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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Bob Harris

2007-06-11

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Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Chester Gould

2007-01-20

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: John Hodgman

2007-01-20

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Type: documentary

Status: neutral

Authors: Mark Malseed David Vise

Tags: history non-fiction

Description: Overly gushing about Google almost from the first page. However, the tone settles down a littleOverly gushing about Google almost from the first page. However, the tone settles down a little bit after the first third. Very informative though and covers all the major events in the history of the company from the founding up to fairly recent events.

This review is based on the unabridged audiobook version....

2006-07-11

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: unknown

2006-04-07

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Mike Daisey

Tags: non-fiction auto-biography

Description: This was great. I really heartily encourage you to get the audiobook version of this as itThis was great. I really heartily encourage you to get the audiobook version of this as it is read by the author himself who normally performs this and his other writings in a manner similar to Spaulding Gray. Audible has it for download and I'm not sure who else might have it....

2006-03-05

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Tags: fiction science-fiction

Description: Pretty good. A collection of short stories, not all of the same quality. Several are very goodPretty good. A collection of short stories, not all of the same quality. Several are very good though....

2006-03-05

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Erik Larson

Tags: history non-fiction

Description: An account of the 1900 hurricane that hit the city of Galveston.

2005-12-05

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Chris Ware

Tags: fiction comics graphic_novel

Description: I picked up a new paperback edition that I believe is quite new. I like it a lot. It'sI picked up a new paperback edition that I believe is quite new. I like it a lot. It's all about what mean, lonely, emotional cripples people can be and how they can turn out children who are just like themselves.

Idiots who think comics are a genre rather than a medium should read stuff like this.

P.S. After finishing this, you should really read the author's afterword. It's very interesting and has a lot to do with the content of the book....

2005-10-06

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Type: documentary

Status: favorite

Author: David McCullough

Tags: history non-fiction

Description: I listened to the audiobook version which McCullough himself narrates. Despite his excellentI listened to the audiobook version which McCullough himself narrates. Despite his excellent voice he only rarely reads his own books. Get this.

You will come out of it with a much clearer picture of what the American/English conflict was really like at its beginning and just how many times the upstart country could have foundered before it ever got started....

2005-10-06