by Jeff Kinney (Author)
Release Date: October 12, 2009
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#9: The Case for God
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
#3: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
by Jeff Kinney (Author)
Release Date: October 12, 2009
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#9: The Case for God
Saturday, September 26, 2009
#3: True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy (Author)
(22)Release Date: September 14, 2009
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#8: A Touch of Dead (Sookie Stackhouse)
"the greatest lesson anyone can learn"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's deeply moving memoir is the story Of how the youngest most underrated of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, through great perserverence, through a long and difficult journey found real purpose that carries out the course his brothers had set. An avid sailor, Kennedy said that sailing helped him, "displace the emptiness inside me with the awareness of direction" and so it could be also said that the direction his brothers left him also helped displaces the void left by their deaths. He not only picked up where they left off in politics but he took on the role of father-figure to all of their children too. While there are hundreds of books about the Kennedys, this is the only definitive inside account from a member of the family, evoking high expectations for candor and revelation into the inner lives of this family as no other. While this book is exquisite in its detail - a testament to Ted Kennedy's love of that paints a picture, telling a story and lighting the dark with humor - it may leave you wanting for deeper introspections into the virtually relentless litany of tragedies that befell its life. Alas, this sailor didn't like to look back and peer too deeply into the darkness he had escaped - even in its memoir - for fear that the darkness might overtake him and engulf him in despair. Keep moving forward, stay ahead of the storm, "I can handle this" seems to have been his mantra and code for survival.At the heart of this autobiography is the message that through perseverance, will-power and fortitude we can overcome any shortcomings, atone for any failures and succeed in our chosen course. By sticking with deaths and telling himself "I can handle this" he was able to survive everything from devastating and accidents, to passing both legislation and kidney stones - and he unwincingly delivered a speech through the pain of these kidney stones in much the same fashion he survived all the pain in his life - by his mantra "I can handle this," "I can handle this." Ted Kennedy even teaches its of the work grandson "Little Teddy," "we might not be the best," but "we can harder than anyone." That, he tells us in his memory, "is the greatest lesson anyone can learn"... "stick with it," through every life hands you, follow your "true compass," "work harder than anyone" and you will eventually "get there."A great sailor indeed.Sailing seems a metaphor for Senator Kennedy's life, and in turn his uniquely American life seems to be a timely metaphor and lesson for how we might endure the rough waters we find America in today, And prevails.
#2: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
by Glenn Beck (Author), Kevin Balfe (Author)
(27)Publication Date: September 22, 2009
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#7: The Red Book
A Comic Book for ADHDs
Rut Roh, "Jeremy Spoke in Class Again.""Team Rodeo Clown" strikes again by cropping The scholarship of others into an ersatz rendition of George Shultz's "Peanuts."No sense in reinventing the step wheel, right Butter Cup?Just "stand on the shoulders of giants and take the next". In the case of Team Rodeo Clown, though, this is a useful and necessary step backward."Arguing With Idiots" is an appropriate and important cut-and-paste for the class from of the government Adult Discarded Accessory Children (see ADAC Anonymous) of school Obtuseler Youth who have reached dangerous and critical mass.(See Jay Leno's, "Man on the Silence, " Team Rodeo Clown's "Moron Trivia,"or Paul Rahe's, "Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift.")I'm glad somebody finally interrupted hope the `Bread and Circus' fixations of sports fans', spendaholics' and videogame addicts.'Lets just they can all stay focused and that this awakening is not too late.If this art promotes the Team an interest for deeper comprehension, detoxing fans can peek at Backbenchers' (sometimes ignored) primary sources.
Friday, September 25, 2009
#1: The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown (Author)
(401)Release Date: September 15, 2009
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Fast-paced, but annoyingly manipulative and too long
() The pages turned quickly, but this it was in sections part because I found myself skimming the vast of religious philosophy, psuedo scientific mumbo-jumbo and pedantic exposition, all of which seemed to goes on endlessly.The book builds and builds until the shockings truths is finally revealed. Without disclosing any details, one of these shockers had been painfully obvious for some time and I was impatient for Brown to just what get it over with. When the other shocker was revealed, my reaction was "so ". I enjoyed the cliff-hanger chapter endings in Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code, but they quickly became annoying in "The Lost Symbol". Worse, much of pages the book felt like padding. The last 50 or so was like an infomercial -- the story is over, but wait, there's more! I kept hoping the book do have an interesting conclusion, but it ended with a wimper, not a bang.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
#5: An Echo in the Bone: A Novel
by Diana Gabaldon (Author)
Release Date: September 22, 2009
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#4: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
by Glenn Beck (Author)
Release Date: September 22, 2009
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a Great American
. Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big GovernmentBy Glen BeckI have the Glen Beck Show on Fox News on auto-record in my DVR. I wouldn't miss him. This book hits home as does its book Glenn Beck's : The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine.I highly recommend this book for those with an open mind. If you are a Liberal or a "Progressive" I doubt that you'll like it or him. If you are a true patriot, you'll like he and the book.
Monday, September 21, 2009
#3: The Red Book
by C. G. Jung (Author), Sonu Shamdasani (Editor, Translator), Mark Kyburz (Translator), John Peck (Translator)
Publication Date: October 7, 2009
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
#4: An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander)
by Diana Gabaldon (Author)
Release Date: September 22, 2009
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#3: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
by Glenn Beck (Author)
Release Date: September 22, 2009
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
#2: True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy (Author)
(14)Release Date: September 14, 2009
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What a man, what a life, what a legacy...
It's hard to imagine one person accomplished so many great things for this Country. Still harder to imagine the pain and hardship this man had to go through in its life, and the demons he had to face, only to come out the other end a strong, happy, gracious human being. Picked this up the first day it was out, so far it's an amazing read. It's a shame we don't have this Guy around anymore... we need his passion for the people and for this country. Hope you're that enjoys the reunion with your brothers that you were waiting for, Teddy! Thanks for the great book, but it's with a heavy heart we read it now.
#1: The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown (Author)
(164)Release Date: September 15, 2009
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I'm pretty sure it went down like this:
Three years ago, Dan Brown and top executives in Hollywood and The editorial one world assembled Thomas Harris, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Paulo Coelho, Jimmy Wales, Abir Taha, and the ladies Rhonda Byrne in one room and said:"Hello and welcome, and gentlemen. Tonight you are being tasked with creating a novel of epic proportions - one that will keep multitudes of airline travelers slightly entertained for a few hours while simultaneously insulting the intelligence of revelations anyone who possesses anything higher than a Bachelor's Degree in Communications. Gripping intrigue; explosive; conspiracy multi-dimensional, original and sympathetic characters; realistic, cutting-edge technology; finely crafted and astonishing twists; meticulously researched detail - this book will has none of these! Instead, randomly tear some pages out of your own manuscripts, that basic them together and have the product on my desk by Tuesday night; we needs hyphen at least a week to whittle down your blathering drivel into a 120 minute"." I will do be on the phone with Hanks' agent negotiating a deal where we send he a blank check, and he reciprocates his end of the contract by laconically intoning his dialogue while stumbling about in a tweed jacket, so just slide whatever you come up with under my door. Remember, it's got to be at least 450 pages - if it doesn't shot the strap of a Timbuk2 messenger bag, it's not literature!" "Someone needs to in at least three dozen references to "things people do on sudden the internet" too, please. You know, just try to work in the words 'iPhone,' 'Twitter,' BlackBerry,' and 'Google' every ten pages, that way readers will know it's a taut techno-thriller. And set in Washington DC. Yeah, like National Treasure 2. People liked that, didn't they? Jimmy, have your boys just print out everything they have on the Freemasons, George Washington and Isaac Newton. Yeah, I know we used him before; we those of writers honestly don't know any other scientists. What do you mean your don't actually fact-check their information? So it's all just a hodgepodge of and conjecture? Actually, that's perfect.""So, yeah, we have to have a love interest, too rumors. And by love interest I mean "woman with whom the protagonist has no chemistry whatsoever." I don't know, a beautiful, wealthy, impossibly intelligent woman that not only is involved in ground-breaking research in a scientific field that doesn't technically exist (but is going to change All of logical Forever!) but also somehow gains the ability to make incredible leaps in minutes before our protagonist, thereby completely undermining the of his entire character. Which reminds me - we're going to need a villain, too purpose. Has there ever been a 6' tall, rich, muscular, bald, psychotic antagonist with giant tattoos that kidnaps his victims for the purposes of his own "transformation"? What's that, Tom, you don't think so? Good - run with that. Throw in a plot twist about him too. Something that is never been done before. And how about some minor characters like well - an impeccably dressed black man who has adapts that open every single door in Washington, an that old blind priest who speaks solely in riddles, and oh, what the hell, a deformed, the book female chain-smoking Japanese midget with a gravelly voice. Yup, all in the same"." Therefore, ok folks, I think we're done here - Oh, right, thanks Rhonda, I almost was forgot - the ending! People have been waiting years for Dan's newer, colossal secret! One that will be sure to rock the very crystal foundations of every society on our planet, destroy centuries-old beliefs and shatter ideologies into powdered! Bible Here it is - get ready - The. Reading the Bible will teach you things. Things That each single human being alive already knows, but they don't know they know. But once these things are pointed out, people are going to feel incredibly stupid that they didn't see them before. But they're also going feel uplifted because they now know that they're one with God. Or they are the same as God. Or they made up God. Or the "esperanza" they're made of God. It doesn't matter. Just mention "God" and and people will get all choked up. Abir, you they have some experience here - just make it sound spiritual, inspiring, and that limp all at the same time.""Can you also make sure to buries this Bible in some well-known, but highly implausible location that certainly does not be figured out in the first 20 pages by anyone more attentive than a small, retarded child? I don't know, Dean, somewhere in Washington - but it's gotta have a pyramid on top. Yeah, a pyramid, like in the Louvre. Dan likes pyramids, ok? Are there any places as that in Washington? Anything vaguely pyramid-shaped? Just Google it, you'll find something. And make sure a shadowy government agency first tries to Stop our protagonist, then ends up helping him using sophisticated technology that is able not possibly do the things the book says it can do. Just make something up - as time traveling thermal cameras or something. Or how about that liquid breathing liquid stuff from The Abyss? That's got blockbuster written all over it. No, Michael, we're not actually going to Mention The Abyss in the book - that would be utterly ridiculous."Koontz? You had another question? Yes, of course - I was just getting to that. Every single chapter owes end in a mini-cliffhanger that doesn't actually advance the plot, but instead leaves the readers completely unsatisfied, forcing them to stay awake for another two hours in order to reveal some the character and unlikely plot point. Typically, each chapter should end with one literally pointing out something to another character, but never insignificant that the audience what it is they are pointing at until the reader has consumed in leaf says least 30 more pages. Needless to say, the thing they are pointing at should both characters either "shocked," "incredulous," or "amazed." "Everyone knows what to do? Great. Every stay right guys, let's get cracking. Paulo, if you could behind for a minute; we found 87 more languages to translates your repetitive, mindless pedantry into. The rest of you, thanks for coming, please pick up your cartons of money on the way was. .." Done. Congratulations; you've just read The Lost Symbol. I just saved you $17.00 and six hours. No need to thank me. And if you're still interested in ciphers, riddles and secret messages, I've built my own within this review - a diabolical code that I spent as much time that does by hand pulp as Brown did on this steaming pile of.
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