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  • McCain's Promise
  • Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope…
  • By David Foster Wallace
  • Finished on Aug 10, 2008
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    I just don't get why people waste their time with adventurous, fiction books - the James Bond, Jack Ryan type - where they could find even more thrilling, shocking tales taking place no more far away that their favourite restaurant at the end of the street. Bourdain's memoir of his life of excesses as a chef in New York City and around has created a genre, but most of all it's one of the most entertaining and nail-biting books I have found in a long time. It deals with the most sought after of human pleasure, the one that tops money and even (sometimes) sex: food. ... (continue)

    I just don't get why people waste their time with adventurous, fiction books - the James Bond, Jack Ryan type - where they could find even more thrilling, shocking tales taking place no more far away that their favourite restaurant at the end of the street. Bourdain's memoir of his life of excesses as a chef in New York City and around has created a genre, but most of all it's one of the most entertaining and nail-biting books I have found in a long time. It deals with the most sought after of human pleasure, the one that tops money and even (sometimes) sex: food.

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