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A Reader posted a review at 2010-09-24 08:09:50 for Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
(Language: English)
 
I bought a copy and left it at the cafe with one chapter left, and went and bought another, will be going back to this again and again.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-04 04:09:46 for Don't Ask (Dortmunder Novels).
(Language: English)
Good light hearted crime novel
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-04 04:02:11 for Middlesex.
(Language: English)
Very compelling and original story. A real page turner
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-03 01:13:28 for Timbuktu.
(Language: English)
Really enjoyed this, great characters and lays out a world of meloncholy sweetness tied together by a string of little joys and sorrows that is short, inevitable, but worth living for the sake of it. For the sake of the ride. That was the message I got anyhow.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-03 01:10:10 for Moon Palace.
(Language: English)
Great read, I felt like i was reading my own words/thoughts at times.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-03 01:06:53 for Erotomania: A Romance.
(Language: English)
Fun book, with some deep thoughts...a great dirty little book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-19 01:21:35 for Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International).
(Language: English)
This is one of my top contemporary reads of all time. One of the books I will read more than once throughout my life. Up there with One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, The Royal Family by William T Vollmann, The Stranger by Camus. This book changed the way I look at the world.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-19 01:09:46 for Dance, Dance, Dance.
(Language: English)
Not Murakami's best, you should start with Hardboiled Wonderland or Kafka on the Shore, but still a fantastic book. With some of his other novels as a back drop this one is a must read for any Murakami fan. You will see similar themes, alienation, the existential human condition, man's search for meaning, all wrapped in a postmodern sci-fi ghost story love story drama with a touch of Camus, Brautigan, and Gibson for good measure.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-19 01:00:34 for Death and the Penguin (Panther).
(Language: English)
We are all Penguins.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-16 11:27:11 for Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
(Language: English)
A Very original book. Now I have to read everything else by Murakami. This one made me think about things I haven't thought about since the 1990s...things like chaos theory, paradigms, existentialism,underground waterfalls, and very scary midgets...
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-09 11:33:08 for The Fencing Master.
(Language: English)
Nice mystery with some Spanish history thrown in as well. A good read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-15 02:45:11 for Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.
(Language: English)
This book illustrates how complex issues simply cannot be boiled down to simple black and white. Wow. Moving, honest and informative. What more could you ask for really?Great book. Romeo's sincerity really shines through and the book illuminates how intractable Africa's problems have become and challenges the world to reassess the purpose and goals of the UN and peacekeeping, but more importantly the book demonstrates how narrow national self interest needs to be subjugated to an interest in common human welfare if there is going to be any hope for the UN to really make a difference and achieve its stated goals.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:33:08 for Ghosts No Horse Can Carry: Collected Poems, 1967-1987.
(Language: English)
Barry Giffords poems are like tiny little paintings on the back of a matchbook. When you actually stumble upon them you will be blown away.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:31:42 for One Hundred Years of Solitude.
(Language: English)
This book is top 10 in all the lists...because its fantastic.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:30:54 for Post Office.
(Language: English)
So sad it will make you happy
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:30:28 for The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western.
(Language: English)
Loved this book. We are all just cowboys counting things are we not?
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:29:26 for Ham on Rye.
(Language: English)
Tied with Post Office as Buks best.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:28:54 for Sombrero Fallout.
(Language: English)
chaos theory when chaos theory wasn't cool
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-05 12:27:52 for Principia Discordia.
(Language: English)
Testicles, specticles, brandy cigar. You are now a pope in the Discordian Church!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-03 05:21:47 for The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future.
(Language: English)
interesting book, but no new answers...
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-03 04:29:46 for A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
(Language: English)
Fantastic story. A must read if your human.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-10 07:06:13 for The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South Pacific (Ginger).
(Language: English)
I read this in Rarotonga, perfect companion for a south pacific trip. Now I have to go check out Marquesas...nice travelogue, informative and entertaining.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-10 07:01:18 for The Moon And Sixpence.
(Language: English)
One of the best last chapters of all time.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 08:13:37 for Suicide of the West.
(Language: English)
I will go back to this fantastic book again and again. This book gave me the scaffolding to build new ideas regarding what makes a good society, where the west is at, and where it may go, and why it all matters.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 08:07:43 for King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.
(Language: English)
This book was amazing. King Leopold wrote the Republican political playbook. The major players in this book, Livingstone, Joe Conrad, The Real Kurtz, Arthur Conan Doyle,H.M. Stanley. This book reads like fiction. Fantastic.
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