or [...]
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№42
Title: Into Thin Air [$]
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Year: 1998
Pages: 416
I was supposed to read Into Thin Air when I was a junior in high school, as one of a tripartite summer/fall curriculum about Man vs. Nature themes: the other two [...]
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№40
Title: The Age of Spiritual Machines [$]
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Pages: 400
Part of the problem with books making predictions about the future is they only have two markets: (1), people who want to read predictions about the future, and (2) [...]
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№38
Title: God’s Problem [$]
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2008
Pages: 304
Bart D. Ehrman is a compelling scholar, or so I’m told. I was entirely underwhelmed by his previous work, The Lost Gospel of Judas, which was largely a historical curiosity with [...]
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№37
Title: John Adams [$]
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2002
Pages: 752
I will admit immediately that I am not a great reader of history, or even of autobiography. I read just about anything and everything, but for whatever reason, have read [...]
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