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Michel Houellebecq There’s another fun last name for you to play with and an author I had been eyeing for a while, particularly his other popular novel “Platform”, but for whatever reason I started with this one instead. It is a short read, a little more than 200 hundred pages, and a fast read, relating [...]
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David Mitchell There are books that just…grab you by the throat and pick you up and slam you over the desk time and time again and leave you all disheveled, with a weird tingly feeling in the nether regions and the idea that you have just had your mind blown. This is such a book. [...]
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Yann Martel Kudos to Yann for taking The out of the title and just starting with the word Life. It sounds a lot more engaging that way. And kudos to my wife for convincing me to read this. She bought it a good half a year before I even heard of it and she read [...]
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Paul Auster A bit of an old school read here, and by old school I mean, more mid 20th Century, not freaking Shakespeare, but you can definitely tell in the way tell in the way this book unfolds. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does have a bit of the slower pace [...]
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Chuck Palahniuk If you can not pronounce the author’s last name, do not dispair, neither can 95% of the rest of the population. What matters here is that what you are getting in this book is some of the nitty gritty you saw in Survivor and not the watered down stuff you saw in Haunted. [...]
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J.K. Rowling This is it, the last of the series and I finally got around to it. By the time this is up on the net it will be entirely obsolete because everybody that cares will have already read it. So why am I still typing this? Not exactly sure. As expected, this book wraps [...]
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Max Brooks This is a frightening book and not so much because of the zombies. It is a reporter’s account of the personal tales told to him while working for a report given to the international community after the war to retake the earth from the zombies, an event warmly dubbed, The Zombie War or [...]
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Lawrence Wright Somebody, in the praise for this book found on the back cover, and I can not remember who it was, said this book ought to be required reading for every American. I completely agree with that statement. This is by far one of the best and most interesting Non-Fiction reads I have gotten [...]
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Robert Baer Embarrassingly, perhaps, I knew very little about terrorism when the attacks of 9/11 happened. Maybe I was in line with most Americans in that, terrorism was not exactly the top thing on their minds. But suddenly the news were filled with names and titles that had my head spinning. And along with that [...]
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Robert Matheson I am worried. I am worried because I am one of those people that would rather read a good book and have a movie ruined than the other way around. That is the reason I had a marathon session of Tolkien’s work before the Lord of the Rings trilogy came out, reading The [...]