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№48
Title: The Ten-Cent Plague [$]
Author: David Hadju
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2008
Pages: 448
I was always around comics growing up; with the exception of the 6-part Double Dragon series, however, I was never really a collector myself. I spent a lot [...]
If you haven’t already heard of the Duggar family from their show on the Discovery Channel, or from other various and sundry news reports that pop up every time Mr. & Mrs. Fecundity drop a new child into the world (every nine months), then let me sum it up for you: they’re a family [...]
There’s been a lot in the new recently about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—or, rather, Mormons stuck in the early, polygamist mode of the church.
My thoughts about the Mormon Church in general are not positive: it was founded by a crook, it seems, for the sole purpose of getting him [...]
I really wish this was an article from The Onion…. but no, it’s not.
On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.
His girlfriend told police that they had been [...]
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№14
Title: Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul [$]
Author: Edward Humes
Publisher: Ecco
Year: 2007
Pages: 400
I was a little hesitant to read Edward Humes’ Monkey Girl, not because I believed it would be a bad book, but rather [...]
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№12
Title: Condensed Knowledge [$]
Author: ed. Will Pearson & al.
Publisher: Collins
Year: 2004
Pages: 345
My brother’s been reading mental_floss and its associated books for several years. Condensed Knowledge is, to the extent of my knowledge, the first of their [adjective] Knowledge compendia, essentially [...]
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№10
Title: The Year of Living Biblically [$]
Author: A.J. Jacobs
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 2007
Pages: 400
My brother introduced me to A.J. Jacob’s first book, The Know-It-All (he, I assume, learned about him from Mental Floss), and that book became one of my surprise [...]
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№6
Title: Dave Barry’s History of the Millenium (So Far) [$]
Author: Dave Barry
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Year: 2007
Pages: 224
I’ve noticed that Dave Barry has been waning in recent years. Maybe it’s just me, or maybe that’s why he decided in 2005 that it [...]
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№4
Title: The Daily Show and Philosophy [$]
Author: ed. Jason Holt
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2007
Pages: 280
I think it’s fair to say that The Daily Show has fairly well entered the cultural zeitgeist. For some reason, ever since John Stewart took over the reigns [...]
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