Sam Savage's first novel, Firmin, chronicled the coming-of-age misadventures of a very literate rat living in a bookstore in Boston's Scollay Square. Garnering praise from authors and...
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Oh no! This is the final collection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've Been Reading" column from The Believer Magazine. If you enjoyed The Polysyllabic Spree and Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, you'll love this volume. If you haven't read Hornby talk about the books he's bought, read, tried to read, enjoyed, hated, you have a lot of catching up to do. I envy you!
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Rick Steves usually writes guidebooks and sells tours. This time out, he's telling us to stop enjoying ourselves so much and be responsible travelers. See the poverty, the injustice, the effects of capitalism, good and bad. And do something about it! While a bit preachy, Travel as a Political Act entertained me on a long flight across the Atlantic. And it made me think.
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When the Baader-Meinhof group declared war on the West German state in the 1970s—setting fire to department stores, robbing banks, setting off bombs, assassinating politicians, killing police officers, taking hostages, and kidnapping and murdering industrialist Hans-Martin Schleyer—German writer Heinrich Böll said they were six terrorists against sixty million West Germans.
Stefan Aust's thriller-like history of RAF terrorism and West Germany's response to it (in a translation by Anthea Bell so smooth you forget the book wasn't written in English) tells of lawyers who smuggled electronic equipment and weapons into their clients' prison cells, and of people who felt honor-bound to help members of the RAF when they were on the run.
This book will be interesting to anyone who liked the German film The Legend of Rita, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, or the British miniseries Die Kinder, written by Paula Milne. Both are fictional stories about characters like the Baader-Meinhof group, and both are worth looking for if you haven't seen them.
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How do you categorize this book? Road trip? Travel? Memoir? Art critcism? Coming of age story? Mid-life crisis? American social history? I don't know, but I enjoyed this well-told, quirky narrative.
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You'll agree with stand-up economist Sam Pocker's rants against retailers, but the real reason for you to read Retail Anarchy is to learn how to wage your own war. Pocker explains in hilarious detail how to get carloads of groceries and electronics free. Free!
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Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
takingadayoff, May 25, 2009
Oh no! This is the final collection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've Been Reading" column from The Believer Magazine. If you enjoyed The Polysyllabic Spree and Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, you'll love this volume. If you haven't read Hornby talk about the books he's bought, read, tried to read, enjoyed, hated, you have a lot of catching up to do. I envy you!(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
Rick Steves' Travel as a Political Act by Rick Steves
takingadayoff, May 21, 2009
Rick Steves usually writes guidebooks and sells tours. This time out, he's telling us to stop enjoying ourselves so much and be responsible travelers. See the poverty, the injustice, the effects of capitalism, good and bad. And do something about it! While a bit preachy, Travel as a Political Act entertained me on a long flight across the Atlantic. And it made me think.(4 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)
Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the RAF by Stefan Aust
takingadayoff, April 13, 2009
When the Baader-Meinhof group declared war on the West German state in the 1970s—setting fire to department stores, robbing banks, setting off bombs, assassinating politicians, killing police officers, taking hostages, and kidnapping and murdering industrialist Hans-Martin Schleyer—German writer Heinrich Böll said they were six terrorists against sixty million West Germans.Stefan Aust's thriller-like history of RAF terrorism and West Germany's response to it (in a translation by Anthea Bell so smooth you forget the book wasn't written in English) tells of lawyers who smuggled electronic equipment and weapons into their clients' prison cells, and of people who felt honor-bound to help members of the RAF when they were on the run.
This book will be interesting to anyone who liked the German film The Legend of Rita, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, or the British miniseries Die Kinder, written by Paula Milne. Both are fictional stories about characters like the Baader-Meinhof group, and both are worth looking for if you haven't seen them.
(4 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)
Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West (Culture Trails) by Erin Hogan
takingadayoff, March 29, 2009
How do you categorize this book? Road trip? Travel? Memoir? Art critcism? Coming of age story? Mid-life crisis? American social history? I don't know, but I enjoyed this well-told, quirky narrative.(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
Retail Anarchy: A Radical Shopper's Adventures in Consumption by Sam Pocker
takingadayoff, March 26, 2009
You'll agree with stand-up economist Sam Pocker's rants against retailers, but the real reason for you to read Retail Anarchy is to learn how to wage your own war. Pocker explains in hilarious detail how to get carloads of groceries and electronics free. Free!(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
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