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The Handmaid's Tale
Decent read. I think it stands out because Atwood doesn't usually write in this genre...
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack
I couldn't get going on this book until I realized it is humor. Hilarious....
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
A good read. Niall Ferguson is new to me. He also has interesting documentaries on YouTube...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If you attend the play, be sure to sit in a seat that is a prime number....
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
If you read only one history book in your lifetime, this should be it....
Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades
This guy makes a dry subject read like a Dan Brown novel...
Lost Child of Philomena Lee
The movie promoters have taken a book - more about the son - and turned it around and made the movie more about the mother. Not that I would not recom...
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
I'd give it a higher rating, but not that many people are interested in geology...
The God Delusion
Dawkins talks about the improbability of God, but fails to address the improbability of his own existence....
Finding Darwin's God
I enjoy reading what religious scientists have to say. I picked this book up in a used book store for 50 cents....
Give Him Back To God
Give Him Back To God is based on the murder of a married Roman Catholic priest. I knew all the people involved. The murderer told me that she was goin...
Christ Stopped at Eboli
This book is replete with the rich folklore of the Italian region of Lucania/ Basilicata....
Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism
The fascinating true historical events of Nineteenth Century Argentina. Full of violent persons & events, Caciques, Caudillos, Strongmen, Reformers, J...
The old Man and The Sea
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old...
A Year With Rilke
His poetry and letters easily speak to the reader on a personal and personally spiritual level whatever the readers experiences and definition of spir...
The Immortals Series
I don't remember why I like it, I just do. It's a fantasy-fiction series of four books. I first found it by randomly picking books off the book shelve...
The Reason I Jump
Autism is difficult to understand for outsiders, or "normal people" as the author so succinctly put it...but this book opens a porthole so we can glim...
