June 18, 2010
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford *** (of 4)
An excellent memoir of life in the marines during the first Gulf War.
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June 18, 2010
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer **** (of 4)
This book about climbing Mount Everest made Krakauer famous with good reason. It’s a page turner. Suspenseful. Informative. A terrific read.
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The Inextinguishable Symphony by Martin Goldsmith ** (of 4)
I listened to about half of the book on cassette and have to say I was disappointed. I love listening to Goldsmith on the radio....
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D.J. Waldie **** (of 4)
A quirky recounting of the birth of one of America’s first post-war suburbs: Long Beach. Written by a city councilman who has lived his entire...
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A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson *** (of 4)
Johnson is an anti-Semitic summofabitch. He blames the victim at times. He seems incredulous that the Jews didn’t recognize Christ as part of the Holy...
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Heat by Bill Buford ** (of 4)
Buford does his best to make Mario Batali into an eccentric, bigger-than-life, Artiste comparable in status to Michaelangeolo, DaVinci, and Jackie Gleason, but in the...
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To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever by Will Blythe *** (of 4)
One of the great first chapters in literature. Blythe’s book is a rant about basketball, specifically Duke vs. North Carolina. At the book’s opening he...
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth W. Farnea ** (of 4)
In the late 1950’s Elizabeth Farnea’s new husband traveled to a small rural village in southern Iraq to do graduate research on an irrigation project....
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Grey Seas Under, by Farley Mowat ** (of 4)
The book is a biography of a tough iron-clad tugboat that makes its way from the coast of Newfoundland into the deadly winter storms of...
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Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester *** (of 4)
One of Manchester’s best. A memoir about his role in WWII marines in Pacific theater.
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