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For those of us who love to cook, love to eat, love to spend time with good friends and good books, this book is a God-send.

Great scifi story about a future generation of humans whose existence is threatened by "outsiders" called "the buggers." Moral questions arise about collateral damage and how brutal humans might have to get to save themselves against barbarians. Now popular reading/discussion amongst military/intel circles.

I am not normally a sci fi fan, but "Enders Game" was recommended by a retired CIA officer and separately a retired foreign service officer. So I bought and finished the book in day. Fluid read. It's a sci fi story that explores the moral imlpications of "all out war" with the threat of human extinction and "collateral damage." Literally required reading in the military/intel worlds.

Well-written, eloquent and a compelling read. I read it cover to cover in one day. What drives people to value worthless "stuff" to the extent they lose their jobs, their friends, their families? Is there a "cure?" Find out in this fascinating study. Great writing by two eminent pyschologists.

First, it's a wonderful story, eloquently told. It's a "good read," as booklovers say. Above all, great characters, living life to its fullest, in a nursing home and beyond.

Hilarious. Herman Wouk is a great writer and this is a very funny story. His hero buys a run-down hotel on an island paradise, and Murphy's Law kicks in. I laughed from beginning to end.

Eloquent and inspirational. Tracy Kidder is perhaps the best writer of nonfiction narrative writing today. Paul Farmer is a Harvard-educated physician and epidemiologist who has focused his energy, talent and intellect on solving big problems, in some of the world's poorest regions. He reminds us all that there are higher callings than making a buck and settling in our overstuffed lounge chairs every night.

A compelling primer on how our Congress, the White House and movers and shakers in Washington make things happen, or not. A really good read. Well-written by two top-notch reporters.

Lots of people, pro and con Obama, will try to explain and define Barrack Obama, but this is the best place to begin understanding him and his beliefs . . in his own words.

Machiavelli may have lived in Florence, Italy five hundred years ago but his writing and insights into government, politics, war, military occupations and administering defeated cities remain brilliant, relevant and illuminating. I rediscovered my Modern Library College Edition recently while cleaning out boxes of old paperpacks. I picked it up, started reading and couldn't stopped. Forty years after being required to read it, I finally had the life experience to enjoy and understand his discourses.

A gritty, good read and, unfortunately, only too plausible.

Theodore Bernstein's "Careful Writer" remains one of the best friends for writers who want to convey ideas with accuracy and eloquence.

We should all write with care, Bernstein argues, because words convey ideas. This is a great guide to writing, one of the best, a standard in university journalism classes. It is, in and of itself, a pleasant and rewarding read.

Even professional writers and editors could use an occasional refresher course in careful writing. Words convey ideas, an old professor often reminded us, and when we use the wrong word, we misinform. Bernstein's book is a classic.

Now more than ever we need careful writers, especially professional journalists. Theodore Bernstein's classic was a standard in journalism classrooms. It still serves as a reminder and refresher course for all of us who use the English language.

A classic, of course, but still a contemporary model of eloquence and imagination, and flowing out of Monsieur Swann's eating a small sugar cookie whose flavor he recalls as previous experience and he begins to "summon up the remembrance of things past." Well worth a long, contemplative reading experience.

Ms. Wilson fills in the blanks and tells the compelling story of her career a a covert officer in the Central Intelligence Agency.