Rocky's Picks
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck |
A Book on Tape |
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A Good Walk Spoiled
by John Feinstein |
The PGA Tour of 1994 |
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Arnold Palmer's Complete Book of Putting |
Are you detecting a Golf theme? |
| Red Zone by Aphrodite Jones - The Behind the Scenes
Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling |
A good story of the legal issues and implications
of breeding vicious dogs. |
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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Another great Book on Tape! To see how to get books on tape,
go to
http://www.booksamillion.com |
| Revenge of the Bush Dynasty
by Elizabeth Mitchell |
An insightful look into Bushes - Senior and Junior |
| The Lost City of the Incas
by Hiram Bingham |
The story of a Yale professors' discovery of Machu Picchu |
| Rise and Fall of the Inca's Civilization
by ---- |
Historical account of the Inca and what happened when they met the Spanish |
| Thailand's Boom and Bust by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker |
The economics, politics, and business climate that led to the Asian economic
meltdown of 1997 and 1998 |
| The Operator by Tom King |
The life of Hollywood mogul David Geffen |
| 7 Tattoos by Peter Trachtenberg |
Real adventures in living |
Joyce's Picks
| Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac |
Masterful! |
| Iberia by James Michener |
A dated book, mainly showing how Michener saw Spain in the '50s and '60s. |
| An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears |
A good historical murder mystery, though it does not stand up to Umberto Eco. |
| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
Truly great. It took me a long time to have the time to read it. |
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
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A review on Amazon.com says
"Dan Brown has to be one of the best, smartest, and most accomplished writers in the country.
THE DA VINCI CODE is many notches above the intelligent thriller; this is pure genius."
-NELSON DeMILLE, #1 New York Times bestselling author.
To see why, and to read more reviews, go to:
http://www.amazon.com |
And Others
- Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
- To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
- The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzberg
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Comments
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- The Song of Silver Frond by Catherine Lim
- A Bit of Earth by Suchin Christine Lim
- When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
- A Cambodian Prison Portrait by Vann Nath
- The Girl in the Picture - The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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Comments
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- Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
- Muhammad: Man and Prophet by Adil Salahi
- The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
- Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
- The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
- Baudolino by Umberto Eco
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Comments
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- Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
- One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian
- Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xingjian
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Gao Xingjian is a masterful writer, playwrite, and artist. He is the first Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, and one can only hope more of his works will be translated into Western languages. J had a chance to see an exhibition of his ink drawings in Singapore.
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- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stepen Crane
- The Tapestries by Kien Nguyen
- China Inc by Ted C.Fishman
- Nickel and Dimed - On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Comments
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- Vivir Para Contarla por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Libros en Espanol
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