Perhaps you are aware of the fact that there is an oddly popular trivia game floating around that a group of clever (and likely bored) college...
Continue »
A medical mystery combined with a travelogue written only as Oliver Sacks can put into words. I couldn't put this book down--the descriptions are so specific, yet interesting.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
I was on a long drive listening to KPFA in Berkeley. Someone was reading an engaging story about a country that was so small they could barely field their own "international" soccer team. It was a story by Nick Hornby, excellently told, and included in Noisy Outlaws, etc. . . . . I can't wait to get the book, see the illustrations, and continue with the collection.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(2 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)
Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.
Customer Comments
deanna has commented on (2) products.
The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks
deanna, March 20, 2007
A medical mystery combined with a travelogue written only as Oliver Sacks can put into words. I couldn't put this book down--the descriptions are so specific, yet interesting.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things... by McSweeney's
Deanna, October 3, 2006
I was on a long drive listening to KPFA in Berkeley. Someone was reading an engaging story about a country that was so small they could barely field their own "international" soccer team. It was a story by Nick Hornby, excellently told, and included in Noisy Outlaws, etc. . . . . I can't wait to get the book, see the illustrations, and continue with the collection.(2 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)